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Three years ago, she released this piece of work-in-progress. She recently was surprised to come across something very similar promoting a Kickstarter appear for the role playing table top game Astro Inferno, very much not by her. Let's zoom in a little and turn up the contrast. The artist working for Haxan Studios, putting this game together[...]

Last night, Director of Publishing & Comics Outreach at Kickstarter, Oriana Leckert announced that she was shifting her focus to publishing, and hiring a replacement in the role to oversee the comics division, with a salary of between $120,000 and 140,000 a year. Leckert posted on Twitter, "Some news, pals! There's been massive growth in the[...]

Later today, Boom Studios will be launching a Kickstarter for The Expanse: Dragon Tooth, the new comic book series by Andy Diggle and Christian Ward set between books six, Babylon's Ashes, and seven, Persepolis Rising, of The Expanse, and following where season six of the Syfy and Prime Video TV series left off Their Day[...]

Mike Grell collaborator Jeff Messer published his first two Sex, Spies & Rock n' Roll volumes through Kickstarter, one of seven successful crowdfunding campaigns he's run But for volume 3, he's shifting to Zoop, with Sex, Spies & Rock n' Roll Vol 3. The continuing serialized adventures of "The Hitman," "Cowboy," and "Gulag-a-go-go" are combined with new[...]

They are now launching a new Kickstarter campaign to expand that universe with the horror title Lurker: Circus Sanguis following on from Daughters of Albion and the first Lurker anthology, by the all-female creator team of Beanie Aurora White, Paula Andrade, Tanya Roberts and Jodie Troutman. "Immortal London really captures what we're trying to create, and does[...]

"It's not that I like chaos or anything but at some point before the bird app dies we should probably talk about that Tales from the Quarantine kickstarter that everyone contributed to in good faith and never delivered My experience was pretty light with it I did a bunch of quotes, which take time and[...]

This morning, a campaign for perennial holiday favourite Klaus, created by comic legends Grant Morrison and Dan Mora, launched on Kickstarter As is appropriate for the biggest shopping holiday of the year, the campaign entitled "A VERY KLAUS CHRISTMAS by Grant Morrison and Dan Mora" kicked off with Black Friday specials on three tiers giving[...]

You've been hearing a lot about the new Ava's Demon Book Two: Aftermath campaign on Kickstarter from superstar webcomics creator Michelle Fus and how their partnership with Skybound led to topping the 2022 charts. Well, with the campaign ending on Wednesday and a final tally of $648,075 pledged, Ava's Demon Book Two is not only the[...]

Lyndon White and Andy Perry have a big brand new thing debuting at Thought Bubble this weekend,  Reanimator Incorporated: Chapter Two, the second book in a graphic novel series that was funded via Kickstarter earlier this year. Reanimator Incorporated: Chapter Two Sci-Fi / Horror 108 pages Full colour Writer – Andy Perry Artist – Lyndon White "I[...]

Holly Collins has been talking to Bleeding Cool about what she sees as a "comic that’s changing science fiction. The tagline for our series Arks is: ‘Read

As Bleeding Cool first reported, publisher Boom Studios is currently running the 40th Anniversary Dark Crystal pre-order campaign on Kickstarter The campaign is the latest in the publisher's Deluxe Pre-Order line which includes the record-breaking BRZRKR, Mighty Morphin Power Rangers, Mark Waid and Peter Krause's Irredeemable, and John Allison and Max Sarin's Giant Days. With The[...]

So if I must expand, webcomics creator Michelle Fus recently launched their Ava's Demon Book Two: Aftermath Kickstarter campaign in partnership with Skybound, following up the 2020 campaign for Book One that set a webcomics crowdfunding record with over a half million dollars. Now, Ava's Demon Book Two has racked up $476,000 all but guaranteeing it[...]

Comic book creator Katherine Holden tells me that her webcomic-turned-Kickstarter print comic "Errant Book 1, which was recently over 150% funded on Kickstarter and should hopefully be available at Thought Bubble this weekend on Table 115 in the Comixology Hall so long as there are no print disasters!" Errant is a colourful Action Fantasy webcomic about[...]

Comic book publisher Boom Studios made initial waves back in 2017 by pioneering the first consistent affidavit-only returnability program dubbed the Boom

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SmutPeddler Presents: My Monster Girlfriend is Iron Circus' first campaign through BackerKit and almost 2500 people have already signed up for the BackerKit pre-launch page, which also includes SmutPeddler X: Ten Years Of Impeccable Pornoglifics. Iron Circus Comics Leaves Kickstarter For BackerKit With SmutPeddler While Smut Peddler origins are ten years before that, it was the anthology[...]

Wild River Comics is a comic studio based in Shoreditch, London. Immortal London is a new storytelling universe in comics being launched by Wild River Comics on Kickstarter today, and shown off at MCM London Comic Con starting tomorrow. Immortal London will include the publisher's series Daughters of Albion, Lurker and more to come[...]

And currently on Kickstarter until mid-November. 1 ANYMAN Illustrated by Marvel Comics artist David Baldeón, ANYMAN is a contemporary superhero book with an unexpected twist If you've enjoyed JM's more mainstream superhero work on Spider-Man, Justice League or Captain America, you were born to love ANYMAN! #gallery-1 { margin: auto; } #gallery-1 .gallery-item { float: left; margin-top: 10px; text-align: center; width: 50%; } #gallery-1 img { border: 2px solid #cfcfcf; } #gallery-1 .gallery-caption { margin-left: 0; } /* see gallery_shortcode() in wp-includes/media.php */ 2[...]

A recent Kickstarter by Taylor White has surpassed its goal of $14,000 for the publication of the second edition of Rod Serling's Night Gallery: An After-Hours Tour in hardcover and in full color The pages will look to be doubled from the original paperback of 404 pages to a full-color of 824 pages Rod Serling's Night[...]

Publisher Boom Studios reset the landscape for comics Kickstarter when their first pre-order campaign for Keanu Reeves' BRZRKR shattered prior records at over $1.4 million , becoming the #1 comic and graphic novel campaign on the platform BRZRKR, of course, went on to break other records in comic shops and bookstores Two years later, it[...]

And we know how big the barrels of Rob Liefeld's guns are! As for the time schedule, it may also be worth noting that Liefeld's nine-and-a-half-year-old Kickstarter for Brigade, intended to have given the comic away en masse for free, still has many people in the comments reporting non-delivery or requesting refunds. Rob Liefeld posts[...]

Yesterday, Bleeding Cool ran the news that James Tynion IV, PK Colinet, and Elsa Charretier were launching a Kickstarter to crowdfund a short horror film, Room Service That PK will serve as the director of the project, with Tynion writing the script with Elsa storyboarding, and introducing a new horror icon, The Caretaker, who will[...]

James Tynion IV, PK Colinet, and Elsa Charretier have launched a new Kickstarter this morning for a live-action horror film Titled Room Service, PK will serve as the director of the project, with Tynion writing the script with Elsa storyboarding The film will introduce us to a new horror icon, The Caretaker, who will help[...]

And then there was Skybound, who partnered with Michelle Fus to bring their popular Ava's Demon webcomic to print for the first time, amassing a then-record setting half million dollars. But now Skybound and Fus are back with a new Kickstarter for Ava's Demon Book Two: Aftermath and they're already on pace to reclaim their crown[...]

After recently announcing that he is returning to DC Comics for a series of high-profile Batman covers, as well as rumours that he is doing a similar series for a major Image book from a major Image founder, as well as his own Amazing Comics line, he'll also be contributing a cover exclusively to the[...]

Covered under blankets and over forty years of tormented family history, The Fantast Collection is the legacy of an obsessive father cut off from his family due to mental illness. Trailer screencap Director and producer Adam Schomer is launching a Kickstarter to fund the filming of a documentary about dealing with all this as Darren is faced[...]

"We will launch a Kickstarter in early 2023 featuring regular hardcovers and special editions of The King-Killing Queen Given the success of the Kickstarter for The Tempered Steel of Antiquity Grey and Brandon Sanderson's success with the platform, it feels like a natural fit Then, later in Fall 2023, we will publish a regular hardcover[...]

Shook! A Black Horror Anthology is a new 160-page horror comics anthology project to be crowdfunded on Kickstarter in November Announced by CEO of Second Sight Publishing, Bradley Golden as a joint venture between his company and John Jennings Studio Second Sight COO and Collection Editor for the project, Marcus H Roberts states, "I remember[...]

Argentinian comic book writer and artist, Damian Connelly of the indie hit horror comic You Promised Me Darkness from Behemoth/Sumerian Comics is creating a new collection of stand-alone horror comics stories, Blood, Love, Ghosts, and a Deadly Spell coming from StoneBot Comics and now being funded on Kickstarter for publication next year. Damian Connelly Promises Us[...]

But it seems that readers are being given the chance to make it true, Bad Idea promise to close up shop entirely if they raise $2.6 million on Kickstarter As well as a new graphic novel and hardcover volume. Two equal and opposite forces were created on February 6th, 2020 BAD IDEA was announced for the[...]