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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[...]
Good Omens Graphic Novel Later But Longer, Jumps From 164 To 200 Pages
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[...]
Travelling to Mars: Mark Russell Talks SciFi Satire and Kickstarter
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 Collects Marvel/Disney Darkwing Duck On Kickstarter
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[...]
Rarest Something Is Killing The Children #1 Ever Being Sold On Kickstarter
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[...]
80's GI Joe & Action Force Comics Collections In Time For Christmas
When Hasbro bought the rights to GI Joe in 1986, the Action Force strip was cancelled, and Marvel UK got the licence, used to reprint the Marvel US GI Joe comics with the names changed, and new UK-exclusive stories when the US ran out of stories to reprint. As Bleeding Cool scooped from the Diamond Retailer[...]
Kevin Maguire Gets Tanga Back From DC Comics, To Publish Himself
Recently, Bleeding Cool looked at Jimmy Palmiotti having managed to get the rights to the series 21 Down back from DC Comics, and publishing the series with an unpublished final issue, through Paperfilms on Kickstarter But he's not alone Kevin Maguire is doing the same with Tanga and Rocketship Comics Maguire writes; "Hi! My name is[...]
DC/Wildstorm Comic 21 Down On Kickstarter With Unpublished Issue #13
And it seems that a thirteenth issue was completed but never published. Now Jimmy Palmiotti has managed to secure the rights back from DC Comics (not an easy task) and is now going to go to Kickstarter to collect the whole thing, including the never-before-seen thirteenth issue. Back in September 2002, Wildstorm Comics, an imprint of DC[...]
Enormous
Do you remember Tim Daniel and Mehdi Cheggour's giant monster comic, Enormous? First published in 2012 as a one-shot by Image Comics, then a six-issue series from 215 Ink – now Invader Comics – in 2014, and a second volume in 2015, it is now returning in an even more enormous form on Kickstarter, just[...]
Cecil Castellucci To Become Her Own Comic Book, With Artist Tattoos
This is a way of playing with the idea of what is a comic book?" The artists named so far include Mari Naomi, Diana Tamblyn, Scott Koblish, Pia Guerra, Nate Powell, Victoria Ying, Chris Wisnia, Sanya Anwar, Jose Pimienta, Nicole Goux, Hope Larson, Dan Santat, Sina Grace, Faith Erin Hicks, Jenny Soep, Allison Conway, Dean Haspiel, Thit[...]
Will The Patchwork Girl Of Oz Be Alex Ross' Rarest Cover Ever?
Renta are behind a new Kickstarter based around the very public domain Wizard of Oz books, created by Frank Baum But the latter books often don't get the attention that the first one does This graphic novel will adapt the 7th Oz book, The Patchwork Girl Of Oz, first published in 1913, and even the[...]
Dynamite Gets License For Terminator Comics Back For 40th Anniversary
"We're excited to treat fans to a great celebration for the groundbreaking 40th anniversary of this beloved mythos bringing both new stories and collecting the library of existing comics." And it begins with a Kickstarter for collected editions, launching in 6 days. We're excited to launch our next project: Terminator 40th Anniversary Graphic Novel Collections! Can you[...]