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Tintin, Now In The Public Domain, Gets Modern Revival in The Big Lie
So people publishing new Tintin work might have to be careful where they sell it. Tintin by Fabrice Sapolsky Such as Fabrice Sapolsky, who is kicking off 2025 with the announcement of a Kickstarter for a new Tintin and Snowy comic book, The Big Lie, set in the modern day He writes; "In the beginning, there was TINTIN,[...]
The Secret Origin Of The Infinity Gauntlet
Perez had quite a strong Catholic education and upbringing, folks. Why that may be suddenly of relevance concerns the comic book Durruti: Shadow Of The People, getting ready to launch on Kickstarter The book is a historical biopic/war epic series about the life and death of Spanish anarchist Buenaventura Durruti, the man most responsible for the[...]
Witchblade Complete Collection Kickstarter Offers Stjepan Šejić Cover
Top Cow Productions continues their Kickstarter campaign to collect the classic comics Witchblade in print As part of the ongoing Kickstarter campaign for The Witchblade Complete Collection Volume 4, Top Cow will release an exclusive Special Edition Witchblade Slab Card featuring stunning new cover art by fan-favorite artist Stjepan Šejić This collectible will be available[...]
Bad Idea Promises Pizza Kickstarter Delivery In 30 Days, Or Its Free
Who are promising that the deluxe hardcovers Kickstarter for Robert Venditti and David Lapham's Hank Howard, Pizza Detective will be delivered within thirty days of the Kickstarter campaign ending, or it will be entirely free They say that this will be a world record for the fastest delivery of a campaign in history, but I[...]
Death to Pachuco: A Chicano Noir
Death to Pachuco: A Chicano Noir is a comic that Henry Barajas is crowdfunding on Kickstarter, "pachuco" defined as "a young Mexican-American having a taste for flashy clothes and a special jargon and usually belonging to a neighborhood gang." With five days to go, it has raised $8,300 of a $10,000 goal from 237 donors. Readers[...]
Heavy Metal #1
Heavy Metal Magazine #1 officially relaunched today as the Kickstarter goes live, from the new editorial team of Frank Forte, Dave Kelly and Chris Thompson The publisher is named as a new entity, Heavy Metal International, but the previous publisher, Heavy Metal Entertainment, did not go bankrupt, and the previously promised version from WhatNot/Massive, which[...]
The Comic Shop
I saw the tweet from Ewulu from earlier today, offering a heads-up that the Kickstarter campaign to fund a full season would be kicking off on November 12th The mockumentary workplace comedy spotlights a crew of friends trying to make a go of a comic book store in Los Angeles – and after watching the[...]
3W3M Kickstarter Jumping On Point For Jonathan Hickman's New Universe
Hence, Kickstarter [ONE] will be a deluxe hardcover or a set of three prestige editions, containing "the core stories that set the stage for everything to come." In addition to the springboard story material, the crowdfunding campaign will also offer an array of other hardcovers collecting nearly everything they've released via Substack so far This[...]
The Marvel Art of Michael Allred Artbook Kickstarter Adds Trading Cards
The art book has an upcoming Kickstarter campaign, and Clover Press Art is offering trading cards with art by Allred himself as a bonus. Clover Press Art and Kickstarter Apart from his creator-owned and indie comics work, Michael Allred has drawn books at both DC and Marvel, working with Peter Milligan, Matt Fraction, Dan Slott, and many[...]
Invader Comics Launchg
First trialled with the release of Night of the Living Dead when the publisher was known as 215 Ink, the team at Invader Comics is expanding its Gory Books range through its first collaboration with writer, actor, and director Andrew Bowser on Onyx The Fortuitous, as well as artist Kyle Hilton. Onyx The Fortuitous: Talisman Of Souls by Andrew[...]
Suspense Comics #3
New publisher Authentic Editions plans to capitalise with a new Kickstarter, printing facsimile editions of these classic pre-code horror comics: Suspense Comics #3, #8, #11, #12 Punch Comics #12, #9 Chamber of Chills #19, #23 Weird Mysteries #4, #5, #6, #12 Weird Chills #1, #2, #3 And it's coming from Adam Fortier, former VP of Dreamwave Productions on Transformers, owner of[...]
The Comic Mint Jumps From Comics Retailer to Publisher, Launch at NYCC
The first issue is already complete and will be crowdfunded on Kickstarter with other artists, including Tiago da Silva, John Royle, Ryan Kincaid, Gregbo Watson, and more. "The modern world is spiraling into an incredibly uninhabitable place What's a little espionage and murder when the future is at stake?" #gallery-2 { margin: auto; } #gallery-2 .gallery-item { float: left; margin-top: 10px; text-align: center; width: 50%; } #gallery-2[...]
Golem
Both volumes of The Golem of Venice Beach will soon be available on Kickstarter. And Bleeding Cool has an exclusive excerpt, a homage/swipe of a Sal Buscema pin-up from 1973's Avengers/Defenders War by Spanish painter Das Pastoras of Metabarons The Golem of Venice Beach: Book Two is a 184-page oversized deluxe hardcover and features: A wrap-around cover suitable[...]
Mike Hawthorne To Finish Hysteria: One Man Gang After Twenty Years
I'm going to bring all the comic-making know-how I've learned over the years to bear on this! I'll be using Kickstarter to get it going, launching a new campaign early this week As of the time of this writing I've drawn the 12 page comic I'm planning on releasing, but we have plans to expand[...]
Larry Hama Do
Larry Hama posted to Facebook, "I don't get a cent from the vast majority of GI Joe reprints, nor do I get anything from all the Wolverine material that is reprinted in 17 countries outside the USA." It's true, And that included the recent GI Joe Compendium that Skybound put on Kickstarter, reprinting Larry Hama's eighties[...]
Scott Snyder Presents: The Cloak Room
SCOTT SNYDER PRESENTS: THE CLOAKROOM hits Kickstarter this week, and you can still pick up the first issue in this campaign, as well as both volumes of the series' predecessor – that's over 350 pages of comics! "Of all the projects we do at Thorny Comics, The CloakRoom is nearest to my heart," said series editor[...]
Tankers
Robert Venditti's Tankers graphic novel about a group of brave soldiers who don lethal mechs and time travel back to save the dinosaurs but end up fighting the dinosaurs and then also fighting space-traveling ancient aliens, is hitting Kickstarter courtesy of Bad Idea ahead of San Diego Comic-Con. Joining him are some of the bigger comic[...]
Vampirella Black, White & Blood Jae Lee Kickstarter Cover Gets $5000
Dynamite Originals, is Dynamite Entertainment's new imprint that will launch titles on Kickstarter with Dynamite properties, beginning with Vampirella: Black, White & Blood Going live yesterday, someone has already donated $5000 to get the Jae Lee cover artwork. A collaboration with Mirka Andolfo's Arancia Studio, it will see Italian artists work with American comic book writers to[...]
Grant Morrison Will Make Magic Happen For You, Via Kickstarter
Grant Morrison is to offer three individuals a "personal magick spell cast just for them" as part of a new crowdfunding scheme on Kickstarter to fund the post-production of Magick Show A documentary described as a "masterclass in the occult" and created by Richard Metzger of Dangerous Minds and Disinformation, and produced by media theorist[...]
Auto Draft
Over 70 Black creators are teaming up with Advent Comics and over 40 comic book and graphic novel publishers for a crossover graphic novel Epiphany Engine on Kickstarter The project is led by Advent Comics' Tony Kittrell and editorial director Joseph P Illidge Each chapter will showcase the work of a different creative team, including[...]
Two Corporate Comics On Kickstarter Get Very Different Reactions
As we predicted, the GI Joe Compendium has crossed the three million dollar mark, making it the most successful comic book Kickstarter ever It will reprint the original Marvel Comics titles written and sometimes drawn by comic book legend Larry Hama And licensed from Hasbro by the Walking Dead producer Skybound Entertainment, publishing through the[...]
Creators of Resident Alien Launch New Horror Comic With Glenn Fabry
"After I'd done that I just kept having more horror ideas, so we decided to make a book of them." David Hitchcock Peter Hogan's Black Forests is now live on Kickstarter and has currently raised $1525 pledged of a £4000 goal from 61 backers with 29 days to go The campaign runs until 23rd July, with all[...]
GI Joe Todd McFarlane
Joe Compendium Kickstarter is not just content to be one of the biggest comic book Kickstarters of all time, but it wants to be the biggest And it has Neil Gaiman in its sights But what can take down Neil? How about Todd McFarlane? There would be an irony there… Donors just unlocked the stretch goal at[...]
Afrofutures
Launching on Kickstarter from RexCo Comics and publisher Cosmic Lion Productions, Afrofutures intends to be an "exciting new concept album brought to life in comics magazine form" with nine comic book stories and three articles focused on the concept of "Black futures." I am reminded when I attended a Dark Horse Comics panel at San[...]
Yes, Yes, Kieron Gillen, I Am Doing Your Kickstarter Thing Now
The series ran for 45 main issues with a few spinoffs along the way, telling the story of teenage girl, Laura, and a Pantheon of twelve reincarnate gods, who reincarnate in the young every ninety years before dying two years later, burning out after living lives of fame and superpowers. Yesterday, for the tenth anniversary of[...]
Emily Millar Has Her Very Own Millarworld On Kickstarter
Mark Millar's daughter, artist Emily Brooks Millar, is launching her own comic books on Kickstarter, with less than two days to go Two of them, Be More Gus and As Told By Rats With a little help from her dad, who has been running her work in the back of his Millarworld titles from Netflix/Image/Dark[...]
Ernest
Launching on Kickstarter later this year, there is a holding page for now.   I am told that pretty much everyone born in the USA in the seventies and eighties, remembers the Ernest Goes to Camp, Ernest Saves Christmas, Ernest Goes to Jail, Ernest Scared Stupid and Ernest Rides Again ? But it seems no one else does[...]
Humanoids First English Publication of Caza's Arkadi & The Lost Titan
That changes with the Kickstarter being launched today, also the 35th anniversary of the release of Arkadi: Book 1 in France Bleeding Cool has a little exclusive interior artwork from Arkadi And The Lost Titan to accompany the launch.. "Arkadi And The Lost Titan is Caza's longest and most complete work and it's a thrill to introduce[...]
Will Larry Hama’s GI Joe Become The #1 Comics Kickstarter Ever? 
Joe: A Real American Hero Compendium Set campaign set the new launch day comic book record on the platform with pledging over $767,000 (beating the previous record holder by almost $150,000). The campaign has since gone on to earn nearly $2,000,000 in pledges, easily surpassing Keanu Reeves' BRZRKR campaign (whose first day was far less) to[...]
Separated At Birth: Conan The Barbarian & Port Royal
This is the central image for the Port Royal tabletop game from Firelock Games, currently being Kickstartered, which has raised over $65,000 against a $15,000 goal from 515 backers And describes itself thus; "PORT ROYAL is a campaign-based, tactical, small-scale warband-sized skirmish wargame that is easy and fast to learn and play, loosely based on the[...]