No, it’s not like Pixels… actually it is, but only kind of… On Monday, 9 Lives Comics launched a crowdfunding campaign for Axcend: Level Up, an expanded and revamped version of Shane Davis’s creator-owned comic originally published by Image in 2015. The project is already fully funded, having raised roughly $80 thousand at the time of this writing between both
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Alternatively: “Rex Wrecks Your Wallet” On Sunday, 9 Lives Comics launched an Indiegogo campaign for Inglorious Rex Volume 2, the follow-up to the first Inglorious Rex book that was successfully crowdfunded in 2021. The project is already a kaiju-sized success, having raised nearly $120 thousand at the time of this writing. Written by Shane Davis and Yanzi Lin, Inglorious Rex
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Today we’ll be reviewing the crowdfunded comic book campaign Inglorious Rex by Shane Davis. Is it a knock-out of a book?
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Overnight, renowned comic book creator Shane Davis shut down the in-demand store for Inglorious Rex, but not before crossing the impressive $300 thousand threshold. Originally launched on Indiegogo in September 2021, the Inglorious Rex sales rallied in the final 48 hours, raising an additional $20k before the final bell. With that $300k total, Inglorious Rex more than doubled Davis’ previous
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Little girl, big adventure. Cats in space! Selling a ‘cat book’ to a predominantly male audience was a tough sale. Even I didn’t get Starlight Cats: Merlion Rising for myself. I thought that my then 8-year-old daughter would LOVE the book, that it was going to be “CUTE”! The lead character, Rebecca, was about my daughter’s age, and she loves
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Over the weekend, veteran comic book creative team Shane Davis and Yanzi Lin launched a crowdfunding campaign for Inglorious Rex Volume One, an all-new, 48-page, action/sci-fi graphic novel. The project is already a remarkable success, having raised more than $150 thousand in its first few days. Co-written by Davis and Lin (Starlight Cats) and featuring pencils by Davis, inks by
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Over the weekend, the crowdfunding campaign for sci-fi adventure comic Starlight Cats: Merlion Rising crossed the blessed “six figures, bitc young lady (kids’ book) threshold, raising more than $100k from over 1,300 backers. Now that the campaign has reached the six figures milestone, every backer will receive a bonus “hang in there, kitty” poster by Billy Bacsko. Keen. But what
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Comic book artist Shane Davis (Action Comics) has just released the first story trailer for his upcoming independent project Starlight Cats: Merlion Rising. Co-written by Davis’ wife Yanzi Lin, Starlight Cats is an all-ages sci-fi adventure featuring a super-powered “committeh of kittehs.” What are you waiting for? Watch the trailer for yourself below, then sign up for email updates at
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The Splintering 