Kick-Watcher: Top 3 projects of the week
I have to calm down with my Kickstarter support because I forget which projects I supported. A month passes by and all of a sudden I get hit with NSF fees. I need to...
INTERVIEW: Greg Pak and Jonathan Coulton Team Up on Kickstarter!
Kick up the Kick-Watcher! Today sees the launch of Code Monkey Save World, a new 60-page graphic novel from Greg Pak and Jonathan Coulton, to be brought to life by the artistic team of...
Kick-Watcher: Jason Coffee’s Warhawks and Meatspace 2 & 3
Jason Coffee passed away at the age of 33 leaving behind many sci-fi movie scripts that will never see the light of day. Jason's dying wish was for his voice to be heard, so his...
INTERVIEW: Elaine Lee on self-publishing, Kickstarter and Starstruck
Kickstarter has turned in to my new ESPN. You could have done a March Madness bracket of Kickstarter projects last month, but everyone wins. Elaine Lee and Michael Kaluta's project involves reprinting Harry Palmer's...
On the Scene: MoCCA Fest 2013, Words from the Market-Wise at the ‘Art as...
Holding panels in the wood-panelled bowels of the Armory this year at MoCCA Fest did bring a certain gravitas to the proceedings even if the location was a little difficult to locate for the...
Kickstarter Alert: Elysia, A Gorgeous Project
An exciting new original graphic novel from Serena Obhrai and Jennie Gyllblad following the epic adventures of a not so ordinary girl.
One of the huge benefits to co-organising the Women in Comics Europe community...
Kickwatcher: Uncle Alice Presents and CROOKS & NANNIES
Here's your chance to fund Jim Calafiore's solo project and write or draw a horror story for Alice Cooper. There's even something for the comic book-golfers in this one.
Calafiore is trying to raise $12,000 to print vol.1...
Kick-Watcher: Interview with Vera Greentea on PAPA
Writer/publisher Vera Greentea is shooting for her fifth successful Kickstarter comic book campaign. Since 2010 she has raised $22,601 and this time she's trying to hit her $10,000 goal to fund her latest anthology,...
Kickstarter Success: GOLDTIGER and SYMBIOSIS Funded!
Good news everybody! Today has seen two more Kickstarter projects funded: Guy Adams and Jimmy Broxton's GOLDTIGER, as well as Steven Sanders' SYMBIOSIS. Both projects were featured on The Beat, so we'll take full...
REVIEW: “Do I Really Want My Name Associated with SEX AND VIOLENCE?”
by LTZ
A while back, the Beat’s own Henry Barajas – tireless observer of Kickstarted comics that he is – took some time to preview a crowd-funded book by Justin Gray, Jimmy Palmiotti, Jimmy Broxton,...
Kickwatcher: Guy Adams and Jimmy Broxton Present GOLDTIGER
Here's a real Kickstarter based on a fake artist whose real work has been forged by Guy Adams and Jimmy Broxton, both of whom are real living people and are not figments of fiction,...
Kick-Watcher: The way it should be: Lars Brown’s Penultimate Quest
Kickstarter has been a talking point in the comics industry ever since its conception, most recently and prominently for the fallout between Mark Andrew Smith and the problems he's been having with his Sullivan Sluggers book....
