Tag: Crowdfunding
Comics & Libraries: San Diego State University Crowdfunds to Catalog 20,000 Comics!
San Diego State University has over 20,000 comics and related items to process! (Here's a basic list of comics waiting to be cataloged!)
Like most...
Tom Spurgeon launches a Patreon campaign and a digital magazine
After making some noises about it for a while, Tom Spurgeon has joined the crowdfunding world for his award-winning Comics Reporter site with a...
Cartoonist leaves paying gig, starts Kickstarter for The Nib
A couple of years ago we were crowing with joy when Pulitzer Prize finalist cartoonist Matt Bors was hired to run Medium's comics section, The Nib, and the results were glorious, with two years of daily content that was smart funny, trenchant, moving, eye opening and everything else we love about comics.
Well, as with most start-ups all good things must come to an end.
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.
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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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
