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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[...]

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[...]