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Diana McCallum writes for Bleeding Cool:   [Cover art by: Gisele Lagace, Editor: Hope Nicholson, Kickstarter Close Date: July 24, 2015] Ladies, let's talk about sex, love and romance That's the goal of The Secret Loves of Geek Girls, an all-female comic and text anthology from Bedside Press hitting shelves in December (if the Kickstarter gods provide a[...]

So Archie Comics cancelled their Kickstarter appeal after a number of retail and consumer complaints But for those who had backed the Kickstarter, they sent a little present Mine came today… the New York Comic Con exclusive copy of The Chilling Adventures Of Sabrina, Teenage Witch #1 with a Archie Comics logo Francesco Francavilla cover….   [...]

Josh Helman, from Mad Max: Fury Road and X-Men: Days Of Future Past writes for Bleeding Cool, You should know that, at this very moment, I’m shitting my

We've been very fortunate that our book has received some really great reviews (and sometimes, some lackluster ones), but every issue we make, we learn more about how to do it. Five issues later, we've got 140 pages worth of material (made up of stories and bonus material) that we've put together into a Trade Paperback[...]

It is part of a transmedia project that will cover films and games, an action espionage tale set during the French Revolution. Pitched as "Bourne in 1800", La Machine Infernale graphic novel follows the adventure of an asian female assassin, part of a secret elite team commanded by revolutionary leader Maximilien de Robespierre, in a war[...]

A Kickstarter campaign is currently running, closing July 17th The fully illustrated book follows Mark Twain on the adventure of a lifetime, through his first visit to Niagara Falls in the 1860's, and features the artwork of Ken Lashley, menton3, Adam Gorham, Nicholas Burns, Claude St Aubin, Mike Rooth, Jeffrey Veregge and more "Yet slowly,[...]

Seeing the completed artwork roll in over the last few months has been surreal. We are not mounting a Kickstarter campaign for Guignol, but if you pre-order before July 31, there are still some goodies to be had for U.S readers, like signed first printing editions, bonus bookmarks, posters, and original artist sketch editions Standard first[...]

And then, on the seventh day, God rested. But what happens when the seventh day comes to an end? What would define the next day in God's work? What if the world was once actually flat and it was the overwhelming belief of the people who inhabited it that made it round? What if it wasn't until[...]

Not only is she paying off this large debt, Scorch sets out to discover her true past, prevent the end of the world, and just pass the 10th grade. Rather than the detailed digitally painted version, Scorch is line-work, fast and furious with a manga sensibility, but there are definite signs of Ashley's obsession with detail[...]

By Nikolai Fomich  [Cover by Carolyn Nowak] For the past five years, cartoonists Kelly Phillips and Claire Folkman have been working with dozens of amazing cartoonists from around the world to produce the all-girl comic anthology Dirty Diamonds, a comic which gives "the women of comics a dedicated outlet for telling their stories." For their sixth issue,[...]

Sony announced that Shenmue 3 is hitting Kickstater and are looking for $2 Million to make it happen. I mean, it is very weird that Sony announced a Kickstarter at their conference, but you know Shenmue 3. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L2r6pfAaJE8Video can't be loaded because JavaScript is disabled: Shenmue 3 – Trailer PS4 (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L2r6pfAaJE8) Thanks to PS4-Magazin [...]

After that coming out of that hole was hard but it was decide that I was going to dedicate this book to that illusion, to the All Saints Day I was meant to do it, that's why this project is very dear to me, that's why I'm looking forward to getting it funded via Kickstarter. Not[...]

Kickstarter ends: Thursday, July 16 Did Rome fall…or was it "pushed?" This lost history continues as a terrifying new Scourge of God drives the Roman Empire ever closer to the brink… The Roman Empire Strikes Back: Amiculus, Volume II Travis Horseman writes, It has been suggested that the second (or fifth, if you must) installment of the Star[...]

Close Date: July 12, 2015, Publishing Date: July 26, 2015. Joshua Crowther writes, In just 24 hours Super: Issue Three is the most overfunded comic in Kickstarter history In just one day it hit it's goal and is now 16833% funded Okay…so the goal was only for $3, but since the last Kickstarter wasn't successful, I took[...]

Kickstarter Close Date: 6/28/15, Publishing Date: September 2015 Riven Seal is a historical fantasy set in a world where magic has always existed and onset of demon summoning has brought upon major changes throughout the world While the story interweaves several plot lines and a diverse cast, a young man named Janus lies at the center[...]

The driving force of Vindication is character. A trade paperback collecting the first three issues of Vindication is running now on Kickstarter, and with three weeks to go, has hit the halfway to our $3000 goal This trade paperback, called "May You Live In Interesting Times" is written by myself, and features art by Rodney Jacobson,[...]

Tesla Stormborn is a limited comic series launched on Kickstarter on June 10th by Anthony Smith Jr with art by Brenda Salazar Stormborn is an epic tale centered on the life and inventions of Nikola Tesla Close date July 10th (International Nikola Tesla Day) Digital Release date August Physical release on Kickstarter only. Anthony Smith Jr[...]

The game hit Kickstarter last month, and has proven to be astronomically successful.  In fact, it has just become the most successful single video game ever on KickStarter with four hours still to run It is just on the cusp of $5 million raised and it's only certain to hit a bigger goals as it comes[...]

When Boundless started their short-form Kickstarter for Lady Death #0 set to last only two weeks rather than a month, they hit their modest $5,000 goal fairly quickly, but the furthest stretch goal of $18,000, which would triple the page count on the Lady Death issue 0 being funded (from 33 pages up to 96)[...]

Everybody's a little crazy for cats. CH: You've been publishing the ongoing adventures of you and your cat Frankie in Frankie Comics since 2013, and now you're doing a Kickstarter to fund issue 4 and Frankie plush dolls What's that process been like? RD: We just launched the Kickstarter today and it's been a really good process[...]

By Alex Wilson Kickstarter has become a platform for amateurs and professionals alike to crowd find projects to completion, getting content directly in the hands of fans Reach, a Kickstarter from the creative team who brought you In Sanity, AZ comes another project looking for funding, and unlike many other projects emerging from Kickstarter, this one[...]

By Christopher Helton The Federal Trade Commission took legal action against the project creator of the Doom That Came To Atlantic City Kickstarter. A parody of the popular Monopoly board game, the project was plagued with issues when the project creator, Erik Chevalier, admitted to using funds from the Kickstarter project to either rent or purchase a home, secure licenses for[...]

Castlevania: Symphony of the Night was really one of the best games of its generation and it has a huge fanbase. That was confirmed when its creator Koji

Your support can make this happen, and thus far it has been extremely humbling and gratifying to see how people have rallied behind my Kickstarter for Savage Empire . With Jurassic World and San Andreas opening soon in theaters, it's almost prescient – or eerie – how Savage Empire managed to position itself It's set in[...]

I've heard it said there's no such thing as a bad idea- any concept can fly with the right execution. With our latest title blasting past $52,000 on Kickstarter, I guess the story is doing something right But when I started writing Dreamkeepers, I didn't know jack about story. I didn't know about inciting events, verisimilitude, thematic[...]

Comics Uniting Nations is an independently financed project and is currently raising funds on Kickstarter. Co-Founder of Comics Uniting Nations, Josh Elder explained: We're working with creators and publishers from around the world to create a series of Public Service Announcements tied to the Global Goals.These single-page comics will be designed to engage and educate readers[...]

For more information check out the book's Kickstarter page which features some preview pages from the next volume. The Hero Business by Bill Walko is a clever and well-written book about a P.R firm that specializes in representing superheroes At its best, the book serves as an insightful meta-commentary on the many ways comic book characters[...]

More than ever we turn to fiction as a prism in which to separate out such complex issues and explore them in more detail. Already over 100% funded on Kickstarter and steadily heading towards it's stretch goals, New World is a comics anthology which aims to explore these fears and tackles the theme of Cultures in[...]

Brethren Born was on its way and now we had to figure out how to fund it. There has been several previous articles on Bleeding Cool on how to produce a successful Kickstarter project so I won't go into too much detail on the process The campaign page was developed over several months (the link can[...]

So we're still a thing, I guess. BC: And what are currently working on? VH: Ok, so, we did a Kickstarter for Mystery Babylon Chapter 3, which I was really nervous about, and the night before I was questioning if this was even going to work But then, within eight hours, we had hit our goal, so[...]