kickstarter Archives

One of them is something that is close to my heart called, "Kung Fu Skratch!". I believe that crowd funding sites like Kickstarter and Indiegogo are the best resources for up and comers to bring their projects to life, it helped me fulfill that dream and get Issue 1 funded.  Not only was I able to[...]

Undeniably yes! Regardless of what happens with Kickstarter, what I'll always remember from Tuesday, October 22nd is the incredible smell that touched my face when I cut open my box of comic books It smelled like Heaven It took me deep into every sense of failure and every moment of determination to keep trying, and I[...]

They click off your page, delete your Email or mentally check out of the conversation…you've lost them forever. I recently reached out to Kick-Ass creator Mark Millar about my current Kickstarter project (sci-fi/superhero novel 'Assault or Attrition') and this was the pitch I sent him: — The premise is somewhat like, "What if Lex Luthor succeeded in killing Superman?" Not just[...]

Dirk Manning writes; Before I get to the "meat" of today's column, let me get this quick little bit of business out of the way: I recently launched my first ever Kickstarter campaign to bring my formerly online-only horror-noir series Tales of Mr Rhee to print as both a standard TPB and – much more awesomely –[...]

Kate Lollar writes; Have you ever backed a Kickstarter, gotten excited about it, eagerly checked back on the last day of its campaign, and realized it wasn't fully funded? That sucks It also sucks for the project developers We've compiled a list of 4 cool Kickstarters that don't deserve to lose Listed in order of urgency,[...]

I became acquainted with Satu Runa in the events surrounding New York Comic Con and was impressed by the multi-layered plot aspects of her project Queen Gorya, which was about to go to Kickstarter It's a TV pilot starring a late night cable show host of the Elvira variety, crosses over into an occult fan[...]

The Dare2Draw "The Series" Kickstarter has only a little more than 24 hours left to meet its goals, and though it's close, it may well cross the finish line Time to get onboard if you haven't yet to support a show that's by artists for artists and committed to celebrating comic art. The events, which are[...]

Adam Levine writes; Yesterday Mars Attacks! hit Kickstarter in a big way Last year marked 50 years of Martian Mayhem and, in collaboration with The Topps Company, the ray guns and the flying saucers have been brought to your tabletop with a new miniatures game from UK-based firm Mantic Games. So, I put the question to them:[...]

Frank Hannah writes: I can’t tell you how long I’ve been waiting to type that headline. For a few months now, my creative partners and I have been working

It inspired me enough to write an article about the divine feminine, mythology and comics for Reality Sandwich and simultaneously put an original comic work on Kickstarter–and believe there could be a supportive community who could trust in some of the daring ideas I have buried in this epic, genre hopping story. Our illustrator Sarah Lopes and the[...]

Jason Martin writes; It’s October, so how about checking out a little zombie/horror comic built to please both genre hounds, and fans of neon fashion-wear

 This is the first comic in the history of the universe where YOU can pay through Kickstarter to be made into a recurring main character  Think about that  Every month, your friends coming up to you and going, "Hey, I saw in Space Bastards how you are now in the belly of that great space[...]

Rachel Keslensky writes for Bleeding Cool: POP QUIZ: What do Kickstarter, a deadly reality show (in space!), a vampire catgirl, and a pair of Bleeding Cool booty shorts have in common? Coming up through the Atlanta convention scene, webcomics had always caught my fancy — I even decorated one of my earliest journals for high school[...]

Wil Petty writes; Going it alone… Its not always advised, especially when trying to launch a kickstarter campaign But that is just what Wil Petty is doing with "Skullgun: Demon Hunter". Growing up I liked to draw and I was a huge movie fan, and like many kids I wanted to be a movie director[...]

People would see the book and say "take the book to Kickstarter! You'll do great!" but I was skeptical I spent seven years on the webcomics circuit, and while I built a modest following from that, I wasn't sure it was enough to fund a several thousand dollar Kickstarter campaign. But you never know how dry[...]

Reaper Miniatures Bones II opened up on Kickstarter on October 1st By 9pm EST on the same day, they had 8,226 backers having pledged $908,952.oo I've had to change the numbers twice as I was typing this article. The project is to continue the Reaper Bones line of miniatures. This is a very unique set up[...]

They are also currently running a Kickstarter until mid-October to film a pilot TV episode for a reality comic art competition show modeled on their live events (which I've written about previously  for Bleeding Cool). There's a tremendous energy behind all of these forms of outreach, but there is still a practical need for more charitable[...]

Nothing was sacred, from the great bard Shakespeare's chemically induced highs to Detective Watson's rabid appetite for homoeroticism, and the vision behind the series was clearly one that only a very unusual group of people could have produced. Now, the team are ready to launch 6 episodes of the show on Youtube in a run-up to[...]

And they are all contributing to a new anthology of horror comics, twenty creative teams, two hundred and fifty pages and an introduction from Scott Snyder, funded by Kickstarter Which also means you can get down and personal to a bunch of them when donating money. So who are they? Rachel Deering, Justin Jordan, Cullen Bunn, Paul[...]

Paul J Mendoza writes; New Paradigm Studios launched its second Kickstarter this week with The Rockthrower, described as, 'The Middle East Meets Western Americana In A Down And Out Baseball Story That Defies Making It To The Major Leagues.' It's the story of David Willis, a has-been baseball scout that was once a Major League pitcher, loved[...]

Mark Bertolini writes for Bleeding Cool: Scum of the Earth My name is Mark Bertolini, and I’m a comic book writer. I have several published books to my

Estefania Rodriguez writes for Bleeding Cool: These days it seems like everyone and their grandmother is using Kickstarter to fund something It makes you wonder if it's because people think it's easy money from complete strangers, and they are just trying to take advantage of possible backers I'm here to tell you that, that's not true[...]

Does love make us weaker or stronger? What about lust? What causes attraction in the first place? All these themes and more will be explored in the pages of EPIC, interspersed with some of the most thrilling superhero throw-downs we can muster. Why Kickstarter? We took EPIC to Kickstarter in order to fund an offset print run[...]

I think? TEMPLATE, our cyberpunk themed digital comic series, is funding on Kickstarter again with a drastically scaled back focus and direction for its print edition And it's one that I'm hoping will lead to its success. Those of you who happened to catch my other Bleeding Cool article on Light of Dawn know a bit of[...]

and Cody moved over to Kickstarter this month as of September 23rd for the 40 page one-shot comic Boss Snake: Cold Blood, Cold Streets, and within 14 hours their 2,500 dollar goal was met Now, with 25 days still to go on the Kickstarter, they've raised over 4,600 dollars If the duo reaches his stretch[...]

A few weeks back we took a look at a kickstarter project from Jason Pell and Ryan Howe called Sucide 5 Its the story of a group of friends who try to get their fifteen minutes of fame and out due each other by killing themselves With the recent uproar about the Harley Quinn tryout page with[...]

This constant element of change in the creative teams keeps the books, and the world, fresh and is yet another challenge in a series that thrives on them. Now though, Cartozia faces a new challenge; Kickstarter As I write this the campaign to fund the next issue is set to close in just under three days[...]

Bleeding Cool is a big fan of Kickstarter and Indiegogo as our weekend coverage often attests to But not everything goes according to plan And we cover that too. Take the Kickstarter for the Gods Of Men hardcover by Joseph Pignataro Funded on on October 18th of last year with a planned ship date of January[...]

Best known for his work on Batman: Gotham By Gaslight, Flash and Out There and long time DC editor, with artist John Derrick West, they have turned to Kickstarter to fund Dead Ringer.  A hard boiled mystery/ghost story is not the kind of story that would necessarily be purchased by the traditional superhero comic book fans that[...]

I think if you study—if you learn too much of what others have done—you may tend to take the same direction as everybody else." It is also because of this approach to my arts that I have always just done them for "fun." My books have included several different topics: superheroes, government conspiracies, adventures, horror, happy people,[...]