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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[...]

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[...]