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By Jared Cornelius   Welcome back to Live(ish) From The Games Shop.  I was content to keep complaining about the lack of releases again, because unsurprisingly this is another barren week.  However, a bright shining star was released on Friday, escaping last week's column.  So I'm going to gush about that, then give you a couple of quality download titles[...]

Now what? Well, how do you take this great thing and give it the spark it needs to Launch? In a world where Publishing deals are still sexy but the future is an unproven digital outlet — what does success look like? Do you measure LIKES on Facebook? Retweets on Twitter? Is success counted in ad revenue[...]

 Most of them were funded by Kickstarter campaigns  For over a year now, I have been planning the fourth volume of songs based upon Nine Inch Nails called Nothing Can Stop Me Now: Stories Inspired by the Songs of Nine Inch Nails. Making comics with people who are passionate about the same music I like is[...]

The second page of the comic is awaiting colouring work in the coming weeks, and will be updated on Kickstarter:           A special offering for Bleeding Cool There are so many great reward packages on the campaign to choose from, with all kinds of rewards on offer, and I have a special offering to Bleeding[...]

Kickstarter ends 08/22/2014 January 2015 completion date. The all-female crew of The Galaxy Girl have to deliver a cache of stolen, Quantum-Hallucinogens to a planet of mythical-God worshipping natives, however, the mission is quickly revealed to be set-up and it isn't long before the Intergalactic Union sends in their elite police force to impound the girls'[...]

The Art of Ralph McQuarrie: ARCHIVES Book. By Stan Stice and John Scoleri. Published by Dreams and Visions Press. Kickstarter Campaign Close Date: July 13, 2014. Publication Date: May 2015. John Scoleri writes, Dreams and Visions Press has launched a Kickstarter campaign to raise the necessary funds to publish our latest book, a 432-page hardcover collection of artist Ralph McQuarrie's non-Star[...]

By Nikolai Fomich Locust Moon Comics proudly announced their Little Nemo: Dream Another Dream Kickstarter campaign earlier this week I sat down with two of the minds behind the project – Publisher Josh O'Neill and Creative Director Chris Stevens – to talk about McCay's visionary work and Dream Another Dream Together with Locust Moon's Editor-in-Chief Andrew[...]

Rock stars Dani Filth and Jyrki 69 have joined him to talk about Dead Souls: Resurrection, a redrawn and remastered collection of Kurt Amacker's comic, to be published by Dark Notes Press and funded by Kickstarter. The comic has been completely redrawn by Douglas Freeman, with seventy new pages, a cover by Dan Brerton and an introduction by Dani[...]

Funded on Kickstarter, published by Boom, it spawned a sequel And was much liked. You get the jist And while that book is continuing from Jenkins and Ramos, it is also spinning off into a new series of tales set in the same reality. Welcome to Fiction Squad from Paul Jenkins and Ramon Bachs, starting with the[...]

Peter & Maria Hoey By Nikolai Fomich Philadelphia's Locust Moon Comics has announced a Kickstarter campaign for their oversized hardcover anthology, Little Nemo: Dream Another Dream Inspired by cartooning and animation pioneer Winsor McCay's classic Little Nemo in Slumberland, this original work will revisit McCay's Slumberland world and feature "an almost impossibly star-studded lineup of over one[...]

1X: short comics by Charles Butler, a Kickstarter campaign, close date: Wednesday, July 16th Charles Butler writes, At some point in high school I made the conscious choice to pursue becoming a professional banjo player It was a difficult decision to make, not for the obvious reasons, but because I felt I inevitably had to sacrifice another lofty goal,[...]

But we are aiming for anyone who wants to enter our world can be transported back to the days of sugary cereal and the excitement when their favourite show came on. Reynard City is a free online comic (also available in print) available at www.reynardcity.com There is also a Kickstarter on to cover a print run[...]

Ian Harvey Stone writes, A few weeks ago, you may have read about my crowd funding project for The Devil Without on Bleeding Cool. It's on! It's going to

After three months of writing, and nearly six months of pre-production, we are reaching the point of launching our kickstarter to help finish our dream It should be released next month and run until the 11th of August, Along the way we were able to find the amazing illustrator, Johnny Morrow He has been with us[...]

A Kickstarter is planned for the near future to bring the first issue and subsequent issues to print Two trades are planned as well as a release through comiXology. The best way to get updates and news for Tin is by visiting facebook.com/TinComics or twitter.com/tincomics. By Ilya Dvilyanski I'm incredibly lazy. At least that's what I was saying[...]

But here we are, I have a series of shorts out for free online, and I just launched a Kickstarter… I was first introduced to comics as a young lad going to visit my father on weekends; he'd take me into the local newsagency on his way into the TAB and I'd get to pick out[...]

Last autumn, they went to Kickstarter with the ambitious goal of filming a TV show pilot based on their events, and successfully funded their first episode. Now the pilot has been filmed and is set to debut to the world tonight, Friday the 20th of June, in livestream on MNN Channel 4, the "culture channel", and[...]

I've often heard people comment that there should have been more done already to celebrate his life and work. Multi-faceted writer and comics creator Fred Van Lente (Brain Boy, Project Black Sky, Archer and Armstrong, Comic Book History of Comics, Cowboys & Aliens, Action Philosophers) and award-winning playwright Crystal Skillman have thrown down the gauntlet in[...]

Such as Calculus Cat, an eighties creation for Don and Maggie Thompson's mini-comics, being revived and reprinted by Knockabout – that's if Hunt can get the Kickstarter together to help fund the restoration and creation of new work. Calculus Cat's home life is locked in an intense, argumentative relationship with his TV set, which bedevils him[...]

Amiculus: A Secret History. Travis Horseman, Writer/Creator. Giancarlo Caracuzzo, Artist. Kickstarter begins: Monday, June 2. Kickstarter ends: Saturday, July 12 AMICULUS is a quasi-historical epic, telling a "lost" history of the fall of Rome through the eyes of its last emperor, a 12-year-old boy named Romulus Through him we see Rome at the moment of its collapse, besieged by a[...]

The ComplEAT Dear Dinosaur Collection (Kickstarter). Created by Ryan L Schrodt. Kickstarter ends June 17th at 11:22pm CDT. Rewards ship in August/September 2014 Dear Dinosaur is an advice column written by a dinosaur that hates humans The ComplEAT Dear Dinosaur collects the entire hit webcomic series, plus a slew of extras. Ryan L[...]

Tim Simmons writes for Bleeding Cool: ARTICLE: If you’re an aspiring comic creator, there’s a good chance you’ve been to my site, The Comic Book Script

Tory Adkisson (writer/creator), Branko Jovanovic (pencils/ink). Sebastian Cheng (color), Mick Schubert (lettering) Kickstarter Closing Date: Wednesday, July 2, 2014. Publishing Date: December 1, 2014. Set in a world coming to grips with the fact that such powerful individuals live among the general populace, Deviants will explore some familiar tropes in new ways, combining elements of Young Avengers and X-Men mashed up[...]

Kickstarter, Indiegogo, Crowdfunder, to name but a few; each offers its own features and benefits to a funding campaign to bring attention, interest and, most importantly, funding for your project. The problem with them is it is quite easy to get wrong Whether you successfully raise your goal amount or not, funding can still not meet[...]

Alan Moore has talked about his upcoming Kickstartered film His Heavy Heart on Nowness Nicely times to coincide with the release of the box set of Show Pieces, the first five short films written and co-starring Moore and directed by Mitch Jenkins, that begin The Show. The collection cost £35 or £50 signed (limited to 200)  for[...]

By Sage Ashford Since Kickstarter began, both veteran and newbie developers alike have been making proposals in an attempt to get gamers to fund their dream project.  Some are incredible success stories, others…not so much.   Likewise, fan reception has had an equally polarizing range.  There are those who have been elated to learn their favorite developer[...]

Kickstarter Project: Beast Mode. Art & Story: Alric Carrillo. Close Date: June 20, 2014. Publishing Date: July 1, 2014 Alric Carrillo writes, Beast Mode is a unique, alien-invasion story where aliens possess the bodies of Earthly beasts When the aliens rush Earth, there is no physical invasion Instead, the monsters scan all life forms and inject their bio-psyches into ideal[...]

1 Kickstarter ends July 2, 2014 and the book will be printed/delivered in October. Peter Hon writes, … this has been the experience I've had with Kickstarter It is a bane of good feelings, doled out in doses like meth from Breaking Bad Yet when you go too long without that hit of someone becoming a backer,[...]

Please share our Kickstarter link and tell your friends about the project Thank you! **FOR BLEEDING COOL READERS** If we are able to raise $500 over the weekend, Elio Guevara will illustrate a full color image in the style of El Grande of any two characters of your choosing FIGHTING! Batman vs Superman? Finn vs Jake? Zack[...]

The artists on board include Peter Mason (Cancertown Blasphemous Tumours with Cy), Saoirse Louise Towler (Discworld Stamps), Jon Scrivens(Little Terrors), Randy Haldeman(The Jacket), Matt Rooke (Apes 'n' Capes) & the almighty Hal Laren(Reaper Comics). Our Kickstarter closes 1st July, project completion and delivery should be end of July. Torsobear: Yarns from Toyburg is a comic anthology that will combine[...]