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After the book debuted at San Diego Comic Con, orders rose rapidly and wiped out the company's backstock. With a 5000 print run, Archaia are going back to press, but more companies won't be available until the second week of October. The result of a $192,000 Kickstarter against a $55,000 goal, the money went to produce this[...]

Cameron Hatheway writes; Race is still a sensitive subject around the world, no matter how much we try and fool ourselves into thinking it’s not.

Morty loved the idea and we partnered up to bring this story to life as a comic book series. The past year of production, leading up to our recently launched Kickstarter campaign, has been surreal This story that's been stuck in my head for 20 years is gradually unfolding before me The first stage was building[...]

To willingly tackle the superhero genre, you need to bring something fun and original to an audience who has seen everything already, while not going the way of Mark Millar and having your characters swear every other word balloon or getting killed-off in splattertastic ways. Enter artist extraordinaire Jamal Igle and his Kickstarter baby Molly Danger[...]

Nicholas Doan writes; I want to tell you about the weird journey of how MONSTER ELEMENTARY: An All-Ages Graphic Novel, came to be a Kickstarter project It started out as a simple, insignificant snowball and became an avalanche! The awesomest, most amazing avalanche ever! It Started with DC Comics' web imprint, Zuda When I first heard of[...]

Wes Locher writes for Bleeding Cool: My sci-fi/comedy comic book, UNIT 44, which answers the question, 'What happens when Area 51 employees forget to pay the rent on the facility's off-site storage unit, and the secret contents are sold at public auction?' has been on Kickstarter for a week now. During that time I've learned a very important[...]

Damon Orrell writes; Since strapping a wash cloth around my favorite plush kitty’s neck, I have been hooked on all things super hero. I remember watching

Then I wrote a flippin' novel and had to start telling people about it, and plunged head-first into a Kickstarter campaign to raise money for the cover art, printing, etc. I learned quite a bit in my try-fail sequence (first Kickstarter failed, a reboot succeeded), including something very exciting and surprising When other creators (writers and[...]

Ricardo Sanchez writes; Mark Texeira and I are working on an original graphic novel titled A Hero's Death, that we are hoping to fund through Kickstarter I won't mind if you stop reading to go pledge now The quick pitch: Twenty years ago, The Hero died in a building collapse Her death still has an impact[...]

At any rate we hope you'll be sufficiently intrigued to check out our kickstarter page to learn more Of course we want you to love the characters but we also want you to share in our excitement for this new story mechanic. It's become all too common now to see our mighty heroes die only to be brought back or resurrected[...]

And rather than Artist's Alley, they're using Kickstarter And rather than paying options… they are paying for the entire project. That's what happened to Mike S Miller's adaptation of Anne Rice's retelling of the life of Jesus Christ, in graphic novel form Someone paid for the lot, and it was taken off Kickstarter. But it's not just[...]

Josh Henaman writes; It all started with an image. It was back in 2009 and I was the stereotypical “frustrated writer.” Always waiting for someone to give

Now, it is a sprawling epic series in development on Kickstarter, masterfully rendered by partner Giancarlo Caracuzzo I saw in it – and still see in it – the opportunity to tell a great underdog story, to give power back to a powerless character that I empathized with I intend to help him get his[...]

We shot a short film directed by creature designer, Tom Woodruff, Jr., that closes out Christopher's story in addition to starting the Interpreter's. We had accumulated many iterations of our world, but there was still something left to do. WHICH LEADS US BACK TO NOW… And a Kickstarter campaign for Fire City: The Interpreter of Signs[...]

But the reviews so far have been extremely positive, and despite my fears, it looks like everyone gets it. OK, let's go back about a year and a half ago… I was putting the finishing touches on my (now successful) Kickstarter campaign The goal was to raise enough funds to compensate my artist for the incredible amount[...]

Pat Mills, creator of 2000AD, describes it as "masterful", and David Lloyd calls us "bright new talent". We'd love it if you could promote this to your readers, and as such, we're offering a special goal. If Bleeding Cool readers pledge £300 before the Kickstarter ends in 7 days' time, we'll release 'A Fair Fight', the 5-page[...]

Ricardo Sanchez writes for Bleeding Cool: The Ghost Rider artist turns to the crowd sourcing site to raise funds for a superhero story he says is different than what we've seen before. Artist Mark Texeira, best known for his work on Marvel's Ghost Rider, Moon Knight and Wolverine, has turned to Kickstarter to launch his latest effort,[...]

Robert Jeschonek writes for Bleeding Cool: What does Bobby McVicker's mom have to do with why I've launched a new graphic novel Kickstarter project?  The answer lies ahead. First, let me tell you a little about the project.  Hell's Treasure is a fast-paced modern fantasy with a strong central female protagonist, a whirlwind tour of architectural marvels,[...]

When you don't have the money to pay people, you have do things yourself.  As my mother in law says, "If you don't have a dog, you have to hunt with the cat."   I am very proud of the work I have done.  I used Ka-Blam, an on demand printer to publish.  This way I[...]

With that idea, a script was written, a creative team assembled and a recent Kickstarter launched with the hope of bringing the story to life. Eggleston was sitting outside of his Little Lake, Michigan home, gazing up at the full moon when the thought of a painting he had once admired in a book came to[...]

We want you to have the vaguely Whovian experience of sitting down with any one of these stories, and feeling something resonant… Of turning the last page and feeling satisfied, like you got a real meal. And we've decided to bring all this about – the launch of a new series, the reclamation of a lost[...]

Alex Wilson writes for Bleeding Cool: Beth Sotelo (colorist for Aspen Comics) started a Kickstarter Campaign to help fund her creator owned title, Grump This 40 page book geared toward age 10 and up has an interesting premise. Most neighborhoods have that one crazy house It's wood is rotting Weeds are flourishing No matter what time of[...]

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0ReaKbB06Bk[/youtube] 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[...]

For £20,000 on Kickstarter. We can do this very cheaply – we need the money to rent some high end kit we don't have The film is going to be made by Inappropriate Films who are a breakaway team from Art Attack Films, a commercial film and video company The crew (nearly all women) are pro[...]

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[...]

Joshua Stone writes for Bleeding Cool:  Flesk was one of the most enjoyable panels I attended at the 2012 SDCC, relive it here, so I was really pleased to be able cover it again this year. The panel consisted of comic greats Mark Schultz – Xenozoic; William Stout – Legends of Blues; Terry Dodsen – Red One and Uncanny X-Men; Brom[...]

Neil Dvorak writes for Bleeding Cool: Isn't it nice when your gut tells you to follow your heart, and your brain chimes in with, "sounds good to me!"  You trod forth with the will of a giant.  With all your organs telling you one thing, even if you fail there's a silver lining.  How often does[...]

I wish you the best of luck in your project and I hope you meet your goal, whatever it is! Paul Roman Martinez is the creator of the Adventures of the 19XX, the campaign to get the first tabletop game based on the comic is going on right now over at Kickstarter. Paul Roman Martinez writes[...]

This is why we're going to Kickstarter since we cannot afford to produce the comic out-of-pocket on our own The comic is good enough that we feel it should be out there and we want it out there The people who rallied their creative abilities to us obviously need to paid but they rallied to[...]

The Kickstarter for Brian Clevinger and Scott Wegener's Atomic Robo has already blew past the initial goal of $7,500 in only two hours The first series, Atomic Robo and the Fightin' Scientists of Tesladyne,  started in 2007 and received an Eisner nomination for "Best Limited Series" Six subsequent series have come up all staring the Nicola[...]