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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 month he will point out some of the unique "Geek Culture" Kickstarter projects that deserve your attention.  Shawn's current project Break the Walls: Stories Inspired by the Songs of the Pixies is[...]

He was a DC exclusive creator, with a much loved run on Supergirl, who found himself dropped from Birds Of Prey with Gail Simone before their run even began and found himself working out the rest of his contract on a series of random books and then, seemingly, no regular place in the New 52[...]

By now most everyone reading this is probably familiar with the Kickstarter campaign for the group's new art book TOME If you are not, here are the highlights… Started July 25th, the campaign is to crowd source funding to publish a 12"x 18" hardcover book of comics, art, photos and anything else the guys want to[...]

Shawn Demumbrum is the Kickstarter correspondent for Bleeding Cool; Although the hooded sweatshirt or hoodie has been controversial with the recent Trayvon Martin shooting, it has been utilized by superheroes to hide their true identity as recently as the new Arrow TV series Now, Hero Hoodiez hopes to blend superhero imagery and fashion Their first offering[...]

Now Cyber Force returning from Image… via the crowdsourcing site Kickstarter. This is the highest profile American comics industry project to be funded by crowdsourcing though, as Bleeding Cool has pointed out, the largest French comics publisher has taken it to its bosom to fund more esoteric projects Cyber Force doesn't really fit thatbrief however, it[...]

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's current project Break the Walls:[...]

Dave Sim has been running a Kickstarter campaign to fund the production of a digital version of Cerebus Bleeding Cool is proud to show for the first time one of the options, Digital Cerebus #27 in PDF form. [issuu width=420 height=315 backgroundColor=%23222222 documentId=120630074420-e957857dffd846449cbaacd1e39f42b2 name=cerebus_027_format_preview_sample3 username=richjohnston tag=27 unit=px v=2] The film house is rescanning a lot of the[...]

Kickstarter has attracted some big names to its crowdsourced funding model From Michael Zulli to Steve Niles to Ben Templesmith to Dave Sim. But I understand from Ann Harkey, attending Heroescon in Charlotte, NC for Bleeding Cool, that for the first time, a writer currently working for one of the Big Two will be launching a[...]

Indeed, comparatively the $25 donation to get the finished book has had relatively few backers. Well they can add one more to that, at least. <iframe width="480px" height="360px" src="http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/44flood/tome-0/widget/video.html" frameborder="0"> </iframe> [vimeo]http://vimeo.com/44249923[/vimeo]     There are 43 days to go[...]

With all the fuss about Lea Hernandez' Garlicks not hitting its Kickstarter objectives (though she will be back), here's a look at a project that has done that, and far more, with some lesson to be learnt. Curiosities: An Illustrated History of Ancestral Oddity is a planned comic book by husband/wife team Mike Yamada, Victoria Yin[...]

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's current project Break the Walls:[...]

And he's doing it with Kickstarter A new graphic novel called Duster, written by Wright and Jay Lender and drawn by Jok Coglitore and Cristian Mallea Wright writes;  A few years ago I had an idea for an original graphic novel set in World War II on the American homefront–a story devoid of mutant powers, spandex[...]

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's current project Break the Walls:[...]

Bleeding Cool's new 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's current project Break the[...]

The funding of an audio/visual/digital version of the Cerebus story High Society was received on Kickstarter even quicker than Sullivan's Sluggers… less than a day into the Kickstarter funding, it has received $10,597 of its $6,000 goal from 156 backers with 31 days to go… and it looks like we're going to get a lot[...]

Working with Warren Ellis and Gail Simone – but mostly on her own – she pioneered the vanguard to creating original manga-styled graphic novels and continues to push in that direction on a regular basis. And now she's joined the Kickstarter movement for her latest project, attracting support from the likes of Jim Lee, Jill Thompson[...]

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Mpbi-7biMs[/youtube] Kickstarter is changing the world of the comic book, and one of the very first successful comic book Kickstarter projects, Reading With Pictures, is back again with another Kickstarter project Josh Elder talks to host Grace Randolph about how Kickstarter has helped his comic book anthology and the influence its having on comics[...]

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=maD-WOmcof0[/youtube] Bill Meeks talks with Brett Rounsaville about Kickstarter, self-publishing comics, and his new comic The Provider. [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=maD-WOmcof0[/youtube] Bill Meeks talks with Brett Rounsaville about Kickstarter, self-publishing comics, and his new comic The Provider. [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=maD-WOmcof0[/youtube] Bill Meeks talks with Brett Rounsaville about Kickstarter, self-publishing comics, and his new comic The Provider. [...]

Alex De Campi reports in the latest update to her Kickstarter-sourced graphic novel Ashes that caused considerable fuss earlier this year when De Campi fired the comic's co-creator James Hodgkins/Jimmy Broxton off the book. He was replaced by a series of name artists, including Igor Kordey who had drawn the original Smoke book, to which Ashes[...]

KickWatch: Logan Kugler has launched a Kickstarter project to send toys of Captain Kirk and Captain Picard, strapped to models of their respective Starship Enterprises into space using a high-altitude balloon and is being filmed by the Discovery Channel to boot. The balloon will be 40 feet in diameter and monitored by The University of Illinois[...]

We've been following the rise of Kickstarter and its affects on the comics industry One pertinent trend is the increase of name comic creators using the system to crowdsource advance payments on books that may not be profitable in other ways Some comic book creators have been, publicly and privately, rather dismissive and critical of[...]

John Bailey writes for Bleeding Cool from C2E2 in Chicago. The panel on the social networking fundraising system that has fuelled the hopes and dreams of many a comic creator got off to a shaky start, in that panelist Matt Forebeck wasn't able to attend, but fellow panelists Will Hindmarch and Kenneth Hite tried to make[...]

It's another ruaround the likes of Kickstarter and IndieGoGo looking for interestingcomics and comic related projects looking for funding Get involved, get active, get some stuff… [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DDIGBUoEukY[/youtube] Project: Stick City Creator: Brennan Neil Concept: IN THE YEAR 2023, WHILE SEARCHING FOR A MEANS TO CREATE A MORE DOCILE AND SUBSERVIENT POPULACE, SCIENTISTS DISCOVER A LOW WAVE FREQUENCY BEING EMITTED[...]

I'm now reaching out to the KickStarter community to help me fund the second story arc It will be another 3 issue mini-series published by IMAGE Comics. I need to finish Carbon Grey just as much as I need to breathe It's hard to explain, the need to be creative can be overwhelming at times "What[...]

A Little Heart is an indie comics anthology being created to support marriage equality, and seeking funding through Kickstarter. Its in reaction to the approaching Minnesota referendum to ban gay marriage, but draws a talent base from further afield They include Noah Van Sciver, Joseph Remnant, Kate Craig + Emily Carroll, Maurice Vellekoop, MariNaomi, Sally Madden,[...]

Kickstarter and IndieGoGo continue to develope more and more prestigious comic book projects… with more and more prestigious names choosing this route to publication Film directors, prominent creators, its fast becoming a new model of distribution… here are a few choice selections. Name: The Only Living Boy Creators: David Gallaher and Steve Ellis Concept: THE ONLY LIVING BOY[...]

Announced simultaneously at the Image Comics Expo and on Bleeding Cool, the creators of the Grant Morrison and Warren Ellis documentaries have turned their eye to Image Comics – how seven artists left Marvel and founded a comics company that still makes the headlines and innovates in the medium today. Comics In Focus: The Image Revolution is a[...]

It is akin to Noah's Ark, only instead of flooding the earth, we're flooding the industry and only taking the best of what works on the ark with us.  If the Kickstarter project meets the goal of $2k we will be able to speed up our production If we exceed it, we will be able[...]

Those of us (and there are many) who donated to the Womanthology Kickstarter project received a very special Valentine's Day gift, a 32 page original compilation of Valentine Day themed strips and pinups from Womanthology contributors Here are five, for the rest, you'll have to track down a Womanthology backer and beg, borrow and plead…   By [...]

Legendary comics creator on New Mutants, Elektra Assassin, Big Numbers and more, Bill Sienkiewicz has signed up to provide a painted section for Alex De Campi's Ashes graphic novel, the subject of recent Kickstarter kerfuffle. He will be joined by Dan McDaid of Jersey Gods, as well as the previously announced Colleen Doran, Igor Kordey, Milton[...]