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New "Animal Adventures" Models, Book on Kickstarter!
It's a new line of models and a book for Animal Adventures! Animal Adventures: Secrets of Gullet Cove is a new book by Steamforged Games, launching its Kickstarter tomorrow, January 28th! This "swashbuckling adventure set" is one that will expand the Animal Adventures line into its own fully-fleshed out universe that will be fully compatible with "the fifth[...]
Comics Meet Hip-Hop as Vince Hernandez Sponsors Lord of the Mic: LA MC Battle
While many enjoyed a long weekend in honor of a slain civil rights leader, one group of comics and music professionals gathered to establish supremacy and have fun while celebrating a major accomplishment. Long time Aspen comics editor Vince Hernandez blew the doors off of the Kickstarter campaign for his supernatural hip-hop themed comic, Siria: Underworld[...]
Tabletop Games Thrived Through Kickstarter in 2019
Kickstarter appears to be the present and the future of tabletop gaming. And it's not just Monopoly money Image source: Hasbro According to data released by Kickstarter themselves not even a week ago, they funded $208 million-plus dollars worth of games last year, more than any year before it, continuing an upward trend of games companies both[...]
Kamikaze Kickstarter Mission with Carrie and Alan Tupper
Based out of Atlanta, the trio's Glyph award winning work, Kamikaze, has been featured on Bleeding Cool, NPR, Syfy and various other news outlets! The series has been described as "If Mad Max and Batman Beyond raised a kid." In this interview, we get some insight from Carrie (writer, inker,  painter, and art director) and[...]
"Divinity: Original Sin - The Board Game" Gets Funded In Four Hours
Larian Studios launched a Kickstarter this week for Divinity: Original Sin – The Board Game, and got results far faster than expected The devs originally put up a bid of $160k to get the game funded, and not only did that happen in four hours, as of when we're writing this, they've doubled the amount[...]
Auto Draft
We were super-charged by an insane amount of support and trust and by the end of the show, we had found an American publisher. I launched my first artbook on Kickstarter two weeks ago, and the tight-knitted comic-book community rose up to the occasion, once again We raised $23.000 on Day 1, and have now exceeded[...]
"League of Infamy": Two Days to Get Bad with Mantic
Created by the team behind hit games Hellboy: The Board Game and Dungeon Saga: The Dwarf's Kings Quest, this is a dungeon quest like no other. Join a rogue's gallery of misfits, ne'er-do-wells and miscreants on a disgraceful mission to kidnap cute little baby Drakons, steal their eggs and viciously wipe out any irritating, goody-goody Elves that try to[...]
"Critical Role: The Legend of Vox Machina" Gets Amazon Prime Pick-Up
With an "origin story" that's sure to spawn a new wave of hopeful Kickstarter campaigns, Amazon Prime has signed a first-look deal with media and content provider Critical Role To that end, the streaming service has given a greenlight for two, 12-episode seasons of Critical Role: The Legend of Vox Machina-based on narratives and original[...]
"Zombicide" Second Edition Enters Last Two Days on Kickstarter
The Zombicide franchise of games has been a rocking good time from CMON for years now, and any time one of these games goes up on Kickstarter you know you're going to end up with a metric ton of miniatures The new second edition of Zombicide looks like it's not going to be an exception! Image[...]
What if Orson Welles's War of the Worlds Broadcast Was Real?
Renton Hawkey (Ronin Digital Express) is the cover artist and also draws a chapter involving Welles and a historic moment in the history of theater. We are running a Kickstarter campaign to bring this project to life – and we need your support! It's a total indie effort We've set an ambitious goal, but with your[...]
IDW Launches Kickstarter for Wynonna Earp Season 3 Blu-Ray
IDW Entertainment has launched a Kickstarter to sell the Blu-Ray for Wynonna Earp Season 3, the company revealed in a press release Monday It looks like IDW is asking the beleaguered fans of the cult-favorite show to shell out a minimum of $37 plus shipping and handling to obtain a copy of the 2-disc, 12-episode[...]
In The Light Of "Joker" – How to Make People Identify With a Psychopath
The fifth issue is on Kickstarter now. When writing Ichabod Jones Monster Hunter (live on Kickstarter now), the biggest thing I struggled with was making Ichabod loveable After all, he has been convicted of killing several people, and was currently living in a psychiatric ward under strict supervision Society deemed him a monster, but it was[...]
Patriot-1 is the Book America -- and the World -- Needs Right Now
Kevin Powers, creator of the Kickstarter for Patriot-1 Ultimate Edition, writes: Patriot-1 is a 194-page action-packed military and espionage thriller, best described as "Tom Clancy meets Captain America." The story follows disillusioned Delta Force Operator Ken Baker coming to the end of his service until he is the lone survivor of an ambush in Afghanistan[...]
Kickstarter Plans Big Small Press Comics Push for September
Earlier this year, crowdfunding site Kickstarter announced plans to celebrate small press comics in September with their "Small Press, Big Ideas" initiatives The idea was simple: launch your comic Kickstarter in September and send Kickstarter an email letting them know, and the project would be featured on the Small Press section of the site The[...]
One-Eyed Jack: CSI Creator Searches for the Real Monster in Graphic Novel About Las Vegas Shooting
Paddock, is the titular character in One-Eyed Jack, which also stars The Devil (King of Spades), the Grim Reaper (Ace of Spades), and Lady Luck (Queen of Hearts). The Kickstarter page explains the book's mission: One-Eyed Jack is a protest graphic novel designed to raise awareness to political and social issues in our country while chronicling the[...]
Give Me Heroes With Heart!
Mark Zinngrabe writes, Hey everyone! My name is Mark Zinngrabe, and I've recently launched a great superhero comic on Kickstarter called Agents of Talon Why do I say it's great? Because it focuses on the not just the splendor of a superhero action story, but also the emotional toll it takes on the characters who answer[...]
Death Trap: Matt Miner and Chris Peterson Deliver Revenge in a Mercury Cougar
Death Trap is a brand new "carsploitation" comic book series that launched on Kickstarter today, from the creative team of handsome writer Matt Miner, artist Christopher Peterson, colorist Josh Jensen, and letterer Matt Krotzer, about a girl named Ollie teaming up with her dead father's ghost (which haunts a classic Mercury Cougar) to seek revenge[...]
Strange Encounters, a New Anthology from Team Behind Puerto Rico Strong, Now on Kickstarter
King Skull Comics' Marco Lopez writes to Bleeding Cool about his latest Kickstarter project, Strange Encounters: From the team that brought you the Eisner Award-Winning and Diamond Gem Award-nominated, Puerto Rico Strong Anthology (Marco Lopez, Derek Ruiz, and Neil Schwartz). Strange Encounters is a 64-page comic book Anthology about magic, mystery and the Strange Encounters that happen[...]
Siegfried: Dragon Slayer – Article for Bleeding Cool
Tolkien, his love affair with both Norse and Germanic mythologies lead him to write both The Hobbit and the Lord of the Rings series. My love of The Völsunga Saga has taken me to a place of adapting this magnificent piece of Norse mythology into a graphic novel, Siegfried: Dragon Slayer; a graphic novel which is[...]
Switch Accessory Genki Covert Dock Already Succeeds On Kickstarter
Not more than a day went by before a new Nintendo Switch accessory called the Genki Covert Dock already received full funding on Kickstarter This accessory went mildly viral on social media yesterday as it basically serves as a way to charge the console and display it through HDMI without needing to have the console[...]
19 Pages From BUN&TEA, the Serial Comics Magazine Now on Kickstarter [Preview]
The magazine's first issue is seeking funding on Kickstarter, and Bleeding Cool has got a never-before-seen (publicly) preview of the issue for our delightful readers But first, on the Kickstarter page, editor Claire Napier writes: BUN&TEA is approximately sixty-five pages long per month (that's about three times the usual length of an American monthly issue), but—![...]
Let's Be Bastards! New Graphic Novel Introduces Space Mailmen With a Violent Twist
Writers Eric Peterson and Joe Aubrey exude a discernable care for their anthology masterpiece, creating not only a graphic novel full of content but a site dedicated to the world-building of their paragon. This graphic novel reads differently than other linear compilations, with four stories coming together to complete the full vision of this bleak future. [...]
“Out of the Blue”: Kickstarter to Restore Dennis Hopper’s Cult Classic in 4K
Discovery Productions has launched a Kickstarter campaign to restore Dennis Hopper's Out of the Blue to 4K for its 40th anniversary. Dennis Hopper's Out of the Blue is a movie from my teenage years I used to see it in heavy rotation at the Scala Cinema in London back in the 1980s The Scala, now long[...]
Swery's "The Good Life" Has Been Delayed to Next Spring
The game has been quietly trucking on in development through the release of Swery's other game, The Missing, last year, with only a story trailer hitting back in May 2018. Swery's studio White Owls, with help from veteran game developer Yukio Futatsugi and indie studios Camoflaj and Grounding, has been working on the game since the Kickstarter[...]
Sectaurs Returns, New Figures Up For Order Now
Sectaurs held a Kickstarter earlier this year to bring the awesome toy line back through Zica Toys, and after raising over $54,000, they are back! The figures stand at 4 inches tall and come with a ton of accessories Six figures are now up for order, with them set to arrive sometime late this year[...]
Roc Upchurch Returns to Comics With Survivalist Horror, "Everglade Angels"
A new Kickstarter was launched for a new comic book, written by Blake Northcott, former writer on Fathom and Executive Assistant Iris or Aspen, former employee of Millarworld and a bit of a social media firebrand, Scott Lobdell, creator of Happy Death Day and  current writer on Red Hood: Outlaw, Wally West: Flash Forward with[...]