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Cross About Satire
Writers: Rob Williams, Mary Talbot, David Baillie, Emma Beeby, Tom Eglington, Cy Dethan, Richmond Clements, Owen Johnson, Lizzie Boyle Artists: PJ Holden, Ben Willsher, Howard Hardiman, Matt Timson, Alwyn Talbot, Nick Dyer, Conor Boyle, Tom Foster, Verity Glass, Gavin Mitchell, Matthew Soffe Published by Disconnected Press. Kickstarter deadline: 8 November. Publication date: 15 November. Conor Boyle writes, Ever wanted to stick[...]
Feeling Armorous?
This collection includes the talented Leia Weathington (Bold Riley), Pascalle Lepas (Wilde Life), Ryan Smith (Accursed Dragon), Sean Poppe (Bearded Ruckus), Alex Kolesar (No Need for Bushido), and more. ARMOROUS is currently on KICKSTARTER, with only a few days remaining, so if you want to get your hands on this book visit the Kickstarter page[...]
Why Should New York Get All The Superhero Action?
The already successful Kickstarter campaign, which is a 160+ page collection of the first five issues, ends on Halloween The books will be published in February of 2015. We started by asking ourselves why should cities like New York or a mythical one like Metropolis get all the superhero action? I teamed up with a lifelong[...]
Heroic Cuddly Toys Take on the Monsters Under The Bed
To help these Plushy Pals on their way a Kickstarter has been created to help fund the first book, and to help push the series. The Cuddly Defenders are crossing over from their Graphic Novel  hybrid of comic book/illustrated book story telling into the bright world of full-on comic book action. Who are the Cuddly Defenders? The Cuddly[...]
Nix Comics Turns To Kickstarter To Fund Two Releases For Record Store Day
The first Nix Comics publications were funded by selling off all of the old store stock, but that money has long since been depleted and I've turned to Kickstarter to publish special projects, like the two publications I am currently trying to get to the shelves by National Record Store day in April of 2015. Darren[...]
Dusk Comics Is Superior To Kickstarter
David Doub writes, Currently Dusk Comics is doing a Kickstarter to raise funds to finish work on the 3rd Volume of our flagship title Dusk This is our first foray into the crowdsourcing We've been around for 5 years now and we have seen plenty of different platforms and options come out to get one's comics[...]
How I, The Stuttering Actor, Fell In Love With Comics
That's why I will be running a Kickstarter campaign. I have not yet launched my Kickstarter campaign But I am looking for feedback I am looking feedback from guys and girls just like you, my fellow comic book lovers and geeks So if you have a couple of minutes to spare, please visit my Kickstarter Project[...]
The Strange Adventures Of Toaster Guy
The Strange Adventures of Toaster Guy: Volume 2 by Aaron Hazouri. Kickstarter closing date: November 15, 2014. Publishing date: March 2015  A lovable loser with the power to toast breakfast pastries in his head teams up with a shiftless ninja to fight a hapless war on crime!  Aaron Hazouri writes, Picture, if you will, a man in his mid 30s[...]
A General, A Supercomputer And A Grizzly Bear Walk Into A Bar…
Brown, Shannon Gretzon and Sean Fagan. Kickstarter close date: November 12, 2014. Publication Date: December 2014 Chewler is the 88-page, balls-to-the-wall, action-packed comedy tale of a former spec ops general who is called out of retirement by Grandmother Supreme (a super computer who is in charge of the United States) to stop an eccentric millionaire who aspires to bring Adolf[...]
A More Mundane Vampire
Now the first grand story arc is done, 100 hand-shaded pages are in the can, and you know what that means—time for the Kickstarter to fund the print run for the first bound volume Just in time for Halloween! So I've been writing Very Serious professional vampire fiction for the last fifteen years, in the form[...]
The Lost Art Of The Mini-Comic
Eon Quest 5.5'' Action Figure Line Kickstarter from Jon Wesley Huff. Close Date: November 14. Publish Date: ASAP This article is aimed at looking at the lost art of the mini-comic, a staple of the 80s that has fallen by the wayside, but is a critical part of the Eon Quest action figure line. Jon Wesley Huff writes, It's incredibly easy[...]
Rounding Up A Stray In January With Action Lab
A year ago Vito Delsante and Sean Izaakse started a Kickstarter for a comic of their called Stray They got $11,000 of their $8,000 goal. And in January next year, that comic will be published by Action Lab. (W) Vito Delsante (A) Sean Izaakse (CA) Mike Norton, Ben Hunzeker The Doberman, one of the world's greatest heroes, has been killed…but[...]
Samurai Chef Gets A Complete Print Edition, Courtesy Of mayamada
Kickstarter ends Mon, Oct 27 2014 5:48 PM BST, book published Mon Nov 17th. Nigel writes, Who doesn't love a good comeback story? John Travolta in Pulp Fiction, Robert Downey Jr in Iron Man Coming good after a big set back makes for a great tale and if you've seen your Kickstarter fail no doubt you're wondering[...]
Mankind Left For The Stars With Reckless Abandon
 Follow the galactic adventures of IPC Space Marshal, Captain John Nadir! Independent comic book creator/writer Jackson Compton and artist Jerry Bennett have launched a Kickstarter for issue #4 of their space opera epic, Nadir's Zenith. Over 100 years ago, the world governments suffered the worst economic collapse known to man This situation was further compounded[...]
Small Kickstarter, Big Book: Lorenzo Etherington And His Deluxe Collection Part 2
Lorenzo Etherington – he who supplies the art to his brother, Robin's words – and who's work appears most regularly in the UK's weekly Phoenix anthology comic, has launched a modest Kickstarter campaign to raise funds towards the publishing of his new Godzilla-proportioned art sketchbook, The Deluxe Collection Part 2 Coming in at 600 pages[...]
A Place That Feels Like Home
I'm hoping that it's a book that will light a fire in her, as well as in others, the same way Amazing Spider-Man #383 did for me, all those years ago. I'm funding this book on Kickstarter right now I'm going to show you some pages from the book down below, or you can check out[...]
A Short Story Of Dusk
Artists (Inkers, Pencillers, Letterers) – Joamette Gil – http://joamettegil.com/ Walter Jimenez II Sean Carner – http://dirkmaximus.com/ Franc Czuba Jeff Hurst – http://luancia.deviantart.com/ Writers – David Doub, Shannon McDonald  David Doub writes, Our basic plan for our Kickstarter is to get the finishing touches done on the 3rd Volume of our flagship title Dusk[...]
A Weekend In Vegas With Grant Morrison Got Me To Kickstart A Comics Anthology
Asher Powell writes, When I sat on the rickety, tiny plane that dipped through the mountains from Fresno to Las Vegas, I didn't think the weekend would end with me manning a Kickstarter for a comics anthology in two years I couldn't even begin to comprehend what the MorrisonCon convention was going to be like[...]
A Short Story Of The Veranthea Codex
Mike Myler writes, The Veranthea Codex is a Pathfinder compatible campaign setting, player resource, and GM tool by Mike Myler and Rogue Genius Games that is a project unlike any other you've yet encountered! The Kickstarter ends this Sunday (October 5th) Check out the project page, download the four free preview PDFs, and pledge to the campaign. The book (coming[...]
The Dead Presidents, To The Best Of My Ability
Help re-elect The Dead Presidents to super-power!!! Bleeding Cool readers that visit the Kickstarter project before the end of September 28 and donate more than $20 will receive a tweet-sketch later in the week from Jeremy of their favorite POTUS as they appear in The Dead Presidents Just message me you've read this article after contributing. For[...]
Deep Dive Daredevils Makes Rich Johnston Swab The Deck
We've been posting new pages online every Tuesday for over two years, but now we are finally taking the PLUNGE and bringing DDD to print! Matthew Heistand writes, We launched a Kickstarter campaign on Tuesday Sept 23rd to fund an offset print run of Deep Dive Daredevils No 1, a 48-page, full-color comic book that collects the[...]
Why I Gave Up Games Journalism To Kickstart A Comic
You don't want the thing you love becoming something you hate, or worse makes you ill through stress. So I left, got a new job that I love and I've decided to launch my comic Bust on Kickstarter It's the story of Jack, a family man and card dealer out of the Las Vegas strip[...]
From Out Of The Ashes Comes Bedlam… And A Barf Monster
Title: Bedlam. Key Talent: John Mueller – Art Director, Jeff Johnson – Programmer & Designer, Sam Gage – Creative Director, Animations and VFX. End of Kickstarter: Sat, Oct 25 2014. Published: Coming 2015 John Mueller writes, Bedlam is a post-apocalyptic "roguelike" role-playing video game inspired by some of our favorite games, such as FTL (Faster Than Light), Fallout and XCOM[...]
Deep Sea – A Very Visual Appeal
Deep Sea: an original graphic novel written by Ricky Lima with art by D.A. Bishop. This project will only be funded if at least $5,000 is pledged by Fri,
Comic Writer With Muscular Dystrophy Asks For Help With His Dream Project
We run a lot of Kickstarter articles on this website because we believe in up-and-coming creators and helping them to spread the word We ask them to write an article for themselves and we run it, allowing them to get their passion for their project into the story Below is an email we received from[...]
Top Shelf Adds Strong Female Protagonist To Its Publishing Line
The hit webcomic that has been running since 2012 had a successful Kickstarter campaign allowing the creators to self=publish and have Top Shelf distribute. With superstrength and invulnerability, Alison Green used to be one of the most powerful superheroes around Fighting crime with other teenagers under the alter ego Mega Girl was fun until an encounter[...]
Zombie Boy Comics Launches Its First Kickstarter
I recently launched a Kickstarter to raise the funds to print my first 200 Zombie Boy comic strips in a collected book for the first time ever! Zombie Boy is eleven year old Morgan McCorkindale, a normal kid who became a full-fledged zombie on a family vacation to Voodoo Island Zombie Boy Comics features the afterlife[...]