According to independent comics publisher Cautionary Comics, the crowdfunding campaign for Offworlder is scheduled to launch Friday, 29 March. Offworlder is described as a cosmic fantasy graphic novel about an out-of-time barbarian a written by Mike Baron and Ben Henderson and featuring artwork by Jordi Armengol. Here’s a plot synopsis from Cautionary Comics founder Ben Henderson: “Seventh century Scotland. Henry
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Alterna Comics has announced that the entire 4-issue mini-series will be going back to print. That means a second print for issues two, three and four, and an impressive third print for issue one, as the first issue of Blood Realm is the only Alterna comic to previously receive a third printing. Tinseltown is written by David Lucarelli and illustrated
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The first crowdfunding campaign for Samurai and Dinosaurs failed to catch fire on Indiegogo earlier this year. Not one to let this setback get him down, Samurai and Dinosaurs creator Mike Murphy aims to re-launch the project on Friday, 1 March, this time with new perks, backing tiers and stretch goals intended to push the book over the funding goal
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On Tuesday, The Meg artist Mike S. Miller announced a new cover option for the book via the project’s Indiegogo page. This new cover was initially planned as the original cover art, but due to a bizarre licensing hangup, Miller temporarily lost the rights to the artwork. Now that he has the rights back, Miller has added new options to
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Writer/artist Josh Howard has been going hard in the paint promoting the follow-up to T-Bird & Throttle on social media and sharing tons of artwork from the second issue. The first issue of T-Bird & Throttle was successfully crowdfunded on Indiegogo last year, and issue 2 should similarly be hitting Indiegogo soon, though there’s no set date. If you’d like
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On Sunday, the crowdfunding campaign for issue 3 of indie horror series Something Real came to a successful end, raising 120% of its goal for a total of over $4 thousand. Inspired by such supernatural horror stories as A Nightmare on Elm Street, Something Real is written by Joey Turnage and features illustrations by Ian J. Miller and colors by
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Over the weekend, a crowdfunding campaign for Longharbor, a 70+ page “Lovecraftian” graphic novel written and illustrated by Alejandro Mirabal launched on Indiegogo. Formerly an archeological diver, Mirabal is also an experienced concept artist having worked on CD Projekt’s GWENT card and several Hollywood films. What’s the book about? Here is a plot summary taken from the Longharbor Indiegogo page:
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Over the weekend, Cautionary Comics founder Ben Henderson teased The Wraith, an upcoming book featuring the villain from Cautionary’s Offworlder series. Here’s how Henderson pitches the project. THE WRAITH What would you do to save your Family? Seminol Police Officer Patwin Gunn sets out on a seemingly hopeless quest to find the Supernatural Aztec Diety IMAGOG in order to save
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The Ferryman was a crowdfunding success in 2018, and now the book’s creator, Sean Campbell, has been showing off some some work-in-progress pages from the next installment of the Ferryman story featuring artwork by Dennis Tirona. You can check out the teaser images below, or read our coverage of last year’s Ferryman issue 1 crowdfunding campaign here. Thanks for reading!
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On Wednesday, veteran comic book artist Art Thibert added a limited edition artbook to his Black and White Remastered Indiegogo campaign. Exhaustively titled Oodles of Doodles and Other Stuff Too – the Art of Art Thibert, this hardcover art book comes signed, numbered, and is an Indiegogo exclusive. While there is a backing tier for Oodles of Doodles alone, there
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It seems like those predisposed to hate Jawbreakers take it far more seriously than the creators do. Jawbreakers: Lost Souls was never intended, nor was it advertised as a deep social commentary. It was always pitched as a politics-free, action adventure graphic novel, and that’s exactly what Lost Souls delivers. Lost Souls quite literally “hits the ground running,” as the
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The guys behind Tales from the Stacks certainly know how to keep a hype train moving. After reaching full funding over the weekend, Tales from the Stacks creator Michael Critzer has been trickling out more tantalizing tidbits, including black and white artwork for Jon Malin’s variant cover. On Monday, Critzer finally revealed what the final Malin variant would look like
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Indie comic book writer Nasser Rabadi (Brutas the Badass) is collaborating on a new project with co-writer Joey Turnage (Something Real) and artist Shawn Langley (It Came Out on a Wednesday) titled Trixie Cain: Blood Reaper. For the past few weeks, both Rabadi and Langley have been dropping teaser images for Trixie Cain, which so far appears to be a
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Over the weekend, a crowdfunding campaign for Victor Locke: Demon Noir went live on Indiegogo. Written and illustrated by Nathyn Masters, Demon Noir is a 32-page supernatural horror/thriller akin to Constantine and Blade. Here’s a plot summary taken from the Indiegogo page. “During the reign of David, witchcraft and demonology were outlawed in the land of Israel. While vampire hunters
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After an emergency phone call with the Jawbreakers: Lost Souls printer, project creator Richard C. Mayer has updated the book’s backers with quite a bit of good news. The initial shipments of Lost Souls was reportedly being delivered to some backers in a damaged state. As a result, the printers and fulfillment company are halting all shipments and issuing replacement
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On Thursday, the crowdfunding campaign for horror anthology Tales from the Stacks launched on Indiegogo, and the project is already a resounding success. At the time of this writing, the graphic novel has well surpassed its original funding goal of $4 thousand with nearly two months remaining in the crowdfunding period. Tales from the Stacks is a collaborative project by
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In the latest backer update for Jawbreakers: Lost Souls, project creator Richard C. Meyer has addressed reports of damaged books being received by backers. Meyer indicated that the packaging materials used by the fulfillment company are the biggest culprit, which Meyer claims to resemble a “glorified envelope” made from “recycled cardboard.” The Splintering can confirm that this description is apt,
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Earlier this week, comic book writer/artist Rob Feldman (Cyko KO!) took to social media to tease a potential upcoming project, Dr. Shroud. This book would be a bit of a departure from Feldman’s work on Cyko KO!, which was a family-friendly, fourth-wall breaking superhero miniseries published by Alterna Comics. According to Feldman, Dr. Shroud would feature more mature themes and
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On Friday night, Alterna Comics founder Peter Simeti posted a short video featuring updates on his unfortunate Swatting experience earlier in the week. Simeti noted that the investigation was ongoing, and as a result, the livestream during which the Swatting took place is still set to private so that it could be reviewed as evidence. Simeti also asked that those
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On Thursday, the crowdfunding campaign for horror anthology graphic novel Tales from Beyond the Gate went live on Indiegogo. Here’s a summary of the project taken straight from the Tales from Beyond the Gate Indiegogo page. “Tales From Beyond the Gate, from the mind of artist John Dillard. A Horror Anthology, from a team of up and coming creators, that
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During a YouTube livestream on Wednesday night (now set to private), Alterna Comics founder Peter Simeti’s home was raided by police. According to Simeti, someone impersonating him called the police, gave them Simeti’s address, and claimed to have “stabbed my girlfriend and that I was suicidal.” Nobody was physically harmed, and Simeti noted that the police realized very quickly that
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Alterna Comics recently teased a bit of their upcoming summer lineup including first issues of two new mini-series, Midnight Mystery: City of Ghosts and The Mighty Mascots. All four of these Alterna comics are scheduled to release in June, but until then, you can check out the cover images for the books below. Thanks for reading! Please consider following The
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Michael Critzer (aka Professor Geek) and artist Dave T (aka Geek Owt Lowd) are collaborating on a new horror anthology Tales from the Stacks, featuring three all-new tales of terror in one 40-50 page graphic novel reminiscent of Tales from the Crypt. Here’s a summary of the Tales from the Stacks project.* “A mysterious old librarian welcomes you into the
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The crowdfunding campaign for fantasy tale The Good Knight: Nightmare Realm has seen a massive rally in the past couple of days after The Good Knight writer Crystal McGhee appeared on a livestream hosted by renowned comic creator Ethan Van Sciver. Van Sciver has been given the honorific nickname of “Caesar” by his fans, due in part to his ability
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Earlier this week, comic artist Todd Mulrooney showed off a single page from his upcoming collaboration with Mike Baron for horror anthology Tales from Beyond the Gate (below). ti Clearly part of Mulrooney’s story takes place in modern day, and a note iyat the top of the teaser page reads “Count Rorshok is risen from the grave”, suggesting the involvement
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On Wednesday, the crowdfunding campaign for Demons Volume 2 hit its funding goal on Indiegogo. Not too shabby, having only launched the campaign on 4 February. Demons Volume 2 is a 130-page horror/suspense graphic novel written by Tyler Carpenter and featuring art by Trevis Martinez. Judging by the art, it looks like fans of excessive violence or the supernatural will
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Earlier this week, independent comic writer/artist Gilbert Deltrez (Lair) teased an upcoming project, Pistolera. Planned as a crowdfunded project via Kickstarter, Deltrez describes Pistolera as a revenge western. Unfortunately, not much else is known about the Pistolera project at the moment. For the time being, you can check out the cover for Pistolera below, featuring art by J. L. Jiles
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Billy Tucci’s upcoming graphic novel Zombie Sama is already a crowdfunding success on Kickstarter, having achieved full funding in the first seven hours of the campaign. As of today, the action/horror gore-fest crossed yet another milestone by raising more than $20 thousand. That’s not all of the Zombie Sama news for today. After a girthy dose of badgering inquiring from
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On Monday, new comic book publisher Cautionary Comics announced a new project, Florida Man. While very little is known about the project so far, though Cautionary did release a short plot synopsis, which follows. “Gary Duba’s having a bad day. There’s a snake in his toilet, a rabid possum in the yard, and his girl Crystal’s in jail. With his
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Independent publisher Alterna Comics recently announced that both Midnight Mystery #1 and Blood Realm #3 would be receiving a second print run. With this announcement, all issues of the three-issue miniseries Blood Realm will have received a second printing. A dark fantasy tale that reads a bit like modern myth, Blood Realm has been quite a successful title for Alterna,
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