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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[...]
The Flowing Blade Bushido
Together we set out to make something original that readers would love and publishing companies would clamor for. But how do you write a comic, pay an artist and give fans a taste of your series without even being published? The answer is crowdfunding! Through Kickstarter, Hector and I believe that we can not only get[...]
Making Good Restitution
What really happened to those crafts that went missing? Still skeptical? Hey, it could happen! People vanish off the face of the Earth, never to be seen again, and there are several who have disappeared in the Triangle, so who's to say that they're not stuck in the past – or in the future, for[...]
Tim Schafer Sends Support To Peter Molyneux In Broken Age Update Video
After a series of trying interviews, Molyneux said he wasn't going to talk to the press ever again out of a fear of promising so much and disappointing fans. Another prominent face in game development who used Kickstarter to fund their latest game, Tim Schafer has now come out in support of Molyneux During an update[...]
Boundead By The Light
And, let me tell you something: There's almost nothing as satisfying to something on a store shelf and saying, "That right there? I made that." But now, Kickstarter is helping me make Boundead a physical reality. A week last Monday, I launched a Kickstarter campaign to publish hard copies of my comic's first issue[...]
The Long Awaited Return Of Madam Satan
Madam Satan: Deadly Origins Kickstarter written by Elizabeth Wheeler and drawn by Shelby Robertson.  Kickstarter ends on the 25th of February and to be published in May 2015. Elizabeth Wheeler writes, From the depths of Hell she has been reborn.  Satrinah Morte is Madam Satan Sent to our world by her Master, she is tasked with the[...]
Time Stops For Beer Chugging
Time Stop Issue #1. Writer: Tom Spellman. Art: Rafael Chrestani & Jordi Estevez. Colors: Fahriza Kamaputra. Lettering: John Rudwall. Kickstarter End Date: March 8, 2015.Est Print Date April 1, 2015. The Pitch: Ben Thomas is having a tough time getting this life on track He's on the brink of losing his job, being evicted from his apartment, and worst of all, he[...]
SCORE: A Film Music Documentary Heads To Kickstarter
By Matt Schrader TITLE: SCORE: A Film Music Documentary CREATORS: Director Matt Schrader, Executive Producer Trevor Thompson, Director of Photography Kenny Holmes, Producers Nate Gold and Jonathan Willbanks, associate producer Crystal Chavarria. CAMPAIGN END DATE: MARCH 16 PUBLISH DATE: MONDAY, FEBRUARY 16 Score to tell the stories behind the world's most beloved music Fundraising for the film music documentary kicks off[...]
Mom And Pop Move Their Comic Shop
This news came as a heartbreaking surprise to us and we're turning to Kickstarter for help. Moving literally one million comics and completing construction on a brand new store location will be an extremely costly endeavor, so we're turning to our community, our friends, our family, and our phenomenal customers in our store and worldwide, to[...]
The 19XX Dieselpunk Epic Concludes Its First Trilogy In Shining Skull: 1936
Paul Roman Martinez writes for Bleeding Cool: The Adventures of the 19XX is wrapping up its first trilogy of graphic novels and is in the middle of a funding campaign right now on Kickstarter The series has become a seminal work of Dieselpunk fiction, both defining and pushing the genre forward Along the way, it has[...]
The Curse Of Friday The 13th
Mike Garley writes, Launched on Friday the 13th and running for just 13 days The Samurai Slasher is a brand new comic anthology by Mike Garley (Dead Roots, The Kill Screen, Eponymous). The Kickstarter immediately (and appropriately) went wrong with a technical issue changing the risky funding target of 13 days to a much more pedestrian 41[...]
To My Fellow Indie Creators: Why Are You Still Making Superhero Comics?
 Kickstarter Close Date: March 4th. Publication Date: April 2015 Proactive Insurance: The Pros is a spy comic for the age of Big Data Four talented weirdos become spies for an insurance company, saving lives for fun and profit A story about guns, veterans, gender, drones, privatization, and the future—except a little bit goofy. Steve Stormoen writes, It seems like[...]