Welcome to this week’s installment of The Beat’s Comics Crowdfunding Round-Up! Join us for a look into a phenomenal newspaper, an anthology about underrepresented voices written by those very same voices, a sci-fi stoner comedy, and two more projects you need to check out!
LAAB: The Newspaper of the Radical Imagination
Creators: Beehive Books
Goal: $30,000
End Date: October 3
Goodies: Get the digital copy for 7$, the physical copy for $20, a bundle of print editions for LAAB #2,#3, and #4 for $50, or at higher tiers be a part of LAAB with your own personal ad, singed number copies and much more!
An annual broadsheet newspaper full of art, comics, criticism, interviews. Our fourth issue is called THREE’S COMPANY.
LAAB had a successful run on Kickstarter, is how this love letter to comics began. We cant help but pour over the campaign and see what it has to offer. This time the paper has multiple contributors to the project, all of which have gone into crafting the combination of comics, essays, interviews, illustrations, manifestos and more. It’s a phenomenal project and we cant wait to see more. So if you want to own a brilliant piece of comic history and creativity do not miss out on this project!
unSEEN/unHEARD: Disability & Neurodivergence Comic Anthology
Creators: Anas Abdulhak (Editor), Aubrey Lyn Jeppson (Editor), and C.K. Carpenter (Editor)
Goal: $13,500
End Date: October 18
Goodies: Get the digital anthology for $12, the physical anthology for $20, and variant covers for $25.
A 64-page comic anthology amplifying underrepresented voices in the disability and neurodivergent communities.
It was vital to us that stories about neurodivergent people and those with disabilities be told by people with those conditions. This was one of the first sentences that began to explain what this project was. We were pretty much glued after that, its important to recognize that sentence carries weight a lot of these stories in the anthology are personal and in allowing these creator to tell this story in their own way is just as difficult to them as even creating it. For that reason this project is worth checking out, its just one f many reasons but suffice to say we at The Beat know that you wont be disappointed.
STARWEED #1-3 Complete Comic Book Story- Let’s End on a High
Creators: LEX WILSON (Writer/Co-Creator), Tony Gregori (Writer/Co-Creator), Claudia Aguirre (Artist), Lauren Norby (Letterer)
Goal: $420
End Date: October 5
Goodies: Get the digital copy for $4, The complete digital series for $12, and the physical copy with stickers for $18, or at higher tiers get the variant cover for $25 and prints for $30.
In a world of smoking the remains of dead celebrities, they heist the corpses. Also starring dinosaurs and an inflatable Clark Gable.
Aguirre’s art is phenomenal, it’s what we at The Beat noticed first, so we find it no surprise that alongside Wilson and Gregori’s writing that this project has seen success after succes on Kickstarter. To the point where they have made it to their third and final issue having already made its goal ($420 haha) and well on its way to completion. It may be a Sci-Fi stoner comedy but with a well grounded story, some lovable characters, and action that seems to jump out of the page we would be remiss to let this project just walk on by.
Jordan Hart’s Ripple Effects: The Deluxe Edition
Creators: Jordan Hart (Writer/Colorer), Bruno Chiroleu (Illustrator)
Goal: $6,000
End Date: October 1
Goodies: Get the digital copy for $15, the deluxe hardcover for $35, donate a copy to a school or library for $35, or at higher tiers get a signed copy for $45 and much more!
The Eisner and Harvey Awards-nominated story returns with an all-star lineup to raise awareness for invisible illnesses & disabilities
This comic will hit home for a lot of people, over 304,000 children and adolescents have type 1 diabetes in the US alone. So, to have a comic that is willing to address an invisible chronic illness is worthy of it’s praise. Now to have a superhero who has to offset that and their life, secret and otherwise, is an amazing story. Just seeing the amount of work that was put into these pages and how Hart’s inspiration for this work allowed him to create such a melancholy and uplifting story makes us at The Beat want to shout from the rooftops to read this comic. Do not miss out on this project, I am disappointed that all I can give is my highest recommendation.
Ghost Junk Sickness: The Complete Series
Creators: StudioCARTRIDGE
Goal: $11,044
End Date: October 16
Goodies: Get the volume one digital copy for $7, the full digital series for $20, the physical copy for $25, or at higher tiers get the ful physical series for $160.
The complete book set of the webcomic Ghost Junk Sickness, a sci-fi bounty hunting space opera comic
These two creators have gone above and beyond what was necessary to create this amazing comic and we are loving it. A beautifully drawn comic, an omnipotent being pulling the strings, three fantastic characters, and a world similar but so very different form our own on the verge of collapsing. Ghost Junk Sickness Has everything you would want from a phenomenal series! Make sure to check out the project!
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