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.
This week, along with 2 new projects, one from Zoop and the other GREGOR! on Kickstarter, we look at a few active campaigns ending soon that need that final push
We Are Scarlet Twilight #4 and Hardcover Collection by Benjamin Morse
Gorgeously presented in Benjamin Morse’s inimitable artistic style, as he writes, pencils, inks, and colors the entire series, it’s the next chapter of the thrilling cyberpulp adventure, along with the exclusive collection of all four epic issues into a deluxe hardcover with 20+ pages of extra material!
Current Funding: $
Funding Goal: $3,000
Days Left: 27
Link: We Are Scarlet Twilight #4 and Hardcover Collection
GREGOR!
The epic space adventure, GREGOR! is now live on Kickstarter! Written and drawn by Best-selling author, TEDx speaker, and Ringo Award nominee, David Trustman (GODSlap, The Memory Arts), GREGOR! incorporates mnemonic devices to make American Sign Language (ASL) learning more accessible; this is the perfect aid to learning vocabulary, using wild and fun imagery to make information more memorable
Current Funding: $1,528
Funding Goal: $15,000
Days Left: 27
Link: GREGOR!
Gregor was once the greatest fighter the universe had ever known. When the Aliens had come to Earth, Gregor — along with every other captive — was deafened, physically enhanced, and made to fight in a massive tournament. It’s been almost one hundred and fifty years since he came home. No one really remembers him. When his best friend Bear shows up in a stolen alien spaceship claiming Gregor’s dead girlfriend is alive, Gregor jumps at the chance to find her… and maybe help her save the universe as well.
GREGOR! is a comic that is an out of this world story about friendship, love and misunderstandings–and if you so choose, it will also help readers begin their journey to learning and loving American Sign Language.
Trustman’s idea for GREGOR! came from his not finding what he wanted to read. You see, his son had just begun wrestling and they were looking for a means to communicate across the gym. We looked at Indian Sign Language but found spoken English ASL made far more sense. After scouring the Internet for books, and comics. Trustman found books teaching signing, comics with deaf characters and even ONE notable comic that had a good deal of signing. but he wanted more.
GREGOR! campaign is so cool that it incorporates mnemonic devices to make American Sign Language (ASL) learning more accessible; this is the perfect aid to learning vocabulary, using wild and fun imagery to make information more memorable.
Alma The Champion
What if Buffy was a 72-year-old Grandmother?
- Current Funding: $935
- Funding Goal: $4,500
- Days Left: 4
- Link Alma The Champion
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: $10,701
- Funding Goal: $18,000
- Days Left: 13
- 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: $4,609
- Funding Goal: $5,000
- Days Left: 7
- 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: $3,129
- Funding Goal: $5,800
- Days Left: 6
- Link Sunmaker #1-3: Frozen Apocalyptic Fantasy Final Chapter
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: $4,600
- Funding Goal: $5, 800
- Days Left: 6
- Link Rancidville: An Odious End
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.
MISFITZ CLUBHOUSE: Sharks, Dragons & Little Red Wagons! by Matt Knowles & Steph Cannon
Meeky Ferry Slothie & Stig are BACK! And they’re in for a BEACH bashing, DRAGON befriending, BRUCE MCTOOTHERSON watching blast!
- Current Funding: $1,939
- Funding Goal: $2,000
- Days Left: 12
- Link Misfitz Clubhouse: Sharks, Dragons & Little Red Wagons!
Meeky, Ferry, Slothie, and Stig are BACK! And they’re in for a BEACH bashing, DRAGON befriending, BRUCE MCTOOTHERSON watching blast!
Four short stories make up this issue, where we’ll see the kids in adventures on the ocean’s shore, having to confront a fearsome dragon, plus for the first time ever we’ll get to see the debut of their very favorite episodic adventure show: Bruce McTootherson – Aquatic Investigator! We even get to debut a cover from former Disney animator Peter Raymundo!
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Onti: A Sapphic + Martial Arts Webcomic / Graphic Novel
An action-fantasy about 3 close friends and their martial arts journey, queer relationships, work-life and dealing with corruption.
- Current Funding: $ 2,594
- Funding Goal: $14,340
- Days Left: 18
- Link Onti: A Sapphic + Martial Arts Webcomic / Graphic Novel
An action-fantasy about three close friends and their martial arts journey, queer relationships, work-life, and dealing with corruption.
Onti is a longform webcomic/graphic novel featuring a main cast of mostly queer Black characters who practice martial arts with Elements. Set in a fictional city called Ocho, close friends Aariyah, Jaylin, and Keisha‘s largely peaceful life of leisure, hanging out, and martial arts training is uprooted by their work-life responsibilities, and increasing numbers of dangerous gang members using their elemental abilities in abnormally powerful ways to cause trouble in the city and their local community.
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That’s a wrap for this week from us, 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.