kickstarter Archives

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,[...]

Mark Avo writes for Bleeding Cool: Kickstarter is now just as a legitimate means of gaining financial backing as traditional financing through a bank The phrase, "put it on Kickstarter" has become so normal for fundraising that the New York Times has run articles about the process Well, Salt Lake City just had the third biggest Comic Con in the[...]

The girls are stoked, they're giving me tons of material to work with, and the game is going to benefit all around from their being a part of it." – Jeff Matsuda On Monday, Sleepy Giant will launch a Kickstarter for Comic ConQuest Jeff and his team see crowdfunding the project as another form of community[...]

It was at that point I started to research publishing and came across Kickstarter I was amazed at the number of people out there that wanted to be a part of artistic projects. Thus the 1 WORLD APOCALYPSE Kickstarter project was born, a three issue prelude to the upcoming graphic novel Our story starts in 1974,[...]

 I can however, thanks to Kickstarter set myself the goal of bringing to life a brand new universe of adventure from which maybe, just maybe, I can spin out my own comics and movies. I promised myself that after a lifetime of writing many a story for fun, I'd publish something before I hit the big 40[...]

Thankfully, there are now a number of ways to gather money to publish your book, the most famous and successful of which is obviously Kickstarter. The Funding Comics Projects panel held on Sunday at SPX was a veritable gold mine of information for anyone who has ever had any interest in Kickstarting a comic project. Moderated by[...]

 We've just finished volume 1 and set it off to the printers.  Even made a fancy-pants hardcover complete with my commentary throughout the story as well as extra pages with additional epilogue, behind-the-scenes art, production sketches and reference pictures.  It's the blu-ray of the book.  What's great is backers to the Kickstarter will not have[...]

  Where do you go when you have a fantastic story but no money?  Kickstarter! With zero budget, we worked together to build a small prototype of the Atlantis app and created a Kickstarter campaign  Our campaign runs until October 2  We have fantastic rewards, including art signed by Denis, postcards written from the lost island of[...]

Glenn Matchett writes; When growing up here in Northern Ireland my mother owned what we Brits refer to as a ‘Newsagent’. Sadly it’s something that’s

As an adult, before writing and Kickstarter swallowed all of my free time, I spent most Friday nights curled up with a cocktail strong enough to strip the petrified lining of Clint Eastwood's stomach, indulging in a bottomless well of terrible, wonderful Netflix horror Horror is my sacred cow So I took a cleaver to[...]

Joe Baden writes for Bleeding Cool: "Why don't you stand up and introduce yourself?" "Um, okay… Hello everyone… my name is Joe Badon and I've been a full-time freelance comic artist for the past 4 years." Peabody! Set the wayback machine for about 2009. Stepping out of seven years of full time ministry and stepping into the unknown world[...]

Juan Navarro writes for Bleeding Cool: I think not enough people are warned about Kickstarter. So many people just see the massive successes out there, the big fat chunky dollar amounts thrown around every time Crowdfunding is talked about It's like the Gold Rush of old, everybody and their mother is on Kickstarter trying to make a[...]

I spoke with Adam McGovern at Baltimore Comic Con last weekend about his new Kickstarter project, which he describes as "meta schlock inspired by Kirby classics and Mario Bava monster movies" That alone was enough to pique my interest He's been working towards the project since 2005 with long-term dedication, and the genesis of the[...]

Bleeding Cool's Kickstarter Correspondent, Shawn Demumbrum has lead three Kickstarter campaigns to launch comic books, two successfully funded and one that wasn't.  Each week he will point out some of the unique Kickstarter projects that wouldn't normally be published by the big comic book companies, but deserve your attention.  Shawn is the Manager of Comic Book[...]

You might also know he's the guy who paid Mark Millar a few thousand dollars on eBay for charity in order to give his name to Kick Ass. Well, now he seems to be fighting his own battles. Such as on Kickstarter, looking at two Kickstarter projects created by Malcolm Harris of Channel M Live that have[...]

I was checking my twitter feed last night, reading Steranko's amazing tales, catching up on a few friend's weekends and then I found this… Uncle Peter needs help! Please retweet my kickstarter to your friends & ask them to do the same You will be my hero! http://t.co/FEYGlN8K6X — Peter Mayhew (@TheWookieeRoars) August 21, 2013 I grew up[...]