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What would it be like if a twelve-year old from a technically advanced race got stranded in a world of swords, sorcery and dragons? An international team of comic creators are putting together a series called Technically Magi and are looking to Kickstarter to fund it. Honolulu based commerical animator and TV script writer Gary Turner[...]

The Italian horror tradition influenced creator-owned project Nightworld went to Kickstarter less than a year ago, succeeded, and now has been picked up by Image Comics in a dream come true for writer Adam McGovern and artist Paolo Leandri They began tossing around ideas and sketches for the comic in 2005, and it was a[...]

By Phil Harris Frankenstein's Bodies is a tabletop board game for 2 to 6 players which is currently in the last week of its Kickstarter campaign The game has been in development for a number of years and the current version has ironed out many play features to create a fast and frantic game which last[...]

Fear not, we've got a deluxe sized kiddie-pool full of friends (literally overflowing with talent, water).  And what's more, they've come along for the ride and contributed eye popping work for American Nature Presents, which is being funded on kickstarter as we speak Check it: http://kck.st/1oprFs6 A famous rapper once said, "Thou shalt not judge a[...]

And, bittersweet as it is, they ask me where they can find more books like it, more adventure books with rough and tumble little girls. I always considered Volume 1 of Strangebeard to be the start of Jenny's story, but the feedback I've been getting from parents of girls seems to indicate that it might be[...]

#ResistComics emerged as a project to reclaim our cities through works of imagination. Here's our Kickstarter link for further information and some sample pages: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/macabresque/resistcomics-a-comics-anthology Our project has fared well thus far, but we still need your support If our project is successful, we will use the funds to pay our artists decent page rates and print out[...]

A three-woman team of Royal College of Art post-graduates has launched a Kickstarter for an ambitious new project set to combine comics journalism and photography to make a new kind of social statement and present the true potential for comics-medium journalism It's called Modern Times: A Graphic Commentary They are aiming to present "stories from[...]

Aardwolf Publishing will be publishing the new Futurians graphic novel, and the final work of the late Dave Cockrum, through Kickstarter And with a little help from his friends. Cockrum, creator of Nightcrawler, Storm, Colossus, Starjammers and much more passed away in 2006 At the time, he was working on a new graphic novel for his[...]

How easy it to navigate the space between those two extremes? MM: Being an old punk, I sort of feel like I was born in a circle pit.  I really don't know how to answer your question, because I'm just writing a book about the kinds of people I've known in my life doing the kinds[...]

By Shawn Perry Whether or not you ever cared about the Spike TV Original Series Blue Mountain State, the recent success of its Kickstarter Campaign to fund a movie represents another major step forward in the relationship between fans and producers So while Veronica Mars may have done it first and Community will likely do it[...]

To get our first graphic novel, Coran's Quest: Misterstourworm and the Kelpies Gift off the drawing board we have launched a Kickstarter campaign: The Coran's Quest project started life as an audio recording released in 2007 by my label, Circular Records, it's called, 'Misterstourworm and the Kelpie's Gift' Award winning composer/musician Savourna Stevenson had created a wonderful[...]

Powell, Evan Purcell, and David-John Tyrer. Kickstarter ends on June 8th at midnight, and we expect to have books in backers hands by early December, 2014. Jeremy Hochhalter writes, Fairy tales have been told in every culture since the beginning of the spoken word  Every corner of the world has stories of fairies, cats who talk, things that go[...]

The tale runs the gamut from inner-city pulp heroics, romance, horror and adventure to all-out battle as the war for control of the Earth comes to a head! Issue Number One (Our Kickstarter Project) picks up where the web-comic leaves off with a brand new story for unfamiliar readers The format will be a 'Golden-Age' comic[...]

Joseph Hewitt - Writer, Illustrator. Ambs Myers - Illustrator. Eunsuk Seo - Translator. Kirsten Thompson - Editor. Closes on June 8, 2014.Comic to be

The Adventures of Aero-Girl. By Dewayne Feenstra, Axur Eneas, Adam Wollet and Juan Pablo Riebling. Campaign runs from 5/17/14-6/17/14 The Elevator Pitch: A teen hero dealing with the death of her mentor and father with the help of a super powered gorilla. Jules Rivera writes, I first discovered The Adventures of Aero Girl about a year ago, after a friend of[...]

Begin building a fan base AFTER your launch. If you hold tight to the idea that pushing the kickstarter 'launch' button is a bit of a miracle moment theres a really good chance that you might not ever realize that when you do so… nothing happens Well Wait That's not true Your pulse rate will increase[...]

Coffee Tree Studios writes for Bleeding Cool:  Lumina is basically a graphic novel, something in between sci-fi and fantasy, designed and built by

Subversive and socially-oriented, you'll never see it coming…until it's too late! https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/justinzimmerman/safe Hey folks My name is Justin Zimmerman, and I wrote and created the world that is SAFE, currently on Kickstarter Only, that's not quite true I am legion. I'm a filmmaker by trade, and I received my MFA at Ohio University[...]

That's pretty much the idea behind the move Super Duper. This is a Kickstarter project by Cosmos Wallace, a director with a decade of experience making commercials who wants to jump into filming features But the old storytelling adage is "show don't tell", so I'll let there video make the pitch. So check out their kickstarter, donate[...]

Graduation completed as valedictorian of her class, she turned her attention to the relatively full time job of launching a Kickstarter to her take her work with Brennan Lee Mulligan to print formally It launched this past Monday, and within two days had achieved its financial goals and blasted through them to keep on charging[...]

Now Buccellato is stretching his legs with his latest thriller project Sons of the Devil, now on Kickstarter. Mike Federali: Tell us a little bit about Sons of the Devil. Brian Buccellato: It's a psychological thriller called, Sons of the Devil The Kickstarter is for both a 32 pages COMIC and a SHORT FILM which I intend[...]

By Joe Cammisa   [audio:http://joecam.net/SML/SML-e066.mp3] Monday night is here and it's time for The SML Podcast Episode 66: It's Too Damn Hot in This Apartment here on Bleeding Cool! This week on the show we are joined once again by Len Stuart of SWDTech Games, who is unfortunately here to talk about what happens next for SWDTech after their[...]

We have a variety of advertising options to work with your budget whether you are an established publisher looking to spread the word about a new book, a filmmaker trying to get your movie some attention or someone doing a Kickstarter and needs help spreading the word. If you want to find out more, contact jimkuhoric@bleedingcool.com for ad[...]

And Save/Continue Editor Kyle Gaddo. In a nice hour-long interview we talk to John Drake about the brand new Kickstarter for the new Amplitude game planned for PS3 and PS4 We discuss the process of the game, why they turned to Kickstarter despite people thinking they are rolling in that fat Rock Band cash, and we[...]

Which is a shame, because stories like these all but beg to be drawn. These stories are up for funding on Kickstarter right now Backers can get copies of the book, commissioned art, prints and posters and some really special extras for those who give a little bit more There's also a special offer for Bleeding[...]

This visual development collection has been a labor of love by artists who are passionate about their craft. The Design Unscripted campaign is currently 95% funded!  We will be giving out a random original drawing by a Design Unscripted artist to one lucky Bleeding Cool backer at the end of the Successful Design Unscripted campaign.  You[...]

Joshua Henaman writes, What originally began as a two-part series detailing the journey of self-publishing my sword, sorcery and sasquatch epic, Bigfoot –

For now, we need to start at the beginning, and that's with a print run of the first book "Alien Tongues" that I hope to fund and ship to supporters via my kickstarter campaign. Fortunately, with the help of Bleeding Cool reader support, the campaign can make Brainslug happen in an even greater way! My original, very[...]

Devin Kraft writes, Title: Dragon Slayer: The Collected Edition. Creators Involved: Devin Kraft, Space Gun Studios. Close Date: May 31st, 11:59 PM. Publishing Date: July 2014. Elevator Pitch: Dragon Slayer: The Collected Edition is the result of almost two years of work and three Kickstarter campaigns The story follows a ronin, a king, and a dragon all of whom are trying to[...]

I posted a link to my Kickstarter and got a reblog by Farel Dalrymple The Kickstarter post got 33 notes, the empty comic panels another 193 It was madness. From this point I can see what the future holds for me Soon after my next book comes out I'm picked up by a small literary agency[...]