Crowdfunding Watch: The New Year’s Day Edition
They say absence makes the heart grow fonder, so I am here to ponder if that is true? Did you miss these missives? I was torn away from the comfort of my computer and...
Spike Trotman on Drip – Kickstarter’s Answer to Patreon
A couple weeks ago, Kickstarter unveiled their relaunching of Drip, what you might call a crowdfunding subscription service or Kickstarter's version of Patreon. The general idea with this category of crowdfunding is to fund...
Dynamite Issues Red Sonja Amanda Conner Statue
Dynamite has announced a new Red Sonja statue, sculpted to match Amanda Conner's cover artwork for Red Sonja: The Black Tower #1, which will be funded by Kickstarter.
Official PR follows:
Dynamite Entertainment is pleased to announce the...
INTERVIEW: BLACK co-creator Kwanza Osayjefo talks the comic’s creative past, spin-off present, and movie...
Kwanza Osayjefo's BLACK , the comic he co-created with Tim Smith 3, is a concept that has succeeded at every possible turn. First, it exploded its Kickstarter campaign--blowing past its original goal of $29,999 to...
Comics From Norway – Jelly Vampire (Warning: Contains Cats and Unicorns)
Norwegian cartoonist Ida Neverdahl is the subject of a Kickstarter this week as Emet Comics looks to fund Jelly Vampire, a collection of Neverdahl's comics about 13-year old Lulu Lulusen. And if ever someone was...
Lovecraft’s ReAnimator Now a Board Game
Dynamite's getting into the gaming industry. They've partnered with Lynnvaner Studios for the board game "ReAnimator" based on the original H.P. Lovecraft story and Dynamite's ReAnimator comic from 2015. The game is currently being funded on...
IDW’s Woodworks Imprint Debuts with Full Bleed HC Magazine
We knew Dirk Wood was up to something in IDW's new Portland office, but until today we weren't sure what it was. And it's ambitious. Full Bleed is a 200 page hardcover quarterly magazine. Subtitled...
A Swedish Manga About Two Kittens
Mjau! is a Swedish mange about two kittens written and drawn by Natalia Batiste. There's a Kickstarter going on to fund the English language edition of it. It's kid-friendly and we've got some preview...
Amazing Women in Comics: Femme Magnifique
By Rachel Maurer
Femme Magnifique is more than just a title; the phrase itself inspired and eventually blossomed into a 50-story anthology, lovingly put together by over 100 feminist creators and Kickstarted into reality by...
Interview – Maggie Umber on her Latest Graphic Novel, Owls, Research & Colours
Minnesota-based publisher 2dcloud has launched it’s quarterly crowdfunding campaign for it’s 2017 spring collection. 2dcloud has been using crowdfunding as a mechanism for pre-orders and to create curated book bundles. 2dcloud is a publisher...
Micro-Press News: Ley Lines 2017 Line-up & INK BRICK Crowdfunding Campaign
Busy news day for alternative comics, two micro-press comics publisher announced their plans for 2017.
First up, Czap Books and Grindstone comics revealed the 2017 line-up of their joint publishing experiment Ley Lines. Ley Lines...
Review: You’ll want to visit ‘The Obscure Cities’
The second English language volume in French/Belgian team Benoit Peeters and François Schuiten's The Obscure Cities series, this was recently revived through a Kickstarter campaign by Alaxis Press, but IDW has partnered with them to complete the...
