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Sean Edgar, The New Director Of Comics & Collectibles At Kickstarter
We didn't know where, but heard that it might be the Senior Outreach Lead for Comics job at Kickstarter, which has had considerable turnover in recent years And we were right, kinda The job description has expanded Sean Edgar says; "Overjoyed to start a new journey with Kickstarter as Director of Comics & Collectibles The uniting[...]
Jay Eaton Kickstarter
Now all they have to do is secretly repair the ship and get all the clearances needed to file a flight plan… Of course, they just can't get caught doing it." Bleeding Cool has an exclusive preview, and the Kickstarter launch page is right here. #gallery-1 { margin: auto; } #gallery-1 .gallery-item { float: left; margin-top: 10px; text-align: center; width: 100%; } #gallery-1 img { border: 2px[...]
Sean Edgar, No Longer At Dstlry... But Where Is He?
I get the word that he may have taken the big Senior Outreach Lead for Comics job at Kickstarter, but if he has, he is not telling me Sam Kusek quit that job for Oni Press in December last year, after he previously took the position in April 2024 at a salary of between $120,000 and $140,000. This came after Bryce[...]
SCOOP: Helltrack, T Graphic Novel That Spins Off From 1986 BMX Movie, Rad
I'm excited to be a part of this next adventure as a new generation takes on the Helltrack." A Kickstarter crowdfunding campaign pre-launch page can be found here Sign up for free, get notified at launch, and maybe you'll get something extra too You can have an exclusive sneak peek here first, though. #gallery-1 { margin: auto; } #gallery-1 .gallery-item[...]
New Dave Sim Strange Death of Alex Raymond Pages For Diamond Debt Benefit
They are part of the Ad Hoc Committee of Consignors alongside Fantagraphics, Drawn & Quarterly, UDON, Paizo, Ablaze, American Mythology, Action Lab, Zenescope, Battle Quest Comics, Green Ronin, Hermes Press, and Bleeding Cool's own publisher, Avatar Press, and so have called the book, Consigned on Kickstarter. #gallery-1 { margin: auto; } #gallery-1 .gallery-item { float: left; margin-top: 10px; text-align: center; width: 50%; } #gallery-1 img { border:[...]
Success May See Steve Bissette May Return To Comics To Finish Tyrant
So far, Steve Bissette's Tyrant Complete Edition Kickstarter has raised $240,352 against a $50,000 goal from 1,736 backers with twelve days to go I mean that's good, that's very good, almost a quarter of a million good, but is it enough? For what we really want to happen? #gallery-1 { margin: auto; } #gallery-1 .gallery-item { float: left; margin-top: 10px; text-align: center; width:[...]
Absolute Painkiller Jane - Thirteen Hours Left On Thirty Years
With new limited covers exclusively for this Kickstarter campaign, from Amanda Conner, Peach Momoko, Sean Gordon Murphy, and Tim Bradstreet Bandages have never looked so good. #gallery-1 { margin: auto; } #gallery-1 .gallery-item { float: left; margin-top: 10px; text-align: center; width: 33%; } #gallery-1 img { border: 2px solid #cfcfcf; } #gallery-1 .gallery-caption { margin-left: 0; } /* see gallery_shortcode() in wp-includes/media.php */ Painkiller Jane Uncovered Painkiller Jane Uncovered Painkiller Jane[...]
$1000 Bounty Placed On Black Cat Mystery #50 Facsimile CGC Graded 10.0
Bleeding Cool has been running a series of articles on BleedingCool related to the Pixelmon Media Golden Age Good Girls Facsimile Kickstarters of late Well, the Kickstarter for the Black Cat Mystery #50 facsimile offers donors the option to guarantee a slabbed copy by CGC, 9.8 or better, for $89 And they are also suggesting that folk could get[...]
Could Richard Morgan's Blam And Glam Be The Next Mark Spears' Monsters?
He's now completely self-published a thirteen-issue series through Kickstarter called Blam And Glam, as well as a massive collection of the series so far And I am reminded of no one more than Mark Spears, who has found massive success in the past two years with his Monsters series Like that book, Blam And Glam,[...]
Mark Russell And Russ Braun Launch UFO Satire, The Forgotten Divine
The Forgotten Divine is a satirical science fiction comic book, and it is being launched on Kickstarter, a first for Ahoy Comics… with exclusive campaign-only covers and rewards. "Meet Rodney Coleman, an unhoused veteran whose sleep is haunted by dreams of a faraway planet (At least, he thinks they're dreams.) Soon Coleman connects with others plagued[...]
Massive Indies
Devil In the Herd is her current successful Kickstarter project which is just about to finis in an horu n or so, currently having raised $13,266 against a $1,888 goal, for this 50-page supernatural horror western comic she wrote and illustrated that blends folklore, stark horror elements, and Old West vibes, with demonic possession in[...]
Jonathan Djob Nkondo – From Gorillaz to Peaceful Remission & Wandering
The Kickstarter for both goes live tomorrow, the 3rd of March at 9am PT, noon ET and 5pm GMT And those who choose to pre‑register now, will receive a free lenticular bookplate with Jonathan's animated art with any physical pledge that they make, following that. #gallery-1 { margin: auto; } #gallery-1 .gallery-item { float: left; margin-top: 10px; text-align: center; width: 33%; } #gallery-1 img { border:[...]
Stripwire On Kickstarter - The New Cancelled Comics Cavalcade
There will be a full colour Sherlock Holmes and The Empire Builders short in full colour which has only been seen in the UK's Shift magazine before." And that includes an unseen cover by Frazer, being crowdfunded on Kickstarter. #gallery-2 { margin: auto; } #gallery-2 .gallery-item { float: left; margin-top: 10px; text-align: center; width: 33%; } #gallery-2 img { border: 2px solid #cfcfcf; } #gallery-2 .gallery-caption { margin-left: 0; } /*[...]
We: The Last Spark
SpWe: The Last Spark is a new creator-owned, post-apocalyptic comic heading to Kickstarter, co-created by Gin Kung, and Spawn artist Mirko Colak, with covers by Conan/X-O Manowar artist Tomas Giorello and colours by Diego Rodriguez, the story of a grieving father building a brutal empire, clashing with a superpowered heir who holds the key to[...]
Garth Ennis Turns To Prose With "Words Only"
Jeschonek via Unforgettable Books, successfully funded on Kickstarter in October 2025, surpassing its $5,000 goal with $15,121 pledged from 249 backers And it was a key stretch goal that unlocked Ennis's involvement, adding his story to an already impressive lineup of creators paying homage to their own past works Ennis's piece, simply titled Jamie, features[...]
Jason Pearson’s Body Bags Artist’s Edition
And he ended up hating the originals that are now being reproduced in such detail, linking to an earlier article on Bleeding Cool where the late artist told me of the Kickstarter-funded, very later and ultimately unfilled Body Bags he was working on that "I'm writing and drawing pages for a series that I really[...]
Oni Press Names Sam Kusek as Director of Business Development
As Bleeding Cool scooped last year, Sam Kusek resigned from the Senior Outreach Lead for Comics at Kickstarter position after joining in April 2024 saying "I am going to be taking a leap back into publishing to do just that I can't say exactly where I am heading yet but it will be announced in[...]
Circle And Star
Well, now it's back, outside of Comixology Originals and will be launching on Kickstarter in 2026… as "Whitby Goth Weekend." Ask For Mercy: Whitby Goth Weekend by Richard Starkings and Abigail Jill Harding at Thought Bubble / Rich Johnston Ask For Mercy is a time-travelling fantasy horror story in the tradition of John Carpenter's The Thing and[...]
Sam Kusek Is The New Senior Outreach Lead For Comics At Kickstarter
Is the Senior Outreach Lead for Comics at Kickstarter position cursed right now? Sam Kusek took the position in April 2024 at a salary of between $120,000 and $140,000. This came after Bryce Gold briefly held the position of Head of Comics at Kickstarter between May and December 2023, after Director of Publishing & Comics Outreach at Kickstarter, Oriana Leckert, moved away[...]
Neal Adams
have partnered with Continuity Studios / Neal Adams' Estate for the Swat Kats comic book Kickstarter campaign They are releasing two new comic covers and premium art prints created by Adams in 1993 for Hanna-Barbera, but they were never publicly released until now Before becoming a comic, Swat Kats was a TV kids cartoon created[...]
Eight Hours To Go For Dean Haspiel's Antimatter Kickstarter
Currently on Kickstarter, here are the characters in question, according to Dean. COVID COP is my response to a pandemic that never found its cure and has wiped out 98% of mankind By steeping in the toxins of Brooklyn's Gowanus Canal, can Covid Cop become the antidote that might save what's left of humanity and rekindle romance[...]
Ruben Bolling’s Trump Strips Join Tom The Dancing Bug Kickstarter
Clover Press has launched a Kickstarter campaign to complete their eight-volume set of Ruben Bolling's Tom the Dancing Bug comic strip collections with two new books, collecting the earliest Tom the Dancing Bug strips from the 90s As part of the Kickstarter campaign, Clover is also releasing Trump You, a comic book collecting Ruben Bolling's[...]
A1 Deadline
The Kickstarter for A1 Deadline has just launched And they have confirmed that Tank Girl will be returning to its pages for the first issue, the magazine where she first appeared And featuring work by Shaky Kane, Rufus Dayglo, Alison Sampson, Alan Martin, Jamie Hewlett, Mark A Nelson, Rhoald Marcellius, Steve Pugh, Glenn Fabry, Laura[...]
Rian Hughes Typeractive, Logo Font
He created the Forbidden Planet logo, fixed the Marvel logo, and has created more comic book logos and imprint designs than anyone else. Rian Hughes kickstarter This year, his imprint Device Fonts is thirty years old, and he is using Kickstarter to launch Typeractive, a book collecting every font Device has ever released, and more besides[...]
The ComicScene Yearbook 2026 From Time Bomb Comics
I'm delighted that Time Bomb can now regularly be part of those celebrations through the Comic Scene imprint!" Tony elaborated, saying: "We are so excited about teaming up with Time Bomb and pulling together to use our strengths." The Kickstarter for the ComicScene Yearbook of 2026 is running till the end of the month.   We[...]
Absolute Dracula
Matt Wagner and Kelley Jones's Dracula: Book III, The Count is already funded on Kickstarter, but continues its retelling of Bram Stoker's Dracula, from the Count's point of view, dubbed "Absolute Dracula" And Bleeding Cool has an extended ten-page excerpt to help you make your crowdfunding decisions Or should that be countfanging? No, no it[...]
Brian Bolland To Collect The Actress And The Bishop In Colour
And now Brian Bolland is, via Kickstarter, going to colour all the black-and-white strips and publish The Actress And The Bishop in a Deluxe Collectors form, as well as further prose stories and illustrations, and published alongside a companion black and white volume, showcasing Brian's linework. The Actress And The Bishop by Brian Bolland   The book will[...]
Clover Press
Clover Press and The American Library Of Comics are to collect those strips for the first time ever in softcover, as part of a new line of deluxe slipcase editions, and crowdfunded on Kickstarter. #gallery-1 { margin: auto; } #gallery-1 .gallery-item { float: left; margin-top: 10px; text-align: center; width: 50%; } #gallery-1 img { border: 2px solid #cfcfcf; } #gallery-1 .gallery-caption { margin-left: 0; } /* see gallery_shortcode() in wp-includes/media.php */ Spider-Man[...]
Mark Millar's New Non-Netflix/Millarworld Kickstarter Comic, Conquered
Mark Millar has announced his latest non-Netflix/Millarworld comic book series to be crowdfunded on Kickstarter from his new company, Side Hustle. "When I was thirteen years old I sent two proposals to DC Comics in New York, which felt very far way from my native Scotland But a few weeks later I had a giant rejection[...]