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Agent 87 and the Black Train, written by Robert Geronimo, illustrated by Chilly Bliss. Release date October 9th 2014. Mary Williams, Editor. Ascalon Press

The tense moment before any Kickstarter campaign where one has to wonder, "is this just going to be a giant failure?" and "should I have included sexual reward tiers?"  I'm happy to say the the answer to both of the above is a resounding "No!" I'm also happy to announce that Tin has launched its Kickstarter! It's[...]

Writer – Jon Eastman. Artist – David Ward. Letterer – Kelly Eastman. Kickstarter ends Sunday 9/21/2014 at 9:00PM PST. Books are scheduled to ship in January of 2015. Jon Eastman writes, Murder & Midnight is a fantasy graphic novel trilogy about a man named Raith who travels to a remote island at the fringes of the known world, his only companions[...]

We couldn't let that work go unpublished. The next step was to launch a Kickstarter campaign to try and raise the funds to print a run of these shiny new Volume 2s Last time, James Bourne ran the Kickstarter campaign But this time he was both going to school and working out in Oakland And Chris[...]

Fetch: An Odyssey. Created and Written By: Evie Dunn. Co-Written and Inked By: Martin Dunn. Co-Written and Pencilled By: Derrick Fish. Colored By: Gab Contreras. On Kickstarter now ,project Ends October 11th, 2014.  Created by 7-year-old Evie Dunn FETCH is the epic story of a young girl who faces off with the Gods of Olympus to get her dog back! Martin Dunn writes for[...]

It started off as a Kickstarter that raised a six-figure sum due to overwhelming fan demand, and that's no surprise due to the team up of the magnificent Gail Simone and Jim Calafiore, who previously collaborated on Secret Six The idea behind the comic hinges on the flipping of the superhero tradition wherein heroes become[...]

TRDWTR, pronounced "treadwater" is a new already-Kickstarted comic book with big plans. Published this week in New York stores (and Midtown's book of the

Jonathan Rollins writes for Bleeding Cool: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/961207059/modern-arcana-volume-1 I want to tell you all the arcane secrets to getting a kickstarter successfully funded.  And while editors decide the fate of this article I am at SPX (Small Press Expo) this weekend.  Not as an exhibitor but as a fan.  Of course most exhibitors are fans.  These people who[...]

Hopefully, if given a chance, more people could learn to enjoy the adventures of my little detective. To that end, I invite readers to check out my Kickstarter project Funds accumulated will allow me to complete the opening chapter of my webcomic series, with hopefully extra to give me a head start on the next wave[...]

For the regular heroes it's "a place where everyone knows your name…" secret identity or not. It's been over eight long years since Hero Happy Hour has appeared in print, and now the comic's co-creators Dan Taylor (writer) and Chris Fason (artist), along with Chris Barker (colorist), want to bring it back as a graphic novel[...]

It is completely finished and ready to roll directly after the 11th of September close of our Kickstarter campaign. Ryan K Lindsay writes, The book is about Bucky, the editor of the crime beat at 'The Truth' who also happens to be a deer This journalistic crime story starts with a John Doe killing and drags Bucky[...]

By Jared Cornelius Well gang here we are in the first week of September and it's finally time to wave the summer goodbye.  I've been reminding you about summer's impending end for almost four weeks now, so let's look to more pleasant things like video games.  In contrast to last week where we had something for everyone[...]

The piece was done as a reward for Cho's Drawing Beautiful Women: The Frank Cho Method kickstarter and will be turned into an art print for those who pledged only. The rest of us will have to look at it on-line. Over on his website Apes And Babes, Frank Cho revisited his Liberty Meadows strip for[...]

That's what this Kickstarter project is It's a comic book with 3 stories Lydia, Julie and myself weren't planning on doing this project A convention is heading our way this October; we started talking about ideas and that's how this project came to life. Here's a quick resume of each story: – THE GOOD, by Lydia Fontaine[...]

Tobacco-Stained Mountain Goat (144-page graphic novel), published by IF? Commix on August 17. Words & art by Andrez Bergen, aided by Cocoa Bergen.

A Graphic Novel Kickstarter ending on September 10th Written by; Michael Vincent Bramley & drawn by; Joshua Mathus. Cover by; Alice Meichi Li.Additional Pin-Up Art by: Hyeondo Park, Amy Reeder, Leila Del Duca, Fred Hembeck, Rob Moran, Paul Hanley, Shaky Kane, Tintin Pantoja, N Steven Harris, Delia Gable, Nate Bear, N[...]

Paul Roman Martinez writes, I've finished four kickstarter projects so far in the comics and tabletop games categories I've also produced many other manufacturing projects without using crowdfunding Right now, I'm working on my first project not in those categories—a USB drive shaped like a vintage Goodyear-Zeppelin airship design I hope to one day distribute digital[...]

By Jason Vey So here it is, August 2014, and I'm neck-deep in the first Kickstarter campaign related to a core game of my design: Troll Lord Games' Amazing Adventures I first embarked upon this project almost nine years ago (believe it or not), not long after TLG's flagship product line, Castles & Crusades, hit the[...]

By Jared Cornelius Well friends it's finally here, this is the last full week of August.  It's time to go outside and enjoy one last hurrah before the inevitable return of September puts you back in the swing of fall sports and school projects.  I'm delighted however because September in New Jersey is a beautiful month with[...]

Jimmy Palmiotti has used Kickstarter rather proficiently over recent years, making it into a preorder service for his next Image Comics graphic novel, and given fans some extra treats along the way, offering different types of material than Jimmy gets to work on at Marvel and DC. And so we get the second volume of his[...]

    Witold Ciona writes, Dead Bushi, an ongoing webcomic, is now on Comixology, and I have an exclusive interview with its creator. Me. Ciona:

Burgoon. Pencils/Inks: Jon Williams. Coloring: Claudia Palescandolo. Letters: Michael Finn. Kickstarter Campaign for a 84+ page graphic novel ending on September 11, 2014. Projected Shipping: December 1st B-Squad is a six member unit composed of cut-rate mercenaries They are the poor man's A-Team They are expendable They are replaceable They are the soldiers of misfortune[...]

Con Centric, being in it's conceptual stage has a kickstarter that launched a month or so ago By taking this step into the realm of crowdfunding M.W.E has allowed unparalled incentives to both kinds of users, convention professionals and atendees. This type of innovative vision coupled with the approach may indeed spell success for the fledgling[...]

Darrin O'Toole writes, My newest comic Anarchrists which launches this Sept at DICE, but is now available and limited to 100 pre-orders. Written by myself

The Kingdom Vol.1 – Rise of the Ape King: by Jason & Natalie Bienvenu now available at on Comixology! Action/Adventure. 174 pages. Published May 7,

And at their height, sets of the original Tact-Tiles sold for as much as $300 on eBay. But now, through the miracle of Kickstarter, Void Star Studios is bringing Tact-Tiles back. It all started several years ago when I, Mike McConnell, stumbled upon a post about Tact-Tiles on ENWorld Trace Cooper, one of the founders of BC[...]

Mack, best known as the creator of Kabuki and his amazing writing and artwork on Daredevil and the gorgeous covers for Alias, had a very busy SDCC, with the announcements for his cover work for the upcoming Fight Club 2 series coming from Dark Horse Comics, and a new Kickstarter campaign, The Temple of Art,[...]

We developed both of our comics in the same class," she said and added, "I'm very excited for both of us!" On the heels of the Geekie Award news, Holly-Rosing just started a Kickstarter to cover the production and printing costs associated with issue five, which she plans to release in January 2015 She experienced both[...]

The Rough & Tumble. Written by Jim Ousley & Oscar Madrid. Art by Benjamin Sawyer. The Kickstarter campaign for The Rough & Tumble is happening now and runs through August 29th. The Rough & Tumble is an action-packed graphic novel bursting with the full-color antics of unlikely heroes, loners, and villains getting exactly what they deserve. Jim Ousley writes, Every comic[...]

I'm running my third ever kickstarter and hopefully my second successful kickstarter. What I'm trying to do is raise funds for my next anthology of stories, Double Barrel Theatre Presents Volume 4, and possibly more Each volume of stories I have all have a specific idea behind them In volume one, my idea was "Rise above"[...]