Chad Burdette
The Man Who Shook the Earth
by Mark Bertolini & JE
A HAUNTED GIRL – Exclusive Extended Edition
by Ethan Sacks, Naomi Sacks & Marco Lorenzana
Originally published by Image Comics and Syzygy Publishing, this HARDCOVER edition contains all new behind-the-scenes features and is the ultimate collector’s item for fans of the acclaimed supernatural horror story that explores the real-life terror that comes with the struggles of anxiety and depression.
The story is inspired by the real life mental health battle of co-writer Naomi Sacks, who teamed with her father, comic book veteran Ethan Sacks (Star Wars: Bounty Hunters, Old Man Hawkeye), and artist extraordinaire Marco Lorenzana (Hulk), in an attempt to reach readers going through similar struggles.
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Previously featured and unfunded:
Previously featured, fully funded Kickstarters Worth A Look and Support:
- Old-Man & the Talking Dog: A hilarious retro adventure!! – 20 Days Left
HOST MORTEM! Graphic Novel from Emmy winning writer & host.
LA CONFIDENTIAL meets The IN-LAWS as two real life game show hosts from the 1990s attempt to solve a series of murders in the 1940s.
Current Funding: $13,636
Funding Goal: $ 5,000
Days Left: 5
Link: HOST MORTEM! Graphic Novel from Emmy-winning writer & host Kevin Shinick
HOST MORTEM is a 200-page, tongue-in-cheek, dark noir thriller that takes real life TV hosts Kevin Shinick and Greg Lee (Carmen Sandiego, et al) and places them in the smoky, suspense driven world of the 1940’s, where they get entangled in a murder mystery surrounding the classic noir film, The Big Sleep.
Part Mark Millar’s Kingsman, part Ed Brubaker’s Fade Out, bestselling author and Emmy winning writer Kevin Shinick uses HOST MORTEM to ask the question, “Are game show hosts really smart? Or are they just used to having the answers?”
More on Host Mortum and Preview pages: Kicksterter Interview: Kevin Shinick & Clover Press Are On The Case Through Time In Host Mortem
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Oddly Compelling: The Denis Kitchen Story
A documentary film about counterculture, freedom of speech, and a comic book maverick
Current Funding: $18,386
Funding Goal: $5,000
Days Left: 19
Link: Oddly Compelling: The Denis Kitchen Story
Denis Kitchen has been taking on the establishment for decades. Now the all-new documentary Oddly Compelling highlights Kitchen’s long, strange trip — from his early days as a hippie cartoonist, to his thirty years as one of the most important independent comic book publishers and his work as a fierce advocate for the First Amendment.
Filmmakers Soren Christiansen and Ted Intorcio have captured hours of in-depth, candid conversations with Denis Kitchen, as well as fellow cartoonists and colleagues including Alison Bechdel, Warren Bernard, Eddie Campbell, Paul Gravett, Karen Green, Justin Hall, Gary Hallgren,Tom Heintjes, MariNaomi, Peter Poplaski, Carol Tyler, and the Comic Book Legal Defense Fund’s Interim Director Jeff Trexler. The film also features rare archival footage of comic book legends Robert Crumb, Will Eisner, and Harvey Kurtzman, along with new animation of Kitchen’s iconic cartooning. The film charts Kitchen’s career — as an indie cartoonist, a provocateur and publisher, and founder of the Comic Book Legal Defense Fund.
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Ultimate OZ Universe: The Lost Lands Collector’s Edition
Exclusive OZ hardcover with detailed map, fan-favorite characters, and stunning 140+ page graphic novel. Discover OZ like never before!
Current Funding: $53,179
Funding Goal: $15,000
Days Left: 24
Link: Ultimate OZ Universe: The Lost Lands Collector’s Edition
For over a century, the world has only seen a fraction of OZ. You know the yellow brick road, the Emerald City, and Dorothy’s journey — but that’s a small sliver of what truly lies beyond.
Welcome to The Ultimate OZ Universe: The Lost Lands— a bold, breathtaking expansion of L. Frank Baum’s timeless world, reimagined by some of today’s greatest storytellers.
Acclaimed writer Cullen Bunn (Harrow County, The Sixth Gun) alongside OZ enthusiast and producer Larry King, legendary artist Mike Deodato, Jr. (Expecting the Unexpected, Avengers), and the visionary teams at AWA Studios, Shaggyman Productions, and Alchemation, have come together to craft a gripping, vast, and unexpected OZ adventure.
Overseen by a team of top OZ historians, this saga stays true to Baum’s vision while exploring uncharted regions, new characters, and thrilling lore.
This limited 144+ page hardcover collectible’s edition is your gateway to a rarely-explored side of OZ — one oozing with whimsical magic, much like the story we all know and love, but bringing about the more mysterious secrets long buried in the sands of time.
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Cherry Comics Presents: Ellie Dee DOUBLE FEATURE!
Cherry Poptart’s BFF Ellie Dee gets her own Cyberpunk Collection AND New Bonus Book ‘Ellie Dee’s Star Wash’ by Tuco El Buitre
Current Funding: $21,367
Funding Goal: $100
Days Left: 27
Link: Cherry Comics Presents: Ellie Dee DOUBLE FEATURE!
ELLIE DEE IN CYBERSPACE – Written and Illustrated by Underground Comics Legend Larry Welz, creator of Cherry ‘Poptart’.
The Original CyberPunk Girl has all her tech savvy appearances from the Cherry ‘Poptart’ comic series from the 80s and beyond, collected into a single volume for the first time ever! Including rare strips and pin up pages from the Larry Welz Archive!
Ellie Dee is literally the originator of techie culture in not just adult comics, but comics in general. Her hacker persona reached comics a mere year after the term ‘Cyberspace’ first appeared in print!
Ellie Dee is also a prolific stoner which makes her one of the longest lasting, and most influential cannabis advocates since the early 80s! Ellie Dee is a true herald of alternative underground culture including all things cutting edge, and that which leads to enlightenment and pleasure.
PUBLIC NOTICE: Ellie Dee titles, like all Cherry Comics titles is a NSFW EROTIC XXX SPICY ADULT GRAPHIC NOVEL! Not for Children or stuck up adults! Ellie Dee ‘gets down and dirty’ while ‘getting lit’ both IRL and Online since 1982!
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Aces and Aros: An Asexual and Aromantic Comic Book Anthology
A 100-page graphic novel anthology about Asexual and Aromantic experiences across a wide range of genres.
Current Funding: $30,327
Funding Goal: $5,000
Days Left: 26
Link: Aces and Aros: An Asexual and Aromantic Comic Book Anthology
From the publisher that brought you Transphoria, Bi Visibility, and Hairology comes Aces & Aros: An Asexual and Aromantic Comic Book Anthology!
Aces & Aros Vol. 1 is a 100-page GRAPHIC NOVEL that collects twenty-one (21) brand new short stories about Asexual- and Aromantic-spectrum experiences!
Kat Calamia & Phil Falco (Lifeline Comics) are joined on the Editorial Team by prolific demisexual creator, Jeremy Whitley, who will tell you below why this anthology and Aspec Representation is so important:
Aces & Aros features the work of Jeremy Whitley (Unstoppable Wasp, My Little Pony), Kelly Fitzpatrick (Archie), Jenn K. Tidwell (Red Vs. Blue, RWBY), Derek V. Song & Alex Brennan-Dent (WEBTOON’s Fantasy High), Bailie Rosenlund (Avengers Academy), Mauricio Mora (HAUNTING, Damsel from D.I.S.T.R.E.S.S.), Emily C. Martin (Princeless), C.K. Carpenter (Scott Snyder Presents Tales from the Cloakroom), Rani Sisavath (WEBTOON’s Kai), Yonson Carbonell (Strange Ranger), Michela Cacciatore (Soleil, IDW, Disney’s Lorcana), and many more talented creators!
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DARKEST DEPTHS – an extreme horror anthology
Stories by Taylor Grant, Nick Roberts, Candace Nola, John Durgin & James Aquilone. Covers by JK Woodward & Robert Hack
Current Funding: $7,244
Funding Goal: $2,500
Days Left: 12
Link: DARKEST DEPTHS – an extreme horror anthology
Monstrous Books and Crystal Lake Publishing present DARKEST DEPTHS, a new black-and-white comic anthology series devoted to extreme horror.
The 50+ page book is dedicated to our late friend and partner Taylor Grant, who passed away before we could launch this project. Profits will go to his son Zane. More on that below.
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SMUT (#3 of 3) Series Finale! – A NSFW Slice-of-Life Comedy
A neurotic mess attempts to break up with her boyfriend while avoiding confrontation. A 22 page comic about trust and sex!
Current Funding: $10,153
Funding Goal: $10,000
Days Left: 18
Link: SMUT (#3 of 3) Series Finale! – A NSFW Slice-of-Life Comedy
Smut is a NSFW erotic comedy about three friends facing relationship problems, the promises they make to resolve them, and the sex they have along the way. Think Giant Days meets Sunstone.
In this 22-page finale, “Don’t Panic!”, Rita resolves to break up with her long term boyfriend, Kyle. If only she wasn’t petrified of confrontation and prone to covering up every problem with (kind of unsatisfying) sex!
Can she find the courage to have an actual conversation with Kyle and say something really uncomfortable? Will she panic and try to shove the whole situation under the rug? Or will she maybe discover that communication cuts to ways and they’ll both need to put in a bit of work to make the relationship work?
Welcome to the anxious build up and mind-blowing climax of Smut #3!
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Free SciFi, Horror, Mystery Comics — Plus Extras!
Free! 3 Single Story Comics, a Graphic Novel Online, Print and Bookmark! All You Pay is Shipping.
Current Funding: $205
Funding Goal: $10
Days Left: 19
Link: Free SciFi, Horror, Mystery Comics — Plus Extras!
Free! 3 Single Story Comics, Webcomic, Print and Bookmark! All You Pay is Shipping.
3 physical, done-in-one, first edition, full color comic books!
All are written by acclaimed writer and illustrator Gary Scott Beatty. All are drawn by humans.
Plus, a free month of Gary Scott Beatty’s Strange Horror, where you can read the Lovecraft-inspired webcomic “Gods of Aazurn,” behind the paywall, in its entirety!
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Scott Snyder Presents: The CloakRoom 1-4 – 450 pages!
Over 450 pages of comic shorts available, including the new 50+ page issue.
Current Funding: $2,135
Funding Goal: $5,000
Days Left: 25
Link: Scott Snyder Presents: The CloakRoom 1-4 – 450 pages!
This is Issue #4 of the ongoing series, with five brand new short comics, collected in a gorgeous, high quality book.
This issue includes 54 pages of surprising, sometimes dark, and sometimes very funny, genre-spanning and genre-bending stories, and you can pick up the first three issues if you missed those campaigns. That’s 25+ stories and over 200 comics pages that we’ve done so far!
The stories were all written by members of Scott Snyder‘s writing class/workshop, which he operates through his Substack, Our Best Jackett. Many of the featured stories were written with his guidance.
And if you missed the much earlier campaigns for our predecessor, Volumes 1 & 2 of TALES FROM THE CLOAKROOM, you can still pick those up right here.
All in, that’s almost 450 pages of comics, including one Eisner Award nominated story!
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Unicorn VERSUS Vampire Detective #1-3: The Finale!
The final issue of the fantasy/sci-fi crossover adventure.
Current Funding: $5,231
Funding Goal: $3,500
Days Left: 6
Link: Unicorn VERSUS Vampire Detective #1-3: The Finale!
Edward the Unicorn and James the Vampire Detective are no strangers to conflict…
For years, people have been asking me when Unicorn: Vampire Hunter and Vampire Detective in Space were going to cross over. Now I can finally answer that question: right now!
This issue is the conclusion to the Unicorn VERSUS Vampire Detective saga! This is a massive 44 page comic with tons of action, humor, and excitement. You can get the new issue, or catch up on the entire series.
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Lake Yellowwood Slaughter
A graphic novel “adaptation” of a 1983 slasher movie that never existed!
Current Funding: $29,960
Funding Goal: $8,000
Days Left: 13
Link: Lake Yellowwood Slaughter
Welcome to Camp Yellowwood, “where the livin’s good.” But there’s a killer on this lake…and the campers’ parents, partying the summer away, are about to discover that “When the kids are away…the grown-ups are prey!”
Lake Yellowwood Slaughter is the “official comic book adaptation” of a 1983 cult horror hit that never existed! Lake Yellowwood Slaughter cuts the grimy American slasher genre with the lurid style of high-tuned Italian giallo classics like Blood and Black Lace, The Bird with the Crystal Plumage, and Bay of Blood.
Co-created by writer Alejandro Arbona (Doctor Tomorrow, Void Silver) and rising superstar artist Gavin Guidry (Action Comics, Uncanny X-Men) and featuring color by Chris O’Halloran (Ice Cream Man, Hellboy), lettering by Eisner Award-winner Hassan Otsmane-Elhaou (Beneath the Trees Where Nobody Sees, You’ll Do Bad Things), and a painted cover straight off the VHS rental shelf by Vinegar Syndrome cover artist Suspiria Vilchez!
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THE PEACEKEEPERS #1-5 from Ringo Award-Winner Rylend Grant
Bank robbery! Murder! Mayhem! A twisted, howl-at-the-freakin’-moon crime drama from the creator of THE JUMP, THE BREACH, and BANJAX
Current Funding: $6,807
Funding Goal: $5,000
Days Left: 12
Link: THE PEACEKEEPERS #1-5 from Ringo Award-Winner Rylend Grant
THE PEACEKEEPERS is a comic book series from writer Rylend Grant, artist Davi Leon Dias, colorist Iwan Joko Triyono, and letterer HdE… the same twisted team that brought you 10 rip-roaring issues of Action Lab: Danger Zone’s critically-lauded political action thriller ABERRANT. Aberrant won a Mike Wieringo Comic Book Industry Award (for BEST VILLAIN) and was nominated for two others (BEST WRITER & BEST SINGLE ISSUE).
The first four issues of THE PEACEKEEPERS – launched to much fanfare here on Kickstarter – received RAVE reviews. This new campaign will fund the pulse-pounding ISSUE #5 and hopefully we’ll hit a few stretch goals along the way so we can give you more bang for your Kickstarter buck.
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BIGFOOT KNOWS KARATE: Chapters 1 – 3
Follow the adventure of a Bigfoot warrior caught in a web of monsters, machinations and dark secrets. Godzilla vs Kong meets Kill Bill.
Current Funding: $3,275
Funding Goal: $2,000
Days Left: 27
Link: BIGFOOT KNOWS KARATE: Chapters 1 – 3
IGFOOT KNOWS KARATE follows a gentle cryptid warrior as he finds his world out of balance, quickly finding his role changed from defender to the hunted. Being tracked by fierce kaiju and a mysterious agency, Bigfoot must go from an elusive lonely soul to someone surrounded by enemies tracking his every breath. Think Godzilla vs Kong meets Kill Bill with a twist of X-Files.
We are excited to return to Kickstarter for the 4th time continuing the adventures of our Hinagon hero with our new issue, BIGFOOT KNOWS KARATE Chapter 3: Hellhound On My Trail.
Bigfoot is on the run! After escaping incarceration, Benny, along with Iris, another prisoner trying to get away, must find safe harbor before they are tracked down by the sadistic Grischa and all the power at his disposal.
Written by Casey T. Allen and Dan Price, with art by Dan Price. Covers by Dan Price, Luis Thomas, Ghosthause and Adam Caswell.
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Nuke Force
Current Funding: $721
Funding Goal: $500
Days Left: 10
Link: NUKE FORCE
WHAT WOULD A COMIC MADE IN 1945 ABOUT 2025 LOOK LIKE? NUKE FORCE!
The allies won World War Two, but the fight was not over! A new evil emerged, calling themselves VULTURZ! For nearly a century, America has been using atomic power to create warriors to battle this enemy on the front lines. NUKE FORCE is America’s best hope to defeat the VULTURZ and end this forever war. Let’s fly!
This campaign is for the FIRST ISSUE of NUKE FORCE… and also the launch of a new publishing initiative… DISTRACTION COMICS!
NUKE FORCE is a retro futuristic, atomic age hero, action comic! This first issue is 16 full color pages and 16 black and white pages with a glossy cover and uncoated interior paper stock! Featuring the Atomic Age Heroes, Major Grit, Mr. Molto, Cloudia and Pump Station!
DISTRACTION COMICS is your chance to make comics with us! I’m offering backers the opportunity to work with me and and my friends to create the kind of comics that we love! Do you want to draw a story I write? Do you want to color a story I draw? Do you want to write a story for an artist? Now’s your chance!
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The Comics Courier, A Comics Criticism Journal [Issue 2]
A newspaper-format journal dedicated to in-depth comics criticism edited by Tiffany Babb
Current Funding: $9,752
Funding Goal: $ 4,500
Days Left: 2
Link: The Comics Courier, A Comics Criticism Journal
he Comics Courier is back for its second issue!
Yes, it’s true – your favorite twice-a-year print newspaper dedicated to comics criticism is coming back. The Comics Courier Issue 2 will feature essays and reviews from comics critics Rob Salkowitz, Adrienne Resha, Tiffany Babb, Dave Buesing, Lydia Turner, Rebecca and Ollie Kaplan, Rosie Knight, Nick Marino, Kelly Kanayama, and Hassan Otsmane-Elhaou.
Like with our first issue, our goal of creating a space for comics criticism remains central to our mission. We were so excited about the show of support for our first issue, and we can’t wait to get the second issue of The Comics Courier into your hands.
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