To coincide with the solar eclipse this past Monday, Braly Image Group launched a crowdfunding campaign for Nexus: Scourge, a standalone sci-fi/superhero adventure. Written by Mike Baron (Nexus, The Punisher, The Flash) and featuring illustrations by Kelsey Shannon (Batman Adventures, Jawbreakers, Norah’s Saga), Nexus: Scourge marks the return of the Nexus character from one of his original creators (that’d be
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Maybe not “kaiju-sized,” but still really big… Veteran comic book writer Mike Baron recently launched a crowdfunding campaign for Florida Man Vs. Hogzilla, a 72-page comedy graphic novel. The project is already fully funded, having collectively raised more than $15 thousand across three crowdfunding platforms (Fund My Comic, Indiegogo and Kickstarter). Written by Baron and featuring illustrations by Matthew Weldon,
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Over the weekend, Mike Baron launched a crowdfunding campaign for Bronze Star, a 48-page “weird western” graphic novel. The project is already a rootin’, tootin’ success (kill me), having raised more than $17 thousand between all crowdfunding platforms at the time of this writing. Written and created by Mike Baron and featuring illustrations by by Pat Broderick, Bronze Star is
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Braly Image Group recently launched a crowdfunding campaign for Private American, a 66+ page graphic novel set against the current US border crisis. The project is fully funded, having raised nearly $38 thousand at the time of this writing and still available in-demand.* Written by Mike Baron (The Punisher, Nexus, Thin Blue Line) and featuring illustrations by Richard Bonk (Superman,
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On Tuesday, independent comic book creator Justin Belmont (is that your real name, vampire killer?) launched a crowdfunding campaign for Smokes the Fox issue 1 (28+ pages) along with Weaponized Werewolf issue 0 (16+ pages). Written by Mike Baron (Thin Blue Line, The Punisher) and featuring illustrations by Lee Oaks (Thunder Monkey), Barry McClain (Q-Ball), Rodney Ramos (Punisher War Journal),
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Double-fisting, incoming! On Monday, celebrated comic book creator and Compass Comics founder Graham Nolan launched a crowdfunding campaign for Giant-Size Two-Fisted Manly Tales, a 100+ page anthology book featuring the work of over a dozen veteran comic book creators, including those listed below: Writers: Chuck Dixon, Mike Baron, Beau Smith & Tim Rozon, Kevin Greviouix, and Graham Nolan Artists: Michael
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On Monday, celebrated comic book creator and one-time Punisher writer Mike Baron responded to the recent changes Marvel Comics has made with their gun-toting vigilante character the Punisher, and vehemently defended the use of the Punisher’s skull logo by military and police officers. According to Baron: “I am proud when the police and military use the Punisher as their symbol.
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On Friday, Blue Line Comics launched a crowdfunding campaign for Thin Blue Line, a 56-page, fictional story inspired by recent, real-world events. Written by Mike Baron (The Punisher) and featuring illustrations by Joseph Arnold and Jeff Slemons, Thin Blue Line tells a story that examines “human fallibility on every level.” Here’s the official breakdown of Thin Blue Line from the
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Today we’re unboxing our Indiegogo-exclusive copy of Impossible Stars and Nexus: Triplets from Splatto Comics. Written by Richard C. Meyer (Jawbreakers, Iron Sights) and Chuck Dixon (Batman) and featuring artwork by Renzo Rodriguez, Impossible Stars is set approximately two hundred years in the future, and mankind has hit an extra-terrestrial snag in our plans to begin interstellar travel. The bonus
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On Tuesday, Allegiance Arts Entertainment launched a crowdfunding campaign for The Saints, an all-new 52+ page graphic novel written by Mike Baron and illustrated by Christian Rosado. Like previous Allegiance Arts projects, The Saints will likely find a home on WalMart store shelves as individual issues, but the Indiegogo campaign will fund the graphic novel “premiere” edition. At the time
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Break the Alien Quarantine! Earlier this week, Splatto Comics launched a crowdfunding campaign for Impossible Stars, an all-new sci-fi graphic novel set in the same timeline as Desolation Wave (a back-up story in Jawbreakers: GØD-K1NG). Written by Richard C. Meyer (Jawbreakers, Iron Sights) and Chuck Dixon (Batman) and featuring artwork by Renzo Rodriguez, Impossible Stars is set approximately two hundred years
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Earlier this week, the crowdfunding campaign for Florida Man hit its initial goal with 40 days remaining in the campaign at the time of this writing. The project got a funding boost after one of the creators and all discussion of the book were banned by Reddit for one of the creators being linked to Bleeding Fool, a website that
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Late last week, Cautionary Comics launched a crowdfunding campaign for Offworlder – The Protectors of Sa’Ra. Written by Mike Baron and featuring artwork by Jordi Armengol, Offworlder is a 48-page, sci-fi/fantasy graphic novel about an out-of-time Scottish warrior who is thrown into an intergalactic battle…. uh, sounds pretty much like John Carter of Mars in a kilt. Here’s a better
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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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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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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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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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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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On Wednesday, Cautionary Comics revealed a teaser image of Offworlder, a new comic written by Mike Baron and Ben Henderson and featuring artwork by Jordi Armengol. Described as a cosmic fantasy following the adventures of out-of-time barbarian, Offworlder is set to launch sometime in 2019. Let us know what you think of the reveal below! Thanks for reading! Please consider
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