Tag: Crowdfunding

  Retrofit Comics has been putting out some of the finest small press comics of recent years and they've announced their Spring/Summer 2016 line with Leela Corman, Alabaster...

VINES by Mike Geszel, Ben McCool*** and Inaki Miranda in a project thaht's been in the works for a while, and though Miranda remains as concept...

There's a lot of news about comics out there, so this is going to be a lot of column. • Faith #1 continues to be...

The other day we mentioned that the hugely popular team behind Harley Quinn of Amanda Conner and Jimmy Palmiotti had imposed a sensible signing...

There's been a lot of tweeting and tumblring about the need for more diversity in comics. And now you can make comics more diverse! Here is a chance to actually support a project by African-American creators that deals frankly with racial issues from a non-white perspective. BLACK is a new kickstarter for a graphic novel written by Kwanza Osajyefo (aka Kwanza Johnson)and Tim Smith III with art by Jamal Igle with additional art by Khary Randolph. Former Vertigo editor Sarah Litt will oversee the production. The story is high concept: what if only black people could become superheroes? Let your mind wander over that.

No one should be fined a year's salary for exercising their freedom of speech.

It's pretty well known tat Tom Fowler is one of the best artists out there—a great storyteller as well as a fantastic character designer....

Well speak of the devil, here's a new Kickstarter from the Locust Moon folks that plans to reprint some long lost early work by...

If you liked Coraline, you'll probably like Calliope, a proposed stop motion film that's a collaborations bwteen the world of designer toys (Circus Posterus’ toy designers Kathie Olivas and Brandt Peters), stop-motion innovator and Annie Awards Special Achievement recipient Martin Meunier (Coraline) and filmmaker Jon Schnepp (The Death of “Superman Lives”: What Happened). It's currently being Kickstarted, and if it isn't quite a Halloween thing, it certainly fits in with the mood of the season.

This is actually a crowd watch too as Iron Circus is kickstarting a collection of Sophie Campbell's Shadoweyes: Volume One: Sophie Campbell began Shadoweyes...

A little while back, Brian Hibbs wrote a piece involving the place of Kickstarters in the comics world that still seems to be making...

As crowdsourcing has become a normal part of financing creative projects, a few bad apples have soured the barrel with non delivery. A few months ago, the FTC announced it would start looking in to Kickstarters that don't deliver and now a Seattle court has ordered the creators of the Asylum Playing Cards Kickstarter—Altius Management and Edward J. Polchlopek—to pay over $54,000 in fines and settlement.