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The Double Barrel Theatre Omnibus Kickstarter

 

page 2Matt Kalal writes,

Kickstarter is not fun. You put hours into the campaign. Days even. You get the product to where you want it after months if not years. You agonize over what is and is not attainable. You hear about video games breaking the million dollar mark. A superstar creator meets their goal on the first day. That must be nice. I myself am looking to raise $2500. My name is Matthew Kayal and I am the writer/editor/publisher of Double Barrel Theatre. I've run my own website for the past couple of years putting up several stories a year and going to conventions. I am launching a kickstarter to collect these stories in one big book.

The first stories from Double Barrel Theatre Presents volume one includes The Weakling, That Punk Show, and Jim and Lorry's Wedding Gaiden. The Weakling is the first story I ever wrote. It's about a kid in wartime that never got to be a soldier. When you come from a family of war heroes it's a problem. At the end of the war he's been left to die by his family and he has to make his escape. That Punk Show is a battle of the bands comic. In it music equals color, so the more color the more music is in the scene. Jim and Lory's Wedding Gaiden has the longest title I've ever come up with and it's a nod to Judd Apatow style romcoms.

That Punk Show8Dogs of the City is the longest section of the book. It's thirty nine pages across four stories. At shows, it's the guys beating each other up book. It was a fun time writing these because I like to think of these stories as a way to pull off "one shot kill" story telling. I think that certain movies have ruined the approach to the action genre so with these stories I wanted to go back to blink and you'll miss it big action.

One of the most popular books I have is the second volume. It starts with five models in a haunted house doing a shoot. It's part cheesecake horror movie and part ghost story. Midnight Delivery Service is one of my favorite stories I've ever gotten made because it looks gorgeous. I/Weapon is one of the longer stories I have made, I got to work a second time with the artist of That Punk Show on it, and it's a love letter to video games I grew up playing. On every page, there's at least one nod to a favorite moment.

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What I'm looking forward to most is that everyone gets to see the new stories. I have three stories that nobody has seen. Luchadoras is about female masked wrestling. Kuruma Robohime is about magical girls with giant robots. Suburban Kunoichi is a soccer mom goes punisher ninja style on drug dealers in the suburbs. All three stories are drawn, inked, colored, and lettered.

The reason why kickstarter is no fun is that for the next thirty days as of launch is that I'm going to be checking the activity on my campaign. How many people watch the video and how many completely watch the video. If I had put one thing in there that would make one more person back the project. There's a grind to it. The reaching out, the campaigning, and it feels like your yelling into a dark room you know is full of people but can't see. The twenty five hundred dollars is going to cover the print run, the cost of shipping, and the t-shirt rewards. It's a low goal by kickstarter standards but what I'm asking is feasible. I have confidence in the product I'm selling and hope there's enough people out there that want to support the campaign which can be found here

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