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:
Sanford Greene’s 1000
by Sanford Greene, Chuck Brown, and Rus Wooton
From the Eisner winning creators of Bitter Root. Set in a modern world of aliens, warlocks, zombies, and ancient beasts, 1000 follows Dragon Son – a supreme entity who’s abandoned all creation as he struggles to return to his true Dragon form by completing one thousand acts of repentance. Son is joined by five other agents who are charged with secretly policing the world and keeping civilization from crumbling completely.
1000 first premiered as a webcomic and won the 2018 Ringo Award for Best Webcomic. This deluxe edition collects the entire run of the webcomic with additional behind the scenes content.
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Many Worlds – The Art of Christian Ward – Volume One
Riptide Sanitarium #2
by Keith Dallas and Juan Romera
The second issue of the imaginative, multi-genre comic book anthology by Ghostbusters writers Keith Dallas and Jim Beard!
Ghost Light Tales
by Franco, Alex Giannini, Cody Daigle-Orians, Sara Richard, Gwendolyn Kiste, Christa Carmen, Federico Mele, Jaime Carrillo, Sabin Arditty, Nick Palazzo, Thomas Boatwright & Scott McMahon
What is the Ghost Light?
You’ve seen it. We’ve all seen it. That strange glow out there, deep in the woods. Late in the night. Up on an empty stage in a dark theater. That flash out of the corner of your eye, something bright and fleeting, flickering in the reflection of a mirror.
But I hear what you’re asking. What is it? What is the Ghost Light? That’s what you really want to know. Need to know.
It’s an afternoon thunderstorm. It’s a creaky floorboard in an otherwise empty house. It’s the reason the attic light is burning that dull orange, way up there at the top of those stairs and you don’t remember ever pulling the cord to turn it on.
Very nice, you say. Dramatic, all that. But, c’mon. Tell me what it is.
Fine. Lean in. Listen closely. And don’t tell anyone.
It’s where the stories come from. Not all of them, of course. But the lasting ones. The scary ones. The ones that stick with you long after you’ve closed your eyes. Or tried to, at least.
Because there’s nothing better than a scary story, right? Depends on who you ask, maybe. Personally, the only thing better than one scary story is a whole bunch of scary stories.
Growing up, I’d spend special days hunting bookstore and library shelves for short story collections of creepy, weird, uncanny tales, followed by magical nights hiding under the covers and reading until one of two things happened. One, I fell asleep. Two, morning came.
GHOST LIGHT TALES takes the anthology a number of steps further and combines all the best things: Comic books (like those old House of Mystery issues where you didn’t know if you were gonna get a werewolf story or one about aliens invading some unassuming small town!); creepy illustrations (Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark, anyone?); and Choose Your Own Adventure (but with comics and screenplays and stage plays! I always thought my ending to that unsettling little story set on the train to nowhere was way scarier, anyway).
We also add in an educational component, thanks to Franco’s teaching background and Alex’s current job as director of programs at a 5-star library in Connecticut.
SWAT: Eldritch Blue Issue #1
by Justin Coke & Rachel Distler
of broken-down outcasts, weirdos, and wizards battle to enforce the Grand Bargain— the agreement in which the Monsters of the world have agreed to hunting quotas in exchange for safety from wizards like Larry Slaughter, who are always ready to hand out the punishment for breaking the Grand Bargain— summary execution.
SWAT is about a bunch of people who are real goddamn tired of crap jobs in an insane world. We can all relate.
Claudia Christian’s Dark Legacies – The Compendium Edition
In the far. far future, after Earth and her colonies have come through a period of cruel dictatorship and war into a new era of democracy and relative peace, Major Jessica Steele (modeled on Claudia Christian) is tasked with cleaning up the remnants of the previous regime. However, the death of her parents at the hands of her older sister still haunt her and the impending threat of alien invasion means even the survival of the new regime may be short lived.
A hard hitting action Sci Fi romp from the mind of the Babylon 5 star with Chris McAuley and the pencils and pens of Staz Johnson and Glenn Fabry
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Launching this week:
GAMEMASTERS: The Comic Book History of Roleplaying Games.
Check out our interview with writer Fred Van Lente:
Previously featured Kickstarter campaigns still running and unfunded:
- Apocalyptic Horseplay Volume 1 – 4 Days Left
- Slice of Life: A Coming Out Story – 5 Days Left
- Haunted Hill: The Complete vol 3 – 2 Days Left
ALMA Issue #1
What if Buffy was a 72-year-old Grandmother?
lma Bernard was your typical senior citizen working in her yard planting flowers when she is struck by a power from out of the blue that changes her life forever! She passes out with only a neighborhood cat for company but when she wakes up, she finds herself confronting a three-foot-tall talking garden gnome.
What happens when the powers to be decide that the hero of the story, the prince to save the princess, the into every generation is born, is not the hot young guy or girl destined to wield the sword and ride off into the sunset, is going to be someone’s Grandmother this time?
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Kentucky Kaiju: Extended Edition
Kentucky Kaiju is a love letter to giant monster movies that proudly wears it’s influences on it’s sleeve. From the classic Godzilla to the less-than Gorgo, Kentucky Kaiju takes a cue from giant monsters and spins them into the idea that many, many more monsters just happen to roam the bluegrass state.
<The book was created by Justin Stewart, Tressina Bowling and Shawn Pryor. It began as a small, 4.5? x 6? digest-sized book published by Apex Book Company in 2016 and has since gone on to be a best-selling item for the creators at conventions all over the United States.
Each city listed is a completely real place in Kentucky, and each monster the creators made for that city is unique. Each spread features a special Kaiju and lists where they’re from, how big they are and some flavor text filling the reader in on its origins and habits.
The Pinoy Monster Lover Anthology: After Dark
The Beast & Snow #1-2 – A Mature Vampire/Werewolf Romance
The Beast and Snow #2 is a 28-page NSFW Queer Werewolf/Vampire Fairytale Romance with a ton of action, sex and even a bit of comedy brought to you by Kat Calamia and Phil Falco.
MIRKA ANDOLFO DELIVERS VAMPIRELLA BLACK WHITE & BLOOD!
Discover An Incredible New Comic Featuring Mirka Andolfo, Tim Seeley, and Steve Orlando Delivering Cutting Tales of Terror!
Three cutting edge creators come together to deliver a sharp new comic book that drips blood and beauty in a cutting comics masterpiece! Mirka Andolfo, Tim Seeley, and Steve Orlando spin tales that take Vampirella to a new place with art that is slick and kinentic. And the art is presented in stark black, white, and blood (red) making the jagged teeth of this thrilling special even stand out boldly against the page.
But don’t take my word for it…turn the page into Vampirella Black White & Blood…if you dare…
White Ash Annual #1
White Ash & Glarien return with 3 stories set in the White Ash Universe. Urban & High Fantasy collide. Elves, Dwarves & Dragons, Oh my!
- The first of our three stories in our annual features Glarien, the most dangerous elf in nine realms showing the residents of Eqoratha what a dangerous idea it is to interrupt her when she’s on holiday.
- Gregson is back, doing what he does best… surviving. Picking up shortly after the events of White Ash 08, Gregson will need to put aside the trauma of the past to be able to figure out how to deal with the new horror that’s arrived in Pittsburgh.
- And rounding out our annual we head to the 1980’s to join Lillian as she experiences one of the seminal moments in young elf’s life — her first time.
Cool Air #1 – a comic adaptation of the Lovecraft story
Madrid, 1927 – Dolores sits in the sun and begins her tale about the mysterious Dr Munoz whose freezing apartment she lived beneath…
Madrid, 1927. Dolores meets her friend in a café but refuses to sit in the shade. When her friend asks why, she begins to recount her strange encounter with Dr Munoz, four years previously.
Cool Air is loosely adapted and expanded from the HP Lovecraft short story of the same name. When Dolores moves into a new apartment in Madrid, she encounters her mysterious neighbour, Dr Munoz, after a water leak from the apartment above.
Being quite handy with a screwdriver, Dolores agrees to help in the upkeep of the strange machine which almost fills Dr Munoz’s rooms, keeping the temperature at a persistently uncomfortably low level.
Bur Dolores has a secret of her own, one that Dr Munoz might be uniquely able to help her with…
Cool Air 1 is a 28 page comic, part of a 5 issue retelling of the classic Cthulhu Mythos story.
Capable #1-6
The next chapter of ??????? continues in this 24-page full color issue that takes the superhero genre in a new bold direction!!!
Derik Davidson is just an average high school kid. He’s awkward, shy, bullied, and he uses a wheelchair. But one day, Derik suddenly has the ability to run super fast! What will Derik do with his new power and what happens when other people wake up more… capable?!
A silence falls across the globe. Derik has lost his abilities. A vicious and all-powerful entity holds the world at its mercy. With hope seemingly lost, Derik pays a visit to a familiar face who gives him the spark he needs to save everyone.
The Vow: An Adult Queer Horror Graphic Novel
High fantasy and high stakes rivals-to-lovers story set in a world teeming with the occult and the monstrous
The Arcana Imperii is an occult organization dedicated to investigating magical anomalies. With Oz’s prowess as a mage and Lalo’s unusual ability to heal from any wound, they would be ideal Imperium agents… if it weren’t for the fact they can’t stand one another.
These two have been at each other’s throats since they met, but the only thing burning hotter than their rivalry is their repressed desires for one another. Unfortunately for them, their skills mean they’re perfectly suited for the Imperium’s next big undertaking, whether they like it or not.
Oz and Lalo travel to the cold northern kingdom of Sahull, where a monster has been ripping through small villages and stealing brides on their wedding nights. Forced into close quarters on a mission where survival is uncertain, the tension between them builds to an impossible pitch…
…but that’s not the only thing waiting for them in the bitter northern reaches.
The comic is fully inked, greyscaling is in progress, and it’s almost ready for the world. The Vow has always been a passion project and we’re determined to see this book through no matter what, but we’ll need help to make a print run happen.
Books like this — dark fantasy, gory adult comics, emotionally fraught T4T romance — struggle to find a home in traditional publishing. From very early on, we knew that crowdfunding was our best bet for The Vow. With a little help, we can bring it over the finish line and onto your bookshelves.
Roxy – New Romance Comics from the Hottest Creators!
Here is your new obsession. A contemporary romance anthology packed with stories to get your heart racing!
We are now proud to revive the British girls’ romance comic for the modern day. This campaign is to fund the publication of an all-new Roxy anthology featuring four new modern romance stories bound to inspire a whole new generation!
As part of the campaign you can choose from three other exclusive formats including a Retro-style paperback, and two different hardbacks with covers from renowned artists Marguerite Sauvage and Tula Lotay.
- The Getaway Girls by Alex de Campi and Erica Henderson, sees aspiring model Melanie head to Paris in the hopes of making her big break in the Capital of Fashion.
But as soon as she locks eyes on superstar model Hattie of the world-famous Getaway Girls, admiration turns to lust and things go from friendly to flirty. Melanie’s world changes overnight – but what secrets is Hattie hiding from her? And will Melanie notice in time? - Flowers for Agatha is a supernatural tale of lost romance by Sarah Gordon. It’s been almost a decade since the magical Agatha said goodbye to the love of her life, who went into the woods and never returned. On a walk through those very same woods, she finds herself face-to-face with the man she lost. What tragedy befell him in the woods, and can they conjure up a happier ending this time?
A Haunting on Mars #1-#3
A cyberpunk ghost story: A dangerous hacker is captured and forced on a suicide mission into a haunted house on Mars.
Earth’s most dangerous hacker is captured and forced on a suicide mission into a haunted house on Mars.
A Haunting on Mars is a comic book series that blends horror, science fiction, and social commentary. The series is about a corpo team sent to a dead colony on Mars to uncover secrets that cause their sanity to unravel
“Mars was so prosperous, everyone from Earth dreamed of living there. Clean air. Water. Housing. Bio-engineered food. But the ultimate utopia didn’t last…” Now not a single living creature is on Mars. Or that’s what Team Echo has been told.
Mars is a wasteland: A dead colony, founded by a dead billionaire, holding darkness and secrets within. Secrets which Team Echo are sent to uncover. A hacker. A psionic. An empath. A soldier. And their corpo loyalist leader. They’ve crashed far from the LZ and their sanity’s already unraveling!
Supernatural Baby Detective # 2
Supernatural Baby Detective Issue 2 – Adventures in Babysitting Frank is back 2 years old and ready to break this case wide open!
n Issue 1, private investigator Frank Solomon investigated kidnappings that led him to a mysterious island where he faced the crazed Easter Bunny and the horrors of the Deep Ones performing ancient sacrificial rituals. Running for his life, Frank confronted his own mortality.
Get ready to sink your teeth into Supernatural Baby Detective issue 2 – Adventures in Babysitting. Frank just turned 2 years old and he can finally form the words he’s been longing to say. Can he convince his mom Alice who he really is, pick up the investigation of the kidnapped kids, and fight his way past the Easter Bunny? Be one of the first to back SUPERNATURAL BABY DETECTIVE – ISSUE 2: Adventures in Babysitti
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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.