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Some Guy From Ohio With A Creepy F-in' Puppet Tries To Convince You To Buy Comic Inspired By Music You've Never Heard Of Played On Format You Probably Consider Obsolete

Published Sat, 27 Aug 2016 10:00:56 -0500

Last updated Sun, 28 Aug 2016 04:28:21 -0500

Ken Eppstein writes,

Ken Eppstein writes,

I'm really grateful to Bleeding Cool for the opportunity to plug my latest crowd funder for Nix Comics to its readership: I just wish I knew what to say! I guess asking you to take a gander at his beast of kickstarter is a good place to start

Back? Good. Maybe you see my conundrum. I was severely tempted to title this article "Some guy from Ohio with a creepy fuckin' puppet tries to convince you to buy comic inspired by music you've never heard of played on format you probably consider obsolete." [Fixed that for you – Rich] Kind of a mouthful, but an appropriate summation.

I'll be the first to admit that Nix Comics Quarterly is an esoteric pleasure. It's a Tales from the Crypt style horror anthology with themes inspired by garage punk music and record collecting, which is to say that it's really not like anything else out there on the market. (Market being a term I use hesitantly. I'm unlikely to ever sell Nix Comics through the Diamond direct market system, preferring instead to focus on building a strong local following in and around Columbus, Ohio and selling to record stores as opposed to comic stores.) Anyways… Here are some of the things that I think should have you considering kicking in to get a copy of Nix Comics Quarterly #9:

1) The awesome cover is done by Stephen Blickenstaff, the same guy created the Cramps "Bad Music for Bad People" album cover. Steve is the most iconic artist involved with this issue, but trust me: the artists inside are just as fantastic.

2) With pledge levels starting at only $4, it's a lot of bang for your buck: 28 color pages and 7 stories. While there are recurring characters, none of the stories are serialized, so no reason not to start with issue #9!

3) If Swag is your thing, Mark Rudolph's Garage Rock Frankenstein poster and Pat Redding Scanlon's Glow In the Dark Tee-Shirt are pretty damn hip and unique.

4) I'm good to my artists. Sometimes I have eat dog food for a month or whatever, but I always pay them regardless of sales or kickstarter outcomes.

5) I'm good to my backers, too. In 10 kickstarters I have never failed to deliver the goods.

(So what's up with the devil puppet?I know that letting my disdain for making kickstarter videos manifesting itself as a sock puppet show is shooting myself in the foot. In it's own way, though, that's me being earnest. The fans I want are readers, not watchers. The people who "get" that I'm making fun a culture that needs a video are my people, ya know? Snotty, but true.)

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