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The kickstarter for issue 1 is running now If you're a fan of paintball, comics, or both, be sure to check it out! You can find the Kickstarter here. Cassidy James writes for Bleeding Cool: Paintball It's like a drug habit; addictive, expensive, and it makes your clothes smell funny. Back in 2000, Cassidy James learned this the[...]

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For the past few weeks, friends and family have been processing the realization that award-winning pop culture photographer and comic writer of recently successful Kickstarter: Schmuck, Seth Kushner, was suddenly diagnosed with rapid onset Leukemia at the age of 40 Seth was having serious trouble recovering from a bad flu and a trip to the[...]

In addition to writing Green Lantern Corps and The Flash and releasing an omnibus of the Pinocchio, Vampire Slayer graphic novels, Van Jensen is self-publishing a 180-page, full-color graphic novel through Kickstarter. The Leg features the disembodied leg of Santa Anna adventuring through 1930s Mexico It's a weird pastiche of fairy tales, Spaghetti Westerns and Mexican history featuring art by[...]

I really can't do his story justice, so instead I'll just put a link to the update he did in our Kickstarter campaign. For me, this is a choice I might be miserable if I quit writing and lost my creative outlet to become another 9-5 drone (9 to 5? Really? Does anyone still only work[...]

Footprints: Bad Luck Charm. Written by Joey Esposito. Art by Jonathan Moore. Letters and Design by Adam Pruett. Kickstarter ends June 1 at Noon EST. Ships August 2014 Pitch: The return of Footprints – a series about Bigfoot as a private eye – in a new double-feature one-shot starring Bigfoot, Jersey Devil, Loch Ness Monster, and Chupacabra[...]

Titan the Ultra Man #2 Kickstarter-  Creators: Tony Kittrell, Pow Rodrix, Tots Valeza, Ed Dukeshire, Dino Agor, Steven "Sash" Scott, Ken Hunt, Dheeraj Verma, Eric Battle, Bart Sears, Pablo Marcos and several more. Close date: Friday, May 30, 2014 Publication date:  Est July 2014 Tony Kittrell writes: Advent Comics is an up and coming publisher that has quietly become[...]

Throughout May 2014, I'm running a Kickstarter campaign in the hope of reaching a $5000 goal to publish a 96-page, black and white graphic novel titled THE CURSE OF RAGDOLL This is my first Kickstarter, and I'm finding that the amount of prep work is enormous, which goes far beyond the production of the actual[...]

But I chose to distribute the work electronically, to publish on the web and publicize through Twitter and Facebook, and to raise funds for a print version of the book through Kickstarter So the more low tech my artwork becomes, the more I've relied on technological solutions for getting it in front of people The[...]

Writer- Shobo Coker. Artist- Shofela Coker. Kickstarter end – May 18th Publishing Date- November 1st Shofela Coker writes, Outcasts of Jupiter is a science fiction adventure comic created by two Nigerian brothers You could say it's the A-Team in space, with a healthy dose of smart pulp and scifi fantasy It's a fun, funny, action packed, old fashioned, rousing[...]

And with a modest goal of $800 on Kickstarter, already at $7,000. And the money is needed Sim writes, Bottom line, we had a thoroughly botched (George and Sean are still working actively to "unbotch" it) restoration of the CEREBUS and HIGH SOCIETY volumes and now have to pay off the printer to get back to Square[...]

By Joe Cammisa [audio:http://joecam.net/SML/SML-e063.mp3] Monday night is here and it's time for The SML Podcast Episode 63: Beyond (Blade)Mode 7 here on Bleeding Cool! This week on the show we are joined by Jesse Durona, one half of the creative force behind the SNES art and story anthology Beyond Mode 7! We talk about the book and who all[...]

Funded on Kickstarter at the end of last year, to the tune of $137,000, The Squidder is Ben Templesmith's new work, and will be serialised by IDW from July. This all-new four-issue series finds an old soldier from a forgotten war in a post-apocalyptic world that has left him behind He was one of the last[...]

 Start taking your bets on when the PS4 and Xbox One versions hit.  I've heard really good things about it from fans of the first title and if you've been waiting, the PC version is apparently the one to play.  Trials Fusion, the 2.5D grown up Excitebike game hits PC this week too. Full motion video makes a return to gaming this week with Tesla Effect:[...]

By Joe Cammisa   [audio:http://joecam.net/SML/SML-e062.mp3] Monday night is here and it's time for The SML Podcast Episode 62: Perxerl Nerr (and Kunal is a Dick) here on Bleeding Cool! This week, Kris Huber and I are joined by our friend Len Stuart and Kunal Majmudar, owners of SWDTech Games, to talk about their upcoming release Pixel Noir which just[...]

And in planning my Kickstarter, I had to take a hard look at how crowdfunding for comics works And my conclusion is that, too often, crowdfunding for comics is broken. The Kickstarter in question is for Martian Comics, a unique sci-fi comic that we think is very different Kevin Thurman and I wrote it Sergio Tarquini[...]

THE DARK TALES OF THE BROTHERS HARROW Volume 1 collects the first two issues of two sci-fi fantasy titles – The Delta and Avalon: The World Within. In support of the project, they have launched a Kickstarter campaign in collaboration with renown concept artists Levente Peterffy (Starcraft II: Wings of Liberty, World of Warcraft: Cataclysm, Harry Potter[...]

This morning I came across a Kickstarter for a stop-motion puppet series called House Of Monsters created by Dawn Brown It made me think of the Rankin/Bass productions and the Mad Monster Party. [youtube]http://youtu.be/Oh4kc6KOwyY[/youtube] In 2012 they put together a short film of House Of Monsters and took out on the festival circuit and it did very[...]

What happens when two dimwitted teenagers gain super powers and accidentally frame legendary superheroes for their misdeeds? They become famous of course! Indie newcomer, Fright Entertainment (www.frightentertainment.com), just launched their first kickstarter campaign on April 10th 2014, for their superhero/comedy mini series, Champions of Earth The campaign will run until May 10th 11:08 am but if[...]

From that moment on, spandex and capes, masks and tights, would be my obsession. Fast forward back to that interview now, and you'll understand where the Black Wraith kickstarter project really began Jamie Gambell was one of the first friends in the business that I made through Twitter By the time we started talking, I'd already[...]

We are running our first ever Kickstarter for our soon to be released flagship series Ximphonic Versus Our Kickstarter campaign ends on May 22nd 2014. Ximphonic Versus story centers around crown Prince Addonnis Neos Latrunculus and the war for the last Ximphonic Swords of Destiny As the champion of lament, Addonnis has the powers to wield[...]

Hound: A re-imagining of Cu Chulainn, Ireland's greatest legend. Story by Paul Bolger and Barry Devlin, Artwork by Paul Bolger, Produced by Hugh Welchman, Kickstarter closing date: 1st of May (http://kck.st/1flC5Ui) Marcin J Sobczak writes, Dear Bleeding Cool Readers… Just before you'll take a look at our project briefly described beneath, I'd prepared a little treat exclusively for you (one here and the other one[...]

Matt Stills writes, All this month through until April 30th my comic project, PopApocalypse is running a crowd funding campaign through Kickstarter I've spent over a year developing the world behind PopApcalypse on my own while creating the first issue Finally at the beginning of this month I am proud to say I felt like it[...]

I have launched a Kickstarter project to raise the money for these wages The more successful the campaign, the bigger the payday for the contributors. They might even get paid what they're worth, a true rarity in the indie market. There are plenty of moral reasons to support this campaign The book cannot exist without the support[...]

Title: Just Another Sheep Creators: Story- Mat Heagerty, Line art- JD Faith, Colors- Jon Cairns, Colors- Paul Little, Lettering- Ed Brisson Close Date: Kickstarter campaign ends May 9th, 2014 Elevator Pitch: Just Another Sheep is a sci-fi road trip set in during the summer of love It follows a timid teen learning to think for himself in the days[...]

Is Kickstarter for Schmucks? I've been working my ass off to kickstart my semi-autobio graphic novel Schmuck At the time of this writing, I have raised $9,118 out of $15,000.  Since I took Remedial Math several times in high school, I realize my arithmetic is not the strongest, but even a chimp, (or a schmuck like[...]

I've already run two successful Kickstarters and learned volumes about the process I've started the Kickstarter campaign for Tiki versus Cthulhu with the simple goal of getting the first issue made as well as including a few neat items as extra rewards No stretch goals, no expectation of life changing wealth Just the funds to[...]

Jason McNamara and Greg Hinkle are offering their horror graphic novel, The Rattler, exclusively on Kickstarter. The 96 page graphic novel follows Stephen Thorn, a prominent and bitter victim's rights advocate who built his career on the disappearance of his fiancée ten years earlier His world is turned upside down when he begins to receive messages that may or[...]

By Cody Walker If my kickstarter Noir City makes it, I will have to do video eulogy for my sister Let me step back for a moment. I knew my second Kickstarter was going to be difficult Traditionally, Kickstarters for issue 2 of a series don't do as well as the first I thought adding a reward[...]

Whither women in comics? If Raina Teigelmeier is anything to go by, straight up the New York Times bestseller list AND STAYING THERE. Things like Kickstarter and Patreon have made things infinitely better for creators who aren't going to get cushy DC/Marvel gigs anytime soon, too We can do this We can get the books out[...]