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Back in November last year, Bleeding Cool looked at the Kickstarter for the charity comic book anthology Tales From the Quarantine, launched by Frazer Brown and his Red Cabin Comics publisher in August 2020 and first mentioned by Bleeding Cool back in April of that year As well as a film and stage producer, Frazer[...]

Kickstarter has been the birthplace of some pretty impressive action figure lines in the past couple of years Lines like Plunderlings and Mythic Legions are some of the hottest and most desirable collectibles out there However, a new power is rising as Savage Crucible is here with a truly incredible set of figures The Kickstarter[...]

Jeff Lemire, Matt Kindt and David Rubín worked in secret for two years on an original graphic novel Cosmic Detective, an epic science fiction mystery that asks: when a God is murdered, who solves the crime? Funded on Kickstarter last year in hardcover, it will be made more available in bookstores and comic shops in[...]

Jimmy Palmiotti is returning to Kickstarter with a new Painkiller Jane story, the character created almost 30 years ago with Joe Quesada for Event Comics, the character went on to star in a series of series, crossover titles with the likes of the Punisher, Vampirella, and Hellboy and both a TV film starring Emmanuelle Vaugier and[...]

One of the next best Kickstarter toy campaigns is currently live and going strong with the impressive Savage Crucible from Harvinger Studios Inc This line of animalistic humanoid creatures is going to war for island supremacy and is getting a whole wave of figures for it Three waves of figures have been unlocked with Dinos[...]

This new Kickstarter project is something new and fresh that will be a must-have set of figures for a number of collectors If you love Mythic Legions or wish you knew about them sooner, then there is no better place to start than with Savage Crucible The project has already been fully funded, and we[...]

Our coverage for Savage Crucible continues as we take a look at Harvinger Studios Inc.'s incredible crowdfunding project on Kickstarter It is the originality that really makes lines like this standout, that is why Mythic Legions is so popular Savage Crucible is quickly going to be the next best thing, with currently three waves of[...]

A new contender arrived in 2023 with the World of Savage Crucible! This new Kickstarter campaign from Harvinger Studios Inc is dishing out a whole new selection of 6.5-7" action figures Wave 1 is all about dinosaur-hybrid warriors with plenty of figures to go around to customize, pose, and build your new army.  Currently, Savage Crucible[...]

The upcoming Boom Studios comic book sequel to The Expanse, The Expanse: Dragon Tooth, has broken the Kickstarter week one record for comic book projects, raising $827,802 in seven days And it has now just hit a million dollars any second now, currently at $1,012,963 with 8,594 backers. The Expanse: Dragon Tooth is the first new[...]

Amongst The Stars is a new sci-fi anthology being crowfunded on Kickstarter, to be published by Band Of Bards, including work from Money Shot's Carol Leigh Lanye, Kevin Smith Quick Stops' Tango, the first ever interior comic book work from fantasy artist Syd Mills, below. Amongst The Stars As well as cosplay covers from Ani-Mia and fourteen stories[...]

As part of the Kickstarter for The Complete Witchblade Vol 3, Marc Silvestri will be releasing the Witchblade #1 Preview edition ahead of the series relaunch in 2024 He has released the black-and-white cover of the new design for Witchblade, but in order to see the colour version, and the rest of the comic, you[...]

Three years ago, she released this piece of work-in-progress. She recently was surprised to come across something very similar promoting a Kickstarter appear for the role playing table top game Astro Inferno, very much not by her. Let's zoom in a little and turn up the contrast. The artist working for Haxan Studios, putting this game together[...]

Last night, Director of Publishing & Comics Outreach at Kickstarter, Oriana Leckert announced that she was shifting her focus to publishing, and hiring a replacement in the role to oversee the comics division, with a salary of between $120,000 and 140,000 a year. Leckert posted on Twitter, "Some news, pals! There's been massive growth in the[...]

Later today, Boom Studios will be launching a Kickstarter for The Expanse: Dragon Tooth, the new comic book series by Andy Diggle and Christian Ward set between books six, Babylon's Ashes, and seven, Persepolis Rising, of The Expanse, and following where season six of the Syfy and Prime Video TV series left off Their Day[...]

Mike Grell collaborator Jeff Messer published his first two Sex, Spies & Rock n' Roll volumes through Kickstarter, one of seven successful crowdfunding campaigns he's run But for volume 3, he's shifting to Zoop, with Sex, Spies & Rock n' Roll Vol 3. The continuing serialized adventures of "The Hitman," "Cowboy," and "Gulag-a-go-go" are combined with new[...]

They are now launching a new Kickstarter campaign to expand that universe with the horror title Lurker: Circus Sanguis following on from Daughters of Albion and the first Lurker anthology, by the all-female creator team of Beanie Aurora White, Paula Andrade, Tanya Roberts and Jodie Troutman. "Immortal London really captures what we're trying to create, and does[...]

"It's not that I like chaos or anything but at some point before the bird app dies we should probably talk about that Tales from the Quarantine kickstarter that everyone contributed to in good faith and never delivered My experience was pretty light with it I did a bunch of quotes, which take time and[...]

This morning, a campaign for perennial holiday favourite Klaus, created by comic legends Grant Morrison and Dan Mora, launched on Kickstarter As is appropriate for the biggest shopping holiday of the year, the campaign entitled "A VERY KLAUS CHRISTMAS by Grant Morrison and Dan Mora" kicked off with Black Friday specials on three tiers giving[...]

You've been hearing a lot about the new Ava's Demon Book Two: Aftermath campaign on Kickstarter from superstar webcomics creator Michelle Fus and how their partnership with Skybound led to topping the 2022 charts. Well, with the campaign ending on Wednesday and a final tally of $648,075 pledged, Ava's Demon Book Two is not only the[...]

Lyndon White and Andy Perry have a big brand new thing debuting at Thought Bubble this weekend,  Reanimator Incorporated: Chapter Two, the second book in a graphic novel series that was funded via Kickstarter earlier this year. Reanimator Incorporated: Chapter Two Sci-Fi / Horror 108 pages Full colour Writer – Andy Perry Artist – Lyndon White "I[...]

Holly Collins has been talking to Bleeding Cool about what she sees as a "comic that’s changing science fiction. The tagline for our series Arks is: ‘Read

As Bleeding Cool first reported, publisher Boom Studios is currently running the 40th Anniversary Dark Crystal pre-order campaign on Kickstarter The campaign is the latest in the publisher's Deluxe Pre-Order line which includes the record-breaking BRZRKR, Mighty Morphin Power Rangers, Mark Waid and Peter Krause's Irredeemable, and John Allison and Max Sarin's Giant Days. With The[...]

So if I must expand, webcomics creator Michelle Fus recently launched their Ava's Demon Book Two: Aftermath Kickstarter campaign in partnership with Skybound, following up the 2020 campaign for Book One that set a webcomics crowdfunding record with over a half million dollars. Now, Ava's Demon Book Two has racked up $476,000 all but guaranteeing it[...]

Comic book creator Katherine Holden tells me that her webcomic-turned-Kickstarter print comic "Errant Book 1, which was recently over 150% funded on Kickstarter and should hopefully be available at Thought Bubble this weekend on Table 115 in the Comixology Hall so long as there are no print disasters!" Errant is a colourful Action Fantasy webcomic about[...]

Comic book publisher Boom Studios made initial waves back in 2017 by pioneering the first consistent affidavit-only returnability program dubbed the Boom

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SmutPeddler Presents: My Monster Girlfriend is Iron Circus' first campaign through BackerKit and almost 2500 people have already signed up for the BackerKit pre-launch page, which also includes SmutPeddler X: Ten Years Of Impeccable Pornoglifics. Iron Circus Comics Leaves Kickstarter For BackerKit With SmutPeddler While Smut Peddler origins are ten years before that, it was the anthology[...]

Wild River Comics is a comic studio based in Shoreditch, London. Immortal London is a new storytelling universe in comics being launched by Wild River Comics on Kickstarter today, and shown off at MCM London Comic Con starting tomorrow. Immortal London will include the publisher's series Daughters of Albion, Lurker and more to come[...]

And currently on Kickstarter until mid-November. 1 ANYMAN Illustrated by Marvel Comics artist David Baldeón, ANYMAN is a contemporary superhero book with an unexpected twist If you've enjoyed JM's more mainstream superhero work on Spider-Man, Justice League or Captain America, you were born to love ANYMAN! #gallery-1 { margin: auto; } #gallery-1 .gallery-item { float: left; margin-top: 10px; text-align: center; width: 50%; } #gallery-1 img { border: 2px solid #cfcfcf; } #gallery-1 .gallery-caption { margin-left: 0; } /* see gallery_shortcode() in wp-includes/media.php */ 2[...]

A recent Kickstarter by Taylor White has surpassed its goal of $14,000 for the publication of the second edition of Rod Serling's Night Gallery: An After-Hours Tour in hardcover and in full color The pages will look to be doubled from the original paperback of 404 pages to a full-color of 824 pages Rod Serling's Night[...]