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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[...]

And while that may still be happening, the production will be funded through Kickstarter. Here's how the comic is described; Great Pacific tells the story of Chas Worthington, recent heir to one of the richest oil fortunes and most successful corporations in American history In a defiant act that seems crazy to most and criminal to many,[...]

And it's being funded by Kickstarter Here is how they escribe the book; ERF is the story of four friends at the dawn of time; Figwillop, KWAAAH!, the Booper, and Erf himself, and their adventures in the primordial world of long ago The four take their first nervous steps out of the ocean and onto the[...]

This week, Stan Lee's Romeo And Juliet: The War has debuted at No 7 on the New York Times graphic novel paperback charts. Two weeks ago, FUBAR Vol 2 debuted at No 6 on the New York Times graphic novel paperback charts. FUBAR Vol 2 was the result of a Kickstarter project in August 2011, raising $6000[...]

At that pace it won't be finished for many years, but I'm dedicating myself to completing it at full quality, no matter how long it takes! Here's where you come in – if you'd like to help speed up the process, I'm looking for funding from as many sources as possible and the following pages[...]

So, one Kickstarter project has gone down in flames leaving nothing but… ashes. Alex De Campi has promised to refund pledgers if they wish, and to everyone if no replacement artist can be found in a timely fashion. If so, what will you spend your refund on? Here are a few suggestions. Title: TJHS 1987 Creators: Randall P[...]

  Jimmy Broxton/James Hodgkins has written to Bleeding Cool, regarding Alex De Campi's statement on Kickstarter on the situation with the graphic novel Ashes. I have made my position clear and outlined the facts of this unfortunate situation Alex has a wildly different interpretation of events, and says some very harsh things about me, things I naturally[...]

  Bleeding Cool first told you about the irrevocable differences that emerged between Alex De Campi and Jimmy Broxton/James Hodgkins over the successfuly funded Kickstarter comic, Ashes, a sequel to Alex De Campi and Igor Kordey's comic Smoke. It appears that it was, indeed, artistic differences that drove the two apart, but exactly what and why seem[...]

Bleeding Cool has covered extensively the Ashes graphic novel by Alex De Campi and Jimmy Broxton, the pen name of James Hodgkins, a sequel to Smoke by De Campi and Igor Kordey, and funded by Kickstarter It was successful on Kickstarter and those who funded the book awaited the production of the comic That was[...]

You could draw a graph with the curve heading toward the floor and make a serious plan of running your book into the ground within a specific number of years, months and weeks. KickstarterWatch: Crowdsourcing is the new patron of the arts. The money frees Walsh to work on the pages of the online comic, which he[...]

He's using Kickstarter to ask comic readers and collectors to help fund a film project examining the events surrounding the discovery of the Edgar Church collection. More specifically, Johnson's Kickstarter film project, Edgar's Comics, uses this story as a lens of sorts, to view the pivotal moments when comics fandom began to transform from, as he[...]

Smith, Ele Jenkins, Tom Dullemond, Ben Rosenthal, Eleri Harris, Sam Cavanagh, Katie Ryan, Nate Soehardi, Gavin Thomson, Emma-Jean Stewart, Mike Perry, Stu Barrow, Lani Fernance, Robert Perrie and Alice Farquharson. A hundred pages in glossy colour, a collection of stories about beginnings – action, romance, autobiographical, super-hero, and mythological, it will be funded by international Kickstarter[...]

The Kickstarter funding for Alex De Campi and Jimmy/James Broxton/Hodgkins' sequel to Smoke – Ashes – is $7000 shy of its targeted figure So the pair are giving it a final push with a Bleeding Cool competition. If you pledge at least $30, getting a copy of the graphic novel, and then post a comment below[...]

And she has a fantastic new take on using Kickstarter to do so. @richjohnston: Comics writer does Kickstarter How is this news? Because as well as self-publishing, we've decided to make the rest of the process completely transparent too You can buy the trade rights and the film rights, right there on Kickstarter Why not? The few[...]

Publishers, don't this be another Kickstarter success story, when you could claim all the credit yourself. Could this be the greatest anthology never published? Once Upon A Time Machine is a comic book anthology in search of a publisher, With work from Farel Dalrymple, Khoi Pham, Ryan Ottley,[...]

Last month, Bleeding Cool told you how France's biggest comics publisher was turning to a social networking fundraising system like Kickstarter to fund projects it might have considered uncommercial otherwise. This was considered quite shocking by some publishers who viewed this as an admission of incompetence, or lack of publishing will, that publishers should put their[...]

Neil Gaiman and Amanda Palmer are launching a West Coast tour of An Evening With Neil Gaiman And Amanda Palmer, through Kickstarter A dollar will get you a digital download of the performance which is possibly one of the better value Kickstarter projects I've come across. There are other items of greater value of course, culminating[...]

A regular look at projects on Kickstarter and Indiegogo being funded by you, but still in need of cash Do let us know who, if any, you choose to support. Title: The Alchemist's Easel Creator: Al Davison Funding for: We want to produce a limited edition collectors item 200 hardback copies with a quarter cloth spine, cover litho[...]

Welcome to a semi-regular round up of some of the more interesting comic book projects on the social networking fundraising site, Kickstarter And possibily IndieGoGo We'll be happy to promote projects that haven't yet reached their funding goals – and maybe even help them on the way a little Do let us know,[...]

Warren Ellis: Wondering if the Womanthology project, which quadrupled its Kickstarter goal, is paying its contributors now? Anyone know? Twitter, especially thanks to a contribution by one Warren Ellis, retweeted by Wil Wheaton, has been asking where the money raised on Kickstarter for the Womanthology comic book is going After all, they only tried to raise[...]

Welcome to a semi-regular round up of some of the more interesting comic book projects on the social networking fundraising site, Kickstarter We'll be happy to promote projects that haven't yet reached their funding goals – and maybe even help them on the way a little Do let us know, in the comments, if you've[...]

Well they have come up with a rather unique way of funding their latest venture with Kickstarter. At $3400 of their $1000 goal with 15 days to go, $150 donations are to be rewarded with a script critique from either Gail Simone or Fabian Nicieza of the donors' own work Each have had four takers. Consider this[...]

Unite And Take Over is a comic book anthology of stories inspired by the songs of The Smiths.  Its premise is "What is the story that plays in your head when you listen to your favorite Smiths song?". Sean Demubrum (whose surname certainly sounds like Morrissey's singing on occasion) has assembled fifteen creative teams for[...]