Crowdfunding

We round out the Kickstarter Power Hour with a look at the story of the world's greatest pirate - who also happens to be a twelve year old girl. Strangebeard is written and drawn by...

Let's continue this power hour of Kickstarting comics by turning to Modern Times, a new publication looking to mix journalism, comics, and photography. By Olivier Kugler Set up by Katherine Hearst and featuring contributors including Isabel...

The webcomic series Strong Female Protagonist has a Kickstarter running to take the series to print, and has already crushed the original target funding harder than Godzilla stamping on innocent civilians. From the creative...

Let's spend an hour showcasing some of the excellent-looking comic Kickstarters which are currently underway, eh? Recent statistics suggest that the success rate for comic book Kickstarter campaigns is somewhere around 50%, meaning that...

If you were a reader of Cerebus, Dave Sim's highly eccentric and yet amazing 300 issue comic, you that one thing Sim was good at was long, long text pages. (Sometimes too long.) It seems that he's now transferred his voluble nature to the Moment of Cerebus blog, despite his avoidance of the internet, where he goes on (and on) at length about the digital archiving process of Cerebus. I think. It seems that the first attempts at doing this did not go so well, at least as far as I can gather. And he now has a big printing bill to pay off. To help do so he's launched a Kickstarter for CEREBUS ARCHIVE NUMBER ONE by Dave Sim which will be an Artist's Edition type portfolio of 10 Cerebus pages with commentary and...stuff.

ICv2 has a report on what could be one of the first case of prosecuting Kickstarter fraud. The case involves the Kickstarter by Altius Management which raised $25,000 in 2012 to produce an Asylum...

While writing the previous item, I played around with the Kickstarter stat page, to see how comics are doing—and they are doing very well! While comics crowdfunding projects have the second lowest number of projects—3,944. one tenth that of the top category, film and video with 34,985—they have the fourth highest success rate! Here's the top four:

This went out last week but I haven't seen it noted too much in comics circles: Kickstarter has added subcategories to the various main categories for projects. 94 subcategories were added, to aid both creators and backers in finding suitable projects.

For the last several years, writer Amy Chu has been a familiar face at comic conventions around the World - just last year I bumped into her at Thought Bubble! Among other things a...

The British comics scene is in one of the healthiest places it's ever been right now, with new projects coming from all angles, and new creators breaking onto the scene. Among them is Rachael...

Are you among the four or five people who haven't done a Kickstarter yet but are just thinking about it?

Goblins don't get the respect they deserve, do they? They're twisted creatures of malicious intent, born of dark magic and with creepy pointed ears - but nobody ever gives them their due as servants...