Crowdfunding

Well speak of the devil, here's a new Kickstarter from the Locust Moon folks that plans to reprint some long lost early work by...

If you liked Coraline, you'll probably like Calliope, a proposed stop motion film that's a collaborations bwteen the world of designer toys (Circus Posterus’ toy designers Kathie Olivas and Brandt Peters), stop-motion innovator and Annie Awards Special Achievement recipient Martin Meunier (Coraline) and filmmaker Jon Schnepp (The Death of “Superman Lives”: What Happened). It's currently being Kickstarted, and if it isn't quite a Halloween thing, it certainly fits in with the mood of the season.

  If you're hankering for something to scratch that Samurai Champloo itch, you should take a look at Stéphane Métayer's Tephlon Funk! - a Hip Hop story told...

This is actually a crowd watch too as Iron Circus is kickstarting a collection of Sophie Campbell's Shadoweyes: Volume One: Sophie Campbell began Shadoweyes...

The wrestling/comics connection has always been strong, from their shared roots in carnival strongmen singlets to former grappler CM Punk's writing comics career. And here's a new one: Muscle Temple, an indie comics anthology spotlighting the squared circle that is currently being crowdfunded. Frank Gibson of Tiny Kitten Teeth is leading the rumble. which will include work by Maddy Flores, Sam Alden, Box Brown, Amanda Meadows, Zac Gorman. According to Gibson:

2016 Flame Con will be held for TWO days this time. And that's not all: they're moving to a bigger location too

A little while back, Brian Hibbs wrote a piece involving the place of Kickstarters in the comics world that still seems to be making...

As crowdsourcing has become a normal part of financing creative projects, a few bad apples have soured the barrel with non delivery. A few months ago, the FTC announced it would start looking in to Kickstarters that don't deliver and now a Seattle court has ordered the creators of the Asylum Playing Cards Kickstarter—Altius Management and Edward J. Polchlopek—to pay over $54,000 in fines and settlement.

San Diego State University has over 20,000 comics and related items to process! (Here's a basic list of comics waiting to be cataloged!) Like most...

Comics Beat contributor Seth Ferranti has had a long and storied past.  A writer well and truly familiar with life on the streets, Ferranti...

Rarely do I get to learn the story of people who have moved away from the comics industry. Artist and creator Thomas Boatwright is...

  Well, since it's Friday let's go all out with the Kickstarter newsw. Her's a newsish one from Steve Hamaker, a collection of his graphic...