Krowdfunder Korner December 16, 2023

Comic Watch is proud to spotlight and support crowdfunded projects across the 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.

Maui Strong

MAUI STRONG is a comic anthology that adapts some of Maui?s beloved tales, called mo?olelo, which contain many wisdoms, parables, and lessons.

This comic anthology adapts some of Maui’s beloved tales and histories, called mo?olelo, which contain many wisdoms, parables, and lessons. The combination of the word mo?o, which means a series or succession, and ??lelo, meaning words, are the stories and histories of Hawai?i. Mo?olelo were told to preserve Hawaiian histories, concepts, beliefs, idioms, proverbs, poetry, and more.

Maui Strong celebrates a centuries-old cultural tradition the way it used to be done, with a mo?olelo and a chant., focusing specifically on the island of Maui, with local talent including: Tom Bacon, Mark Gould, Blaze Ho?omakoa, Brooke Hutchins, Jillian Ikehara. N?inoa Kahiona, D.J. Keawekane, Aaron Nakahara, Kel Nuttall, Carl Shinyama, Joshua Sky, Chase Tokutaro, Kanila Tripp.

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Previously featured campaigns still running and unfunded:

• The Unearthians

 Previously featured, fully funded Kickstarters Worth A Look:

• Poor Old Ms. West: a 24-page Wizard of Oz HORROR comic –  5 Days Left
• HELLFORGED Comic Series #1 and #2 –  2 Days Left
• One-Eyed Jack Vol. 4 – The Conclusion! –  5 Days Left
• TREKKER: SPICE –  5 Days Left
• Juiceman Issue #6 : Blood Lines –  4 Days Left
•  || METAL MADE FLESH || RE:BIRTH || –  20 Days Left
• Young Zombie –  14 Days Left
• Van Helsing: Vampire Hunter Issue #1 –  14 Days Left
• AMORINI: AMATEUR CUPID #1 – A Lusty Fantasy Comic –  13 Days Left

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Taft Sturgeon: Holiday in the Stars

A 140 page cosmic Christmas odyssey! A beloved detective is sent to the North Pole via a black hole while robotic facsimiles run amok.

Current Funding: $3,634

Funding Goal: $6,000

Days Left: 8

Link: Taft Sturgeon: Holiday in the Stars

The Christmas season is in full swing throughout the galaxy and Taft is back in this all-new holiday adventure. Taft Sturgeon: Holiday in the Stars isn’t your average “Christmas needs saving” story as Taft and friends chase down sinister a toy salesman, a conniving robotics tycoon, and an army of robotically engineered Taft-O-Trons.

When a black hole flings Taft to the intergalactic North Pole, can he get back in time to save his friends or will he become a permanent resident in Santa’s workshop? Is it possible for Taft to overcome greed and exploitation with the power of goodwill and friendship? Help us make this 140-page, full-color graphic novel a reality to find out!

Taft Sturgeon: Holiday in the Stars is a 140 page softcover.  This fully colored original graphic novel by David Crispino and Tony Gregori is filled with yuletide adventure, belly shaking laughs, and arm wrapping friendship!

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UNDERSEA HERO: THE GREAT BARRIER BEEF

THE NEW SUPERHEROIC-COMEDY UNDER THE SEA BY IAN CHASE NICHOLS!

Current Funding: $3,634

Funding Goal: $881

Days Left: 14
Link: UNDERSEA HERO: THE GREAT BARRIER BEEF

UNDERSEA HERO: THE GREAT BARRIER BEEF is a TRIPLE-SIZED MEGA-COMIC that introduces us to UNDERSEA HERO, LIQUID LAD, THE SPECTACULAR SPIDER-CRAB, and LORD KRAKUS, as well as their antagonists, THE CORALATOR, JAN-O-WAR, COLONEL FEATHERS, PROFESSOR PRAWN, and THEIR SPONGEMEN!

It’s a superheroic-comedy filled with jokes, silly bits, neat true facts about the ocean, a musical number, and more!

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Bram is a bratty teenager who just wants to be left alone. Too bad wherever he goes, THE DEAD RISE!

Casey is a high school student whose father abandoned her to become a full-time superhero. She wants nothing to do with him…until she INHERITS HIS SUPERPOWERS!

And in this 44-page NEW READER FRIENDLY crossover: THEIR WORLDS COLLIDE!

• Created by Jérôme Gagnon HOLIDAY SPIRITS is a 150-page comic in standard American comic-size graphic novel, on high-quality gloss paper.
• Some of the best Writers in INDIE COMICS – Markisa Naso (By The Horns), ?Mario Candelaria (Killchella), Travis Gibb (Granite State Punk), David Byrne (Stake), and more
• Some of the best Artist in INDIE COMICS – Rolands Kalni?š (Coins of Judas), Matta Sorcier (Sacrimony), Don Nguyen (Pablo the Gorilla) and more
• Backers get various cover options from Eamon Winkle (Advent Comics, Black Caravan Press), Stefano Cardoselli (Scout Comics, Mad Cave) and Laura Helsby (2000 AD, A Wave Blue World)
• An EXCLUSIVE Christmas story by CULLEN BUNN (Deadpool, Venomverse) illustrated by Patrick Buermeyer (Granite State Punk, Discordia)

• Don’t Let Go: An island-set thriller filled with murder, mystery, and kidnapping… or so it would seem…? Based on the best selling novel written by Michel Bussi…
• Black Water Lillies: A twisty who-done-it about a murder in Monet’s garden in Giverny and the three women who may know who did it! Eisner Award-nominated title based on the best selling novel by Michel Bussi!
• Trapped on Zarkass: A gonzo sci-fi adventure through the planet Zarkass based on the classic novel by Stefan Wuhl!
• Toa Bang: A soaring pirate fantasy reprinting Didier Cassegrain’s first graphic novel! An exhilarating, swashbuckling fantasy adventure packed with scoundrels and anti-heroes by authors Daniel Pecqueur and Olivier Vatine.