We here at Comic Watch want to highlight and support those projects across the various platforms, especially those projects that still need a push along with those stretch goals.
Below is a brief synopsis of the project; for more details and to support the projects, click on the link to the campaign page.
Bomb Scares #1
Tick-tock, tick-tock…It’s time to stop the clock!
Days Left: 27
This series is a simple one: Inspired by the notorious EC horror comics of the fifties and the Warren horror mags of the seventies, Bomb Scares was originallyally a horror anthology released through Kickstarter as a series of black and white 100-page volumes, and edited by Paul H Birch.
Bomb Scares is here to rock your mortal souls to the very bone with a crowded houseful of horror-chocked graphic narratives from the following amazing international talents such as:
Dead by Mel Smith, Clark Castillo, Birch & Alex Nino
Sailing in on the high seas, is this stark thriller of epic survival against the carnivorous desires of the undead; now risen and roaming the earth, as illustrated by a true living legend of the comics medium.
Amongst The Trees by Liam Sharp
Existentialism, alienation and indifference are all pondered in a tense and chilling vignette crafted by one of today’s leading comic book creators.
- Home Front: by John Erasmus
There’s nothing to be trifled at when a dinner party hosted by a serial killer goes horribly wrong in this hilarious soap-opera send-up of a saga
With the third volume appearing back in October 2021 it then seemed the perfect opportunity to take Bomb Scares in a different direction. The result is Bomb Scares #1: a relaunched, reformatted, more streamlined anthology package that will include both color and black and white strips with content intended to scare, intrigue, bemuse and repulse – and throw in a dash of unexpected pitch-black humour too
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COVEN: A Book of 100 Witches
Sassy, sexy and full of supernatural charm, Richard Pace’s witches have proved remarkably popular.
Days Left: 26
All 62 daily drawings from Witchtober 2022 and 2023 as well as the 38 weekly Witchy Wednesday drawings are now contained in this book.
Capturing the best of Spooky Season for you to enjoy year-round as these women cast their spell on you as you turn the pages
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The Feeding
Nolan Ward has tried everything to outrun it, but it’s finally caught up to him. And it’s hungry…
Days Left: 27
Something wicked this way comes… For the first time since 2019, the team behind the hit series CANTO reunites for something new and decidedly more sinister. Join Eisner-nominated writer David M. Booher and fan-favorite artist Drew Zucker, along with CANTO colorist Vittorio Astone and letterer AndWorld Design, for a twisted new one-shot horror story that you’ll have to read to believe.
Investment banker Nolan Ward is on top of the world–wealthy, fit, attractive, and available. Yet, his drug-fueled partying masks a darker past. When he meets a mysterious art gallery owner, he’ll come face-to-face with the ghost that has haunted him all his life. It’s a painting called The Feeding. It has returned… and it’s ready for its next meal.
The Feeding is a twisted new one-shot horror story that you’ll have to read to believe. For the first time since 2019, Eisner-nominated writer David M. Booher (RAIN, KILLER QUEENS) and fan-favorite artist Drew Zucker (THE HOUSE) have teamed up with CANTO colorist Vittorio Astone and letterer AndWorld Design once more for new story that’s decidedly more sinister!
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Lost Children of Andromeda: The Arrival
The awakening of humanity begins…just as the world starts to end
Days Left: 20
The year is 2040…Twelve years before the projected apocalypse. A team of scientists contracted by the military known as The Andromeda Project are tracking the arrival of an alien energy from another galaxy. Lead on that project are two rivals, Captain Nicolas Delemar and Professor Patrick Adams. No one knows how the energy will arrive and what damage it could do to the planet, so Patrick has worked diligently to create protection mechanisms at the projected site of the landing, Cumberland Falls, Kentucky.
Allister Adams, a boy with the curiosity and fear of any seven-year old, has accompanied his dad, Patrick, to his workplace at Andromeda Power, the nearby plant. In this story, we are plunged into the lingering aftermath of a severe thunderstorm. We feel a young boy’s angst and a protective parent’s uncertainty in lines like, “Storms aren’t meant to hurt us. That’s just Mother Nature telling us how she feels.” But the violence in the sky feels anything but natural. Something is coming that will change Earth forever. Could it be the beginning of the end?
It soon becomes clear that courage will be the only light that can lead Allister and his dad. And even that may not be enough to survive
Already a succesful sci-fi book series, The Arrival is the first official comic book from the Lost Children of Andromeda universe. This story follows Allister Adams, the main character of the LCOA series, as we learn the origins of his abilities and the apocalypse. A catastrophic superstorm threatens the unsuspecting citizens of Cumberland Falls, sending Allister and his father Patrick on the run in hopes of survival.
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Previously featured campaigns still running and unfunded:
Previously featured, fully funded Kickstarters Worth A Look:
- GENERAL STRIKE: Calexit & Other Tales of The Good Fight – 13 Days Left
- HOSPICE: CONCUSSION – 3 Days Left
- Hospice: Skin Deep – A Horror One Shot (NSFW) – 12 Days Left
- PRODIGAL SON #1 – 11 Days Left
- BIGFOOT KNOWS KARATE: HINAGON One Shot and Chapters 1 & 2 – 13 Days Left
- We Don’t Kill Spiders Vol.1 – 2 Days Left
- Hearteater #1- A NSFW Pirate Adventure – 8 Days Left
- Adult Human Female 2024 – 19 Days Left
Head Hauntcho
The little card game bursting with spirit
Days Left: 24
Isaki Uta: The Lost & Found Collection
A box set from Irodori Comics featuring four bittersweet manga about life, love, and loneliness, including “Mine-kun is Asexual”
Days Left: 25
Now Irodori Comics presents a box set featuring four of their stories, which will appear in English in print for the first time, including:
- Mine-kun is Asexual
- Leaper
- Mermaid In The Bottle
- Silkscreen
THE MIDNIGHT ORDER – Supernatural Horror by Mathieu Bablet
A globe-spanning graphic novel about a secret agency of witches policing the occult in a war over the sanity of mankind.
Days Left: 13
The Dead and the Damned #1
A dark fantasy apocalypse presented by Goats Flying Press, a new independent comic book publisher.
A dark fantasy apocalypse set in a world that for centuries has been ravaged by a horrifying curse where all things that die return to wage war on the living.
Equal parts sword and sorcery epic and end-times road trip, The Dead and the Damned is a Mature Readers fantasy comic set in an original world spanning a centuries-long history. It features a sprawling cast of characters, jaw-dropping visuals, soul-wrenching drama, and darkly humorous adventure in a world where the only fate worse than death… is life.
When a necromancer, whose armies have nearly succeeded in eradicating all life, is wounded in a final battle, his control over the horizonless legions of the dead falters.
Over the centuries the necromancer, known as the Gravehand, plucked four champions from the grave to serve as his personal guard: The Pallbearers. While in his wounded state, the Pallbearers mysteriously regained enough consciousness to be able to make a choice: do they follow their master’s final bidding and carry his catatonic corpse to the Black Womb, a dark fortress where he may restore himself, or do they betray the Gravehand to claim the throne for themselves?
Four dead heroes, separated in life by centuries, but now united in death, must rip, tear, and grind their way back across the blasted remnant of a world they helped destroy, each forced to face their past selves and the failings of their mortal ambitions.
Hot on the heels of the the Pallbearers are two warriors born into a world with no future, who may find that in each other’s hearts there is just enough light to risk one more step into the darkness…
Nothing Special: The Art of Adventure
A behind the scenes art book for the critically acclaimed NOTHING SPECIAL series by Katie Cook!
Days Left: 20
Two not-so-human teenagers and a friendly ghost radish face the fantasy adventure of a lifetime in this captivating graphic novel, featuring exclusive behind-the-scenes material, from the inimitable Katie Cook.
In the grand scheme of the worlds at large, Callie thinks she’s nothing special. Sure, she’s friends with the ghost of a radish and her dad owns a magical antique shop–but she’s spent her life in the human world. Her dad won’t let her join him on his collection trips in the magical realm “for her own protection”, so she’s only caught glimpses of that world through the gates of the town where her father’s store is.
On her seventeenth birthday, Callie goes home with her friend Declan to find her home in disarray and her dad missing. Signs of a struggle point to the portal to the magical realm and when there are signs, you follow them. Now it’s up to Callie, Declan, and Radish to band together and bring him home. As they face creatures good and bad, and all sorts of adventure, Callie and Declan may just find out that they are both special in their own ways after all.
Volume 1 of the series is being released in March of 2024 from Ten Speed Press and you can pre-order it at your favorite bookshop or get a direct reservation of it with your other rewards if this project funds!
VIRGIN VARIANT ZOMBY KID
A frightening tale of Zomby Kid and his struggle to survive with malevolent forces coming at him.
This campaign is for the Original Comic Book series written by Ryan Watson (Wattz), Drawn by Rolly Marchadesch and Nelson Graphitt, and front cover art by Brian Azcurra. A thrilling 20 page Comic Book Story printed in Standard Monthly Comic Format.
After 5 years revising and finding the perfect artist, Zomby Kid is ready for consumption. As the creator I’ve been inspired by EC comics and other comics from that time period. My passion for the craft has pushed me forward to see this project through. We’re raising funds to cover costs including the printing, artwork, and materials. This will be an adventure horror with violence and gore. It is a black and white comic, at least for now. I see it as an ongoing series that could easily reach 100 issues.
2nd Place Graphic Novel
A family comic book about bodybuilding aliens told in Mockumentary style! “Pumping Iron” meets “The Office”.
You are looking at a comic book~ that is a Mockumentary~ about a bodybuilding competition~ about Aliens……
We here at “2nd Place” would like you to reread that first sentence.
We admit it was super fun to make an all-ages book from the camera’s point-of-view, and with a super silly/funny/genre defying premise, but the true heart of the story comes… like most stories do… from family.
“Ferig is a champion bodybuilder in a small quadrant obsessed with Earth bodybuilders. As such, a documentary crew comes to film their latest competition. It just so happens to be the first competition Ferig’s son is competing in!”
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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.