Crowdfunding

SULLIVAN'S SLUGGERS is only the latest comic to get funded on Kickstarter in a very substantial way.

A brief apology for posting this but the Star Trek nerd in me could NOT help myself. Many a weekend was spent in my youth attending the Star Trek conventions with my mom at the Plaza hotel in Las Vegas, the highlight of course was meeting Brent Spiner and Michael Dorn (Lieutenant Commanders Data and Worf).

When comics household names are turning to Kickstarter, you know it's real. In this case it's Paul Jenkins (WOLVERINE: ORIGINS, INHUMANS) and Humberto Ramos (SPIDER-MAN, RUNAWAYS) with FAIRY QUEST.We're just going to post the six page preview right here -- this is gorgeous, gorgeous stuff. The funding level is high though -- $60K of which $26K has been raised with 3 days to go. The art is very persuasive, however. Below you'll find a statement on the project.

In awesome news, the Sparkplug Books Indiegogo campaign has reached its goal. But you can still give them more money to publish creator-owned, independent books that validate the spirit of the best that comics can be.

We were just warming up to mention Shaenon K. Garrity and Jeffrey Wells' new Kickstarter campaign for their webcomic SKIN HORSE....but it already achieved its goals in a mere 12 hours! But more money means more premiums, so consider pledging on.

"You've just won the MegaMillions lottery! What are you going to do with your winnings?"

Today's Kickstarter campaign spotlight falls on Keith Knight's story of his life as a Michael Jackson impersonator.

Order of the Stick isn't the only crowdfunding comics project out there. Let's take a look at what's out there right now:

While this doesn't look like it will quite get to the amazing funding levels of of the Order of the Stick Reprint Project (nearly $650K with 8 days left), there's another webcomic with an even more modest goal that's making some serious coin at the crowdfunding game, this week. R Stevens is about to hit 3000 strips in his Diesel Sweeties webcomic. All he wanted was $3K to buy him some time to compile the entire run of the strip into ebook format. Right now, he's got a bit over $22K pledged for the project.

When last we left the status of Ashes, the original graphic novel crowdfunding to the tune of $32K, artist Jimmy Broxton was no longer on the project and writer Alex de Campi wasn't sure if there would be a new artist or if she'd be refunding the money to everyone who contributed via Kickstarter. Turns out, there will still be a graphic novel and there will be multiple new artists.