Chad Burdette
Comic Watch is proud to spotlight and support crowdfunded projects across various platforms so that these creators are able to bring their creations and stories to life.
Here are just a few of the projects that we feel deserve your attention and support:
Great Pacific: The Completely Trashed Edition
When fugitive oil heir, Chas Worthington, settles the infamous Great Pacific Garbage Patch, plants a flag and declares it his own sovereign nation, the reality of the environmental catastrophe is only the beginning of his odyssey.
But exploring this wild wasteland quickly escalates into a test of survival as he navigates harsh elements, monstrously mutated wildlife, angry natives from nearby islands, ruthless pirates seeking plunder and even the United States Navy who come to drag him back home.
Witness the world’s newest nation built atop the world’s biggest trash heap in this critically-acclaimed science fiction adventure!
Breakneck
In a world where all supervillains have been wiped out, one final villain is on the run from the world’s collected heroes – but Ethan Shade is the crappiest villain left alive!
BREAKNECK by Mark Bertolini & James Boulton is back! The return of the critically acclaimed indie series is here, reprinting the first 4 issues along with the never-before-seen 5th issue, in an exclusive deluxe hardcover collection!
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The Art Of Descender
by Dustin Nguyen w/Jeff Lemire
This new unfiltered way to experience the gorgeous artwork allows fans to truly get an in depth look into what it took to create the fan favorite series.
is a science fiction space opera comic book series written by Jeff Lemire and illustrated by Dustin Nguyen. The creator-owned series was published by Image Comics. The story follows a young android, TIM-21, trying to survive endless bounty hunters in a universe that has outlawed all robotics and artificial intelligence.
The series received critical acclaim for Lemire’s writing as well as for Nguyen’s artwork, with the latter winning an Eisner Award for his artwork on the series. Descender ran for a total of 32 issues, and its sequel series, Ascender, taking place ten years after the events of Descender, ran for another 18 issues.
This campaign features an oversized 11? x 14? 128+ page high-end art book with covers, select artwork from the series, process and preliminary illustrations and behind the scene material from Dustin Nguyen. Plus some amazing extra exclusive items only available here!
Blüd City Street Fight
A wrestling comic that is not a wrestling comic. I love siege movies and wrestling, and one day thought, what if a professional wrestler had a literal death match to get out of an impossible situation. Luckily, I remembered I draw comics and did it myself. Then, naturally it spiraled out of control and I built a whole world out of it
Professional wrestler ‘Bulletproof’ Jack Stallion is celebrating his retirement match in Blüd City. As Jack is leaving his party, a woman is being abducted in the alley. That woman is the mayor of Blüd City, and only professional wrestling can save them. Jack may be retired, but the death match is just beginning.
Grab the 48-page softcover of this soon-to-be classic, plus take advantage of a rare opportunity to get a commission from illustrator Erik Whalen!
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The Complete Adventures of Roswell, Little Green Man
For the first time, every Roswell story to date is collected between two covers, including a rare, newly-colored tale drawn by Archie legend Dan DeCarlo! Also included are previously unseen pin-ups by Jack Davis, Eric Powell, Art Baltazar, and more!
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- Oklahoma Kaiju 2 – 5 Days Left
- Te Quiero, Te amo Volume 1 – 25 Days Left
- PUM´KIDS – 43 Days Left
- CALICO: Street Math – Book 1 – 14 Days Left
- MOUNTIES VS WEREWOLVES by Larry Hama and Guy Dorian Sr. – 13 Days Left
- Tell Them of Us | The Stories We Leave Behind – 8Days Left
- Mob Princess #1 – The Journey to Becoming a Made Woman -5 Days Left
- Let’s Play Volume 5 – 12 Days Left
- AARDEHN: AWAKENING, a lush oversized illustrated novella! – 10 Days Left
Don’t Tell My Wife I’m a Cult Leader – Book 1 | 384 pages
In 1994, a dark obsession and rebellious romance ignite the dawn of the digital age
The story unfolds in a dystopian hellscape, also known as the present day, where an older, battle-hardened Floyd confronts armed state authorities in his ultimate showdown. As he reflects on his uncanny odyssey, Floyd reveals how his underdog saga rocked the dawn of the digital age.
DEMI THE DEMONESS OMNIBUS – by NSFW Artist Steve S Crompton
Demi’s VERY Erotic Misadventures in Hell. The First Edition Hardcover Collection from Carnal Comics & Discordia Publishing.
Bonus: A short Demi story from the Eros Comics title Rear Entry issue 11, and is part of her main canon, is included in the Demi Omnibus!
This book will be a Limited Run, First Edition Hardcover. Around 340 Pages, final count TBD. Content is strictly black and white throughout, with content in both line art, and selective high level shade work.
This book is already fully completed and Steve S Crompton is doing the Layout himself, adding final touches, additional content, design elements, and even a new Map of Demi’s Hell!
This tome will contain a Foreword by Jay Allen Sanford columnist and cartoonist for the San Diego Reader since 1994. Former Publisher at Carnal Comics. And an extensive resume of Comics, Film, Television, Magazines, and Band Art too extensive to even begin to cover here. See his Wiki here: LINK
Other Creatives involved in the development of this book over the years include: Diego Simone, Michael Dowers, Ezra Mark, Philo, Scott McLean, Perry Lake, Anita, Kim Thompson, Gary Groth, Alonzo, & Seppo Makinen.
Demi’s Omnibus will be a Limited Run based on the results of this project, and will be Numbered. The Demi the Demoness Omnibus is not only the most affordable way to own the complete Demi Hell Saga, it is also a sound investment in a high value piece of Underground Comics History!
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OneNation: Stronghold #1-3
A death in the family takes Superhero Damian Strong, AKA Stronghold back to his roots and the ghosts of his past.
Co-created by Glyph award-winning writers Jason Reeves (Pax Samson, Spidey and his Amazing Friends: Sounds Like Trouble) and YALSA and ITM Book award-winner Greg Anderson Elysée (Is’nana the Were-Spider, Dreamer)!
With art by Antonello Cosentino (Over The Ropes), OneNation: Stronghold is the revolutionary origin story about growing up in rural Louisiana and coming to terms with sexuality and a family history of racism.
Tart 16 – Tart Acid investigates her own death.
A visit home embroils Tart Acid in one of the great mysteries of her life… how it ended.
In issue 16, Tart Acid will return to the town she grew up to investigate a mystery she’s always been too afraid to solve: her own death.
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Tillie Walden ‘Spinning’
A beautiful new UK edition of Tillie Walden’s classic coming-of-age graphic novel is coming to Avery Hill Publishing!
With this campaign we’re funding a brand new UK edition of Tillie Walden’s acclaimed memoir Spinning, featuring an all-new cover design and luxurious hardback binding!
Fans of Avery Hill’s books will know Tillie as one of our longest-standing collaborators, who has published five books with us, from her very first graphic novel The End of Summer in 2015, to the acclaimed collection Alone in Space in 2021. Spinning won the Eisner Award for best reality-based work in 2018.
We’ll have a limited number of signed/sketched copies of this lovely new edition of Spinning available, plus some signed bookplate editions. More details below!
A competitive figure skater for twelve years, every day was the same for Tillie Walden. Sports, school, and family, with no chance for her to stop and think. But when Tillie met her first girlfriend, it changed her whole life. She broke out of the reinforced sameness of a routine into a new relationship and a new interest in making art. She began to be sure her life should be different.
A poignant, honest autobiographical graphic novel about realising you can reinvent your life.
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Kismet: an Arcane Cocktail Enthusiast story
“The Bear” meets “The Sopranos” in this urban fantasy prequel! Plus a deluxe-edition trade paperback, collecting all 3 previous issues!
This new story will launch a new 3 issue story arc of the Arcane Cocktail Enthusiast, taking us into the past to explore the origins of Lark’s father, the magical chef Shepp Leraar. Years before Lark discovered his grimoire, Shepp and his partner D the Minotaur were at the forefront of the early 90’s culinary explosion in Las Vegas! But when the eldritch powers who secretly run the city want Schepp to sell out his diners with mystical bad luck, it’ll be a battle royale to protect the secrets of KISMET!
It’s “The Bear” meets “The Sopranos” in an urban fantasy showdown that will leave you starved for more! But that’s not all we’re offering. First, check out the early cover design (subject to change) and some sample pages from KISMET. Then, read on to discover more about our latest TRADE PAPERBACK!!!!
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CutThroat: A Comics Anthology
Powerful stories and illustrations about ladies and swords
Vengeance, sisterhood, resilience, honor, knighthood. CutThroat is a collection of comics and illustrations centered on one theme: Badass women with swords. CutThroat brings together both up-and-coming and celebrated artists and writers to create 80 pages of art on feminine rage and exciting action. Our goal is to create a collection of action stories that are nuanced, fun and individual to each creator’s vision. Our guiding principle is to respect each artist’s unique vision and interpretation of the theme.
CutThroat is lucky to have an incredible team of artists and writers from Toronto’s colorful comics scene, as well as talent from around the world. This anthology would not be possible without these contributing artists and their limitless creativity:
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DRIVE ACT 4
The sci-fi comedy from three-time-Eisner-nominated cartoonist Dave Kellett! Get Act 4 of the graphic novel DRIVE! (…or Acts 1-4!)
The story is set in a Second Spanish Empire—a galactic empire—which finds itself staring down a war with an alien race called “The Continuum of Makers”. Humanity has built its empire using technology stolen from the Makers, and these creatures want it back with an almost religious fervor. In the brewing war, it’s clear that humanity will lose—and lose badly—unless they can find some advantage in battle.
That hope arrives in the form of a tiny, mysterious creature who can drive a starship like no one’s ever seen. Now all humanity needs to do…is find 10,000 more pilots just like him.
But no one knows where he’s from.
DRIVE is a kind of sci-fi: Joy-filled characters set in a vast, dangerous universe. It’s a mashup of “Hitchhiker’s Guide” and “Dune,” if you will.
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Tarot Agents #1
The Spinner Rack Heroes of 1978 RETURN!
Now they are the TAROT AGENTS –and the world may never be the same!
In a time-spanning, nostalgia-laden, super hero action adventure–
We’re gonna party like it’s 1978!
If only Wolfman Jack were here! Do you remember the first year you started collecting comics?
We sure do, remember it like it was yesterday. A $2 allowance got you a four comic/two candy bar split, and every week two brothers from Milwaukee counted down the minutes to get to the roulette-wheel-of-creative-riches known as the SPINNER RACK!
Things sure did change when 1986 came around, comics needed to be taken seriously, you bet. But all these years later, maybe we’ve taken them a bit too seriously.
So we’re takin’ ’em backwards!
Trendy, kitschy dialogue is out. Endless, droning exposition is back in. Bloodletting and entrails are out.
Thought balloons of dastardly thoughts and secret longings are in.AI not found in a Death or Battle Star is out.
Homages & swipes that would make Sir Wally Wood proud are in.Dramatic scenes broken with ill-placed, ridiculous ads are back, and so is zip-a-tone!
So we’re heading back to ’78. Landing squarely in the center of the comics universe where Claremont, Byrne and Austin ruled the roost and rightfully so.
We were so inspired, that’s where our love letter starts and you bet it’s set smack dab in the middle of the James T Carter era!
An Air Force Pilot– A Stunt Rider–
A Religious Sister– A Delta Force Soldier– Twin Pop Stars!
Together, they are united… in *SPOILER ALERT!*!
Until Otherworldly *SPOILER ALERT!* transform them into something far more than human!
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Rough Cut Vegan – A Filmmaker’s Tale
A graphic memoir about what it was like to go vegan nearly 50 years ago + how being vegan fueled my cinematic dreams.
12-year-old Sara went vegan in 1976 out of concern for animals. While her decision was instantaneous, the reality was far from easy. Growing up in a non-vegan family in 1970s Florida, she was isolated and dramatically at odds with the culture around her. In fact, no one around Sara had ever heard the word “vegan” before.
Coming from a family who fled ethnic persecution, the feeling of being an “outsider” was not new to Sara, but being vegan added a whole new layer that permeated deeper than anything she had felt before.
As her connection with other humans shrunk, her dreams only grew. At age 16, she left home to New York City, in search of fulfilling her childhood dream of becoming a successful actress and using her platform to help animals.
he challenges of pursuing an acting career in the pre-#MeToo show biz era as a teenager was rife with challenges, and after a series of hardships, Sara navigates life as a homeless teenager.
In each step of the way, being a vegan and her concern for animals impacts Sara’s journey in ways both painful and magical. Serendipitous events eventually transform Sara’s dream from being an actress to an independent filmmaker.
Written by Sara Abed Millman, edited by Sadie Rose, illustrated by Sindy Self and Federico Duque, and Produced by VeganFlix Studio, Rough Cut Vegan is about dreams, survival, and turning pain into action.
We hope this story will connect with all those who have felt isolated or at odds with the world, and who want to create their own meaningful path.
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That’s a wrap for this week.
Next week we will return with new projects to spotlight also if you are crowdfunding a project and would like to be put in the Korner, drop us a line at chad@comic-watch.com, and we will take a look when we put together next week’s post.
