Blessed and cursed with a memorably comical name, Bob Fingerman was fated to be a cartoonist. And that’s what he’s done with his life since the moment he could first grasp a crayon! 2024 is a milestone for Fingerman: his 40th anniversary of working professionally as a writer and artist. Starting his career, in 1984, working for the legendary Harvey Kurtzman on the short-lived humor anthology, NUTS!, then cutting his teeth as a regular for Cracked magazine, continuing on through the sewers of adult publications, and along the way working for pretty much every comic publisher (Marvel, DC, Vertigo, Archie, Eclipse, Fantagraphics, Dark Horse, Heavy Metal, IDW, etc.), Fingerman has cut a curious swath through Comicdom with his idiosyncratic style and scripts.

That’s Some Business You’re In is a career-spanning art book, brimming with content that even though old will be new to most readers. Plus, tons of recent art. It also is a damned good read, with a foreword by Bill Sienkiewicz, then starting with a detailed career memoir, and followed by individual sections highlighting and elaborating on specific topics and phases, from student years, to his time as “one of the usual gang of idiots” in MAD magazine, to his signature works like Minimum Wage, Recess Pieces and the more recent Dotty’s Inferno.

Boasting a huge amount of art, much of which is presented for the first time scanned from the originals, warts and all, “Artist’s Edition” style, as well as archival materials and tear sheets, That’s Some Business You’re In is essential for any fan of Fingerman’s work, and also for those unacquainted, as a deep dive to whet their appetites for more!

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.

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 –  15 Days Left
• Hilda and Richie’s Sandwich: A Savory Sequel! –  6 Days Left
• Amelia Sky #1-4: A Sci-fi Horror Comic Series –  18 Days Left
• Armageddonquest Issue #1 – 52-Page Lost Comix Epic! –  10 Days Left
• PAGAN VALLEY –  5 Days Left

Previously featured, fully funded Kickstarters Worth A Look:

• Hack/Slash Vol. 4 Deluxe Omnibus Hardcover –  7 Days Left
• Trip Story #1 –  13 Days Left
• Time and Time Again (Again!) –  10 Days Left
• Blackthorne’s Coven: Lily  –  7 Days Left
•  30TH ANNIVERSARY DISNEY GARGOYLES COLLECTIONS –  9 Days Left
• BLAZER! 2024 –  8 Days Left
• INFECTION (Issue 2) –  6 Days Left
• Foes #1: the Donut Battle –  21 Days Left
• Drumsticks of Doom Vol 1 Heavy Metal GN/ issues1-4 MAKE 100 –  9 Days Left

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The Last Ember: Hunted #1 – NEW LENTICULAR COVER! #MAKE100

*LIMITED to 100 Copies* Federico Sabbatini EXCLUSIVE VARIANT for our flagship urban fantasy and mythology comic book series!

Current Funding: $3,764
Funding Goal: $2,312
Days Left: 9
Link: The Last Ember: Hunted #1 – NEW LENTICULAR COVER! #MAKE100

This campaign is for a BRAND NEW, SUPER LIMITED variant cover for The Last Ember: Hunted #1 by Federico Sabbatini (Moon Knight, Amazing Spider-Man) with colors by Andrea Celestini (Bigs and Tiny)!

The Last Ember: Hunted #1 was previously funded and fulfilled here on Kickstarter. In preparation for the launch of issue 2 (coming soon), we wanted to provide the option to get the cover we always wanted to make: A LENTICULAR COVER!

This cover will shift from eyes closed to open and on fire as demonstrated above and will have that familiar 3D effect that Federico originally designed these images to have.

At its core is the indomitable spirit of a human-demon hybrid, a creature born of the supernatural and the mortal, fueled by a burning desire for vengeance. Her quest is nothing short of a blood-soaked odyssey as she embarks on a perilous journey to avenge her mother’s gruesome death. The target of her unyielding fury? The demon she believes to be her very own father.

“Blue Geisha” delves deep into the human psyche’s darkness and the supernatural’s monstrous depths as well as a martial arts action story. At its heart is a half-demon daughter whose mother was brutally murdered moments before she was born, is rescued by a ronin turned farmer and trained in the art of war. Blue Geisha sets out on a lifelong mission to avenge her mother’s death only to discover there is much more that she doesn’t know about the world and her place in it.

Welcome to Miskatonic High, the comic series about the teens who take on Lovecraft monsters and their small-town high school…they’re just not sure which is worse.

Don’t worry, you don’t need to know anything about H.P. Lovecraft to enjoy this series, just like you don’t have to remember anything from your high school graduation party… like where did you leave your diploma!?!

The story so far:
In the rustic hills of a small New England town lies the prestigious Miskatonic High School. When the Community Services Club went on a field trip they were launched back to a silent city and were nearly killed by an evil wizard and his tentacle monster. The teens escaped back to our century, but things have never been the same. Since then, we learned some of the secrets haunting the students of the Community Service Club and that their world is not what they thought it was.

If you like your horror mixed with tongue-in-cheek humor and a bit of unexpected drama, like Buffy, Evil Dead or Get Out, you’ll probably enjoy Miskatonic High.

Normally each issue is pretty much self contained, but this is the final issue of our third season! Nine issues–created over the course of two years–are coming to a conclusion here!

In issue #22, Matt’s hockey party ends with a bang, but will Matt discover the secret chained in the attic before his mom discovers what he’s been up to? Also, Sarah isn’t out of the woods yet, as Chris the psycho stalks her through the night. But he’s not the only thing hunting her. It’ll take a Christmas miracle for any of the teens to survive this season-ending issue!

If you’ve been waiting to jump into Miskatonic High, this is a great time to make the plunge!

Super Plumber Sisters #1 & 2 – A Sexy Action Comic

Mara & Lucia join up with cousins Winnie & Wanda and dive deep as they try and stop the supernatural attack on their city!

Mara and Lucia are step-sisters who own a plumbing business called SUPER PLUMBER SISTERS, which specializes in Supernatural Prevention and Offense. Both are experts in the fields of monsters, ghosts, and all things that SHOULD be dead or not exist. Equipped with the latest Plumbing Weapon Technology, these gals know how to get down to business.

In Chapter 1, Mara and Lucia’s friend, Alfredo, was kidnapped by Supernatural forces. After battling their way through his apartment against supernatural monsters, Mara and Lucia found a mysterious pipe that emerged from the sewers. However, before they could go down and investigate, they were interrupted by their cousins Winnie and Wanda. Now the cousins will need to work together to survive the Super Battle Dungeon Party!

This is PART 2 OF 4 and opens the doors to a much bigger world and universe.

This is a 40-page comic. Rated T for TEENS. The book contains action, comedy, and violence. NO NUDITY in the interior pages. Nudity is only on the COVER G, and is a Kickstarter exclusive.

Dead Air #1-2 90s College Radio Sci-Fi With A Soundtrack

What if one day every year you could talk to the dead?

Gus Benes is in for an adventure that transcends time and place. Like After a tornado whisks him away to a strange and distant land, he’ll have to confront multiple dangers and discover if he measures up to the “chosen one” status the locals expect, unless it’s all a product of his own imagination.

Voyager presents an adventure story inspired by Greek myths and fantastic journeys, in the spirit of Moebius “Arzach” or “John Carter from Mars”. It is a hero’s journey, where our protagonist must first find himself in order to be more than he expected. Likewise, the two women that he will find on his way are two sides of the same coin: fundamental figures on his own path of discovery.

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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.