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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 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 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 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  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:[...]

Here's his video of the Kickstarter program alongside Matt Hawkins, Top Cow President and co-writer on the new series Below that, you'll find an insightful little Q&A that sheds some light on the new direction for one of the Image cornerstone titles. Cyber Force has been on hiatus for a little while Why did the series[...]

At a princely sum of $79, 225 and eight days to go, Top Cow have hit the Kickstarter funding for their Cyber Force five issue mini series giveaway Remember, it will be free in print as well as digital, with Top Cow torrenting the cmic themselves, though the print version will have two extra pages[...]

But even if they find it, can they control it? Or will their fight for survival bring about the very destruction they seek to avoid? And they are using Kickstarter to fund it After all, Michelinie will get nothing from the upcoming Venom movie, based on gthe character he co-created.   And we're off. David Michelinie and Weilin[...]

Okay, this Kickstarter gets a special all of its own. Why? Because a small press comics guy, Brian John Mitchell, is seeking donations to put his mini comics in bottles (with your name) and send them out acrosss the world. I just think that's amazing As soon as I've finished this I'll be donating. And it's certainly a very interesting[...]

By Kevin Eastman and Dave Sim, a print to reward Digital Cerebus backers on Kickstarter… To be signed by the pair Do you regret not backing it now? By Kevin Eastman and Dave Sim, a print to reward Digital Cerebus backers on Kickstarter… To be signed by the pair Do you regret not backing it now? [...]

As we reported previously, a bunch of retailers have expressed concern over the free Cyber Force relaunch, funded by Kickstarter and intended to be given away both digitally and in print – with the print version getting two extra pages by Marc Silvestri. And retailers have been concerned. Tonight, it seems the penny dropped as to why[...]

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:[...]

OlympicWatch:  Off to see the Men's cycle race with the girls this morning… apologies for any lesser Bleeding Cool coverage as a result… KickWatch: As part of the Cyber Force Kickstarter funded relaunch, Top Cow reveal the cover to Cyber Force issue 2 by Marc Silvestri… showing a Stryker, it seems, in pre-cybernetic enhancement days… ConWatch: Hong[...]

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: Stories[...]

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:[...]

  UPDATE: The Kickstarter is live! Mike Deodato, Jr is launching a Kickstarter campaign this week to publish a collection of new cartoon illustrations. Most knwo Mike for his Liefeld/Lee-esque work from the nineties and is more recent photoreferenced work, but this collection will show a very different side to the artist. The Cartoon Art Of Mike Deodato Jr[...]

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: Stories[...]

But, as they discovered, sometimes Kickstarter projects take longer to go up than you might expect. Well it's up now The funding of a Cyber Force relaunch, one of the original Image Comics from twenty years ago Five issues of which will be distributed for free across American comic stores in print, and free in digital[...]

I learned a few things I could use… and a few I couldn't. One thing I learned was in the Kickstarter-funded free Cyber Force comic, there will be a two page story drawn by Marc Silvestri not available in the free digital version And that the digital version will also be uploaded to torrent and download[...]

I was wondering when an American comics company would create their own crowd-funding model. My money was on Marvel. but they've been beaten to it by

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:[...]

As you may already know, there's going to be a Kickstarter to raise funds to release a new Cyber Force ongoing series for free Free just like Free Comic Book Day, where publishers, distributors and retailers take the loss for the promotional benefit of giving out comics and getting people into stores That's right folks,[...]

It looks as if they are going to get a lot more. Telikos Protocol by newcomers written Peter Cooper and artist Adam Burn, with publishing assistance by Jay Douglas and Nav Gupta from Vanquish Interactive, is a new graphic novel with lofty ambitions on Kickstarter. Each issue of Telikos Protocol will run to 50 pages, to be[...]

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[...]