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From a successful Kickstarter to a 5 issue series from Image Comics, now collected in its first volume this week, to the announcement of the series' return this autumn, Rocket Girl has displayed all the velocity you might expect from the title, and that's all down to the vision of the series creators Brandon Montclare[...]

The core concepts are still the same, but it is now undoubtedly the best thing I have ever written.  It's exciting, the characters are deep and the action is non-stop. What do I do next? Submit it to more publishers? Take out a loan? Print on-demand? Digital only? Release as a webcomic? Since 2007, the landscape[...]

Who will survive?  It's up to the reader to find out!" Fielder concludes. There is a Kickstarter.com campaign to raise funding for the project with a percentage of the proceeds from the project going towards autism research  For more information on "The Corporation" check out the Kickstarter page or head over to Tumblr and experience The Corporation for yourself. And[...]

By Carl Shinyama   Technically Magi is a sci-fi meets magic fantasy adventure that is championed by a fundraising campaign on Kickstarter When a young computer whiz is stranded on a dangerous world of magic without his parents, he is rescued by a sorceress apprentice and her odd mentor Together, they are the boy's only chance to reunite[...]

Michael Sacal writes, Greetings, Knights and Druids — I'm Michael Sacal, the creator and writer (with Pascal Salzmann & Adam K) of Knight's Legacy: Awakening of the Pen Ddraig, an epic Arthurian fantasy adventure penciled by John Andrey Portilla, inked by Kevin Leverett, colored by Roberto Torres, lettered by ET Dollman, with covers by Art Gutierrez. The[...]

Now they are ready to redeem themselves in prime time. It has been awhile since I last wrote Bleeding Cool (www.bleedingcool.com/2013/11/24/lark-eagle-not-hawk-dove/) and even though my little Kickstarter project "failed", I saw what backers had pledged as a sign A sign that says to keep going and try again Last time I rushed and did not have[...]

By Chris Thompson [audio:http://popculturehound.net/podcast/PCHPodcastEpisode95.mp3] Following on from last week's chat with rising talent Steve Orlando (which you can still listen to here), this time around I welcome back veteran writer, journalist and comics campaigner Clifford Meth to discuss his new Kickstarter campaign for Dave Cockrum's Futurians! Cliff and I discuss what he learned from his previous Kickstarter for[...]

By Jared Cornelius Have you ever played a modern game that takes you back to your childhood?  A game that in every way makes you remember why you fell in love with video games in the first place? 2D platformer, Shovel Knight, has become that title for me.  Shovel Knight started life as a successful Kickstarter from Yacht Club Games, a group of ex-Wayforward Technologies employees.  Wayforward has[...]

By Jared Cornelius   Welcome back to Live(ish) From The Games Shop.  I was content to keep complaining about the lack of releases again, because unsurprisingly this is another barren week.  However, a bright shining star was released on Friday, escaping last week's column.  So I'm going to gush about that, then give you a couple of quality download titles[...]

Now what? Well, how do you take this great thing and give it the spark it needs to Launch? In a world where Publishing deals are still sexy but the future is an unproven digital outlet — what does success look like? Do you measure LIKES on Facebook? Retweets on Twitter? Is success counted in ad revenue[...]

 Most of them were funded by Kickstarter campaigns  For over a year now, I have been planning the fourth volume of songs based upon Nine Inch Nails called Nothing Can Stop Me Now: Stories Inspired by the Songs of Nine Inch Nails. Making comics with people who are passionate about the same music I like is[...]

The second page of the comic is awaiting colouring work in the coming weeks, and will be updated on Kickstarter:           A special offering for Bleeding Cool There are so many great reward packages on the campaign to choose from, with all kinds of rewards on offer, and I have a special offering to Bleeding[...]

Kickstarter ends 08/22/2014 January 2015 completion date. The all-female crew of The Galaxy Girl have to deliver a cache of stolen, Quantum-Hallucinogens to a planet of mythical-God worshipping natives, however, the mission is quickly revealed to be set-up and it isn't long before the Intergalactic Union sends in their elite police force to impound the girls'[...]

The Art of Ralph McQuarrie: ARCHIVES Book. By Stan Stice and John Scoleri. Published by Dreams and Visions Press. Kickstarter Campaign Close Date: July 13, 2014. Publication Date: May 2015. John Scoleri writes, Dreams and Visions Press has launched a Kickstarter campaign to raise the necessary funds to publish our latest book, a 432-page hardcover collection of artist Ralph McQuarrie's non-Star[...]

By Nikolai Fomich Locust Moon Comics proudly announced their Little Nemo: Dream Another Dream Kickstarter campaign earlier this week I sat down with two of the minds behind the project – Publisher Josh O'Neill and Creative Director Chris Stevens – to talk about McCay's visionary work and Dream Another Dream Together with Locust Moon's Editor-in-Chief Andrew[...]

Rock stars Dani Filth and Jyrki 69 have joined him to talk about Dead Souls: Resurrection, a redrawn and remastered collection of Kurt Amacker's comic, to be published by Dark Notes Press and funded by Kickstarter. The comic has been completely redrawn by Douglas Freeman, with seventy new pages, a cover by Dan Brerton and an introduction by Dani[...]

Funded on Kickstarter, published by Boom, it spawned a sequel And was much liked. You get the jist And while that book is continuing from Jenkins and Ramos, it is also spinning off into a new series of tales set in the same reality. Welcome to Fiction Squad from Paul Jenkins and Ramon Bachs, starting with the[...]

Peter & Maria Hoey By Nikolai Fomich Philadelphia's Locust Moon Comics has announced a Kickstarter campaign for their oversized hardcover anthology, Little Nemo: Dream Another Dream Inspired by cartooning and animation pioneer Winsor McCay's classic Little Nemo in Slumberland, this original work will revisit McCay's Slumberland world and feature "an almost impossibly star-studded lineup of over one[...]

1X: short comics by Charles Butler, a Kickstarter campaign, close date: Wednesday, July 16th Charles Butler writes, At some point in high school I made the conscious choice to pursue becoming a professional banjo player It was a difficult decision to make, not for the obvious reasons, but because I felt I inevitably had to sacrifice another lofty goal,[...]

But we are aiming for anyone who wants to enter our world can be transported back to the days of sugary cereal and the excitement when their favourite show came on. Reynard City is a free online comic (also available in print) available at www.reynardcity.com There is also a Kickstarter on to cover a print run[...]

Ian Harvey Stone writes, A few weeks ago, you may have read about my crowd funding project for The Devil Without on Bleeding Cool. It's on! It's going to

After three months of writing, and nearly six months of pre-production, we are reaching the point of launching our kickstarter to help finish our dream It should be released next month and run until the 11th of August, Along the way we were able to find the amazing illustrator, Johnny Morrow He has been with us[...]

A Kickstarter is planned for the near future to bring the first issue and subsequent issues to print Two trades are planned as well as a release through comiXology. The best way to get updates and news for Tin is by visiting facebook.com/TinComics or twitter.com/tincomics. By Ilya Dvilyanski I'm incredibly lazy. At least that's what I was saying[...]

But here we are, I have a series of shorts out for free online, and I just launched a Kickstarter… I was first introduced to comics as a young lad going to visit my father on weekends; he'd take me into the local newsagency on his way into the TAB and I'd get to pick out[...]

Last autumn, they went to Kickstarter with the ambitious goal of filming a TV show pilot based on their events, and successfully funded their first episode. Now the pilot has been filmed and is set to debut to the world tonight, Friday the 20th of June, in livestream on MNN Channel 4, the "culture channel", and[...]

I've often heard people comment that there should have been more done already to celebrate his life and work. Multi-faceted writer and comics creator Fred Van Lente (Brain Boy, Project Black Sky, Archer and Armstrong, Comic Book History of Comics, Cowboys & Aliens, Action Philosophers) and award-winning playwright Crystal Skillman have thrown down the gauntlet in[...]

Such as Calculus Cat, an eighties creation for Don and Maggie Thompson's mini-comics, being revived and reprinted by Knockabout – that's if Hunt can get the Kickstarter together to help fund the restoration and creation of new work. Calculus Cat's home life is locked in an intense, argumentative relationship with his TV set, which bedevils him[...]

Amiculus: A Secret History. Travis Horseman, Writer/Creator. Giancarlo Caracuzzo, Artist. Kickstarter begins: Monday, June 2. Kickstarter ends: Saturday, July 12 AMICULUS is a quasi-historical epic, telling a "lost" history of the fall of Rome through the eyes of its last emperor, a 12-year-old boy named Romulus Through him we see Rome at the moment of its collapse, besieged by a[...]

The ComplEAT Dear Dinosaur Collection (Kickstarter). Created by Ryan L Schrodt. Kickstarter ends June 17th at 11:22pm CDT. Rewards ship in August/September 2014 Dear Dinosaur is an advice column written by a dinosaur that hates humans The ComplEAT Dear Dinosaur collects the entire hit webcomic series, plus a slew of extras. Ryan L[...]

Tim Simmons writes for Bleeding Cool: ARTICLE: If you’re an aspiring comic creator, there’s a good chance you’ve been to my site, The Comic Book Script