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
Free For All
It’s the newest release from the creator of IDW’s hottest-selling indie comic of 2023/2024, BENEATH THE TREES WHERE NOBODY SEES.
Welcome to the future. The world is at peace and thriving. Housing, food, education, healthcare… all of the basic requirements for living are now provided for by the World Finance League, and it’s all funded by a lottery. Wealthy citizens of the world are picked at random and given the choice to either donate half of their assets for the greater good of the world, or fight to the death to keep it all. Among these trillionaire gladiators, two former lovers square off in this global arena to settle their differences once and for all.
Regardless of who lives or dies, we all win.
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Upcoming Projects:
Previously featured campaigns still running and unfunded:
- THE ELF WITH NO NAME #1-2: – 6 Days Left
Previously featured, fully funded Kickstarters Worth A Look and Support:
- The End of All: Terminus 1+2- 24 interior pages! – 13 Days Left
- Evie and the Helsings #1–3 – 4 Days Left
- ESSENTIALS, An Original Graphic Novel – 5 Days Left
- The Marvel Art of RUSSELL DAUTERMAN—Deluxe Hardcover – 5 Days Left
- Child of Darkness Agony – 5 Days Left
- Miskatonic High – Volume 3: The Lost Souls – 12 Days Left
- Kevin Maguire’s Tanga vs the Kaiju of Cammera – 6 Days Left
- Wet Cement 1: An Atmospheric Coming-of-Age Horror – 3 Days Left
- No One Can Know I Don’t Like Sex – An aro/ace humor comic – 20 Days Left
- Succulent: Trans-Inclusive Sapphic Comics Anthology – 8 Days Left
- A Ghost Arm Made of Angry Ghosts – 8 Days Left
- SECTION VII | Cases of the Strange & Unnatural – Season 2 – 8 Days Left
- Blood n Concrete 1-4 A supernatural gangster horror comedy. – 12 Days Left
- Outbreak Park – 12 Days Left
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American Greatness #1
The last 8 years of American politics, distilled into a revolting, thousand-foot tall monster tromping through the American heartland.
Deep within the suburban jungle of Cincinnati, a monster has emerged, bursting out of the Rumpke Sanitary Landfill. Taking its name from its birthplace, Rumpke is a thousand feet tall, has revolting personal habits, and might be vaguely familiar to readers, considering his orange-tinged hair and proportionally tiny hands. What do Americans do when such a creature appears, lumbers around at random, and occasionally defiles a local landmark? For millions, the choice is obvious – worship it.
New York journalist Fred Millard is assigned to report on the exploits of the monster, his bizarre fandom, and the ludicrous internet conspiracy theories that have caught fire since his appearance. Fred quickly learns that the absurdity of Rumpke’s fandom leads to more serious consequences than mere internet hysteria – when serious illness starts to spread in those closest to the monster, its biggest fans refuse to follow the government’s guidance of masking and social distancing, worsening the outbreak. And most appalling of all, one conspiracy theory inspires a violent mob to assemble in Washington, DC and assault a federal building, with deadly results.
A funhouse-mirror reflection of modern American politics, AMERICAN GREATNESS is a raunchy and hilarious political satire comic series. With art by Seb Valencia, it was written for all of us who are exhausted, baffled, and even terrified by the insanity of American politics in recent times.
AMERICAN GREATNESS #1 is the first issue of a planned five or six issue series that distills modern American politics into a revolting, thousand-foot monster, tromping through the heartland of America.
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American Yakuza – NSFW Murder Mystery Adventure (Act 1 of 5)
Join us on a violent, sexy trip to Japan to solve a murder. It’s Succession meets John Wick, Tokyo Vice, and MAX’s Warrior!
Xavier has to travel to Japan when his business partner is killed. He uncovers a plot of backstabbing and debauchery that he might wish he left alone.
Okay, so the full title is I Invested in an International Conglomerate & Went from an MMA Champion to Becoming the First-Ever American Yakuza, but you already figured that out. So, what is this?
Glad you asked! American Yakuza, for short, is the first Mature Audiences title from Xion Studios and our first non-supers book. It’s also a title that features our first major collaboration with fellow indie comicbook creators Anthony (Tap or Die) Stokes and Chris (I Summoned a Demon and She’s Kinda My Type) Moses.
The mystery will unfold throughout 100+ pages of action, intrigue, and entertainment across 5 issues/acts in this mature audiencesoriginal series.
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SCAB by Steve Niles and Jim Whiting
A boy, his zombie, and the end of the human race.
A boy, his zombie, and the end of the human race.
It has been years since the outbreak of the zombie plague. A boy known only as SCAB roams atop the ruins of the Washington district, believing he and the undead Quigley to be the last of their kind. When a group of scavengers arrives, SCAB’s world is torn apart. The end of the human race may not come from war or the zombie plague, but at the hands of a boy.
Remastered from the original artwork with additional material.
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21 DOWN COLLECTION – PLUS ONE!
The hit Wildstorm series 21 DOWN from PALMIOTTI & GRAY & SIAZ gets collected for the first time with an unpublished 13th issue!
Back in September 2002, Wildstorm Comics, an imprint of DC Comics, approached Jimmy and Justin to create a couple of original mature readers series and the most successful of the bunch was 21 DOWN, the story of a young man named Preston Kills who is given the power to see how others have died, knowing that because of the power, he is doomed to die on his 21st birthday. Along the way he meets the seductive Agent Micky Rinaldi who enlists Preston to find out the story behind his powers and at the same time uses him for her own secret agenda. 21 DOWN was celebrated, won an award, and was promised a follow up series, but as it goes sometimes in the world pf publishing, it was cancelled at issue 12 and a 13th issue that was being worked on by the team has never seen print…till today!
On Preston Kills 21st birthday, 21 years later -with the permission of the wonderful folks at DC Comics, the crew at Paperfilms has collected for the first time all 12 issues of 21 DOWN, including the unpublished 13th issue, into one huge 324 page trade paperback!
As a special treat, for the die hard completest comic collectors out there, we also are offering a separate 13th issue featuring a brand new cover by the series cover artist, the award-winning illustrator Joe Jusko!
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Coffin Comics’ All-New La Muerta / Lady Death #1: Inferno!
Hellageddon the companywide crossover heats up! La Muerta vs. Lady Death! Guest starring Hellwitch, Lady Satanus & Chaotica! IT’S ON!!!
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WILD WISPS #1 – a comic of creatures, fantasy, & myth
Kingdoms clash in a fantasy world where magical creatures serve as companions to warriors & their secret ambitions. Ongoing series.
WILD WISPS is a new comic book series about a world that humans share with incredible creatures known as Wisps. Wisps are magical monsters with elemental powers that can be either commonplace or god-like. Some Wisps can help with household chores by using their water-based powers or load-bearing strength. Others have great and terrible abilities to control the weather or even read human minds.
We follow a would-be knight, KINO and his Wisp TONKAREX. When we meet them, these two have lost everything. Their family, their purpose, and their hope.
All they have left is a plan: to join QUEEN RAINA’S Guard. However, they harbor a secret that could tilt the balance of Raina’s 20-Year War if it gets discovered.
Kino knows the truth about a MYTHIC WISP: a special kind of Wisp born out of one million hatches that has an incredibly rare Tri-Element ability, which gives this extraordinary Wisp the power to alter reality
They are thrown into this horrific war between two kingdoms and their most powerful Wisps, kicking off this new epic fantasy series by 52-time Kickstarter creator, writer PAT SHAND, known for his work on Destiny NY, I Summoned Cthulhu to Fund My Kickstarter, and more.
He is joined by the iconic NABETSE ZITRO on art. Nabetse delivers a singular and beautiful vision, creating a world that readers will want to escape into.
The team is rounded out by expert colorist JAMES OFFREDI (I Summoned Cthulhu, OnlyFriends With Penn) and letterer/designer REED HINCKLEY-BARNES in this latest release from Space Between Entertainment.
WILD WISPS #1 is an extra-long 36-page comic, and every single page is a story page! This is the first issue of an ongoing saga, with plans for 3 – 4 oversized issues per year.
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Legend of the Dog Witch
A 60 page Graphic Novel about a witch and her demonic familiar trying to solve murders in a college town by Minerva Fox & Grant Stoye.
This is the story of a girl and her dog. And demons. And ghosts. And murder. And coffee. Lots and lots of coffee.
Claudia hails from a long line of witches and leads a life of for-hire work as an exorcist and occult investigator. Part of her family’s lineage is her demonic familiar Oli, who has been bound to Claudia’s ancestors for nearly two hundred years.
The pair journey to New England to visit an old friend, but between massive jugs of coffee, they hear about a grisly murder at a nearby college campus. Their curiosity is piqued, and they soon encounter a supernatural mystery whose answers seem very familiar…
DREAMQUEST 1-2 – 48 page Lovecraftian horror sequel
A group of dream warriors fights to save the world from an ancient evil and his army of sleepwalking zombies. Part Two of Three.
Between 1918 and 1932, HP Lovecraft wrote a series of stories set in the “Dreamlands.” Like most of his work, it’s now in the public domain and has inspired everything from The Sandman to Nightmare on Elm Street.
Several of the stories focus on the character of Randolph Carter, who’s loosely based on Lovecraft himself. At the end of the Dream Cycle, Randolph has disappeared into the Dreamlands and is desperately trying to return home.
DREAMQUEST 2: The Crawling Chaos is a 48-page sequel set in the universe of H.P. Lovecraft’s Dream Cycle.
Written and lettered by Clay Adams (BLAZING BLADE OF FRANKENSTEIN, RED XMAS) with art by Mick Beyers (WHITE ASH, A QUEEN OF MARS), colors by Alex Zief (CARMILLA UNBOUND, MONSTER MATADOR) and edits by former Marvel and DC editor Frank Pittarese, DREAMQUEST expands on Lovecraft’s Dream Cycle–imagine Re-Animator meets Dream Warriors.
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The Last Case of Deven & Taylor #1 – Slasher/Murder Mystery
What happens when teen detectives grow up? Deven & Taylor enter adulthood and face their BLOODIEST & MOST PERSONAL case yet!
The Last Case of Deven & Taylor is a new 22-page mystery/slasher comic brought to you by Phil Falco and Kat Calamia (Lifeline Comics).
The book follows Deven & Taylor, a pair of best friends and now-grown Kid Detectives (a la Scooby Doo, Nancy Drew, and the Hardy Boys) who have just graduated high school and are about to enter adulthood.
The pair have spent their entire childhood solving mysteries…and becoming steadily more hated by the town of Woodvale. After graduation, Deven is finally ready to move on and start a new chapter in his life.
The only thing he hasn’t figured out is how to break the news to Taylor.
What neither of them is prepared for is the BLOODIEST and MOST PERSONAL murder mystery of their career – their LAST CASE!
The first issue of a new 4-issue miniseries from Lifeline Comics!
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Breastfeeding Sucks! – The Devil’s Panties volume 15
Slice of Life graphic novel about how hard it is having a new baby during covid.
Hi! My name is Jennie Breeden and I’ve been posting my journal comic (The Devil’s Panties) every day for the past 23 years. And then I got pregnant.And then I had a baby. And I never slept again.
The Devil’s Panties volume 15 compiles all the comics from 2020… yeah… that 2020. Because being a new parent is always better with a global pandemic.
It was a year so challenging I ended up crying over spilled milk. Granted that milk was my own and took 3 clinic visits, $300 in pumping gear, and a purple nurple to make it.
Anyway, I made comics about it!
In addition to collecting all the comics, and editing/improving them for this compilation, there is bonus material in the book. This includes pencils, sketches, unpublished comics, and photographs of events that inspired some comics.
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The City We Chose
A gorgeous comics anthology about the choices that defined our homes, and the wild fantasy cities that could have been!
Every year life in the city becomes a little less affordable. As inflation roars, even the starriest-eyed city-dweller has to wonder: “How did it get like this? Why am I here?”
In this mix of fiction and non-fiction comics about the homes that shaped us, 26 upcoming and marginalized creators trace the paths that brought them where they are, and explore the alternate worlds that might have been if things had shaken out differently. Join evolving millennial vampires, accidentally empowered sim-citizens, disability advocates, and baffled possums as we celebrate the concrete labyrinths we can’t afford to live in, and can’t bear to live without.
The City We Chose is 180+ pages at 6″ x 9″ printed on beautiful 80lb silk paper. Edited by Emily Stewart, Allison Bannister (At the Inn, Wit’s End) and Kavita Balsara, The City We Chose features stories about the healing power of community, the joy of exploring a new city, and the enduring strength of family.
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Be yourself! Oh, not like that – An Autobio-Graphic Novel
Raw realities and a candid exploration of my autism from childhood to adulthood. Struggles to acceptances, and being myself. Truly.
Throughout these pages, I share why receiving a diagnosis saved me, providing much-needed validation and understanding. Looking back, I wish I had this clarity and acceptance earlier in life, during my childhood and teen years, when I was trying to make sense of myself and the world around me.
“Come on, this is common sense”, “why are you being so difficult”, “stand still”, “be normal”, “look me in the eyes when I’m speaking to you”, “you were such a smart kid, what happened to you?”
I recall the countless times I heard phrases like these, words that only served to highlight my differences and intensify the sense of not belonging. Even as a child, I had internalized labels like “weird” and “stupid,” struggling to reconcile my early achievements with later challenges in school and life.
I received my diagnosis at 28 years old, as well as accommodations for work and school if I ever wanted to go back and finish my degree. For a long time I grieved the idea of what my life could have been. Yet I still faced the stigma of being labeled “lazy” when seeking support and “rude” when my social interactions didn’t meet expectations. Explaining my autism sometimes led to dismissive responses, with others insisting that I didn’t “look autistic” or should somehow know better. I never quite fit in with neurotypicals, yet I also felt disconnected from the narrow portrayals of disability in the media.
This is a narrative self-discovery of being an “alien” in a world that often seems foreign, in a society that has not been built for my brain. I share the highs, lows, and the extraordinary moments that define my own experience.
This book is for the weird kid who can’t make sense of the world around them.
This book is for my bully.
This book is for the parent who wants a little peak inside an autistic brain.
This book is for my friends and those whom I misunderstood. This is why.
This book is for my partner, thank you for accepting me in all the ways I am.
This book is for my family. You all did your best. Raising me in Ukraine, in the 90s-early 2000s, let’s be real, nobody really knew what autism looked like, especially in little girls.
This book is a big heartfelt hug to anybody who reads it, but especially my neurodivergent friends. It is a celebration of being authentically ourselves, celebration of the quirks that make us beautifully different.
*This book mentions struggles of mental health, depression and suicidal ideation and thoughts. Nothing graphic, but content warning if these themes trigger you.
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Imp King: A Queer Comedy Adventure on the High Seas!
An unhinged graphic novel about a mischievous imp and a ragtag pirate crew questing for booty and stopping the bad vibes.
Heya! I’m Jeremy Lawson, a queer cartoonist from Texas currently hangin’ out in Denver, Colorado. While my bread and butter has been coloring other peeps’ comics, over the years I’ve been chipping away at my own book, Imp King!
Imp King is a queer comedy adventure on the high seas starring a mischievous imp and a ragtag pirate crew questing for booty and stopping the bad vibes. It’s my love letter to the adventure games, comics, and cartoons I devoured as a kid.
It’s already available digitally through platforms like Tapas and my own online shop, but with your help the wacky hijinks of Qwaa and the Sea Llamas will finally exist in the mAtErIAL rEaLM.
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Ben Dunn MIGHTY TINY:THE OLD EMPIRE Graphic Novel
Two boys uncover a plot to bring rival empires to war and must survive the evil forces that want it,
In a world where mice and rats have taken over the world two boys uncover a plot to bring a pair of mighty empires on the brink of war. They are threatened with their lives as they attempt to escape the plotters while discovering a world unseen before.
Created by Ben Dunn join us as we dive into a story of high adventure and excitement!
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DUNGEON DEGENERATES: THE BATTLE FOR BRÜTTELBURG
The first video game from GOBLINKO! A mind blowing dark fantasy, beat ’em up RPG with 8 bit retro flavor!
The Battle For Brüttelburg defies genres but uses elements of Beat ‘Em Up, Rogue Lite & Action RPGs to bring you a unique, narrative heavy gaming experience.
Taking place in the in-depth, full-flavor DUNGEON DEGENERATES world, you play as the juvenile delinquent Salt, the runt of the gang who has been thrown in the dungeon of the ancient, seething Fortress City Brüttelburg. Upon release you look to get your low-life back on track by checking in with various factions & avoiding others, but everything is upside down! You work with & against a variety of eccentric underworld characters, various surly gangs, orderly social clubs, uptight neighborhood associations & a dazzling variety of obnoxious monsters to make your way to the top of the city to see who is pulling the strings.
There are also mini-games & the card game PIT FIGHT (a battle game with 48 unique cards) to expand play exponentially! You also have a pet pigeon that you can control to do things only a pigeon can do. The Battle For Brüttelburg is rendered in an 8-bit Retro style in eye-melting colors with mechanics fit for the future!
The base version of the game includes seven levels, five mini-games & PIT FIGHT, but we’ve got lots more in store with our campaign stretch goals! The base game levels are the Dungeon, the Verboten Zone, Goblin Town, the Pickle Factory, Pig Town, the Circus & the Pleasure District, and the mini-games included are Seaside Barrel Toss, Pickle Fever, Guzzling Goblins, Pigeon Po Po & Dance Mother!
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Puff, Puff, Parent Vol. 1: Budding Narrative Edition
A father and former D.A.R.E. essay winner is forced to examine his own biases when his doctor prescribes him with medical marijuana.
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The Witches of Oz #1 – A Mature Magical Queer Romance
The once-beloved GLINDA is now an outcast. She only has one person left to turn to…THE WICKED WITCH. Featuring TERRY MOORE cover art!
Looking for a scapegoat for their problems, the Emerald City turns on Glinda…literally burning her at the stake in her own Witch Trial.
In her final hours, the only person Glinda has left to turn to is…the Wicked Witch of the West. A misunderstood outcast who wants to mourn her sister in peace. She wants nothing to do with the city that turned their back on her.
Now the Good Witch and the Wicked Witch must team up to find the one person who can save Oz: Dorothy…
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ASTER OF PAN: THE SOURCE by Merwan
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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.
