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.
Copycat
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Sky Masters of the Space Force – The Complete Sunday Strips in Color
A historic first publication by Kirby Museum Press and is the first official crowdfunding campaign for a Jack Kirby book.
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The Sky Masters of the Space Force newspaper strip is one of the most fascinating and obscure works by comics legend Jack Kirby. The strip narrates, with a realistic approach, the adventures of Major Sky Masters during the early days of space exploration in the late 1950s, just as a new front opened in the Cold War between the U.S. and U.S.S.R.: a frenzied space race. Now fans and scholars can experience this lost piece of Kirby history as never before, with Sky Masters of the Space Force – The Complete Sunday Strips in Color.
Created and developed by Kirby with writer Dave Wood at the beginning of 1958 while Kirby was working for National (DC), the Sky Masters daily strip debuted on September 8 of that year. Five months later, on February 8, 1959, the color Sunday strips arrived featuring a totally independent storyline from the dailies.
Sky Masters features spectacular art from two of the comics industry’s leading lights of the era. Kirby and embellisher Wallace Wood were both at the peak of their careers, and brought the art of the strip to unprecedented levels. Compared to the Sky Masters dailies, the Sunday strips were the maximum expression of the team’s artistic prowess.
While the Sky Masters Sundays have seen print before, they’ve never been presented in their complete form or in color. Spanish designer Ferran Delgado, who compiled and produced the Eisner Award-nominated first edition of this book published in 2015, found all the best source material, including an extra 100 panels that were created to allow for the various formats of Sunday newspaper sections. Some of these panels hadn’t been seen in any reprint editions. Delgado also featured the first re-printing of strip #52, which hadn’t been printed since its original publication in newspapers. Sky Masters of the Space Force – The Complete Sunday Strips in Color contains all 54 complete Sunday strips, including the extra panels, compiled in color, all painstakingly remastered in this deluxe volume
Previously featured campaigns still running and unfunded:
- Masud #1 – 23 Days Left
- All for One Webcomic – 33 Days Left
- Hilda and Richie’s Sandwich: A Savory Sequel! – 13Days Left
Previously featured, fully funded Kickstarters Worth A Look:
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- PERHAPANAUTS : TRIANGLE TPB – 4 Days Left
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- Hack/Slash Vol. 4 Deluxe Omnibus Hardcover – 14 Days Left
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Mike Grell’s 50th Anniversary Art Book
A collection of career-spanning (50 years and counting) of Mike Grell art! A coffee table collection of Grell’s greatest creations!
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For the first time, a collection of lavishly painted, fully colored, and black and white pencil and ink illustrations by one of comics’ masters of the form, Mike Grell, is being made available. In association with Grell’s Masterstroke Studios, and assembled from the rarest of pieces of art culled from private collections of fans, this is a definitive examination of Grell’s most iconic characters in epic illustrations.
This will be a deluxe oversized hardcover book, with high-quality page stock and colors. We are pulling out all the stops to make this something amazing and special!
Dozens of fans have assembled to contribute hi-quality images of unique commissions by Grell, cover recreations, and some newly painted images from unique fan commissions spanning the following:
- JON SABLE FREELANCE!
- MAGGIE THE CAT!
- SHAMAN’S TEARS!
- STARSLAYER!
- THE WARLORD!
- THE LEGION OF SUPER-HEROES!
- GREEN ARROW!
- IRON MAN!
- JAMES BOND!
- and more!
Grell has done it all in his 50 years, and this book commemorates that with unique art pieces that represent every character and every book he has touched with his magic pencils and inks!
For the FANS, by the FANS!
Fall of Knight – Violent Beginnings
*FREE US SHIPPING* An AWOL templar knight finds himself wrapped up in the violence of a ruthless Daimyo in feudal Japan.
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Gods of Brutality Vol 1 Trade
A Rock star dies and goes to Hell, he prays to whoever will listen. Thor and Hercules answer that call. Hell will never be the same!
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In 2020, rock god Nick Dillion will step off the stage for the final time, ending his 37 year career as the head of metal band Gods of Brutality. The GoB, as they’re known to fans, has sold over 70 million records worldwide, and is about to release their final album, completing the story they set out to tell 37 years before. In his final interview, Nick Dillion reveals that when he died for a minute and 24 seconds in 1984, he was actually in hell, where he was tortured by demons. In an act of desperation, Nick prayed to any god that would listen to him. Thankfully, his pleas were answered when Thor and Hercules were dispatched to save him. Gods of Brutality follows Nick, Thor, and Hercules as they navigate an escape from the underworld!
This 128-page trade collects Gods of Brutality issues 1-4, along with some extras like a sketchbook section, and cover/pin-up gallery.
Amelia Sky #1-4: A Sci-fi Horror Comic Series
An amnesiac girl with the power to stop an alien threat returns. For fans of THE LAST OF US and THE JASON BOURNE SERIES
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AMELIA SKY #1-4 is an ongoing sci-fi horror series about survival, self-discovery, and corporate corruption.
The amnesiac Amelia Sky wakes up in a post-apocalyptic, alien-invaded Earth with unexplained abilities—only to face the deadliest threat the world has ever seen: the Shriekers!
But Amelia has the power to save humanity from extinction.
And she’s not alone.
Along her perilous journey, Amelia’s made friends—like Eleanor and Ace the Dog—and enemies, including hordes of Shriekers at every turn and other murderous survivors.
After barely surviving the aftermath of the alien invasion, she has little trust to offer when she encounters Abigail and Rubi, ex-soldiers contracted to retrieve Amelia Sky. What seems like a simple recovery operation for these mercenaries turns into an impossible survival mission.
INFECTION (Issue 2)
The second issue of rural England zombie comic by H.L. Roberts, Samanta de La Rosa Batllori, and Rob Jones
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INFECTION Issue 2 of 3 (By H.L. Roberts, Samanta de la Rosa Batllori, and Robin Jones)
INFECTION is a three issue comic, written by H.L. Roberts, drawn by Samanta De La Rosa Batllori, and illustrated by Rob Jones. It’s a zombie apocalypse comic set in the 2000s, and located in East England (precisely West East Anglia)
Ever since the outbreak in late February 2000, caused by the distribution of Mobie-Z, a shampoo product that reverse engineers the human mind to crave on human flesh and blood, we follow a group of niche survivors as they reach a extraction zone; seconds after the helicopter takes off.
Each entry within the series is 32 pages, and coloured!
Foes #1: the Donut Battle
An Alien and a Demon come to take over Earth, only to use their supernatural powers and weaponry to squabble over a donut.
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In the same city, in the dead of the same night, the planets aligned and the dimensional veil fluttered; creating the perfect conditions for two monsters – one a Demon hailing from the hellfire below, the other an Alien from infinite void above – to arrive on Earth.
These creatures will herald the darkest age our planet has ever known, and irrevocably change humanity’s future to one of eternal slavery and torture.
…But before all that conquest and invasion stuff they stop by a random coffee shop and end up reaching for the same donut.And they simply CANNOT move past it.
What follows is a battle that’s as destructive and as devastating as it is stupid, from which only one of these beings can be worthy enough to claim ownership of the glorious ring of grease and sugar.
Oh, and then be probably the ruler of the, whatchacallit, planet.
Demon vs Alien, who will win?
Drumsticks of Doom Vol 1 Heavy Metal GN/ issues1-4 MAKE 100
The Heavy Metal Epic shreds into its first collected edition (issues 1-4). GET IN THE PIT! With a MAKE 100 exclusive cover!
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When Black Sabbath (not the Beatles) became the world’s most famous band, the universe was changed, musically and otherwise. Lost arts, like Alchemy, were made common, schools taught about transfiguration and alternate science, Demons were summoned and some stuck around.
Lana LOVES music. She has played in bands all through high school and now, in college, she still plays in her ex’s fledgling metal band. She’s convinced their drummer to play her indie songs in secret. She’s finishing up the best practice yet when they are drawn into a spiritual battle to keep metal on the top of the charts.
Issues 1-4 are a wild ride of Daywolves, Metal Cults and hybrid creatures presented in Trade Paperback for the first time in this campaign. We have BIG PLANS for future arcs and this TPB is a HUGE step towards the future for the series.
- 108 Stunning Black and White interiors story pages, plus extras- Standard American size book, Full Color Covers. PLUS WE COULD UNLOCK MORE PAGES!!
Armageddonquest Issue #1 – 52-Page Lost Comix Epic!
Long OOP, NSFW coming-of-age adventure blending Golden Age Marvel, 80’s manga, TMNT, and Robert Crumb about a reluctant Antichrist
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Armageddonquest (or “AQ”) is the b&w underground “comix” epic by the singular voice of writer/artist Ronald Russell Roach (or “3R”) crafted between 1984 – 1992. It’s the coming-of-age tale of the Antichrist, Tazio, but he’s a reluctant one – a nice kid who doesn’t want to hurt anyone or bring about the end of the world. The rest of the world, however, wants him to be what they say he is, and fulfill a destiny preordained long before his birth.
PLEASE NOTE: This is a NSFW comic, but not in the usual way. Yes, there is nudity, but this isn’t a T&A comic as we understand it in 2023. Armageddonquest lies somewhere between Golden Age Stan Lee, 80’s manga, and Robert Crumb – it can read like an oddly family-friendly yarn, whimsical and carefree…until it isn’t. Extreme violence, full frontal nudity, all the potty words known to mankid – it’s all here! This first issue is relatively tame, but future issues get intense!
OOP since the late 90’s, we’re bringing AQ back to the masses, to finally give it the exposure it’s long deserved. Plus: These new editions will finally be in AQ’s orignal format, whichi s closer to 6×9 than the standard american comic size, which always left a significant amount of white space at the top and bottom of the page.
Welcome to the “Pagan Valley” Kickstarter campaign. Thank you for joining Ghezal Omar and Kayden Phoenix on this journey.
We grew up watching great female leads like Geena Davis, Sigourney Weaver, and Linda Hamilton in fun action-packed films. We wanted to create our own adrenaline-pumped action story with a twist of comedy. So we created and wrote “Pagan Valley.”
Meet Monty Hudson, a self-proclaimed card shark extraordinaire. Life takes a nosedive after a brutal losing streak, landing her in hot water with some seriously shady loan sharks. Pressed by financial desperation, Monty’s best friend, Feliz, convinces her to resort to extreme measures: robbing the strip club where Feliz works as a dancer.
Armed with a borrowed gun, Monty cracks the safe and snags what she hopes is a jackpot. However, upon cracking open the case, she discovers not money, but bricks of cocaine. Turns out, the strip joint and the white stuff are under the ownership of the Russian mob.
Now, Monty and her crew are on a wild mission. They’ve got to ditch the drugs, outsmart the Russian mob, and scrape together enough dough to satisfy those relentless loan sharks—all before the sun comes up. It’s a rollercoaster of a night for Monty and her pals, with more twists and turns than a poker game gone wrong.
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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.