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Jesse Grillo's name is mud on Kickstarter, after a series of events that saw a legal battle over a rival Kickstarter and publisher and for pulling all his Kickstarter productions in response to increasing criticism over non deliverance of promises. But that's all in the past isn't it? Let's all forgive each each And on the basis[...]

But Jamie Hewlett made his name as the artist and co-creator on Tank Girl, written by Alan Martin, and appearing in the amazing Deadline magazine that merged music and comics together like never before. And now, decades after he moved on and made Gorillaz with his once-housemate Damon Albarn, he is returning to Tank Girl with[...]

tale. The Book of Life will be available to pre-order through Kickstarter on the 1st April 2014 While the Book will eventually retail at £40, backers can take advantage of a Kickstarter-only price of £35 There's also the chance to grab a copy for the limited edition early bird price of just £30. From the moment I[...]

The Undone #1. Written & created By Michael Dolce. Art by Soussherpa. Colors By Todd Rayner. Currently funding on Kickstarter until April 18th: Dylan Sharpe has the ability to rewind time at will But when he tries to cash in, he comes face to face with a secret society of like-powered individuals known as…The Undone. By Michael Dolce writes, "If I could[...]

Keith Tralins writes for Bleeding Cool: Do you like Robert Kirkman’s The Walking Dead? Do you like zombies? Do you like taking command of a group? Do you

Hobo Fires by Robert Earl Sutter III Kickstarter Close Date: April 10th Publishing Date: July 2014 Robert Earl Sutter III writes, One backpack, two boots, and the open road In the year 2137 a young woman named Poenee travels the country by hacking rides on robotic freight trains Poenee soon learns that getting on the train is the easy[...]

And if you are starting a web comic, launching a new series, trying to get funding for a kickstarter or even opening up a new comic store… your audience is right here at BleedingCool.com. Nothing is more effective than target marketing and this is where the comic, movie, video game and pop culture fans go for[...]

One by Monday, March 24, and email saintchaoscomic@gmail.com with BLEEDS COOL in the subject line, will receive a free digital copy of the book. Please show your support: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1049359989/saint-chaos-vol-one Noah Dorsey writes for Bleeding Cool:  The premise of Saint Chaos isn't a rosy one: a suicidal man who doesn't believe he has the strength to kill himself[...]

Luke Foster writes for Bleeding Cool: Shortly before Thanksgiving 2012, I was complaining to my parents that I was in a rut both personally and in my day job (as I am sadly not a full-time cartoonist).  I told them I wanted to move to another city and see what I could make of it there,[...]

I've run three successful kickstarter campaigns in the comics and tabletop games categories, and I'm in the middle of my fourth: The Flight Deck Playing Card series based on early airship and airplane designs The campaign runs until April 1st! In putting my projects together, I've done research into hundreds of campaigns, following them from start[...]

Catbeard the Pirate Book Three: Shipwrecks and Shedding Creator, Matt Nelson Kickstarter ending date Friday, April 11 Matt Nelson writes, When I started doing Catbeard The Pirate, I wasn't prepared for the question I got most often at first. "Does his beard use the litter box?" Maybe I'm getting ahead of myself My name's Matt Nelson, and I draw a[...]

Hi there, Bleeding-Coolers! I'm Luis Luis Oliván, from Fictiorama Studios, and I'd like to talk to you about Dead Synchronicity: Tomorrow comes Today: our 2D point and click adventure game that has just hit Kickstarter. Dead Synchronicity: Tomorrow comes Today is an old-school 2D point and click adventure game, featuring space-time distortions, concentration camps, a dystopian[...]

Then, we will put it up as a reward on the Kickstarter.       Cody Walker writes for Bleeding Cool: After the first issue of NoirCity was released, I realized that Amanda Wolfe had been what people in the comic world call "fridged." It's a term from Gail Simone's "Women in Refrigerators"  for when a woman is[...]

I am so very proud to announce the launch of the Kickstarter campaign for Super Reality My team and I are very excited to make this show a reality (no pun intended) and can't wait to show you our process, progress, and exciting inside information We want you to be a part of the process[...]

Jules Rivera writes for Bleeding Cool: Last September, I launched a Kickstarter campaign for my original graphic novel series called Misfortune High The series is about a spoiled, rich teenage wizard who gets a quick comeuppance when he's expelled from his high class wizard school and sent to a magic school in the ghetto as punishment[...]

I turned to Kickstarter and Bleeding Cool to see if I was offering something that people actually wanted. A LIMITED ISSUE After growing up reading a variety of comics, graphic novels, movies and animation, I took a particular liking to titles like Kill Bill, Afro Samurai and Cowboy Bebop due to their ability to address the above,[...]

By Christopher Helton For those who may not know, Dungeon World is a tabletop role-playing game that blew up (in a good way) on Kickstarter, making over twenty times its funding goal It is also available in French and Italian translations Based on the popular Apocalypse World game, a post-apocalyptic roleplaying game created by Vincent Baker[...]

By Emir Pasanovic Last Friday, 14th March, saw the launch of a new comic book Kickstarter campaign that brought together England, Croatia and Montenegro in new and exciting ways Three authors with different connections to each of the countries and each other, are now bringing a preview of the Unfinished City to internet audiences hoping to[...]

They are attempting to reprint the now out-of-print book through a Kickstarter campaign with some amazing rewards for the aspiring comic book colorist I talked with Brian about his Kickstarter.  Shawn Demumbrum: New copies of Hi-Fi Color for Comics are selling for over $100 on Amazon.com Used copies are over $70 Is this why you are[...]

One man, years spent in the absurd search for love in a tragic-comic world, a 21-part semi-autobio webcomic, 22 artists, and one Kickstarter to print that starts today : Schmuck. Award winning pop culture photographer Seth Kushner, the camera behind the world-famous portraits of comics creators in Leaping Tall Buildings (and of many comics pros photo[...]

Olly MacNamee writes for Bleeding Cool: Hot off the success of their recent re-mastered anthology series Twisted Dark (read my recent interview with writer and head honcho, Neil Gibson, here) T Pub have launched a Kickstarter campaign for their latest offering, Tortured Life that you can read about here. It follows the story of Richard Carter who[...]

The first 10 to back at $50+ will get 4 sketch cards! Just send a message mentioning Bleeding Cool when you back! Born Dark  will be published 7/2014 with the help of a Kickstarter Campaign that ends Mar 27 2014 You can back it: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/lelagwenn/born-dark-issue-0 Lela Gwenn writes for Bleeding Cool: Can we talk about underdogs for a minute?[...]

After doing more research however, we came to the conclusion that bringing the book directly to Kickstarter was the better option That way we could start building an audience while not necessarily occluding a publishing deal in the future Seemed like a win-win to us, so off we went looking for some artists! Vince and I[...]

Now there's a pirate treasure worth having. The Kickstarter for the third book has begun, and I want to bring that experience to even more someone elses There's danger, and intrigue There's plots and revenge There's ninjas (hey, there had to be eventually, come on now) And yes, there's still a cat for a beard, and[...]

Our Kickstarter for issues 2-4 is well on its way and we have been in the top 4 most popular comic Kickstarter in Europe since we launched. We want BLEEDING COOL to be part of this, so as a special treat to you guys the first 10 backers who go for a physical reward tier and[...]

that there's another Doc Unknown comic coming to Kickstarter, and before I can send him my interview questions, the project has already funded, almost overnight This time it's a full graphic novel collection of Doc Unknown stories, a comic that rose to fan attention through ComiXology in digital formats, but Rangel Jr and artist Ryan[...]

About a year ago Spider-Man co-creator Steve Ditko was on kickstarter with Robin Snyder to raise the funds to reprint The Ditko Public Service Package #2 It was successfully funded. Now he and Snyder are back with a new title, #9 Teen. This particular kickstarter has the least amount of information I have ever seen Nothing telling[...]

UPDATE: The Kickstarter for Hi Fi is back… they write, What happened? As far as I can tell Marvel have copyright attorneys who probably monitor sites like YouTube, Kickstarter, and others for Copyright violations They saw our campaign and immediately sent a DMCA Takedown Notice to Kickstarer They did so even though there is a copyright[...]

Hoopes' modus operandi is, if commissioned for work, to commission others to do that work, not pay them, keep the money and disappear. He's usually used DeviantART and the like to find his victims, but now it appears he has moved onto Kickstarter Such as this appeal to fund a super-hero roleplaying game, with the following[...]

Michaels writes for Bleeding Cool: I consider it as a great personal failure that I haven't come up with a team name yet. When I ran my second Kickstarter back in October 2012, I pushed to fund the first two issues of my creator-owned miniseries Destiny's Fate about a time-traveling assassin who returned home after seven years[...]