Tag: kickstarter

Launching a new comic book IP is as arduous a task as it ever was, but today's creators have more tools at their disposal...

Podcorn Podcast co-host Brandon Montclare was an early adopter of the crowdfunding platform Kickstarter.  Through it, he and artist Amy Reeder successfully funded two...

Tyler James is easily one of the hardest working people in comics. Over the past several years, while continuing his role as the publisher...

I always know I’m getting something unlike anything else on the shelf when I buy a Chris Lewis comic. His last multi-issue series, Drones,...

Recently, B. Clay Moore sat down with The Comics Beat to talk about Great Hawaiian Dick, a special Kickstarter-exclusive comic that stems from his recent NBC TV Series deal.

The wrestling/comics connection has always been strong, from their shared roots in carnival strongmen singlets to former grappler CM Punk's writing comics career. And here's a new one: Muscle Temple, an indie comics anthology spotlighting the squared circle that is currently being crowdfunded. Frank Gibson of Tiny Kitten Teeth is leading the rumble. which will include work by Maddy Flores, Sam Alden, Box Brown, Amanda Meadows, Zac Gorman. According to Gibson:

Skies of Fire, the brainchild of Vincenzo Ferriero and Ray Chou, is a colorful and mesmerizing comic that takes readers into the Aquilan Empire, a...

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

Jamal Igle didn't expect to receive the support he got when he decided to work on his creator owned project, Molly Danger. Igle raised $50,329 to...

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...

I'd been hearing word on the street that the controversial Archie Kickstarter campaign would be cancelled, about $30 K in and CBR has the official word. The planned titles—Jughead by Chip Zdarsky, Betty & Veronica by Adam Hughes and Kevin Keller by Dan Parent—will be published, as promised, but the rollout will be slower with Jughead launching in the fall. According to Archie publisher Jon Goldwater, the negative attention was detracting too much from the actual projects:

So I launched a comic store on Free Comic Book Day. It was quite the trick, trying to get things ready for the day...