Welcome to this week’s installment of The Beat’s Comics Crowdfunding Round-Up! Join us for a look into a first of its kind bookstore, a queer anthology spanning genres, and a new take on fairy tales in a sci-fi setting!
The Nonbinarian Bookstore
Creators: The Nonbinarian Book Bike
Goal: $100,000
End Date: October 31
Goodies: back it because you believe in the project for $10, sticker packs and bookplates for $25, tote bag and bookmark for $50, or at higher tiers get the T-shirt and multi tool bundle for $75 and much more!
The Nonbinarian Book Bike is growing! Join us as we expand into a brick-and-mortar queer bookstore.
Surprise! As you’ve noticed this project isn’t necessarily focused on a comic and instead we look to one of the best things to come out of Brooklyn, The Nonbinarian Book Bike. The book bike has been operating for two years and was formed to provide access to queer representation of queer stories for people of all ages. Now they look to their community to help build their permanent home. Their entire inventory will be exclusively queer making their bookstore the first of its kind in Brooklyn. They aim to provide a year round space for their community and continue the amazing work they started with pop-up events and empower queer and trans people of all ages, especially in these time of censorship. The book bikes motto sums it up: Everyone deserves to see themselves on the shelf. Help them make that a reality.
Young Men in Love: New Romance 
Creators: Joe Glass (Editor) Matt Miner (Editor)
Goal: $25,000
End Date: October 30
Goodies: Get the Digital copy for $12, the digital 2-pack with both volumes for $20, the Kickstarter exclusive softcover for $25, or at higher tiers get the digital super bundle for $30 and both covers of New Romance for $40!
The return of the Ringo Award and GLAAD Media Award winning anthology. New Stories, New Romance!
Young Men In Love is an 160 page, teen appropriate, anthology with one focus: to celebrate queer love. The project is fantastic, it aims to deliver a high quality graphic novel and stories that aren’t stuck to one genre ranging from sci-fi, fantasy, slice of life, historical fiction, and even superheroes’. With over 23 different creators working on different stories, YMIL aims to be one of the best anthology series to hit Kickstarter. If our word isn’t enough, their past release one the GLAAD Media Award, a Ringo Award, a Gayming Mag Award, and was even nominated for the Dwayne Mcduffie Diversity in Comics Award. On behalf of us at The Beat do not miss out on this project!
Man-Child #1-3
Creators: Nandor Fox Shaffer (Creator/Writer), Jay Mazhar (Artist), DC Hopkins (Letterer)
Goal: $4,500
End Date: October 30
Goodies: Get the PDF for $5, the physical copy for $10, the variant covers for $15, $20, and $25, or at higher tiers get the physical bundle of issues #1-3 for $30!
The Monarch-Crier is outnumbered as The Sadistic 6 debut in this third pulse-pounding issue!
Man Child is part of a six part limited series, in that time they have already Kickstarted two projects and now the land on their third. Fans have made their stance clear with over $2,000 crowdfunded of their $4,500 campaign. The story follows two separate timelines where the term “man child” is at the forefront of the whole experience in an alternating story. We at The Beat enjoyed the project and you would be remiss to not check this project out!
Wish Upon a Star
Creators: Paul Carroll (Editor) and Gary Moloney (Editor)
Goal: $16,470
End Date: October 20
Goodies: Get the digital copy for $6, the physical copy for $15, a D&D 5e supplement for $22, a sticker set for $24, or at higher tiers get the whole wish upon a star set for $55.
A collection of 22 4-page comics reimagining fairy tales through the lens of science fiction, published by Limit Break Comics
The project consists of 22 different short stories from creators worldwide making this project 88 pages in total. That was already a huge plus but seeing fans show their support by getting the project to over $5,000 shows this project is potentially on its way to reality. For good reason as the project features retellings of Peter Pan, allice in Wonderland, The Three Little Pigs and much more. With some fantastic art, a team of over 20 different creators, and some well known stories, Wish upon a Star is a story you wont want to miss.
The X-Men Art of Andy Kubert
Creators: Essential Sequential
Goal: $19,970
End Date: October 17
Goodies: Get the physical copy for $65, the physical copy with dust jacket for $75, and the slipcase for $125.
Celebrating the decades-spanning mutant works of Andy Kubert
The past couple months has seen an X-Men boom with X-men’97 and the new beginnings of a great X-Men comic run. That’s why The Beat would be wrong not to mention one of the most influential comic book artists of our time’s newest project: The Marvel X-Men Art of Andy Kubert. If you’re a fan of the X-Men and some phenomenal art make sure to check out this project!
Savage Street Vigilante
Creators: Jim Mahfood (Creator/Artist)
Goal: $7,500
End Date: October 31
Goodies: <Get the digital copy for $10, the physical copy for $30, the Mike Huddleston, Jim Rugg, variant cover for $30, or at higher tiers get the freak city print set for $125.
A brand-new, 48 page creator-owned superhero parody comic from Jim Mahfood
Mahfood is well known in the comic community, so its no surprise this over the top, R-rated, destruction filled artistic sensation sprung forth from their mind. The project is meant to be a superhero parody comic and as to which superhero? check out the project because you will know immediately and thats partially what made us want more. The other reason is that Mahfood’s work is phenomenal, its like a messed up violent trip and The Beat can’t get enough of it. Make sure to check out the project!
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