Crowdfunding

By Matt O'Keefe In the world wide web there’s a lot that goes unnoticed, even in more niche industries like comics. For the last few years artist Gannon Beck, along with various writers, has been...

And yet another crowdfunded Horror anthology, this time led by Christian Sager who explains it thusly: CANAAN CULT REVIVAL is an explicit and graphic compilation of horror, designed to distress its readers. In fact, some...

  Craig Engler,  co-creator/writer/co-executive producer of Syfy’sZ Nation is kickstarting a new comic based on HP Lovecraft; it's already funded but it's definitely in the spirit of the season. “Halloween week is the perfect time to...

The other day we reported on DMP's new Kickstarter which hopes to publish some untranslated works by Osamu Tezuka but as a pretty hefty price: $360,000 to put out 20 books, and stretch goals that go all the way up to $589,000 for all 31 volumes. Understandably, a lot of manga observers have questioned this amount and the reward tiers— for instance, when this all started the lowest amount you could pledge to actually get a book was $150!

A lot of cartoonists—and many blogs, ahem—have taken to PAtreon as a means to finance the creation of comics. There are quite a few (a round up post is called for, maybe later this week) and Patreon doesn't make it clear who makes the most, the way Kickstarter does, but Jason Shiga recently hit $1000 a month for his Ignatz winning webcomic Demon. Given his analytic background, there's much of that in the post, but here's an excerpt:

Actually $440 since I just pledged $10 for a copy of Elijah Brubaker's Reich #12. If there is any company which deserves the preordering help that Kickstarter uses its Sparkplug, now run by Virginia...

  by Zachary Clemente While at SPX this year, I was able to grab a quick word with seven amazing cartoonists about their work in Hana Doki Kira, a Shōjo comic and illustration anthology released earlier this...

Here we go again: another alternative publisher has turned to crowdfunding to stockpile some scratch for an upcoming list. This time it's Last Gasp, the venerable SF institution that published some of the...

Anybody who has read any amount of my writing, either here and elsewhere, will probably know who my favourite comics writer is*. But I also have a favourite comics artist, whose work is a...

Live from San Diego Comic Con, it's More To Come! Publishers Weekly's podcast of comics news, interviews and discussion with Calvin Reid, Kate Fitzsimons and The Beat's own Heidi MacDonald. In day one of...

The Beat has joined the crowdfunding revolution! Now you can support the stuff we do here directly with your dollars via the Patreon platform. Lot's of folks have suggested that we do some kind of crowdfunding campaign over the last year or so, but I've chosen Patreon because it's method—recurring monthly payments—seem like a more usable model for an ongoing website than the one and done big bang of a Kickstarter.

150 episodes in, and the Wait, What? podcast is undertaking a huge shift. No, it's not relaunching, although it is spinning off in a whole new direction, and nothing will ever be the same...