kickstarter Archives

It was at that point I started to research publishing and came across Kickstarter I was amazed at the number of people out there that wanted to be a part of artistic projects. Thus the 1 WORLD APOCALYPSE Kickstarter project was born, a three issue prelude to the upcoming graphic novel Our story starts in 1974,[...]

 I can however, thanks to Kickstarter set myself the goal of bringing to life a brand new universe of adventure from which maybe, just maybe, I can spin out my own comics and movies. I promised myself that after a lifetime of writing many a story for fun, I'd publish something before I hit the big 40[...]

Thankfully, there are now a number of ways to gather money to publish your book, the most famous and successful of which is obviously Kickstarter. The Funding Comics Projects panel held on Sunday at SPX was a veritable gold mine of information for anyone who has ever had any interest in Kickstarting a comic project. Moderated by[...]

 We've just finished volume 1 and set it off to the printers.  Even made a fancy-pants hardcover complete with my commentary throughout the story as well as extra pages with additional epilogue, behind-the-scenes art, production sketches and reference pictures.  It's the blu-ray of the book.  What's great is backers to the Kickstarter will not have[...]

  Where do you go when you have a fantastic story but no money?  Kickstarter! With zero budget, we worked together to build a small prototype of the Atlantis app and created a Kickstarter campaign  Our campaign runs until October 2  We have fantastic rewards, including art signed by Denis, postcards written from the lost island of[...]

Glenn Matchett writes; When growing up here in Northern Ireland my mother owned what we Brits refer to as a ‘Newsagent’. Sadly it’s something that’s

As an adult, before writing and Kickstarter swallowed all of my free time, I spent most Friday nights curled up with a cocktail strong enough to strip the petrified lining of Clint Eastwood's stomach, indulging in a bottomless well of terrible, wonderful Netflix horror Horror is my sacred cow So I took a cleaver to[...]

Joe Baden writes for Bleeding Cool: "Why don't you stand up and introduce yourself?" "Um, okay… Hello everyone… my name is Joe Badon and I've been a full-time freelance comic artist for the past 4 years." Peabody! Set the wayback machine for about 2009. Stepping out of seven years of full time ministry and stepping into the unknown world[...]

Juan Navarro writes for Bleeding Cool: I think not enough people are warned about Kickstarter. So many people just see the massive successes out there, the big fat chunky dollar amounts thrown around every time Crowdfunding is talked about It's like the Gold Rush of old, everybody and their mother is on Kickstarter trying to make a[...]

I spoke with Adam McGovern at Baltimore Comic Con last weekend about his new Kickstarter project, which he describes as "meta schlock inspired by Kirby classics and Mario Bava monster movies" That alone was enough to pique my interest He's been working towards the project since 2005 with long-term dedication, and the genesis of the[...]

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 is the Manager of Comic Book[...]

You might also know he's the guy who paid Mark Millar a few thousand dollars on eBay for charity in order to give his name to Kick Ass. Well, now he seems to be fighting his own battles. Such as on Kickstarter, looking at two Kickstarter projects created by Malcolm Harris of Channel M Live that have[...]

I was checking my twitter feed last night, reading Steranko's amazing tales, catching up on a few friend's weekends and then I found this… Uncle Peter needs help! Please retweet my kickstarter to your friends & ask them to do the same You will be my hero! http://t.co/FEYGlN8K6X — Peter Mayhew (@TheWookieeRoars) August 21, 2013 I grew up[...]

We just launched our very first Kickstarter and while we understood all the steps necessary for success it is still tough watching the number of backers trickle in, in the first day (Thanks Mom) Now the publicity machine is in high gear as Jeff goes to the Baltimore Comic-Con this weekend and I man the[...]

At least that's the plan. We are using Kickstarter to sell the first 6-issue story, which we hope to then assemble into a graphic novel We are putting finishing touches on Issue # 1 and if it sells we'll be able to publish. For me, the fun of drawing Super Penguin goes beyond the sheer joy of[...]