Humanoids has announced What We Wished For, an original graphic novel from Ilias Kyriazis about a group of kids who wish on a passing comet.
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In collaboration with Four Screens and the Estate of Ol' Dirty Bastard, Oni Press has just unveiled ODB: Oddities, Discord & B-Sides – Lyrical Ruckus in the City – a new deluxe graphic novel debuting today with a deluxe pre-order campaign on Kickstarter from the publisher's Oni Premium Direct label that gave us the return of The Sixth Gun last summer.
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Earier this year, I reported that Bryce Gold had left as head of Comixology Originals at Comixology for Kickstarter's New Head of Comics, a position that was advertised earlier in the year, for $120-$140,000 But he only got half of that because six months later, he's off again.
Bryce Gold PR shot from LinkedIn
Bryce Gold Xtweeted[...]
Godkiller: The Banned Edition has launched on Kickstarter, alongside the launch for Black Mask's sixth volume, The Color You Took from Her Eyes Why banned? Well therein lies a tale Godkiller has joined a number of graphic novel bans for apparently containing queer content and blatant nihilism.
Godkiller: Spiderland #1 by writer Matteo Pizzolo and artist Anna[...]
Kickstarter has been an incredible gateway for creators to bring their ideas to life, especially with action figures We have seen plenty of successful franchises arrive off the platform with Mythic Legions, Plunderlings, Savage Crucible, and more A new crowdfunding campaign has arrived from Morphonauts as they deliver Combat Creatures to the world! These figures[...]
with new background on Béla's involvement in the filming of Glen or Glenda, Bride of the Monster and Plan 9 from Outer Space.
The book is being crowdfunded on Kickstarter by Clover Press, and has raised $65,486 against a goal of $10,000 from 387 with just over a day to go Here are a few bullet[...]
This time it's a Kickstarter spotlight on Metal Warrior, a new comic book series that looks like it's trying to do a GWAR/Deathlock music and comics combination from scratch And Ben Templemith gave them this cover, which is nice.
Here's their PR.
"EARTH, 2023—Metal Warrior, the band that inspired an entire planet with some of the most[...]
But for now, Bleeding Cool has been given an exclusive first look at his writing on his upcoming licensed Zorro comic from Massive Publishing on Kickstarter with this lettered preview below Sean Gordon Murphy must love me after all.
Michael Calero, Massive Publishing CEO reminds us all how woke this comic will be "As a Hispanic[...]
Campbell reportedly wanted to play Doctor Who badly.
Ken Campbell as You-Know-Who
As Dan Sumpton's Kickstarter statement says, The Lost Doctor Annual 2023 is a Christmas Special from the Universe Next Door It's an artifact of a Doctor Who that never was.
"In 1987, the contenders for the role of the Seventh Doctor had been narrowed down to two[...]
Today is the last day of Filipino American History Month, and Kwento Comics, the Filipino-American comic book publisher, has partnered with Clover Press for a Kickstarter campaign to publish a graphic novel inspired by Philippine mythology, The Mask Of Haliya: Heir To The Warrior Moon This 200-page deluxe hardcover follows the journey of a troubled[...]
Yesterday, Bleeding Cool ran an article on Steve Niles and Franco Francavilla's Kickstarter comic book Creature Features that seemed inexplicably short of its goal And it seemed to work, within an hour of the article being published, it had put on another two thousand dollars to push it over the $10,000 goal, with three days[...]
I'm Going Through Something, the debut middle grade graphic novel by intersex activist Hans Lindahl and cartoonist Chan Chau.
At Bleeding Cool, we run quite a lot of stories about Kickstarter comic book projects Some are raising money to create a project, and others are using it to create awareness and orders for a project already completed.
And, with the right PR company behind them, they often his their goal in days, hours, or even[...]
The Paperfilms team of Amanda Conner and Jimmy Palmiotti, alongside their award-winning Harley Quinn artist teammate Chad Hardin, have a new project as a team, The Hunters graphic novel, being Kickstartered right now Jimmy Palmiotti is one of the most successful and reliable creators publishing through Kickstarter, and his books fill many a discerning bookshelf[...]
More details to follow!" As well as plenty of that concept art, including surprising vehicles, suggesting this may be set in the modern day.
Then has listed the project on Kickstarter after he got Massive Publishing, the publisher of Plot Holes, to pick it up "The idea for this book is Don Quixote meets Narcos, told[...]
Matt Wagner and Kelley Jones are launching a brand new graphic novel together on Kickstarter that goes back centuries, with the secret history of Count Dracula The first in a series of graphic novels, Dracula: Book 1: The Impaler will be published by their very own comic book publisher, Orlok Press And, since it[...]
With just under ten days to go, the Cyanide & Happiness 20th Anniversary Comic Extravaganza campaign has jumped into the Top 10 webcomic campaigns of all time on Kickstarter The campaign has garnered over a quarter million dollars in orders from over 3,000 backers, making it the #8 most funded webcomic campaign in the platform's[...]
They have launched a Kickstarter campaign for its publication Alabaster will be written by the award-winning Bitter Root writer/co-creator Chuck Brown with artwork by renowned illustrator Anna Weiszczyk, artist of Godkiller, Home.
"Alabaster" Cover A art: Noir Caesar
Reimagined for a new generation of readers as a contemporary graphic novel from Noir Caesar, Alabaster reinterprets Ralph Ellison's[...]
I wonder how many Kickstarter donations they have taken from outside the USA so far?
Hot on the heels of the news that Fritz Lang's futuristic art-deco masterpiece, Metropolis, has entered the public domain, Rocko Jerome and his team have found a clever way to adapt the cult classic to the comic book page while sowing[...]
Together they are creating a new comic book, Evermind, from 247 Comics and launched on Kickstarter with a launch event hosted by Mickey Finn, which saw Wesley Snipes pop by.
Evermind tells the story of overlooked innovator Lucas Zhang (whose likeness was inspired by Wu himself) who has worked his entire life to push humanity beyond[...]
Last week, they posted on Twitter about a Kickstarted comic they had not received after two years, stating "Are any other retailers owed money from an unfulfilled Kickstarter this person did? We suspended backing any Kickstarters since we got burned by this one They've ignored our messages and email." And they included screencaps of the[...]
And as a result, the campaign will also feature an eight-page ashcan comic that takes you deeper into the world of Kelly McMahon's Bad Blood by Groom, drawn by Glow and My Buffy Killer Croc's Nicoletta Baldari, edited by fellow Power Rangers writer and Massive-Verse creator Kyle Higgins.
The Bad Blood ashcan comic story is only[...]
He has also worked for, and with VIZ Media, Heavy Metal, Kodansha, Penguin Random House, and Wizards of the Coast.
At Goats Flying Press, Sebastian Girner states that he "will bring his years of experience and lifelong love and passion for comics together to conceive, develop, and create a new generation of comics, against all odds![...]
It sells crowdfunded comic books, and that's about it.
Google Streetview of CROÂfunding
Dedicated 100% to crowdfunding self-publishers, it takes up a mere 17 square meters in central Lille with a focus on local artists in North France, Lille, Douai, Saint Quentin, and Valenciennes as well as London and Brussels, it sells comics, illustrated books, fanzines, illustrations[...]
Yesterday, Valiant Entertainment sent a new update to Kickstarter backers of the Eternal Warrior original graphic novel hardcover, which had been launched in November 2021 and had been considered, even by former Valiant employees, to be abandoned With Alien Books publishing a paperback version in January, the Kickstarter for this volume received a new spotlight[...]
Crowdfunded on Kickstarter, approved by the Terry Pratchett Estate and Neil Gaiman, it is the most successful comic book on Kickstarter ever, by far.
On his Facebook page, Neil Gaiman wrote, as to why they chose to go the crowdfunding route for Good Omens : The Graphic Novel,
"Publishers were disappointingly uninterested in doing this, and definitely[...]
The project is being crowdfunded on Kickstarter by Clover Press and will be launching imminently.
"A few years ago, my entire comic book collection was stolen," said Schwartz, who also wrote the screenplay for Gnome Alone and the upcoming R.L Stine's Zombie Town, starring Dan Aykroyd and Chevy Chase "After that I started to re-collect and revisit the[...]
Via Kickstarter And they are doing that by aiming the cannon at Amazon.
It launches today on Kickstarter And they are calling it "The Largest Collection Of A-List Superstar Creators In Kickstarter History" That "digital comics can be so more than they are, and we're going to prove it That's why we're bringing David Lapham's thrilling[...]
A year ago, Bleeding Cool reported that Dynamite Comics was to create a Fire And Ice comic book based on the 1983 animated fantasy film directed by Ralph Bakshi and a collaboration between Bakshi and Frank Frazetta, based on characters co-created by Bakshi and Frazetta, from a screenplay written by Conan comics writers Gerry Conway and Roy Thomas. Fire And Ice #1 by Bill Willingham and[...]
Last year, comic book creator, publisher and novelist Liam Sharp launches a Kickstarter for The Art Of Liam Sharp Encore Bronze , a third volume of his collected works of art, to follow his Encore: Gold and Encore: Silver books from previous years, and including a forward by editor Scott Dunbier, and a profile on Liam[...]