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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[...]

Title: Cthulhu is Hard to Spell: The Terrible Twos Creators: Russell Nohelty, Kristen Simon (editor), various creators, including Paul Jenkins (Spider-Man), Ray-Anthony Height (Moon Girl and Devil Dinosaur), Christian Gossett (The Red Star), and 70 others. Close date: March 26th Platform: Kickstarter Logline: Cthulhu is Hard to Spell is our love letter to Lovecraft fans of all kinds, from[...]

The co-creator of ToeJam & Earl, Greg Johnson, has a new game he's trying to get funded on Kickstarter And within 24 hours, it got off to a great start The original goal for the crowdfunding run of Outta Our Shells was $10,000 As of when we're writing this, it has raised over $15,200, originally[...]

Rosston Meyer writes to Bleeding Cool about Jim Mahfood's Pop Up Funk, now on Kickstarter… A new release from Poposition Press features indie comic artist Jim Mahfood's unique Visual Funk style in a three dimensional pop up book format Pop Up Funk takes some of Mahfood's best known work (Grrl Scouts, Everybody Loves Tank Girl) and[...]

I write a comic called Herd, with issue 2 currently at pre-launch over at Kickstarter On the surface it's a story of Stone Age vampires and their relationship with the Homo-Sapiens living alongside them at the time It looks very traditional and is full of action and brutality. As I was saying, people often ask me[...]

I had to settle for this: So I launched a little Kickstarter with a modest target It's time to see if the years-old plan will pay off Will my weird, wonderful, righteously indignant, readership follow me into an entirely new and largely curse-word-free medium, and pay for the pleasure to boot? Or will it be "Hey,[...]

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[...]

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[...]

After releasing Ret:con, they now embark on adapting stories from the mind of Milton Davis, an acclaimed and accomplished fantasy novelist in the independent book realm which is already proving to be a success! Read the press release below and be sure to check out their Kickstarter campaign! MVmedia LLC of Fayetteville, GA, a publisher specializing in[...]

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[...]

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[...]

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[...]

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[...]