Some backers of Mitch Breitweiser’s Red Rooster: Golden Age Indiegogo campaign have raised concerns over the lack of updates on the project. On a recent livestream with Edwin Boyette, Breitweiser answered these concerns, revealing that he has in fact been a very, very busy man. As Breitweiser puts it, “We set out to make an Indiegogo comic book, and ended
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On Thursday, the crowdfunding campaign for Red Rooster: Golden Age came to an end after raising 1090% of its original funding goal for a total of over $164 thousand. Yes, that’s over a thousand percent – not a typo. Red Rooster: Golden Age is a 60-page graphic novel written and illustrated by Mitch Breitweiser with colors by Elizabeth Breitweiser. Golden
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Earlier this week, the Indiegogo campaign for Red Rooster: Golden Age topped $100 thousand. As announced on social media by Golden Age colorist Elizabeth Breitweiser, the $100k stretch goal brings with it a chance for one lucky backer to win original artwork by Red Rooster creator Mitch Breitweiser and Cyberfrog creator Ethan Van Sciver. Red Rooster: Golden Age is a
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On Thursday, Mitch Breitweiser’s Red Rooster: Golden Age went went live on Indiegogo, and reached its $15 thousand funding goal approximately two hours later. Featuring illustrations by Mitch Breitweiser (Captain America), colors by Elizabeth Breitweiser (Batman) and scripted by Mark Pellegrini (Black Hops), Red Rooster: Golden Age is described as Rockwell meets Lovecraft in a dust bowl-era, southern gothic cape
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On Tuesday, Allegiance Arts Entertainment launched a crowdfunding campaign for Norah’s Saga Season One: Song of the Fossegrim, a 136-page graphic novel based on Norse mythology. The project is already fully funded, having raised more than $32 thousand at the time of this writing. Written by Blake Northcott and featuring illustrations by Kelsey Shannon, Norah’s Saga Season One collects all
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On Tuesday, Allegiance Arts Entertainment launched a crowdfunding campaign for The Saints, an all-new 52+ page graphic novel written by Mike Baron and illustrated by Christian Rosado. Like previous Allegiance Arts projects, The Saints will likely find a home on WalMart store shelves as individual issues, but the Indiegogo campaign will fund the graphic novel “premiere” edition. At the time
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According to a recent announcement by Allegiance Arts, the third wave of Allegiance comics have been delayed until February 2021. This includes all four of Allegiance’s titles: Red Rooster, Bass Reeves, Norah’s Saga and The Futurists. Originally scheduled to release on Walmart shelves in September (and later November), this newest delay is being blamed on, erm, Walmart’s end-of-year inventory… I
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On Monday, Allegiance Arts announced that issue/episode 3 of all four of their comic book titles are being delayed until November. Originally slated to release in September, that’s a 2-month delay for those who can do the math. Allegiance places the blame on a resurgence of COVID-19 over the summer, specifically noting that the current retail environment isn’t optimal for
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On 7 October, Allegiance Arts will launch a three-for-one crowdfunding campaign for a trio of comics: The Futurists, Marshall Bass Reeves and Nora’s Saga. Each book is 24-25 pages and will be available in a “Founder’s Edition” for a limited time. Here’s a quick breakdown of the three books below: The first book is The Futurists, a science fiction adventure
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Comic book artist Mitch Breitweiser (Red Rooster) has started teasing a new project titled Norah’s Saga, a collaboration with writer Blake Northcott (The North Valley Grimoire) and colorist Kelsey Shannon (Jawbreakers). At the moment, little else is known about the book. Even Breitweiser himself jokingly refers to Norah’s Saga as a “super secret project.” All three creators have previously used
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Earlier in March, writer Michael Derrick launched an Indiegogo campaign for The Abductables, an all-new 52-page one-shot sci-fi/comedy graphic novel about an alien abduction gone wrong written by Derrick and featuring illustrations by Ibai Canales. We got a chance to ask Derrick several questions about the The Abductables campaign, and he was gracious enough to respond. As always, the answers
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Last year, Chuck Bonetti and the creative team behind Sporkman: Goes to Japan conducted a crowdfunding campaign to fund the book that came laser close to reaching its goal. After a few months to regroup and recalibrate, the Sporkman team is ready to relaunch with a retooled campaign scheduled to hit Indiegogo on 29 March. We reached out to Bonetti
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This week, the Indiegogo campaign for Mike S. Miller’s superhero adventure comic Lonestar: Heart of the Hero crossed the coveted $100k threshold.* In doing so, Lonestar joins the ranks of several other crowdfunded comic book projects including Cyberfrog, Jawbreakers, Red Rooster, Graveyard Shift and Bigfoot Bill in the glorious #SixFiguresBitch! club (or as Miller politely calls it, the #SixFiguresYoungLady club).
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On Sunday, the Indiegogo campaign for independent horror comic Graveyard Shift crossed the $100k threshold, joining other crowdfunded comic book projects as Cyberfrog, Jawbreakers, Red Rooster and Bigfoot Bill in the coveted #SixFiguresBitch club (occasionally referred to erroneously as the “six figures young lady club). Graveyard Shift is a 46-page graphic novel described as “the Universal Monsters meets the X-Men,”
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On Wednesday, the crowdfunding campaign for the variant edition of Cyberfrog: Blood Honey ended as yet another success, raising over 1600% of its original goal for a total of over $80 thousand. When added to the funds raised for the original Indiegogo campaign, and that’s a total of over $622 thousand. Why a second campaign? The major change this time
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On Wednesday Cyberfrog creator Ethan Van Sciver created a new crowdfunding campaign for Cyberfrog: Blood Honey via Indiegogo. Sound familiar? It should. The original Blood Honey campaign broke records in July as the most-funded comic book in crowdfunding history. The major change this time around is the new campaign will fund a copy of the book with variant cover art
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Ending on the same night as the massively successful Red Rooster: Golden Age, the Indiegogo campaign for Flying Sparks: A Hero and Villain in Love ended successfully, raising 452% of its original goal for a total of more than $27 thousand. Flying Sparks is planned as an ongoing superhero comic series described as having an intense personal drama similar to the
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This weekend, the Kickstarter campaign independent comic Blue Mamba was cancelled by the project’s creator, Jim Healis. However, the project was resurrected almost immediately on Indiegogo, with updated backer tiers and funding goals. The project quickly found its audience and was successfully funded in less than 10 hours. Healis announced his plans to move the project to Indiegogo on Sunday
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On Monday, the crowdfunding campaign for Cyberfrog: Blood Honey ended as a massive success, raising 6659% of its original goal for a total of $535,012 – that’s over half a million dollars, folks. For those keeping track, it’s also a new record for a crowdfunded comic book. Cyberfrog is the creation of veteran comic book artist and YouTube Star Wars
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On the latest installment of Sit DOWN Sunday (hosted on Patrick Thomas Parnell’s YouTube channel Riot Press Productions), The Splintering founder Blake Worrell got another chance to discuss recent comic book news with Parnell and College of the Dead creator Adam Post. This week, we discussed Adam Post’s Mermaids book, DC Comics’ rather unfortunate I Am Not Starfire book, the
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On the latest installment of Sit DOWN Sunday (hosted on Patrick Thomas Parnell’s YouTube channel Riot Press Productions), The Splintering founder Blake Worrell got another chance to discuss recent comic book news with Parnell, The Shepherd creator Dr. Andrea Molinari, Red Valkyrie YouTube host Shae the Red, and Graveyard Shift co-creator Jon Malin. This week, we discussed the latest developments
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