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The Top Ten Worst Ways To Miraculously Kickstart Your Comic Book
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[...]
How Far Would You Go To Keep Your Family Safe?
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[...]
A Comedy/Drama About Superhero Interns – Super Duper
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[...]
Bleeding Cool Is #1 Comic Authority According To Technorati
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[...]
Then It Was Then It Was Dark
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[...]
Design Unscripted – Pairing Industry Pros With Up-And-Coming Talent
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[...]
Bigfoot… And the Making of a Monster
Joshua Henaman writes, What originally began as a two-part series detailing the journey of self-publishing my sword, sorcery and sasquatch epic, Bigfoot –
Brainslug – A Hilarious And Surprisingly Violent Comic Series
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[...]
Dragon Slayer: Breathe Fire
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[...]
How to Get Likes And Reblogs On Tumblr. Or Five Empty Panels.
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[...]
Liberaider – The Robin Hood Of Cyberspace To Be Collected
Pierre writes/draws for Bleeding Cool: Find the Liberaider on Kickstarter here. Joe St Pierre writes/draws for Bleeding Cool: Find the Liberaider on Kickstarter here. Joe St Pierre writes/draws for Bleeding Cool: Find the Liberaider on Kickstarter here. Joe St Pierre writes/draws for Bleeding Cool: Find the Liberaider on Kickstarter here. Joe St[...]
Help Comics Creator Seth Kushner Hulk Smash Leukemia
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[...]
Van Jensen Gets His Leg Over On Kickstarter
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[...]
Failure Is Not An Option
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[...]
Joey Esposito Revisits His Footprints
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[...]
Clash Of Titan The Ultra Man
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[...]
The Curse Of Ragdoll: Mike Wolfer Goes Goth(ic)
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[...]
What Do You Think When You Hear The Name Machiavelli?
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[...]
Casting Out Of Jupiter For The Jonahverse
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[...]
IDW Publish Ben Templesmith's The Squidder In July
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[...]
The SML Podcast – Talking About Pixel Noir And Pax East With The SWDTech Crew
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[...]