Tag: Crowdfunding
Crowdwatch: some deserving Kickstarters from Pak/Miyazawa, Dwyer and also Frogman
Normally I don't do Kickstarter columns but so many of them are coming and so many of them are cool, I'm BREAKING WITH TRADITION.
§ Kieron Dwyer and Todd Rinker are trying to get funding...
Kickstarter Fail – A Federal Offense?
The Federal Trade Commission has just sent a press release touting its first successful action against a failed Kickstarter campaign.
The FTC's mission is to protect consumers from false or misleading advertising, and as part...
Crowd Watch: Comics Uniting Nations Kickstarter is saving the world with van Lente, Dunlavey,...
One of the more ambitious and important comics Kickstarter efforts now running is the Comics Uniting Nations effort. Spearheaded by Josh Elder, who already got the Reading With Pictures literacy effort off the...
Greg Weisman’s Rain of the Ghosts Kickstarter has a stretch goal: a comic book
Neither audio plays nor YA projects have a great track record on Kickstarter, so the success of RAIN OF THE GHOSTS is a real outlier. But when you look under the hood, you can...
Interview: Fresh Romance’s Janelle Asselin on running a successful Kickstarter
The Fresh Romance Kickstarter campaign is in its final hours but it's already made nows. Not only is it well over 150% funded, but editor/publisher Janelle Asselin's plan to bring back romance comics in a contemporary guise with Rosy Books has definitely struck a nerve.
As the last few hours count down, we caught up with Asselin for a quick check in on how the campaign got going and how she prepared for such a time consuming but ultimately successful task. And as a bonus, here's a look at the story from Sarah Vaughn (ALEX + ADA) and Sarah Winifred Searle (SMUT PEDDLER) about a couple headed to the altar for all the wrong reasons.
MATT CHATS: Comics Marketing with Cory Casoni
Welcome to MATT CHATS, a weekly interview with someone working in the comics industry. This week that person is Cory Casoni, and his job isn’t to create comics but to make others aware of...
Kickstarter unveils a month of comics events
Since launching, Kickstarter has funded 2,652 comics projects, raising $37 million. Comics have a 49.72% success rate—the fourth highest after dance, music and theater, so it's a well established category for the crowdfunding giant.
In the month of April, Kickstarter's Brooklyn office will host several comics related seminars and events. You can RSVP for all of these on the Kickstarter page, but here's a rundown, with a pair of events this Thursday.
Julia Wertz on illegal pinball—and running her own crowdfunder
Here's a history comic on Newyorker.com by Julia Wertz about when pinball was illegal in New York City
In other Wertz news, she's working on Impossible People, a memoir about her alcoholism that she started years ago and then abandoned. To fund it she's running her own crowd funding effort, which you can support at the above link. Why her own thing?
Kickstarter alert: Comic Book People 2: Photographs from the 1990s by Jackie Estrada
Somehow I have neglected to mention until this moment that Jackie Estrada is crowdfunding a second book of photos taken at conventions over the years, this one focusing on the 90s.
The first...
Archie Joins the Humble Bundle Bandwagon; Image Scores with 2nd Bundle
By Bruce Lidl
Following immediately on the conclusion of the second Image Comics Humble Bundle, Archie Comics has joined the Humble Bundle comics movement with its first release. Humble Bundles are curated collections of digital...
Gurewitch is back with a new book on Kickstarter
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 Perry Bible Fellowship comics was a best selling delight, and...
Jimmy Palmiotti talks his new western Kickstarter Abbadon and working with Adaptive Studios
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.
