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How do you measure it? Is it the amount of sales you make? The joy you bring to others? How much you earn? When someone tells you that you have done a great job? Well for me, the creator of Xtreme Champion Tournament (XCT), it was hitting my first goal. Earlier this year I was lucky enough to[...]

All of that is set to change very soon though because Hope Nicholson, a professional researcher and comic book historian, just launched her Kickstarter campaign to bring Brok Windsor back to bookshelves where he belongs. And Nicholson is just the person for the job A producer specializing in comic book history, she was recently the associate[...]

The goal is to bring them back to public consciousness; April's adaptation does so, and is just the tip of the iceberg of more to come. To back the project and get a copy of this great, new collection, visit the Kickstarter at https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/acbrown/the-book-of-dragons As a special incentive, we have a $99 Bleeding Cool level for backers[...]

I then ran a successful Kickstarter campaign and we had all four issues out by November of 2013, including having Henry redraw the beginning of issue 1, because it was originally done by another artist who dropped out of the project. All along I knew that I wanted it to be geared for teens, because I[...]

Internet animation sensation slash Boom Studios comic, had a panel on Thursday evening of Comic Con. First off, if you don't know what Bee and Puppycat is, the best way to explain it is by having you watch it. [youtube]http://youtu.be/lOG_UtLxh58[/youtube] It started off as a pilot on Youtube about a year ago, then there was a successful Kickstarter[...]

By Nikolai Fomich Locust Moon Press' Little Nemo: Dream Another Dream Kickstarter has been a resounding success, having raised over $100,000 in less than four weeks This all new anthology features strips inspired by Winsor McCay's Little Nemo in Slumberland and boasts some of the greatest cartoonists working in comics today As this Kickstarter campaign nears[...]

We are truly in love with the story we are telling, and hope you will be to.   We are currently running a Kickstarter for the first volume of Amya, which will include the last five years of our production work We would be eternally grateful if you would have a look If you decide to make[...]

Sean Michael Wilson writes, As the British Library comics exhibition is titled 'Art and Anarchy' I thought that I would write an article about how anarchy

Then we got 'em drunk & naked. Dean Haspiel, when I asked him to comment on his horrendous acts of peer-pressuring other comics creators into nudity in public said: "Comix don't sell themselves anymore". Need we remind you that Locust Moon is the same esteemed team who are bringing us Little Nemo: Dream Another Dream, with a[...]

Seasoned pros have turned to Kickstarter over traditional publishers The financial reward is often better and it allows 100% creative control I have run one failed campaign of my own, but I have also been a part of 3 successful ones as the main artist, and numerous others as a contributing artist Kickstarter campaigns have[...]

By Gary Reed It's amazing how the perception of Kickstarter has changed since it first started.  When I first started hearing about it, I was like many in that I felt it was people asking for money to do what they wanted to do.  It was a handout. But as Kickstarter became more of a norm, I[...]

Hence, the crowdfunding approach via Kickstarter! Our rewards range from two physical copies of UTF (2 variant covers), Bronze Age Retro 80's art, original prints from guest artists, hand-drawn sketches, flesher likenesses for backers, backer business ads featured as abandoned buildings, and even becoming immortalized in UTF as a recurring character We are also throwing in two[...]

Lovecraft Screenplay/Director/Producer Ryan Smith Kickstarter End Date: August 13, 2014 Publishing date: July 14, 2014 Ryan Smith writes, I'm Ryan Smith, the producer that has taken HP Lovecraft's short story, The Terrible Old Man and turned it into a modernized short film of the same name Principle photography and initial editing are complete, and the only thing[...]

Metal: A Black Dawn by Jacob Thomas and Rob Dumo. Kickstarter Close Date:  08/22/2014. Publication Date….Unknown Pharmaceutical drugs dominate the near future dystopian society One scientist, Thomas Parker, invents a new yet controversial technology that not only cures cancer but becomes society's worst nightmare. Jacob Thomas writes, MABD has been a year in the making, needlessly attempting to perfect every little bit[...]

Lynn Smith. Artist: Amelia Woo. Color: Mirana Reveier. Letterer: Jessica Jimerson. Close Date: July 8. Publication Date: November 2015 Be a part of the Kickstarter campaign for Kymera Press' women-created comic Gates of Midnight This supernatural thriller pits Raven, a combat medic recently returned from Afghanistan, against the mythological gods and monsters of mankind's ancient cultures.  By Autumn Daughetee When I think of[...]

Now, why are we doing this? THE REASON We're launching a Kickstarter campaign to fund issue #1 of our necropunk comic book, "The Projectionist", and we thought let's do something big, stupid, and fun to promote this thing. THE PROJECTIONIST "The Projectionist" takes place in a world where ghosts exist and everyone knows it A world where the The[...]

They describe the comic as, a love-letter to the types of slapstick movies, humor comics and grade-B horror movies the creators loved as a child: the frenetic antics of the Marx Brothers, beloved and bizarre 1950s MAD parodies by Harvey Kurtzman, and preposterous and brilliant creature-features by Roger Corman and Ed Wood. The first issue features an[...]

Craig Russell has moved through five volumes of graphic storytelling instructional video projects that are going to produce an entire generation of super-trained and probably frighteningly versatile artists any day now, but until then, there's also his Sketchbook Archives at over 250 pages of personally chosen work for fans. The Kickstarter for the volume is very[...]

Originally a Kickstarter project, the book is now in print and available, and is one of those books that shouldn't remain a best kept secret of the cream of the crop in comics in illustration working right now. Flipping through the book, it features opening bios of the contributing artists, splashpages of their work, and is[...]

When the Futurians Return Kickstarter was announced, there was nary a professional unwilling to help re-establish the long-lost gem Neal Adams, Neil Gaiman, Walt Simonson, Andy Kubert, Adam Kubert… And the parade continues at the Kickstarter, which began ten days ago and saw full-funding in just 36 hours But don't let that stop you from participating[...]

You may have come across Paul Jenkins' previous Kickstarter projects like Fairy Quest, set in the world of Fablewood, previously, and with each successful funding of his series, the books have been picked up for distribution by Boom/Archaia Now Jenkins returns with a series of 6 single issues with Kickstarter-exclusive covers that will be collected[...]

9, spiritual successor to Mega Man and holder of one of the largest video game Kickstarters ever Inafune had much to talk about, including the fact that Tokyo-based company Digital Frontier is planning to release a CGI cartoon based on the game in 2016 They gave a small preview of the cartoon, as well as[...]

From a successful Kickstarter to a 5 issue series from Image Comics, now collected in its first volume this week, to the announcement of the series' return this autumn, Rocket Girl has displayed all the velocity you might expect from the title, and that's all down to the vision of the series creators Brandon Montclare[...]

The core concepts are still the same, but it is now undoubtedly the best thing I have ever written.  It's exciting, the characters are deep and the action is non-stop. What do I do next? Submit it to more publishers? Take out a loan? Print on-demand? Digital only? Release as a webcomic? Since 2007, the landscape[...]

Who will survive?  It's up to the reader to find out!" Fielder concludes. There is a Kickstarter.com campaign to raise funding for the project with a percentage of the proceeds from the project going towards autism research  For more information on "The Corporation" check out the Kickstarter page or head over to Tumblr and experience The Corporation for yourself. And[...]

By Carl Shinyama   Technically Magi is a sci-fi meets magic fantasy adventure that is championed by a fundraising campaign on Kickstarter When a young computer whiz is stranded on a dangerous world of magic without his parents, he is rescued by a sorceress apprentice and her odd mentor Together, they are the boy's only chance to reunite[...]

Michael Sacal writes, Greetings, Knights and Druids — I'm Michael Sacal, the creator and writer (with Pascal Salzmann & Adam K) of Knight's Legacy: Awakening of the Pen Ddraig, an epic Arthurian fantasy adventure penciled by John Andrey Portilla, inked by Kevin Leverett, colored by Roberto Torres, lettered by ET Dollman, with covers by Art Gutierrez. The[...]

Now they are ready to redeem themselves in prime time. It has been awhile since I last wrote Bleeding Cool (www.bleedingcool.com/2013/11/24/lark-eagle-not-hawk-dove/) and even though my little Kickstarter project "failed", I saw what backers had pledged as a sign A sign that says to keep going and try again Last time I rushed and did not have[...]

By Chris Thompson [audio:http://popculturehound.net/podcast/PCHPodcastEpisode95.mp3] Following on from last week's chat with rising talent Steve Orlando (which you can still listen to here), this time around I welcome back veteran writer, journalist and comics campaigner Clifford Meth to discuss his new Kickstarter campaign for Dave Cockrum's Futurians! Cliff and I discuss what he learned from his previous Kickstarter for[...]

By Jared Cornelius Have you ever played a modern game that takes you back to your childhood?  A game that in every way makes you remember why you fell in love with video games in the first place? 2D platformer, Shovel Knight, has become that title for me.  Shovel Knight started life as a successful Kickstarter from Yacht Club Games, a group of ex-Wayforward Technologies employees.  Wayforward has[...]