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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:[...]

And he's doing it with Kickstarter A new graphic novel called Duster, written by Wright and Jay Lender and drawn by Jok Coglitore and Cristian Mallea Wright writes;  A few years ago I had an idea for an original graphic novel set in World War II on the American homefront–a story devoid of mutant powers, spandex[...]

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 new 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[...]

The funding of an audio/visual/digital version of the Cerebus story High Society was received on Kickstarter even quicker than Sullivan's Sluggers… less than a day into the Kickstarter funding, it has received $10,597 of its $6,000 goal from 156 backers with 31 days to go… and it looks like we're going to get a lot[...]

Working with Warren Ellis and Gail Simone – but mostly on her own – she pioneered the vanguard to creating original manga-styled graphic novels and continues to push in that direction on a regular basis. And now she's joined the Kickstarter movement for her latest project, attracting support from the likes of Jim Lee, Jill Thompson[...]

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Mpbi-7biMs[/youtube] Kickstarter is changing the world of the comic book, and one of the very first successful comic book Kickstarter projects, Reading With Pictures, is back again with another Kickstarter project Josh Elder talks to host Grace Randolph about how Kickstarter has helped his comic book anthology and the influence its having on comics[...]

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=maD-WOmcof0[/youtube] Bill Meeks talks with Brett Rounsaville about Kickstarter, self-publishing comics, and his new comic The Provider. [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=maD-WOmcof0[/youtube] Bill Meeks talks with Brett Rounsaville about Kickstarter, self-publishing comics, and his new comic The Provider. [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=maD-WOmcof0[/youtube] Bill Meeks talks with Brett Rounsaville about Kickstarter, self-publishing comics, and his new comic The Provider. [...]

Alex De Campi reports in the latest update to her Kickstarter-sourced graphic novel Ashes that caused considerable fuss earlier this year when De Campi fired the comic's co-creator James Hodgkins/Jimmy Broxton off the book. He was replaced by a series of name artists, including Igor Kordey who had drawn the original Smoke book, to which Ashes[...]

KickWatch: Logan Kugler has launched a Kickstarter project to send toys of Captain Kirk and Captain Picard, strapped to models of their respective Starship Enterprises into space using a high-altitude balloon and is being filmed by the Discovery Channel to boot. The balloon will be 40 feet in diameter and monitored by The University of Illinois[...]

We've been following the rise of Kickstarter and its affects on the comics industry One pertinent trend is the increase of name comic creators using the system to crowdsource advance payments on books that may not be profitable in other ways Some comic book creators have been, publicly and privately, rather dismissive and critical of[...]

John Bailey writes for Bleeding Cool from C2E2 in Chicago. The panel on the social networking fundraising system that has fuelled the hopes and dreams of many a comic creator got off to a shaky start, in that panelist Matt Forebeck wasn't able to attend, but fellow panelists Will Hindmarch and Kenneth Hite tried to make[...]

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,[...]