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Joe M. Sonntag’s “Reaper Destroyer” Reaps Massive Cash on Indiegogo

He reaps and destroys! Or maybe he destroys reapers! Either way, he’s well financed. Comic creator Joe M. Sonntag recently launched a crowdfunding campaign for Reaper Destroyer issue 1, a 32+ page, supernatural adventure comic book. The project funded in minutes, and the campaign has raised more than $30 thousand at the time of this writing. Here’s the creative team

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Crowdfunding Review: “Starblades” (Kyle Ritter, ALL CAPS Comics)

As a new contributor to The Splintering, my first order of business is to thank them for giving me the opportunity to review the greatest entertainment medium in my opinion, comic books. I’ve collected comics for over 47 years and I’ve published comics for 6 years. It’s a long-time passion of mine (some might say obsession, and I can’t dispute

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Ethan Van Sciver’s “CyberFrog 2: Rekt Planet” Closes Big – Raises $1.2 Million

The crowdfunding campaign for the massively successful CyberFrog 2: Rekt Planet came to a close on Thursday, raising more than $1.2 million from nearly 12 thousand backers.* CyberFrog is the brainchild of renowned comic book creator, ALL CAPS COMICS founder and YouTube/Odysee host Ethan Van Sciver. With Rekt Planet, he is once again joined by colorist phenom Kyle Ritter (Starblades)

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Ethan Van Sciver’s “Reignbow the Brute” Reigns Supreme on Indiegogo

On Sunday, renowned comic book artist and Cyberfrog creator Ethan Van Sciver launched the long-awaited crowdfunding campaign for Reignbow the Brute, a 48-page graphic novel that is a “high-testosterone” parody of girls’ toy franchises from the 1980s. Much like Van Sciver’s other crowdfunded projects, Reignbow the Brute is already a runaway success story, raising well more than $200k in the

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Ethan Van Sciver’s “Cyberfrog 2: Rekt Planet” Crosses $1 Million Milestone

Earlier this week, the crowdfunding campaign for Cyberfrog 2: Rekt Planet passed the incredible “Seven Figures, Bitch!” (Government name: “Seven Figures, Motherfucker!“) threshold, raising more than $1.01 million at the time of this writing. Written and illustrated by Ethan Van Sciver and featuring colors by Kyle Ritter, Rekt Planet is the 48-page sequel to the massively successful Cyberfrog: Bloodhoney. The Rekt Planet project

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ALL CAPS COMICS’ “Cyberfrog: Rekt Planet” Annihilates More Crowdfunding Records

Overnight, the crowdfunding period for ALL CAPS COMICS’ Cyberfrog: Rekt Planet came to a close, raising a total of  $852,817.* Not only is that girthy stack of green, but it’s also a new record for the total amount raised by a single comic book campaign on Indiegogo, surpassing 2019’s Earthworm Jim: Launch the Cow. Can I get a “Whoa, Nelly!?”

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Splatto Comics’ “Jawbreakers: Grand Bizarre” surpasses $50k on Indiegogo

Last week, Splatto Comics founder and independent comic book creator Richard C. Meyer launched the latest crowdfunding campaign for Jawbreakers: Grand Bizarre, the latest installment in his highly successful superhero action series. Written by Meyer and featuring illustrations by Aaron Alfeche and colors by Color Channel, Grand Bizarre serves as an origin story for the Jawbreakers superhero team. Here’s the

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Ethan Van Sciver’s “Cyberfrog: Rekt Planet” comic raises $250k and counting just hours after launch

On 15 March, renowned comic book creator and YouTube personality Ethan Van Sciver launched a crowdfunding campaign for Cyberfrog: Rekt Planet via Indiegogo. At the time of this writing, the campaign has already raised more than $265 thousand, which is record-setting pace for a crowdfunded comic. Of course, it’s also “Six figures, bitch!” twice over. Written and illustrated by Van

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Ethan Van Sciver launches “Cyberfrog: Unfrogettable Tales” on Indiegogo… it’s a pun, bitch

Over the weekend, independent comic book creator and self-proclaimed human sunbeam Ethan Van Sciver launched a crowdfunding campaign for Cyberfrog: Unfrogettable Tales, a remastered reprint of both of the rare Hall of Heroes Cyberfrog books. At the time of this writing, the project is well-beyond funded, having already raised nearly $40 thousand. Here’s the summary of the project taken from

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“The Expendables Go to Hell” graphic novel hits Six Figures, Bitch!

Over the weekend, the crowdfunding campaign for The Expendables Go to Hell crossed the blessed “Six figures, bitch!” threshold, raising more than $107 thousand at the time of this writing. The book was an overnight crowdfunding success, well surpassing its initial fundraising goal right out of the gate. In addition to hitting the $100k benchmark, project lead Richard C. Meyer

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One more chance to get Ethan Van Sciver’s “Cyberfrog: Bloodhoney”

Overnight, renowned comic book creator and YouTube talk show host Ethan Van Sciver launched the “2nd Chance Cyberfrog” crowdfunding campaign (which is oddly named as this is the fifth time that Cyberfrog: Bloodhoney has been available on Indiegogo in one form or another). This latest campaign is intended to sell through the very last copies of Bloodhoney and the supplementary

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Did Marvel rip off Kyle Ritter’s indie comic project “Starblades”?

As part of their Marvel Future Fight mobile game, Marvel recently announced a new all-Asian superhero team: the Warriors of the Sky. The characters include War Tiger from Thailand, Blue Dragon from Vietnam, Sun Bird from Malaysia. and Shadow Shell from Taiwan, all of whom are identifiable with color-coded designs and animal “totems”. Looks fine, right? Well, as Twitter user

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Ethan Van Sciver’s cover for “Jawbreakers: GØD-K1NG” is revealed!

If you’ve been waiting for the Jawbreakers: GØD-K1NG* cover reveal before deciding to back Richard C. Meyer’s latest graphic novel, the wait is finally over. Renowned comic book artist Ethan Van Sciver (Cyberfrog) has once again partnered with phenom colorist Kyle Ritter (Starblades) to bring Meyer’s superhero team to life, and the beautiful results are below for you to behold!

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Kyle Ritter’s sci-fi comic “Starblades” hits “Six Figures, Bitch!”

On Friday, the crowdfunding campaign for Kyle Ritter’s sci-fi graphic novel Starblades crossed the coveted “Six Figures, bitch!” threshold, raising more than $100 thousand with only hours remaining in the crowdfunding period. This is an incredible total for Ritter, as Starblades is his very first creator-owned project. He’s already made quite a name for himself as a colorist on other

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Kyle Ritter’s sci-fi comic “Starblades” gets a slick animated trailer

Over the weekend, independent comic book creator Kyle Ritter unveiled a short teaser trailer to promote his upcoming sci-fi project Starblades. That in itself may not be particularly newsworthy, but holy crap, watch this thing and let us know in the comments if it doesn’t look to you as though Starblades is just begging for an animated adaptation. The first

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“Vampirella #1” Cyberfrog variant available now on Indiegogo

On Friday night, renowned comic book artist Ethan Van Sciver launched a crowdfunding campaign for a variant edition of Vampirella #1 featuring Van Sciver’s own Cyberfrog character alongside Vampi herself. Here’s the sales pitch from Van Sciver: I’m ETHAN VAN SCIVER.  I’ve worked for 26 years for Hall of Heroes, Harris Comics, Marvel Comics and most notably DC Comics, creating

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Kyle Ritter’s sci-fi fantasy graphic novel “StarBlades” launches to instant success on Indiegogo

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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Kyle Ritter reveals full roster for upcoming “Starblades” graphic novel; Indiegogo campaign delayed to 22 July

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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The first 5 pages of Kyle Ritter’s “Starblades” are breathtaking

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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Ethan Van Sciver reveals details for upcoming “Cyberfrog” trading card set

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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“Cyberfrog” variant covers of “Vampirella Vs. Re-Animator” are printing money

Over the weekend, comic book creator Ethan Van Sciver (Green Lantern) launched a unique crowdfunding campaign for a variant cover edition of Vampirella Vs. Re-Animator #1 featuring EVS’s own Cyberfrog and Salamandroid characters. The campaign has already producing quite a bit of green for Van Sciver, having raised well more than one thousand percent of its original goal for a

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Kyle Ritter teases new comic “Starblades”; launching this summer on Indiegogo

Comic book creator Kyle Ritter has been showing off his colorist talents for about a year now on Ethan Van Sciver’s Cyberfrog: Blood Honey, but now he’s ready to test his skills as a line artist, too. This summer, Ritter plans to launch a crowdfunding campaign on Indiegogo for a new sci-fi graphic novel titled Starblades. For the moment, Ritter

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The final page of “Cyberfrog: Blood Honey” is due today; will Ethan Van Sciver meet the deadline?

In an effort to speed up completion of his Cyberfrog: Blood Honey graphic novel, writer/artist Ethan Van Sciver hired an editor who put a hard deadline of 30 April (today) for Van Sciver’s work on the 88-page book to be finished.* As of today, Van Sciver is to turn over the final pages of Blood Honey so that they can

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Gat Hanzo teases “Vestige”, an upcoming collaboration with Donal DeLay and Kyle Ritter

Writer Gat Hanzo is ready to throw his hat into the indie comic book scene with Vestige, an all-new fantasy/action project featuring illustrations by Donal DeLay (Brutas the Badass) and colors by Kyle Ritter (Cyberfrog: Blood Honey). There’s yet to be a full reveal of Vestige, but here’s a plot synopsis of what we know so far. “Mixing historical accuracy

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After “Cyberfrog: Blood Honey” – Ethan Van Sciver details the future of All Caps Comics

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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Jon Malin & Kyle Ritter variant cover revealed for “Tales from the Stacks”

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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Crowdfunding campaign for horror anthology “Tales from the Stacks” fully funded in 3 days

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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Ethan Van Sciver launches online store; Cyberfrog miniature figurine now available for pre-orders

This week, comic artist and Cyberfrog creator Ethan Van Sciver launched an online collectibles store. The inaugural item? A Cyberfrog miniature figurine, what else? Scheduled to ship in December 2018, the resin Cyberfrog figurine will measure 35mm tall and is ready to assemble and paint (yes, you will paint it yourself like a Warhammer figurine). It also comes with a

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