Welcome back to 80s August, The Splintering’s month-long celebration of the greatest decade since the fall of Atlantis! Today, we’ll be reviewing the crowdfunded comic book Johnny Phantasm 1985 by Patrick Thomas Parnell and Evan Pozios. For those of you not familiar with my crowdfunding review format, I grade a crowdfunding campaign on four distinct categories: Book Content and Quality
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Successfully crowdfunded earlier in 2021, 499 is a collaboration between Richard C Meyer and Per Berg (Narwhal), the coupling of the two affectionately known as “Narzack”. The sci-fi concept is from the mind of Meyer, while the art is done in Narwhal’s unique, cartoony style. The bones and flow of the story were shaped over conversations via email between the two. Between
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A crowdfunding review of Xenozoic by Mark Schultz
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Today marks a thousand days since backers of Zoe Quinn’s Project Tingle received an update on the game. Having raised over $85 thousand from over two thousand backers via Kickstarter, the all-but-canceled full motion video adventure game was originally scheduled to deliver in February 2017, and the last update to backers was sent on 30 August 2018. This is certainly
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A crowfunding review of the art book 101 Drawings by P. Craig Russell
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A review of the crowdfunding campaign Ninety Four by Shelby Robertson
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Given that the Indiegogo campaign for Graham Nolan’s Alien Alamo launched earlier this week, today we’ll be reviewing his most recent crowdfunded comic book, The Chenoo. For those of you not familiar with my review format, I grade a crowdfunding campaign on four distinct categories: Book Content and Quality Communication and Fulfillment Packaging and Shipping Stretch Goals and Bonuses With
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A sexy scary crowdfunding review of the “Sexy Scary Space Pulp” trading card set
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Issue #2 of 47 Furious Tails is now funding on Kickstarter, with add-ons to allow you to get issue #1 as well.
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Review of the crowdfunding campaign Replicator Remastered by Rob Arnold
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Eyrie Magazine by Mike Hoffman is currently funding on Kickstarter
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A review of the crowdfunding campaign Unfrogettable Tales by Ethan Van Sciver.
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Terralympus was available both on Kickstarter and Indiegogo and was billed as a space science fiction graphic novel.
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On Friday, independent comic book creator (and quite possibly the most prolific letterer in indie comics) Eric Weathers launched a crowdfunding campaign for Battle Brick Road: Operation Zephyr. At the time of this writing, the project has already raised more than $13 thousand, smashing its initial funding goal (which it surpassed in the opening minutes of the campaign). Written by
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In 2020, you have the opportunity to do something with a level of ease never before conceived in the history of mankind. The access available to your potential market at a relatively low cost opens the entire world to your grasp!
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Former tattoo artist and aspiring comic book creator Ryan Cardinal is preparing to launch a crowdfunding campaign for KAYAS: a Story of Blood and Stone in May. KAYAS is a 48-page, black and white action/fantasy comic intended as the first part of a massive (over one thousand pages) series filled with “high-impact action, martial arts mayhem, swords, sorcery, monsters and
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Comic book artist Cesar Feliciano (Gods and Soldiers) is partnering with writer Ben Goldsmith and colorist Jasen Smith to launch Chango: the Broken Veil, which is scheduled to begin crowdfunding in May. Feliciano has been dropping quite a few teaser images for the Chango project on social media, which you can check out below. The story appears to have some
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Overnight, the crowdfunding campaign to expand Alterna Comics ended successfully, raising 343% of its original goal for a total of over $8 thousand. With those numbers, Alterna founder Peter Simeti will be able to expand his company’s operations by moving to a much larger storage space (10′ x 20′). Not only will this allow for Alterna to order larger print
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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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The Boogeyman beckons! The sci-fi horror comic series Something Real is all set to crowdfund its third issue. Not familiar with Something Real? We’ll catch you up. Written by Joey Turnage and featuring illustrations by Ian J. Miller and colors by Fredrik Mattsson, Something Real is a tale of terror inspired by Nightmare on Elm Street and other supernatural horror
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On New Year’s Day, the crowdfunding campaign for new the anime-inspired graphic novel Sovereign came to a close, raising nearly 180% of its original goal for a total over $21 thousand. Sovereign is a 48-page science-fiction tale by Andrew Huerta heavily inspired by the anime art of Masami Ōbari and Akira “Akiman” Yasuda. Did you get wasted on New Year’s
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The crowdfunding campaign for Sporkman Goes to Japan ends in a matter of hours, and at the time of this writing, the project has raised just short of half of its funding goal. Friends of the Sporkman creative team, particularly other independent comic book creators, have stepped up to sweeten the deal for those who back the Sporkman campaign. The
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Last week, Alterna Comics founder Peter Simeti launched a Halloween-themed crowdfunding campaign known as AlternWeen.* Designed as a fundraiser to help Alterna expand its distribution channels to new retailers, AlternaWeen offers backers a girthy stack of Alterna comics at a steep discount intended to be given away as Halloween treats. The AlternaWeen campaign quickly met its initial funding goal of
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On Wednesday, Alterna Comics founder Peter Simeti launched the Alternaween crowdfunding campaign on Indiegogo.* Backers who support the Alternaween campaign will be sent bundles of 50 Alterna Comics to be given away as Halloween treats. The comics themselves come in two types of bundles, either an “all-ages” bundle made up of 50 “all ages” and “teen” books, and a horror
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Earlier this week, Josh Howard launched a crowdfunding campaign for his comic book miniseries, T-Bird & Throttle via Indiegogo. T-Bird & Throttle is a 4-issue superhero story with each book expected to be 60 pages in length. This particular crowdfunding campaign is set up specifically to fund issue 2, as Howard already funded issue 1 and a 16-page issue 0,
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On Thursday, longtime comic industry veteran Art Thibert launched an Indiegogo campaign for Black and White – Remastered, a 48-page graphic novel and part one of a two-part mini-series. Art Thibert is a 30-year veteran of the comic book industry having previously worked with Marvel & DC on books including Superman, Batman, and Cable. Thibert wrote the original Black and
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On Wednesday, the crowdfunding campaign for issue 2 of Wolverton: Thief of Impossible Objects ended successfully, raising a total of $10,364. Written by Michael Stark and Terrell T. Garrett and featuring illustrations by Jackie Lewis, Wolverton follows the adventures of gentleman thief, Jack Wolverton. Issue 2 begins just after Jack has successfully pilfered the enchanted Monkey’s Paw against nearly impossible
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The hero who must duck to fit through doorways returns! On Sunday, the crowdfunding campaign for Sporkman Goes to Japan launched on Indiegogo. Written by Eric Berry and Chuck Bonetti, and featuring illustrations by Gifney Richata and colors by Rodrigo Ybañez (Red Ninja Momiji), Sporkman Goes to Japan is a 3-issue mini-series intended for readers of all ages. You can
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This week, Alterna Comics founder Peter Simeti delivered a very emotional State of Alterna Address in which he addressed a litany of personal attacks made against him, responded to criticism of his company’s consumer-centric social media policies, and adamantly denied that firing a contracted letterer for violating those policies. The news wasn’t all driven by drama, however. Simeti also announced
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On Monday, the crowdfunding campaign for Graveyard Shift launched via Indiegogo. The project has already hit the ground running, achieving full funding in just over an hour, raising more than $18 thousand at the time of this writing. Graveyard Shift is a 46-page graphic novel described as “the Universal Monsters meets the X-Men,” and helmed by two comic industry veterans,
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