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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 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[...]

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[...]

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 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[...]

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[...]

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 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[...]

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[...]

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 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 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[...]

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[...]

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 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[...]

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[...]

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[...]

"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[...]

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[...]

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[...]

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[...]

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[...]

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[...]

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[...]

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[...]

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[...]

Colleen Doran is adapting the novel Good Omens by Neil Gaiman and Sir Terry Pratchett as a graphic novel, after a rip-roariously successful Kickstarter campaign It is going to be later than initially planned as a result of a variety of circumstances, but it is also going to be considerably longer as well She writes[...]

Now, the 11-issue series from ABLAZE Publishing is getting a Kickstarter campaign for a deluxe collected edition in digital, hardcover, and softcover versions. "Traveling to Mars" cover art: ABLAZE Publishing Traveling to Mars introduces us to former pet store manager Roy Livingston, the first human to ever set foot on Mars Roy was chosen for this unlikely[...]

Dynamite  is to use Kickstarter to start collecting the Disney Afternoon Darkwing Duck material from Marvel Comics, working with Disney, and Darkwing Duck creator Tad Stones, for the project They will also be collecting the Amanda Deibert and Carlo Lauro Dynamite Darkwing Duck series into an Omnibus that will launch exclusively in this Kickstarter, as[...]

All while collectors continue to chase rare key back issues on the aftermarket. Which is why we felt it our responsibility to point out that right now, publisher Boom Studios is offering what appears to be the rarest Something Is Killing The Children #1 variant edition… ever. As part of the James Tynion IV: The First Decade[...]