Crowdfunding

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...

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.

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...

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...

  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...

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...

  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...

Here we go again: another alternative publisher has turned to crowdfunding to stockpile some scratch for an upcoming list. This time it's Last...

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

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