The crowdfunding campaign for the second issue of The Ferryman is close at hand, and the book’s creator, Sean Campbell, has taken to social media to share a few more work-in-progress pages before the next installment of the Ferryman saga launches 22 March on Indiegogo. The Ferryman is a cyberpunk-inspired sci-fi/noir comic written by Sean Campbell and featuring illustrations by
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Last night, the crowdfunding campaign for Tribulation Force #0 ended successfully, raising 185% of its funding goal. Of course, it should be noted that Tribulation Force creator Bill Raupp was only asking for a humble $500, but a win is a win, right? Here’s a plot summary of the book taken from the Tribulation Force Indiegogo page. “The Bible
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Comic artist and Cyberfrog creator Ethan Van Sciver has made some very big announcements his Comic Artist Pro Secrets YouTube channel regarding the future of the Cyberfrog brand and his independent business venture, All Caps Comics. First and foremost, Van Sciver has hired an editor to assist with the Cyberfrog: Blood Honey project. Part of this editor’s job is to
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Over the weekend, Michael Derrick launched a crowdfunding campaign for The Abductables via Indiegogo. The Abductables is a 52-page one-shot comic book written by Derrick and featuring artwork by Ibai Canales (Iron Sights). Here’s a rundown of project from Derrick. “As a child of the ’90s raised on UFO conspiracy books and one-too-many episodes of The X-Files, the question
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“Hellooooooo, Sactown!” A new graphic novel from Chromosome 21 Comics launched on Indiegogo this week, and if you’re into the headbangers, aliens & babes, Thrashers may just be the ticket for you. Thrashers is a girthy 62-page comic book written by Michael Johnstone and featuring illustrations by Jose Pares and colors by Rodrigo Ybanez. Here’s a plot summary taken from
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This week, the creative team of Brad Ashworth and Tyler Carpenter relaunched their crowdfunding campaign for the ultra-violent Handyman on Indiegogo. Described as “a bloodbath of action and redemption,” Handyman is a 48-page graphic novel featuring mostly black and white artwork highlighted with glorious red blood drips, sprays and splatters. While Handyman failed to achieve its funding goal a few
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Brazilian artist Gabriel Picolo unleashed Icarus and the Sun on Indiegogo this week, and the 60-page graphic novel immediately soared past the $300 thousand (yes, $300,000) mark in 24 hours. That incredible total places Icarus and the Sun within striking distance of Ethan Van Sciver’s Cyberfrog: Blood Honey as the most successful crowdfunded comic book of all time. But what
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YouTube personality Clint Stoker (aka Sweetcast) is making the jump to comic book crowdfunding with Downcast, an all-new graphic novel written by Stoker and illustrated by Ignacio Lazaro and lettered by Eric Weathers. Here’s a plot summary of the book. “When a piece of the sun falls into the hands of underclass siblings, they abuse its power to bring the
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On 8 March, I Played with Fire creator Michael Derrick plans to launch an all-new project on Indiegogo titled The Abductables, a 52-page sci-fi/comedy graphic novel written by Derrick and illustrated by Ibai Canales (Iron Sights). Here’s a quick plot summary of The Abductables from Derrick. “After waking up aboard an alien spaceship, a musclebound amnesiac must battle his
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A short ten days after launch, independent horror book Longharbor has achieved its initial funding goal of $15 thousand. Now that the project is fully funded, Longharbor‘s creator Alejandro Mirabal has announced the project’s first stretch goal: if the Longharbor project reaches $25 thousand, an extra 15 pages of story content will be added to the book.* Longharbor is a
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After coming up short the first time around, the team behind Samurai and Dinosaurs relaunched the project on Indiegogo last week. Described as an homage to the work of legendary filmmakers Akira Kurosawa (Seven Samurai) and Ray Harryhausen (Clash Of The Titans), Samurai and Dinosaurs is a 110-page action/fantasy graphic novel written by Michael Murphy and illustrated by Sergio Calvet.
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Late last week, the crowdfunding campaign for Zombie Sama came to a close, raising more than 200% of its original goal for a total of over $30 thousand dollars. As a result the campaign reached two of its stretch goals, netting backers a slick vinyl sticker and a Zombie Sama trading card. Tucci counted down the final hour of the
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The creators of the indie comedy comic Juanpool: Journey of the Juan have launched a crowdfunding campaign for the first two issues on Indiegogo. To put it plainly, the project is already making loco bucks, having achieved its full funding goal in the first 24 hours! Juanpool is already a cult favorite with a dedicated group of snarky fans, and
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On Friday, the creative team behind Stardust launched a crowdfunding campaign for Trixie Cain: Blood Reaper on Indiegogo.* Written by Nasser Rabadi and featuring illustrations by Shawn Langley, Trixie Cain is a 60-page horror graphic novel intended as the first part of a 3-5 issue miniseries. Here’s a plot summary taken from the Trixie Cain: Blood Reaper Indiegogo page. “Blood
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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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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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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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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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