Chad Burdette
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ENTHEOS: Ages
This collection of stylized artwork and writing explores 3 distinct ages of the world’s history. Discover how a thriving ancient civilization became a devastated and divided land. Ponder the exact nature of the “moon”. Witness how humanity and nature are warped and changed drastically, yet still persist.It’s Berserk meets Nausicaa of the Valley of the Wind, with art nouveau and illuminated manuscript inspired aesthetics.
Oil & Water: The Art of Dave Dorman
Dave Dorman’s first in a series of high quality art collections, featuring work from his over 40 years as a painter in the Fantastic Illustration field. The art will include both major and minor pieces from his vast involvement of many comics, toys, books, movies, and games projects. Artwork including STAR WARS, ALIENS, BATMAN, Magic the Gathering, GI Joe, and many more. Most shown here for the first time uncluttered by logos and uncropped. Also will include many unpublished personal pieces he has created for himself over the years. Dave Dorman is proud to offer this self curated book showcasing work in the fields and genres he has loved since he was a kid.
Dave will also be painting two new pieces live on his Facebook page (times to be announced). Both paintings will be included in the book and for sale on the campaign. Final art will be posted when finished, and both will be finished before the campaign ends!
Behind the Horror and Death: Nosferatu
Switchblade Shorties
Befor hover parents, children ran wild. The wildest of these feral children were the Switchblade Shorties, operating as a kind of foul-mouthed, irreverent Our Gang: “Sodapop” Tanner, Pinky Winslow, Sheena Belvedere, “Charly Horse” Kinison and Foster Lambert. When their friend Petey Wheatcakes disappears, the Switchblade Shorties turn off their video games and try to find him. Instead, they encounter aliens, Bigfoot, werewolves, and more in this twisted ode to the 1990s – an era before the internet destroyed our imaginations.
Earlier this year, the comics world lost a singular unique voice with the untimely passing of Ed Piskor. To celebrate his life and legacy, his family are picking up where he left off. They have united together to release his final unpublished work, Switchblade Shorties, as a gorgeous hardcover that fans of Ed’s work will not want to miss. Originally appearing as the backup strip Latchkey Kidz in Piskor’s Red Room, the strip was retitled Switchblade Shorties when officially launched online as its own daily comic strip.
The landscape formatted 12×9 hardcover book contains over 176 pages of Ed Piskor at his best. The book is written, drawn, colored and lettered by Piskor alone. His family has taken great measures to make this release as special as possible and ensure that the book is being presented exactly as Ed had originally intended.
Piskor’s family has been instrumental in ensuring the legacy of Ed Piskor remains a vibrant one in the world of comics, and that his contributions will be remembered for a long time to come.
The Life and Death of the Brave Captain Suave
The Life and Death of the Brave Captain Suave is a metatextual comic book series about a homeless man living in Cleveland, Ohio that believes he is an actual superhero.
Written by Joseph Sieracki and drawn by Kelly Williams, Captain Suave is a modern take on Don Quixote, and is collected here for the very first time in a beautiful upgraded softcover!
A homeless man that thinks he’s a superhero befriends an ex-nursing student with a penchant for drugs on the streets of Cleveland, Ohio. The unlikely pair find themselves bouncing from one mishap to another, all while trying to make a small but positive difference in the lives of those they encounter. A hero the city neither needs nor deserves, Captain Suave is a man out of time determined to be a Golden Age superhero. Not unlike Don Quixote of Cervantes’s classic tale, this hero will straddle the line between insanity and benevolence.
Along with his sidekick, Champ, Captain Suave will battle the imaginary forces of evil threatening the fair city of Cleveland. Stopping a wind turbine he mistakes for a hydra from demolishing the city, saving unwitting damsels in distress, and even thwarting real-life robbers, no evildoer is safe from the awesome and quixotic might of Captain Suave!
Why is this important?
A singular take on the superhero genre: Paying tribute to Cleveland’s storied history in comic books, Captain Suave is a hero like no other. Though he is only a superhero of the mind, he will show readers that it doesn’t take superpowers to do what’s right and help others.
Classic literary elements: Blending Golden Age superheroes with Don Quixote, this is a modern take on the Miguel de Cervantes classic, sure to excite both comic book and classic literature readers alike.
Unique visuals: Incorporating both hand-painted watercolors and digital coloring, different artistic styles depict the hero’s fantasy versus what’s happening in reality on the page. Employing a digital dot pattern evoking a Golden Age style of comic book coloring, what the hero believes is happening has a distinctly different feel from the real, painted world.
Jacked Tracts
Jacked Tracts is a spirited satire of those notorious Christian comic tracts that thrilled and traumatized American kids throughout the late 20th Century. Its rollicking reexamination of these comics from a contemporary perspective is sure to delight believers and heathens alike! The 10 X 6 hardcover book is 148 pages long, and features work by 74 talented artists from around the world.
JACKED TRACTS is edited by cartoonist Danny Hellman, a contributor to DC Comics, Fantagraphics and countless other publications. Hellman also edited and published the critically-acclaimed alternative comics anthologies Legal Action Comics Volumes 1 & 2, and TYPHON.
Support the campaign for JACKED TRACTS now, lest ye be eternally damned!
Ginger Origins
Ginger Origins is an 48-page oversized graphic novel. It follows the internal struggles of Ginger Cat Nr 9 who is dealing with anxiety and exclusion of a tuxedo cat dominated society.
This second edition includes brand new extra content like back stories, a prologue, and has additional content created by artists Michiel Walrave, Johan Kleinjan, Gees Voorhees and Yvonne Gaemers. It also includes a Soundtrack composed by YobKiss released on cassette tape, seven inch, and digital download by South Korean based label Extra Noir. This is an edition you don’t want to miss out on!
This 48-page oversized graphic novel. It follows the internal struggles of Ginger Cat Nr 9 who is dealing with anxiety and exclusion in a Tuxedo Cat-dominated society. His mentor Mau Cat is revealed to be an untrustworthy cat who scams ginger cats and drinks ginger meow tears in his free time. The struggles for Ginger Cat Nr. 9 are real though, and his visits to his therapists seem to have no positive results. Is he really the orange cat he thinks he is, and is his wish to fit into the Tuxedo Cat society just a fear of being himself?
This second edition includes extra content like back stories, a prologue and has additional content created by artists Michiel Walrave, Johan Kleinjan, Gees Voorhees and Yvonne Gaemers. It also includes a soundtrack composed by me, YobKiss, released on cassette tape and digital download by South Korean label Extra Noir. There will also be a 7” record of the Pistache & Mustache track, available for early backers of this project.
When I look back at the original risograph I published in 2018, I saw a bunch of things I wanted to improve in this new edition. For instance, I didn’t like the digital speech bubbles I made in InDesign and I didn’t particularly like the font I used, so I’ve redone all the speech bubbles and lettering. Generally speaking, the risograph has a nice aesthetic quality but I found that a lot of the details got lost. So this remastered issue will provide a better quality while still having some of the tactile reproduced qualities I liked about the risograph. In addition to all this I drew an extra story about Pistache and Moustache, two cats who are acid house producers and get messed up.
I hope you’ll enjoy it as much as I do and thank you so much for your support. You are truly the people who keep comics alive!
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The PANICK Primer Pack
Get in on the ground floor of PANICK Entertainment – a new horror and dark sci-fi genre publishing and entertainment company with our first official project – The PANICK PRIMER PACK. Founded by a team of comic and entertainment industry veterans, PANICK Entertainment is poised to reshape genre storytelling with its slate of bold, original content and unflinching approach to storytelling. The PANICK Primer Pack gives horror and comic fans an exclusive sneak peek at our upcoming lineup in formats that will be exclusive to ZOOP.
This unique bundle includes compelling Zoop exclusive covers, unavailable anywhere else, of PANICK’s three launch titles: T.A.M.A. #1, SAVAGER #1 and BLACK DIAMOND #1! That’s three number one issues! Each entirely unique, primed to push boundaries, delivering upon PANICK’s brand of immersive, disturbing and captivating stories. Don’t miss out on these sure-to-be collectors item debut issues.
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- P UM´KIDS – 2 Days Left
- Frankenstein the Unconquered #1-5 – Series Finale – 17 Days Left
- Mobster Mash #1 – Classic Movie Monsters as Mobsters! – 19 Days Left
Previously featured, fully funded Kickstarters Worth A Look and Support:
- Ernest & the Dream Stone – 5 Days Left
- The Hydra #1: Action-packed MMA/Superhero comic! – 5 Days Left
- The X-Men Art of Andy Kubert – 5 Days Left
- Too Much Coffee Man Saves the Universe (and other mistakes) – 5 Days Left
- BATTLECATS — Complete Oversized Omnibus & Soundtrack! – 10 Days Left
- Transformers 40th Anniversary Limited Edition Trading Cards – 13 Days Left
- THE LEGEND OF KINGDOM COME – Alex Ross Documentary – 21 Days Left
- Pirates: A Graphic History (But not THAT kind of graphic) – 19 Days Left
- Boston Metaphysical Society: Vol. 2 Special Edition Hardback – 19 Days Left
- PRIVATE DANCE #1-4: spicy comic where fantasy & reality meet – 5 Days Left
- The Ex-Wives of Frankenstein 1-4 (Series Finale) – 10 Days Left
unSEEN/unHEARD: Disability & Neurodivergence Comic Anthology
A 64-page comic anthology amplifying underrepresented voices in the disability and neurodivergent communities.
It was vital to us that stories about neurodivergent people and those with disabilities be told by people with those conditions. Similarly, creators with these conditions often find it difficult to make comics consistently, from financial barriers to constant interruptions to the creative process because their energy must go to simply…existing. As such, we wanted to produce this anthology to give those who might not usually get to tell their stories a platform to do so.
The anthology covers a wide spectrum of conditions: AuDHD, Ankylosing Spondilitis, Traumatic Brain Injury, Dyslexia, Spinal Cord Injury, Misophonia associated with Autism Spectrum Disorder, Obsessive Compulsive Disorder, Tourette Syndrome, Blindness, Fibromyalgia, CPTSD, and more.
Furthermore, intersectionality and representation of other marginalized communities is a pillar of Unseen Alchemy Publishing. As such, expect to see 2SLGBTQIA+ and BIPOC representation in our stories.
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Bixby Grant: Fangs & Brimstone #1-2: A Supernatural Mystery
Murders pile up as Bix and Diego avoid the cops, interrogate a cat burglar, meet a demon dog and discover the contents of…The Vault!
BIXBY GRANT, PRIVATE EYE: FANGS & BRIMSTONE IS A 30-PAGE COMIC BOOK. The full-color comic contains a Kickstarter-exclusive 20-page original story and a never-before seen 8-page back-up story.
Written by Patrick Coyle, with main story art by Gonzalo Martínez, colors by Arthur Hesli, and backup story art by Gonzalo Ruggieri, the 30 Page second issue of FANGS & BRIMSTONE stars everyone’s favorite mummy detective, Bixby Grant!
Tension is high in Harbor City: Four volunteers from the corrupt Mayor’s re-election campaign have been found dead, killed in elaborate cult ceremonies. The Mayor and his supporters blame the supernatural citizens of Harbor City for the killings, making every monster in city limits a suspect – including our heroes, Bixby Grant and Diego the rockabilly vampire! Bix dodges the cops, seeks help from old friends, and shakes down a cat burglar to try and solve this case before another body turns up. But will Bix’s personal history with the murder weapon cause him to push things too far, igniting the powder keg that is Harbor City?
It’s Hellboy meets The Spirit, with the tone of Batman: The Animated Series
White Ash 1-8
The long running hit fantasy series about Elves and Dwarves in Pennsylvania returns with an ALL-NEW 44 page issue.
White Ash is an ongoing, urban fantasy comic book series written by Charlie Stickney, with art by Conor Hughes, Julian Shaw, Tango and colors by Fin Cramb.
First launched on Kickstarter in 2017, White Ash is one of the longest running and most popular series on the platform. With over 500 pages of story so far, now is the perfect time to join us.
This campaign, we are raising funds for the 44 page, White Ash: Chapter 08.
In Chapter One, we met Aleck the son of a coal miner, who’d been counting down the hours till he could get the hell out of town and head off to college. Because shockingly, the last thing Aleck wanted out of his life, was to be… a coal miner.
But an apparent accident at the mine where his father was injured, stalled Aleck’s exit, setting him down a life-altering path.
And from there, things got CRAZY (that’s where all the fantasy elements come in) We can’t really tell you too much without getting into heavy SPOILER TERRITORY.
Pots & Panels: A Comic Book Anthology and Cookbook
A 440 Page food-themed graphic novel anthology featuring stories and recipes from over 80 of your favorite comic creators!
This massive tome spotlights some of the comic book industry’s top mainstream and independent creators including:
- Tim Seeley (Local Man, Hack/Slash, Nightwing)
- Steven Grant (Punisher, Batman, Daredevil)
- Phil Hester (Green Arrow, Gotham: Year One, Firebreather)
- Andy Kuhn (Firebreather, Secret Avengers, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles)
- Steve Niles (Thirty Days Of Night, Batman) Ron Marz (Green Lantern, Silver Surfer),
- Hilary Barta (Uncanny X-Men, Plastic Man),
- Ellie Egleton (Lower Your Sights),
- Jason Michalski (Northern Blood, Skullmasher),
- Chuck Satterlee (Of Bitter Souls, King Kong),
- Nicole D’Andria (Road Trip to Hell),
- Travis Gibb (Granite State Punk, Cthulhu Invades),
- Trey Baldwin (Upperdeck, Monsterwax),
- Neil Kleid (Brownsville, Savor),
- Luis Morocho (Marvel Voices),
- Richard Fairgray (Four-Color Heroes, Octopus),
- Daimon Hampton (DC Comics Milestone Initiative),
- Brendan Deneen (Guardians of the Galaxy, Aliens),
- Austin Janowsky (Iron Man, Stanley The Snowman),
- Antonio Rojo (Northern Blood, Serpent Wars),
- Eric Palicki (Black’s Myth, Atlantis Wasn’t Built for Tourists),
- Mario Candelaria (Killchella),
- Austin Allen Hamblin (Big Guns Stupid Rednecks, Holiday Spirits 3),
- Markisan Naso (By The Horns)
- Carmelo Chimera (Magnificent, Cellar Door) and many more!
Pots and Panels: A Comic Cook Book Anthology is a 440+ page, FULL-COLOR GRAPHIC NOVEL in Standard American comic size, printed on high-quality gloss paper.
- 50 original stories created exclusively for this anthology
- 60+ recipes contributed by the creators
- Creator’s signatures available as rewards
- Exclusive limited-edition items for backers at higher pledge levels
- 440 pages
- Hardcover, Softcover & Digital Versions
The Bucket Brigade: The Weekly Roll Volume 1
The first collected edition of CME_T’s comic strip that follows the exploits of a party of adventurers.
The Bucket Brigade is the first collected volume of The Weekly Roll, a four-panel TTRPG-webcomic that follows the titular Bucket Brigade, an adventuring party of a paladin war criminal who tries to keep the party in line, a mushroom-addicted sorcerer and his murderous fighter girlfriend, and a Warlock with an old testament angel patron and a libertarian necromancer wanted for tax evasion. The series follows the party’s adventures as they walk the fine line that most adventuring parties tow: wandering heroes saving the realms from monsters and horrors beyond mortal ken and just being a bunch of homeless vagrant psychopaths with low impulse control with a ridiculous amount of unchecked power.
The goal of the Kickstarter is to get the comic formatted for print and into your hands as quickly as possible! The more we raise the more stretch goals are unlocked. The stretch goals will be revealed as the campaign progresses and when they unlock we’ll reveal the next ones. We think everyone will be pleasantly surprised by each!
So, what am I getting for my pledge? All backers at the $24 tier will receive the softcover graphic novel, printed at 5.7″x8.2″ and featuring approximately 150 episodes across 160+ pages of content!
ATOMIC ROBO AND THE AGENTS OF C.H.A.N.G.E.
Atomic Robo’s worst villains strike while he’s out of town on another mission, so it’s up to Dr. Dinosaur to save the day (big mistake)
Unfortunately for Robo, some of his greatest villains have teamed up to destroy him, his students, and the new Tesladyne! Unfortunately for them, Robo had already left a few hours before they showed up. That leaves Margot, Olivia, Ben, and PROFESSOR DOCTOR DINOSAUR stuck doing a Home Alone thing vs. Tyrantula, a Helsingard, and Undead Edison!
We would like to make a fancy hardcover edition of this story. It’ll look something like…
The Comics Courier, A New Comics Criticism Journal
A newspaper-format journal dedicated to in-depth comics criticism edited by Tiffany Babb
Comics criticism is in a dire spot. Spaces for writing about comics are disappearing at a worrisome pace, and more than ever, comics critics need support – and a place to write.
The Comics Courier is a new biannual print newspaper edited by Tiffany Babb (Popverse, PanelxPanel). The first issue will feature essays and reviews from critics Douglas Wolk, Hassan Otsmane-Elhaou, Tiffany Babb, Dave Baker, Carrie McClain, Sean Dillon, Kat Calamia, Lisa and Brad Gullickson, Liam McGuire, Jim McDermott, and Lillie Hochwender.
Our core goal is to create a space for serious (and silly) writing about comics and to share our love for the medium, the creators, and the comics themselves. Thank you for your support.
Day of the Dead Girl Special Edition
Kickstarter Special Edition Hardcover with exclusive behind-the-scenes bonus content!
Geek-Girl #1 Deluxe – plus all issues & TPBs.
Super-heroes meets mean girls plus weirdness in the Geek-Girl ongoing series!
DRACULA: BOOK II–THE BRIDES Graphic Novel
Legendary comic creators Matt Wagner, Kelley Jones, and José Villarrubia present the secret history of Dracula
The first volume of Wagner and Jones’s DRACULA saga was a runaway hit, breaking the Top 20 in Kickstarter’s all-time most successful graphic novel campaigns. DRACULA: BOOK II—THE BRIDES presents 120 pages of sexy and sinister story and art, almost 30 pages longer than BOOK I. Wagner and Jones are once again joined for this creepy foray into the shadows of Castle Dracula by the stellar talents of José Villarrubia on colors and lettering by Rob Leigh.
This campaign is the only source for these beautiful, European-album sized hardcover editions of this book as well as our other exceptional rewards tiers. Back this project today and ensure your copy of these incredible exclusive editions!
Demon City vol 1: Hell on Earth
Death has been murdered. Now no one can die! A horror / crime story for mature readers who like Hellboy, Lethal Weapon, & Lovecraft!
The apocalypse has happened. For thirty minutes, demons spewed forth from the ground and it seemed like the world was coming to an end. And then suddenly, without warning…it just stopped.
It’s a premature apocalypse, I’m told it happens to everybody.
Three years later: Sheila Garcia is a Chicago detective who has a streak of being reckless. Like she has some kind of death wish. No one wants to partner with her. So she’s assigned Horace Nightengale as her new partner – the first demon detective.
Just as they’re starting to get along, they catch their first case. Which is the last homicide that will ever happen.
Why would someone kill Death? And what kind of hell breaks loose now that he’s dead?
Demon City is a 168 page full color deluxe hardcover graphic novel for mature readers.
A horror / crime noir / buddy cop story. For readers who love movies like Lethal Weapon, Bad Boys, and Die Hard – but with a supernatural twist, like HellBoy, Blade, or Bright.
THE BREACH #1 from Screenwriter Rylend Grant
BLACK MIRROR-esque sci-fi from the Ringo Award-winning creator of THE JUMP, ABERRANT, BANJAX, and THE PEACEKEEPERS.
Young Men in Love: New Romance
The return of the Ringo Award and GLAAD Media Award winning anthology. New Stories, New Romance!
This is a follow up to the award-winning first volume, which won the GLAAD Media Award, a Ringo Award, a Gayming Mag Award, and was nominated for a Dwayne McDuffie Diversity in Comics Award.
While it isn’t necessary to read the first volume to enjoy this new collection, we have made it available as well. We’re also offering the new book with two different covers, both by the amazingly talented Ricardo Bessa!
ILLuminati: A Thriller Where Hip-Hop & Comics Collide
Charlamagne Tha God & AWA present a supernatural story by groundbreaking Black creators — featuring homage art to seminal albums!
The ILLuminati will be revealed…
In partnership with Charlamagne Tha God, one of the most influential voices in hip-hop and pop culture, AWA Studios brings you a relentless supernatural thriller that tackles head-on the most enduring urban legend: THE BLACK ILLUMINATI.
ILLuminati brings together some of the most prolific and award-winning creators in comics including acclaimed writer Bryan Edward Hill, legendary artist Denys Cowan, Eisner Hall of Fame artist Bill Sienkiewicz, with cover by award-winning artist Sanford Greene, and five all-star variant cover artists who pay tribute to seminal hip-hop album covers selected by Charlamagne himself.
The graphic novel merges the worlds of hip-hop and comics in a pulse-pounding supernatural thriller. With a passion for riveting storytelling that showcases authentic hip-hop culture, Charlamagne and the AWA team worked to bring some of the greatest and most influential Black talent together to create this original story. We hope that you will support and encourage this unique showcase of their artistry.
STORY SUMMARY: Los Angeles has its secrets and fame has a price. When a rising hip-hop star dies under mysterious circumstances, her twin sister, a young woman with psychic abilities, journeys to the City of Angels for answers and becomes enmeshed in a dark conspiracy that snakes its way through the pillars of power, fame, and pop culture.
