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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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 Thursday, the creators of the Detective Dead graphic novel shared several work-in-progress pages in the latest Indiegogo backer update.* Take a look at a few (not all) of the pages below. Detective Dead is a 104-page sci-fi noir graphic novel written by Antonio Malpica and featuring artwork by Rob Luper and Carlos Eduardo. Preorders through Indiegogo are still available
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On Thursday, the crowdfunding campaign for the latest issue of Something Real launched on Indiegogo. Not only can you pick up the upcoming third issue, but there are also options to get earlier issues if you need to catch up. But, hold on! What’s Something Real, you ask? Taking inspiration from supernatural horror classics such as Nightmare on Elm Street,
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The second biggest comic crowdfunding campaign of 2018 is now just days away from arriving at backers’ mailboxes. On Tuesday, Jawbreakers creator Richard C. Meyer announced that the Jawbreakers: Lost Souls graphic novel had finally been printed, and that backers should be receiving their copies very shortly. Meyer showed off the final product in the latest backer update, which you
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Last week, aspiring independent comics publisher Mystical Comics launched its first project, The Good Knight: Nightmare Realm #1 on Indiegogo. Intended as the start of a new shared universe, The Good Knight is a black and white, 12-issue maxi-series for mature audiences written by Crystal McGhee and illustrated by Francisco Narde. Here’s a plot summary taken from the Indiegogo campaign page. “Sir
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The Offworlder crowdfunding campaign doesn’t launch until 1 March, but Cautionary Comics founder and Offworlder creator Benjamin Henderson is already whetting our pallets by leaking some juicy details of the upcoming graphic novel, including the first look at one of the book’s villains, the Wraith (below). We covered the initial Offworlder reveal last year, but if you’re late to the
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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 Monday, Doug TenNapel announced via social media that the black and white artwork for Bigfoot Bill, lettering included, is complete, and that the book was ready to be sent to the colorist, Dirk Erik Schultz. Bigfoot Bill is a 64-page, graphic novel which follows a Sasquatch (Bill) who steals the finger of Poseidon to gain control of the Kraken
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Per Berg’s upcoming graphic novel Earthbound: Between Two Breaths on Earth will be published by Cautionary Comics. Earthbound (not to be confused with the Nintendo RPG of a similar name) is a science fiction book influenced by manga and Japanese films. The first Earthbound book was successfully funded via Indiegogo in 2018, when it raised over $10 thousand. Cautionary
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Over the weekend, the crowdfunding campaign for a new graphic novel Samurai and Dinosaurs launched on Indiegogo. Written by Michael Murphy and illustrated by Sergio Calvet, Samurai and Dinosaurs is described as an homage to the work of legendary filmmakers Akira Kurosawa (Seven Samurai) and Ray Harryhausen (Clash Of The Titans). Below is a plot summary taken from the Samurai
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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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Over the weekend, the Indiegogo campaign for comic book writer/artist Mike S. Miller’s The Meg, SixGun Samurai and Deal with the Devil ended successfully, raising 170% of its original goal totaling nearly $35k.* The campaign itself was created to fund the printing of three very different graphic novels totaling over 400 pages of story. That’s a girthy stack of sequential
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In a recent livestream on his YouTube channel, comic book artist and Internet talk show host Ethan Van Sciver announced that the Graveyard Shift series would be published by his new publishing company, ALL CAPS COMICS. (I get the joke, but I hate him for putting his company name in “all caps”) Graveyard Shift is a 46-page graphic novel described
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On Thursday, Little Girl Lethal creator “Slick Jimmy” announced that the Indiegogo campaign for his comic book series featuring sexy new heroine Sugar Lightspeed would be extended by another thirty days. So if you’re just now learning about the project or the initial campaign deadline slipped your mind, you’ve got another month to ogle Miss Lightspeed before choosing to commit.
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The crowdfunding campaign for the new horror comic Lair is already a success, having surpassed its original funding goal with nearly three weeks left to back the project. Lair has also already hit its first stretch goal resulting in signed copies for all physical edition backers. However, this week the Lair team announced new stretch goal bonuses and backer options
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On Wednesday, veteran comic book artist Mike S. Miller (Injustice, Lonestar) launched a new crowdfunding campaign to finance the printing of three different graphic novels: Sixgun Samurai, Deal with the Devil, and The Meg (yep, a comic adaptation of the giant shark novel and later Jason Statham movie). Below are summaries of each project taken from the Indiegogo page. Sixgun
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On Sunday, renowned comic book artist and YouTube talk show host Ethan Van Sciver revealed the final logo design for his upcoming ALL CAPS Comics. ALL CAPS Comics will be the brand under which Van Sciver will publish his upcoming Reignbow Brute and Cyberfrog graphic novels, and the logo is adapted from the avatar on his YouTube channel, Comic Artist
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Over the weekend, the crowdfunding campaign for Earthbound: Between Two Breaths on Earth ended successfully, raising 247% of its original funding goal for a total of over $10 thousand. Not to be confused with the Nintendo RPG series with a similar name, Earthbound is a manga-influenced science fiction graphic novel created by Per Berg (aka Narwhal). This graphic novel covers
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Over the weekend, the crowdfunding campaign for Black Forest ended successfully, raising 120% of its original goal for a total of over $6 thousand. Written by Mike Angerhauser (great name, right?) and featuring artwork by Bettie Brighteyes, Black Forest is a new 46-page fantasy horror comic heavily inspired by German folktales. Below is a short plot summary taken from the
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During a YouTube livestream on his Comic Artist Pro Secrets channel, comic book artist and YouTube talk show host Ethan Van Sciver invited a fellow YouTube personality known publicly as “Cecil” to co-write his upcoming comic, Reignbow Brute (tentative title). Cecil immediately responded, “Done.” Cecil was caught off guard earlier this week after his collaborative project Cash Grab was abandoned
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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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On Monday, the crowdfunding campaign for Josh Howard’s new superhero mini-series T-Bird & Throttle ended successfully, raising 136% of its initial goal for a total of over $20k. That total was also enough to hit a stretch goal in which all physical copy backers would receive trading cards featuring the book’s protagonists. T-Bird & Throttle creator Josh Howard (Dead@17) is
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Over the weekend, the crowdfunding campaign for a new heist comic The Knox launched on Indiegogo. Described as “Coen Brothers film meeting a marriage of Ocean’s 11 and The A-Team“, The Knox is a 60-page graphic novel created by Andrew Anderson and Ron McCain. Here’s a summary of the project taken from the Indiegogo page. “The Knox is about a
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Earlier this week, the crowdfunding campaign for Sovereign, a new graphic novel created by Andrew Huerta, went live on Indiegogo. Sovereign is a science-fiction tale heavily inspired by anime art of Masami Ōbari and Akira “Akiman” Yasuda. The Indiegogo campaign will fund a 48-page book intended as the first in a 3-part series. Below is a plot summary taken from
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October was quite a busy month for independent publisher Alterna Comics and its founder, Peter Simeti. In his (sometimes) weekly video update on all things Alterna, Simeti highlighted all of the ups and downs that made the month of October 2018 so hectic, yet productive at the same time. You can watch Simeti’s full remarks below. October was already off
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Early on Wednesday, the crowdfunding campaign for new comic book series Little Girl Lethal went live on Indiegogo. Inspired by hard-boiled science fiction tales of Blade Runner, Akira and Sin City, Little Girl Lethal is the brainchild of one “Slick Jimmy,” an anonymous Utah resident who has been tinkering away at the project for roughly two decades. Joining Slick Jimmy
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Over the weekend, the crowdfunding campaign for Stitchwalker the Clysm: Book the First launched on Indiegogo. Stitchwalker is a 100-page graphic novel heavily inspired by classic science fiction tales such as those by H.G. Wells and Robert Heinlein. Stitchwalker is the brainchild of writer/artist AE White, a twenty-year veteran of the games industry. Below is an overview of the Stitchwalker
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The Splintering 