Crowdwatch: Anarchists and criminals in ‘The Illegalists’ by Vogel, Pierce and Futaki
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We often get requests to promote Kickstarter campaigns here at the Beat, and not all of them are things that people would actually buy. But here's one that boasts a top notch creative team—Attila...
Ryan Cody discusses ‘Doc Unknown’ Kickstarter success
Fabian Rangel Jr. and Ryan Cody debuted Doc Unknown # 1 two years ago, and the project was financed entirely by Fabian out of pocket. They launched a Kickstarter project to fund BOSS SNAKE: Cold Blood, Cold Streets....
Interview: Shawn Daley Kickstarts a Whole New World Called TerraQuill
By Matt O'Keefe
Short stories are a dying breed in mainstream comics, so often the best offerings are found in the independent scene. Such is the case with books like Cartozia Tales and, more to the...
Kickstarter alert: Comic Book People 2: Photographs from the 1990s by Jackie Estrada
Somehow I have neglected to mention until this moment that Jackie Estrada is crowdfunding a second book of photos taken at conventions over the years, this one focusing on the 90s.
The first...
Templesmith Does Lovecraft
by Pamela Auditore
Anyone familiar with Spike TV Scream Award Winner and New York Times Bestselling Artist/Writer Ben Templesmith's work knows he is profoundly influenced by HP Lovecraft. Even a cursorary glance at his art...
Farrago Comics launches Kickstarter for original series by Kutner and Lucas
Farrago Comics, iPad app that offers lot of free comics to read, is getting more into this thing by collaborating on a Kickstarter for their first original series, Rob Kutner's SHRINKAGE. Kutner is an Emmy winning...
Archie Joins the Humble Bundle Bandwagon; Image Scores with 2nd Bundle
By Bruce Lidl
Following immediately on the conclusion of the second Image Comics Humble Bundle, Archie Comics has joined the Humble Bundle comics movement with its first release. Humble Bundles are curated collections of digital...
Image Does Humble Bundle Once Again
By Bruce Lidl
Lost somewhat in the initial burst of news from last week’s ImageExpo was the announcement of a new Image Humble Bundle offering, beginning that morning and lasting until January 21. The “Humble...
The Beat Podcasts! More To Come: Star Wars #1 hits 1 million copies
Brought to you by Publishers Weekly, it's More To Come, the weekly podcast of comics news, interviews and discussion with Calvin Reid, Kate Fitzsimons and The Beat’s own Heidi MacDonald.
In this week's podcast, the...
Back This: ‘Moonshot’ – The Indigenous Comics Collection from Alternative History
by Zachary Clemente
Kickstarter has been the way for me to find new comic projects and boy am I glad to have come across this project. Moonshot from Alternative History Comics and edited by Hope Nicholson, is a 200 page...
Gurewitch is back with a new book on Kickstarter
Return with us to the simpler days of 2007 when Nicholas's Gurewitch's The Trial of Colonel Sweeto and Other Stories, a collection of his Perry Bible Fellowship comics was a best selling delight, and...
Jimmy Palmiotti talks his new western Kickstarter Abbadon and working with Adaptive Studios
Kickstarter maestros Jimmy Palmiotti and Justin Gray of Paperfilms are at it again, this time with a Western, Abbadon, a tale of murder and mayhem set in a town full of just about every vice you can imagine. As with previous projects, the book is being funded on Kickstarter, and as of this writing is a few thousand dollars from making its goal, with two weeks to go.
