After teasing the project for months, comic book creator Kyle Ritter has finally launched the crowdfunding campaign for his sci-fi/fantasy epic StarBlades. The project is already an instant success, having raised more than 300% of its original goal for a total of nearly $20 thousand at the time of this writing. Ritter has made quite a name for himself as
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Late last week, the Indiegogo campaign for Kyrie: The Curse of the Macedonian Scroll ended successfully, raising 131% of its original goal. Starting its life as a webcomic, Kyrie is a historical adventure book written an illustrated by Matt Crotts. Here’s a breakdown of the project taken from the campaign page. It’s Indiana Jones in Ancient Rome! Get ready for
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In June, comic book creator Brenden Swan launched an Indiegogo campaign for Strangelove: I Want to be Chrome, an all-new one-shot graphic novel written and illustrated by Swan himself. We got a chance to have a friendly back and forth with Swan, who was gracious enough to respond to our questions on the Strangelove project.* As always, the answers below
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The Jawbreakers: GØD-K1NG hype train keeps on chuggin’, having already raised more than $100 thousand with 19 days left for the crowdfunding campaign. Earlier today, Jawbreakers creator Richard C. Meyer sweetened his sales pitch by revealing the artwork for the pinup poster included with every copy of GØD-K1NG sold. Illustrated by “Sashi”, the pinup features the return of Xaxi, a
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Independent comic book creator Lewis Michael (Chromosome 96) has been teasing an upcoming project scheduled to launch on Indiegogo this August. Simply titled Hunt, the book is a black and white trek through prehistory written by Michael, illustrated by Ang Hor Kheng, and presented in a perfect-bound, 8″ X 11″ format. And get this: the story will be told only
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During San Diego Comic Con, Alterna Comics revealed that The Mighty Mascots will be the first book published in the “Alterna Giants” line, a new line of 80+ page books priced at just $4.99. All Alterna Giants will collect previously-released issues similar to a trade paperback, and (according to Alterna) will contain “complete arcs, newsprint interiors, new cover art, and
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The crowdfunding campaign for Jawbreakers – GØD-K1NG cracked the blessed six-figure mark earlier today, with the graphic novel project having raised $100,242 at the time of this writing. Not only is that an impressive total for the first nine days, but it also unlocks the stretch goal for cover art by renowned comic book artist Ethan Van Sciver (Cyberfrog: Blood
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Last night, comic book artist Jon Malin launched a crowdfunding campaign for Graveyard Shift Volume II, and the project is already an instant success having raised more than $32 thousand at the time of this writing. Illustrated by Malin (Jawbreakers: Lost Souls) and written by Mark Poulton (The Savage Hawkman), Graveyard Shift is a superhero tale combining horror and science
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In the most recent backer update for Necromancer: Tombstone Blues, project creator Jakob Morris announced that the cyberpunk/noire graphic novel is going to press very soon, and as a result, the in-demand store is going to close in very short order. In the same update, Morris revealed some new artwork by Necromancer‘s illustrator, Ibai Canales, which you can see below.
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Over the weekend, comic book writer Blake Northcott launched a crowdfunding campaign for Everglade Angels, a new 48-page graphic novel for mature audiences only. Written by Scott Lobdell and featuring artwork by Roc Upchurch, Everglade Angels is a “survival horror” tale surrounding a murder mystery in the Florida Everglades. Here’s a summary of the Everglade Angels taken from the Kickstarter
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Independent comic book creator Kyle Ritter (Cyberfrog: Blood Honey) recently announced that the crowdfunding campaign for his upcoming Starblades graphic novel has been slightly delayed from 18 July to 22 July, allowing Ritter a bit more time to polish the project a bit before launching the Indiegogo campaign. The good news, however, is that Ritter has finally revealed the names
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Overnight, the crowdfunding campaign for Earthworm Jim: Launch the Cow ended as a massive success, raising $706,951 – surpassing Icarus and the Sun to set a new record for a comic book campaign on Indiegogo. At those numbers, the Launch the Cow project met dozens of stretch goals, including a poster, patch, trading cards, gilded pages, cover upgrades, extra pages
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Comic book creator Jon Malin has finally revealed the first look at Graveyard Shift: Volume II” the follow-up to the first Graveyard Shift which was successfully crowdfunded via Indiegogo in 2018. Earlier this week, Malin showcased a work-in-progress of Volume II‘s first page on his YouTube channel. Volume II picks up right where the first Graveyard Shift graphic novel left
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On Thursday, the crowdfunding campaign for Iron Skies ended successfully, raising 143% of its original goal for a total of more than $14 thousand. Noice. Iron Skies is a steampunk/fantasy book written by Kristopher Rue, illustrated by Renan Shody and Victor Cappola and featuring colors by Dijjo Lima and letters by Eric Weathers. Disappointed that you missed out on the
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Independent comic book publisher Alterna Comics announced today that four more of its books are going back to print. Both Midnight Mystery #2 and The XII #3 will be receiving second printings, while The XII #1 and Trespasser #3 will be going back for a third printing, a milestone unheard of just a year ago. As noted in the announcement,
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The long-awaited follow-up to Jawbreakers – Lost Souls is now funding via Indiegogo, and it was fully funded in the first hour. Jawbreakers – GØD-K1NG is the 100-page graphic novel featuring the culmination of the events which began in the smash hit Lost Souls. Here’s how Jawbreakers creator Richard C. Meyer breaks down the GØD-K1NG project. JAWBREAKERS: GØD-K1NG contains four
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Over the weekend, Mandy Summers launched a crowdfunding campaign for Wart the Wizard, a 90-page graphic novel intended for readers of all ages. Written and illustrated by Summers, Wart the Wizard is a fantasy/comedy tale inspired by fantasy/RPG video games such as King’s Quest and World of Warcraft. Here’s a plot summary taken from the Indiegogo campaign page: Wart The
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If you still need yet another example of how awful “news” organizations are at doing their jobs, look no further than today’s comic book coverage on CNN, who apparently believes that Marvel must publish every comic out there without a bat in the logo. As we (accurately) reported yesterday, Image Comics has ended the long-running series The Walking Dead this
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After 16 years, Robert Kirkman’s zombie horror series The Walking Dead ended this week. Kirkman hinted on social media that issue number 193 would be a big one, and that certainly turned out to be the case. Kirkman penned a farewell message at the end of this week’s issue, confirming the series’ finality. It’s certainly the end of an era,
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On Monday, independent comics publisher Good Dog Press launched a crowdfunding campaign for The Unbreathable Skunk Girl: No Squirrel’s Allowed, a sexy, tongue-in-cheek action/comedy filled with “violence, gunfire, smoking, drinking, and oh my lorrrd BEAUTIFUL women!” Written and illustrated by Manuel “Manny” Correia, The Unbreathable Skunk Girl is a girthy 80-page graphic novel that isn’t exactly intended for younger children, if you haven’t
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The Indiegogo campaign for Mike S. Miller’s Lonestar: Soul of the Soldier recently ended successfully, raising over $150 thousand. It’s no wonder then that fraudsters would try to capitalize on Miller’s good fortune. Yesterday, “Musky Elon” pointed out on social media that a fraudulent Lonestar: Soul of the Soldier page had been created by one “Tevin Adam” on the crowdfunding
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Late last week, comic creator Vinnie Tartamella (Through the Woods) launched a crowdfunding campaign for the first issue of City of Venus: Dead City, a 28-page sci-fi comic set in a post-apocalyptic future. City of Venus is written, illustrated, colored, lettered all by Tartamella himself, who has worked as a cover artist for Image Comics, former lead designer of McFarlane
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The crowdfunding campaign for Iron Skies has been live for weeks, and up until last night, it has failed to catch fire, at least as far as attracting cash is concerned. The project has raised over $2 thousand dollars in the past 24 hours after Iron Skies creator Kristopher Rue appeared on Ethan Van Sciver’s Comic Artist Pro Secrets YouTube
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Earlier this month, independent comic book creator Brenden Swan launched a crowdfunding campaign for Strangelove: I Want to be Chrome via Indiegogo. The project recently achieved its funding goal, putting it one big step closer to becoming a reality. Strangelove is a 40-page one-shot book written and illustrated by Brenden Swan, who warns that the story draws from sci-fi and
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The biggest comic of July 2019 may not be Batman, Spider-Man, or The Walking Dead, it could very well be Vampirella. Dynamite Comics has announced that their upcoming Vampirella #1 is the company’s best-selling debut of all-time, with the initial print run totaling more than 130,000 copies. That also makes it the best-selling Vampirella book in the character’s 50-year history.
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Earlier this week, the crowdfunding campaign for Mike S. Miller’s Lonestar: Soul of the Soldier ended successfully, raising 15,243% of its original goal for a total of over $150 thousand dollars. Six figures, bit young lady! Written and illustrated by Miller, Lonestar is a superhero action/adventure featuring a main character designed as a “star-spangled” hero in the same vein as
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Earlier this week, independent comic book creator Wyatt Holliday launched a crowdfunding campaign for Ardanna #0, a 22-page, full color comic intended as the starting point of a four-issue arc, and possibly even the beginning of an ongoing series if the project is successful enough. Written by Wyatt Holliday and featuring artwork by D. Flores, colors by B. Salaberry and
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Comic book creator Kyle Ritter (Cyberfrog: Blood Honey) is inching ever closer to launching a crowdfunding campaign for his new sci-fi graphic novel, Starblades. After dropping teaser images for months, Ritter has now started dropping artwork of fully colored pages, and it looks like comic art aficionados have quite a bit to look forward to. Ritter intends to launch the
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Late last week, Cautionary Comics launched a crowdfunding campaign for Offworlder – The Protectors of Sa’Ra. Written by Mike Baron and featuring artwork by Jordi Armengol, Offworlder is a 48-page, sci-fi/fantasy graphic novel about an out-of-time Scottish warrior who is thrown into an intergalactic battle…. uh, sounds pretty much like John Carter of Mars in a kilt. Here’s a better
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Last week, renowned comic book artist and Cyberfrog creator Ethan Van Sciver revealed several details for an upcoming trading card set based on his cybernetic amphibian. The set is humbly named the Cyberfrog Deluxe Ultra Premium Trading Card Set. The set itself is made up of 18 base cards, 6 line art cards, puzzle cards, and 6 throwback cards featuring
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