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So when he launches a Kickstarter for a new comic book – well why not a new version of William Shakespeare's Hamlet, a follow-up to his version of Macbeth, and created entirely in lockdown? 120 pages worth and retelling the story in punk era 1970s London And reprising Denmark as Denmark Street, a road known[...]

Today, we got an email saying that Awaken Realms, a game company from Wrocław, Poland, had effectively broken the record for the fastest funding of nearly $50,000 on Kickstarter with their campaign for Nemesis Lockdown This email also stated that the Kickstarter campaign also, in essence, caused Kickstarter to go down due to the influx of[...]

But they are working together on a new comic book graphic novel, Blacking Out, being crowdfunded through Kickstarter A descent into '70s grindhouse noir—pure grit and ash baked into the story of an alcoholic ex-cop looking for redemption as he attempts to solve the unsolved murder of a child during the Southern California fire season[...]

Three fairly high profile comics arrived on Kickstarter recently, and we figured we'd take a look at them It's a mixed bag of big names and independent creators. Curse Words Omnibus Kickstarter Curse Words cover by Ryan Browne which is now on Kickstarter. Charles Soule and Ryan Browne announced a Kickstarter for an omnibus edition of their 2017[...]

This week, Doonami revealed that they managed to get full funding for Dark Table CCG on Kickstarter and have expanded their stretch goals The company was aiming for just $10k to fund the project, but as of when we're writing this post, they've managed to amass over $15k with about a week left to go[...]

Jones Brings Us Twilight Grimm Art from Kickstarter. When, nearly four decades later, I wrote the Wolverine/Captain America series for Marvel and it was I now trying to bring that character to life just as Stan Lee had done in the original story — it was the culmination of a lifelong dream I've been blessed to[...]

Duncan Jones and Alex De Campi (and a murderer's row of artists) debuted Madi: Once Upon A Time In The Future, a science fiction comic on Kickstarter today Rich Johnston wrote about Madi: Once Upon A Time In The Future before here, highlighting some of Jones and De Campi's thoughts about the project. A piece of[...]

He then began a YouTube channel with the aim of pointing out what he saw as overly-liberal or diverse plotlines in Marvel and DC comic books, including obscene attacks against a number of creators, before mobilising that audience to fund his publishing attempts with the Jawbreakers graphic novel on Kickstarter as part of #comicsgate After[...]

Railroad Ink Challenge, a game by Horrible Guild (formerly Horrible Games), has made over $329,000 on Kickstarter with nineteen days left to go for their campaign! Billed as a "roll and write"-style game, this game has players assume the role of a developer crafting tracks for the railway and for the highway with the end-goal[...]

Barb Kaalberg is the creator/co-writer/inker of Divinity, the project being kickstarting right now with Roland Mann.

Renegade Game Studios, the game company responsible for Space Battle Lunchtime and the Altered Carbon role-playing game, has done something remarkable and gotten its $25,000 Kickstarter campaign for Power Rangers: Heroes of the Grid fully funded in all of six minutes' time The campaign, which is presently exceeding $160,000 as of the time of writing this article,[...]

Steamforged Games' Kickstarter campaign for Resident Evil 3: The Board Game has reached its final two days of backing Of their nearly $187,000 goal, through the support of over 6,300 backers thus far they have made well over $879,000 as of the time of writing this article. The array for the core of Resident Evil 3: The[...]

The Kickstarter campaign for Deadlands, a Weird West role-playing game made by Pinnacle Entertainment Group, has been funded completely! It is now on its last 34 hours of backing, having made over $485,000 of it's $10,000 goal as of the time of us writing this article. Deadlands, a newly-refurbished Weird West-style game, has been fully funded and[...]

It was revealed last month that crowdfunding service popular amongst comic book creators, Kickstarter, had let 40% of staffers go They are not alone in this, Patreon also made redundancies, and IndieGoGo had similar last year However, one of Kickstarter's 40% was Kickstarter's Comic Outreach Lead, Camilla Zhang, posted the following to Twitter As she[...]

In just a matter of a day, his current Kickstarter for his new book, Iyanu, was already funded! But it's still open,so here's some more info from the press release: YouNeek Studios, the Maryland based transmedia company, is proud to announce the official launch of Iyanu – Child of Wonder Volume One! The 112-page graphic novel[...]

The Altered Carbon Role Playing Game, a new RPG by Renegade Game Studios, is now up for preorder on Renegade's website! We here at Bleeding Cool covered this RPG's Kickstarter campaign back in early February, and now it's finally coming to fruition Hunters Entertainment and Skydance Television teamed up with Renegade to get this game off[...]

The book, titled Cosmic Detective, is an epic science fiction mystery that asks: when a God is murdered, who solves the crime? Launched on Kickstarter this week, they have motored past their goal and are promising playing cards. Lemire, Kindt and Rubín Add Playing Cards to Cosmic Detective OGN Art from Kickstarter. In Cosmic Detective, a God[...]

Who's to know for sure? You can back Palomino on Kickstarter here.   Stephan Franck is a French/American animator, writer, director, and comics creator Supervising animator on The Iron Giant, and writer for Despicable Me, he co-created the animated TV show Corneil & Bernie He was nominated for an Annie for directing The Smurfs: The Legend of Smurfy[...]

Jay Fotos is a regular at Bleeding Cool, and he has a stormingly entertaining project on Kickstarter, the eighties throwback horror series with a modern twist, Rising Rebels He writes; Remember when monsters, knife-wielding maniacs, cannibalistic zombies and demons of all shapes and sizes lived on the shelves of the local video store? No? Well the[...]

This new release, which includes an expansion proper as well as a new villain pack, will be funded via Kickstarter, which will go up on May 12th. The logo for Power Rangers: Heroes of the Grid, featuring the Mighty Morphin' Power Rangers. The new villain pack, dubbed Villain Pack #2, features key members of the Machine Empire,[...]

Earlier this year, Kickstarter announced they had been working on the premier crowdfunding service's very own comic book anthology, to be published by Kickstarter itself The Worlds of Kickstarter Comics was intended to debut at this year's Toronto Comic Arts Festival, but unfortunately that event has become one of many cancelled due to the coronavirus[...]

The Todd McFarlane Spawn Kickstarter campaign has been hitting record numbers The figure has now finally his the long awaited 2 million dollars with 11 days still left on the campaign The original goal was only $100,000 and that number was demolished in a couple of hours As the numbers rose, fans were greeted with[...]

Zainab Akhtar's mail-order comics box phenomenon, ShortBox, is back on Kickstarter for its twelfth installment, and despite the difficult circumstances the entire world is going through right now, it surpassed its $20,000 funding goal in the first day Or, perhaps, it's because of those circumstances that we all need an escape, and what better way[...]

Todd McFarlane gives fans and new members 11 new Spawn Kickstarter Campaign pledge options These are more directed towards members who want multiple figures with two and three pack options Pledge members will be able to get up to 6 figures with a special double 3-pack that will cost $320 The 11 new pledge offers[...]

It is launching on Kickstarter today and intended to launch next month, May 2020. "Imagine a world where the two dominant and competing Cola companies, each worth billions, are owned by former Siamese twins who are now separated and have grown to hate each other so much they hire assassins, saboteurs, and espionage personnel to meddle with[...]

Spawn creator Todd McFarlane launched his Kickstarter to produce a new classic version of the original figure from 1995 on Thursday Hoping to raise $100,000, they cleared that within a half hour, and in less than 24 hours have now cleared the $1 million threshold Quite the feat right now as people deal with the[...]

The Image co-founder is using Kickstarter to fund the project, titled Spawn Masterworks: The Original Spawn Action Figure and Comic Remastered A press release explains the campaign. In 1992, the very first Spawn comic book hit the shelves setting a sales record for an independent comic book A few years later, in 1995, the first Spawn[...]

The band announced plans to launch a Kickstarter for a comic book companion series to the records on Monday Les Friction's self-titled debut, Les Friction, and follow-up Dark Matter are the band's first two, and only, albums to date The comic will coincide with the release of a new single "Set in the year 2051,[...]

(Independent, For Molly creative team: Gabe Cheng, Benjamin Parker) For Molly is a Kickstarter success that offers a melancholy magical realism tale of a cold war between humans and dogs, who also talk That's fine, really, don't worry about that Apparently, this war isn't public knowledge, as it's existence surprises the heck out of the protagonist[...]

Although primarily a comic book production studio, 133art offers services in comic book printing as well through the other wing of the company: 133art Printing. Today I interview Jason Reeves on running his publishing and printing company, work processes, as well as his current books from Changa and the Jade Obelisk, a collaboration with novelist Milton[...]