Chad Burdette
Kickstarter isn’t the only place indie creators go to fund their projects. There is Zoop, Indiegogo and Crowdfundr, just to name a few.
We also want to try an highlight those projects that still need a push along with those that are pursuing the fun stretch goals.
- Comic Watch’s Krowdfunding Korner For January 28, 2023
- Comic Watch’s Krowdfunding Korner For February 4, 2023
Nine Lives by Steve Horton & Chris Peterson
It is 1923. Nightclub singer and flapper Cleo has held on to her job longer than anyone for one not-so-simple reason: she can turn water into any kind of alcohol you can think of.
- Current Funding: $2,163
- Funding Goal: $5,000
- Days Left: 27
- Link: Nine Lives
Nine Lives is about nine incarnations of the same woman throughout history, each with different magic powers. and a reincarnated killer that targets each of them. Cleo, the sixth incarnation, is a flapper in 1920s New York with the power to turn water into gin, and that’s just the beginning.
That’s just the beginning of her powers, which are growing at a scary rate and for a good reason: a gangster is out to kill her!
She soon learns that she’s just one of nine reincarnations of the same woman – and her killer reincarnates too! It will take everything she has to come out alive…
Chrome-Dog #1 – Perfect Strangers by Justin K Sweet
Chrome-Dog is Luke Cage meets Altered Carbon with a hint of Ninja Turtles and Blade Runner.
- Current Funding: $2,217
- Funding Goal: $2,500
- Days Left: 19
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Chrome-Dog #1: Perfect Strangers is 32 action-packed pages with elements of cyberpunk, science fiction, and street-level justice by Justin K Sweet. This comic is recommended for ages 10+ for Mild Language, Violence, and Themes.
After awakening in an unfamiliar place, Scratch the Chrome-Dog has no recollection of his former life. However, as if driven by some sort of instinct inside, he assumes the role of a workaholic freelancer in Epsilon City (aka Sector Epsilon). Scratch finds himself working contract jobs among clean-up crews, event security staffers, criminals, detectives, and he has even landed a day job as mascot for Cerulean Park near the Gossamer Bay pier.
One day while selling plushies to carnival patrons on the midway, Scratch sees two park employees commit a crime that he simply cannot abide. Little does he know, Scratch’s next move might just determine his destiny here in Epsilon City…
Alma The Champion
What if Buffy was a 72-year-old Grandmother?
- Current Funding: $585
- Funding Goal: $4,500
- Days Left: 18
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Alma 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 that 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?
Alma is the answer.
Tyrone is the garden gnome, but more importantly, he is the eternal companion to the Champion of Life, the person granted the powers to fight off the monsters, the zombies, the vampires, and the other creatures that go bump in the night. Even he is surprised when he realizes that this 72-year-old person has been given the powers of the Champion!
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Hairology: A Celebration of Hair!
A comic anthology all about HAIR! (Foreword by Gail Simone) Natural Hair, Balding, Transitioning, Body Hair, Cancer, Dye, and MORE!
- Current Funding: $6,398
- Funding Goal: $18,000
- Days Left: 26
- Link Hairology: A Celebration of All Hair Types
Everybody has their own unique and deeply personal relationship with their hair, so we wanted to create a platform for creators to tell their diverse stories. Collecting twelve original stories from over twenty creators, Hairology tackles diverse topics including cancer, transitioning, balding, and locs across a wide spectrum of genres which includes: sci-fi, modern fantasy, dystopia, and even werewolves!
Kat Calamia, Phil Falco (Bi Visibility: A Bisexual Anthology) and Jamila Rowser (Wash Day Diaries) unite to bring you a brand-new comic book anthology: HAIROLOGY! With a foreword from the legendary, Gail Simone (Batgirl, Birds of Prey).
There are 20+ involved creators, with the likes of Sterling Gates (Supergirl, The Flash), Sarah Leuver (Teen Titans Go!), Kenan Halilovi? (WEBTOON’s Witch Creek Road), Tilly & Susan Bridges (Monster High, Star Trek Adventures), Mary Crispies (WEBTOON’s Angel’s Quest), Erin O’Neill Jones (Reject Squad), Brant Fowler (Last Ember Press), Salomée Luce-Antoinette (Nubia), and many more!
Collecting twelve (12) original stories, Hairology tackles diverse topics including natural hair, cancer, transitioning, body hair, dye, balding, and locs across a wide spectrum of genres which includes: action, slice of life, sci-fi, modern fantasy, autobiography, dystopia, and even werewolves!
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CHICKEN: Battered & Fried
The sequel to USDA REJECTED is here! Join Chicken and friends as he goes on a journey of life, death, and rebirth…in sunny Florida!
- Current Funding: $2,750
- Funding Goal: $5,000
- Days Left: 21
- Link CHICKEN: Battered & Fried
Back around 2009, my stepdad brought home a stuffed chicken from his job at county waste management. He slapped him down and asked if I wanted him. I perplexedly replied, “Sure”, and there he sat for in my bedroom, collecting dust, for nearly a year, when I decided to start dressing him in cosplay and bringing him to comic shows as my sidekick/mascot at my artist alley booths. The stares of confusion were numerous, but over time he became a bit of a mainstay. Fans and folks began to ask me, “WHEN IS HE GETTING HIS OWN COMIC?” My reply was usually that I’d think about it when I finished Space Tales, a long-running comic series I was embroiled with at the time.
In 2015, I gave Chicken his first promo poster to let people know that I was seriously considering it. When I finished the last chapter, and put out my trade paperback, of IMPOSSIBLE SPACE TALES OF THE LAST PIT STOP in 2018, I began labor on what would become CHICKEN: USDA REJECTED, Chicken’s first adventure.
Without giving too much away, I can best sum up this tale as “What if John Waters had produced an episode of The New Scooby Doo Adventures”. It starts off in Richmond as Chicken and I are about to head off to a comic con up north. I “accidentally” leave him behind and thus the impetus of an cross-state misadventure begins!
Join Chicken as he winds up in Florida alongside a returning Monsignor Larry as they go on tour with the worlds greatest Hardcore Horror Punk band, BEULAH LUGOSI & THE EX-WIVES OF DRACULA and work together to defeat the mysterious, PHANTOM OF THE PHONE BOOK DISTRIBUTION CENTER!
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Sunmaker #1-3: Frozen Apocalyptic Fantasy Final Chapter
One man must decide if preserving his legacy is worth becoming a monster.
- Current Funding: $2,137
- Funding Goal: $5,800
- Days Left: 20
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A great cataclysm has left the world concealed in snow and ice. To protect what was left of their culture, the Sunmakers sealed themselves away from the doomed world. Now their numbers have dwindled, and Tibhan, the last of the Sunmakers, must risk everything by returning to the desolate wastes to fuel the fire that preserves his people’s essence.
Even if the cost is great and unthinkable.
This is the third and final chapter of a three-issue mini-series.
Sunmaker is for those who like their fantasy dark, with thematic undertones, and who want some color in their apocalypse!
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Rancidville: An Odious End – A teen centric mystery comedy
In a decrepit town, an orphaned teen and his two friends investigate a greedy town council to solve a murder mystery.
- Current Funding: $3,799
- Funding Goal: $5, 800
- Days Left: 20
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After a tragedy affects his family, Nathaniel Wicket moves to a decrepit town called Rancidville where he quickly makes friends with two other teens (Alice and Shane) and the trio uncover a mystery involving the town council, his uncle and his parents.
In order to investigate the corrupt town council, Nathaniel, Alice and Shane sneak through the sewers to try and break into the Town Council Building and are met with disastrous results. Alice and Shane are cutoff from Nathaniel but eventually meet up with Uncle Daryl, who plans a rescue. But a fight between brothers, dampens Daryls plans of an easy escape.
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Is’nana the Were-Spider: Drums of Ogoun
The son of Anansi must survive a night of zombies, were-creatures, and an African dinosaur all sprung by the Haitian God of War, Ogoun!
- Current Funding: $10,457
- Funding Goal: $11,000
- Days Left: 25
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Accidentally breaking a barrier between our world and theirs (called THE MOTHER KINGDOM), Is’nana (the son of Anansi the Spider God of Stories) accepts the responsibility for releasing creatures of horror into our reality, villains who want nothing more but to cause chaos and mayhem to achieve their own diabolical or selfish goals. With guidance from his father, Is’nana not only strives to live up to his father’s name but to also reach his own potential while he seeks to discover his individuality and place in the world.
After being awoken by mysterious nightmares, Is’nana finds himself plagued by the drumming of the Haitian Loa and Orisha God of War and Iron, Ogoun. A night of chaos ensues as the God of War tests Is’nana’s mettle in a series of challenges, such as zombies…
This issue also features a backup story featuring the art of Blossom Blair, my baby sister in her first comic book release!
Back up story, MESSAGES FROM A GODDESS, features Erzulie Freda, the Haitian Goddess of Love and Beauty, meeting our hero with a special message you won’t want to miss!
the main mission of Is’nana the Were-Spider is to serve as a way to introduce audiences to folklore, mythological, and spiritual figures from various Black cultures and beliefs.
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Fully Funded Kickstarters Worth A Look
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That’s a wrap for this week from us, but 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.
