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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[...]

Marcio Takara, artist for The Incredibles and Incorruptible over at Boom!, is working with writer Scott Massino on a dark comedy comic, Varney The Vampire, and are looking for your funding over on Kickstarter. With one issue finished, they are looking for $6000 to fund the second and third issues compeletion, as well as creating advertising,[...]

I probably sound like a cheerleader but I'm stoked to see the final product. Dirk: The online fund-raising site Kickstarter was used to raise the funds to get this book made… with pretty spectacular results, I'd say Can you tell us about what happened with this book at Kickstarter? Also, what advice, if any, can you[...]

Gail Simone, Phil Jiminez, Carla Speed McNeil, Dan Parent, Donna Barr and Andy Mangels are all providing pages for a new, larger print run of The Power Within by Charles "Zan" Christensen and Mark Brill, a superhero comic on the topic of teen bullying and suicide, and a vitim of bullying who creates his own[...]

He creates a world with impossible angles, anatomy and perspective, but it's very consistent for all that. And now he's turning to his fans to help funs the reprinting of ENCOR[e], an art books of his work in animation, comics and film, in a hardcover coffee table book, with Kickstarter. First published as PREMIER[e] two years ago[...]

He started it five days ago. To raise internet pledges worth $17,000 to publish his completed original graphic novel, The Fracture Of The Universal Boy,

But it looks like it has hit a speed bump or two. But instead he's turned to Kickstarter. The Fracture Of The Universal Boy is an original 200 page graphic novel by the man And it is complete All it needs is to be published And Zulli is raising money for a print run. As always there are[...]

And he's putting together his own comic book, Daniel Johnston's Infinite Comic Book of Musical Greatness. And doing it via Kickstarter. The comic will combine Johnston's comic stories and fan contributions, with access to digital content with music, additional storylines and other content. They have $3,000 to raise out of a $10,000 total and 42 days to do[...]