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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[...]