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Keeping Comics Out Of The Landfill
That experience would happen off and on and it left be hoping that maybe my work wasn't landfill. Fast forward to January of this year and I've now self-published four titles on my own; all of which funded or are currently on Kickstarter I keep on drawing while I work my day job all the time[...]
Two Crowdfunding Projects Are Better Than One
Plus the first crowdfunding effort signs up the supporters to receive updates while the product is being built. Then a second crowdfunding project is launched, once the media is ready to distribute, which actually gets the product into people's hands. This idea came to me after my first project on Kickstarter for a comic called Electromagnate Book[...]
Where In The World Is Brandon Jerwa's Comic Book Documentary?
At one point in 2011 I was even going to be in it, but out schedules never matched up. He launched a Kickstarter to fund the film and took in $19,000. He began promising weekly updates , but now ignores queries ignoring queries from contributors. Most recently he stated that the delay was due to the film changing formats… but[...]
The Thrilling Adventure Excuse
Stunningly successful podcast and stage show The Thrilling Adventure Hour launched aKickstarter in 2012 to fund a graphic novel A goal of $55,000 it smashed that with $192,873. The Kickstarter was so successful so quickly that one of the main stretch goals was to do a Concert Film DVD Between then and now Thrilling Adventure Hour[...]
The Dean Trippe Trap
And it apparently took threats on Instagram by @Animedad using the #Deancon hashtag to get the work. Then there is his Kickstarter for Something Terrible, described as a short, autobiographical comic about recovery from childhood trauma and the power of fictional heroes. However the title has become somewhat self-descriptive After raising almost $50,000 to reppublish this already published comic as "2000[...]
Funny Webcomics Unite For A Historic Collection
It's on Kickstarter right now and if this project reaches its goal it will become a historic collection having brought together over 30 hilarious webcomics in a printed form for the first time; including the popular favorites like StupidFox, Pon & Zi, and Romantically Apocalyptic. Every comic strip had to begin somewhere "Start Here is awesome[...]
Mallow Man – Pictures For Kids, Words For Adults
Proofs are in and a mass order is only awaiting Kickstarter funding.  Mallow Man is an Ex-FBI Agent turned bounty hunter who must save the world from a mysterious evil force that is building an army and picking off his fellow agents one by one Also, he's a marshmallow! Marcus Clawson writes, Have you ever wanted to read[...]
Design Unscripted Vol 2 – Giving It The Old College Try
We get a lot of Kickstarter campaigns here and we are very happy to share them with the world This is a first for me though – a Kickstarter project from the faculty, student and alumni of Ringling College of Art & Design in Sarasota Florida. This is what was sent to us by Kenneth Spirduso: Over[...]
Hero Hourly Updates On Kickstarter
My wife's getting new tits, too. The Hero Hourly Kickstarter can be found here: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/132675182/hero-hourly And here is a five-page preview of the book. Hero Hourly Written by James Patrick (Batman, Green Arrow, Harley Quinn), drawn by Carlos Trigo (2000 AD), to be colored by Jen Hickman (Feathers), and lettered by E.T[...]
Charge: An All Superheroes Must Die Comic With Preview
 After months of hard work, Jason, Gavin, and I now have a completed comic book. We currently have a Kickstarter going on and I'm not going to lie It's not off to a great start It could use some help Whether you back it or not, I appreciate you taking the time to take a look[...]
In The Future There Will Be Car Wars And Kickstarters
The first print of Car Wars Classic debuted at last year's Gen Con and was completely sold out at the distributor level within a couple of months. In an update to backers of their Ogre Deluxe Kickstarter, Steve Jackson Games talks about a new printing of Car Wars Classic and teases about a new Kickstarter. Our new printing of Car Wars Classic started[...]
Kickstarting The Trolltooth Wars
The epic graphic novel promises to boast 130 pages of story, plus additional material, and all of this being launched on a Kickstarter for the project on March 3rd 2015. The Kickstarter project runs for 30 days, to cover production costs from art to printing and posting, so it's worth helping however you can to make[...]
Curls is Here to Make Comics Fun Again!
If these ideas sound like a world you'd like to be a part of then take a chance to discover Curls and pledge to the Curls Kickstarter going on right now. I adore the characters in Curls At first I used to deny Curls was based on me because she is her own character That was[...]
It's a Ninja. It's A Dinosaur. It's Ninjasaur, Obviously.
Ninjasaur by Jason Horn. End Date of Kickstarter, March, 31. Publishing date, Oct 2015. Jason Horn writes, Ninjasaur, as you can imagine, is a dinosaur ninja He is the only hero with the skills to keep the peace in a world where everything exists at once Cavemen live alongside robots Cowboys work in cubicles next to pirates[...]
Butcher: A Lesson In Criminality
Standing in his way is a desperate gang boss struggling to maintain his influence over a city that once feared him. Written by Amit Chauhan and Illustrated by Eli Powell. This Kickstarter campaign runs through April 23rd.  Amit Chauhan writes, Growing up in London's gritty East End in the 1980's really shaped the way I tell stories. A dark sense[...]
Jumping On The Beast Wagon
Last Saturday, Owen Michael Johnson and John Pearson threw a rather wild party to launch their Beast Wagon exhibition and Kickstarter at Orbital Comics, London You may have seen it mentioned a week last Wednesday on Bleeding Cool. The exhibition and Kickstarter was organised in support of British Comic Award nominated Johnson and Leed's based illustrator Pearson's new[...]
Female Gamers Unite! Chainmail Bikini Features Over 40 Comic Creators
You can take a look at some of the artwork below, and some panels that will be featured in the book. They're using Kickstarter to raise the money to print Chainmail Bikini as a 200+ page perfect-bound book, so be sure to check that out, and see a full list of their creative team here They've[...]
Former Metalocalypse Lead Designer To Do Graphic Novel
This comic is recommended for mature readers, less for the gory violence, harsh language, nudity, and sexual content that pepper its pages, but more for its mature and complex themes that some younger readers may not fully appreciate. The goal of my kickstarter campaign is to produce a hard bound book of exceptional quality which will[...]
Hell Hath No Fury Like A Woman Called Kick Girl
I recently launched my very first Kickstarter to help publish Mystery Babylon Chapter 3 as a graphic novel Although there are many loyal followers of the webcomic, I was in no way expecting it to be fully funded in less than a day Shocked, awed, and eternally grateful, the best way to thank everyone is[...]
Comic Creators In The Nineties, Morrison, Ennis, Milligan And Many More
And thankfully she had her camera with her. Following up her book Comic Book People: Photographs from the 1970s and 1980s, she is running a Kickstarter to help fund its sequel, covering the nineties, Comic Book People 2: Photographs from the 1990s Which means cute Brits being dragged wide eyed across the pond, loud Image boys waving their wodge, media-savvy[...]
Kickstarting A Mr. Rhee – Write Or Wrong #85 By Dirk Manning
Rhee: "Karmageddon", its uber-successful Kickstarter campaign (that's now in its last week), what it's been like working with Devil's Due (and what all aspiring creators should consider when dealing with potential publishers), what makes Mr Rhee so different from most other comic characters out there, and the biggest lesson learned (so far) from taking a[...]
The Samurai Slasher Is A Silly, Fun, Gory Genre-Exploration
If not, you have everything you need right here to enjoy a fantastic, at times silly, fun and gory comic experience. The Samurai Slasher is a comics anthology currently funding on Kickstarter. Joe Glass is the creator and writer of LGBT superhero team series, The Pride, available on Comixology and The Pride Store[...]
Damon Lindelof And Sam Simon Know How To Run Like Hell
It has had one hell of an insane journey… from its beginnings as a cult underground digital book being passed from fan-to-fan on the down low, to a fully Kickstarter-funded, actually hold it in your hands, physical graphic novel Some of its more recognizable fans are famous fanboys in their own right Here are a[...]
Legends Of Marithia – Rising From A Kickstarter Failure, With Attitude
We need your help to fund it into reality, and there are excellent rewards along the way. Peter Koevari writes, What is the story about? With 4.5/5 stars on Amazon, Legends of Marithia's readers attest to a fantastic story that is a strong suit to comic and film formats. Hollywood Book Trailers said it best, and here is[...]