Kickstarter isn’t the only place indie creators go to fund their projects, and we here at Comic Watch want to highlight and support those projects across the various platforms.
We especially want to spotlight 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.
Previously featured campaigns still running:
- +Waco Comics Presents: Lady Avalion #1 & Lawbringer #1 Days Left: 21— Funded: 48%
- Cartoon Puppet Horror Theater Days Left: 21 — Funded: 24%
- The Other Happy Place – Chapter 0 Days Left: 19 — Funded: 367%
- Impostor Syndicate Days Left: 20 — Funded: 131%
Ax-Wielder Jon by Nick Pitarra
***3/27/23 UPDATE: WE’RE RE-OPENING THE CAMPAIGN FOR LAST-CHANCE SUPPORTERS TO GRAB COPIES, AS WE’RE HEADED OFF TO THE PRINTER WITH THE FINISHED BOOK (SEE UPDATES SECTION)!**
Current Funding: $206,680
Funding Goal: $25,000
Days Left: 26
Link: Ax-Wielder Jon
A ruthless killer in a world of monsters and mayhem makes a precious discovery and learns what a man is willing to lose to protect what he loves most. It’s an epic adventure in every sense of the word.
AX-WIELDER JON is created, written, and drawn by Nick Pitarra, the Eisner-nominated and New York Times bestselling co-creator of the Manhattan Projects, who is known for his hyper-detailed and dynamic art.
The COMPLETED full color over-sized NOW 168-PAGE hardcover is finally here, after months of anticipation!
Won’t Back Down Anthology by Trina Robbins + Various
Comics legend Trina Robbins is fighting the rogue Supreme Court with over 30 storytellers from all around the world to publish a pro-choice anthology.
Current Funding: $287
Funding Goal: $8.500
Days Left: 31
Link: Won’t Back Down Anthology
In 1973, the Supreme Court gave women the right to make decisions over the care of their own bodies. A mere fifty years later, a rogue Supreme Court has taken that right away. Today, over 32 states have banned or severely restricted abortion. We’re fighting back as best we can, with pens and brushes, paper and ink, to produce a pro-choice anthology, Won’t Back Down, featuring the work of over 30 artists, writers, inkers, and colorists, and we’re giving the profits to Planned Parenthood. We need $8,500 dollars to pay for printing and related costs.
Miscarry by Lee Marrs / A Lonely Childhood by Grace Gordon, Joelle Barreto, Grace Desmarais, and Isabell Struble
Forced Birth Nation by Eve Furchgott / Careless Love: UnWanted Pregnancy in Folk Song by Sharon Rudahl
With Won’t Back Down, Trina Robbins has created an important anthology that celebrates women who fight for justice. This is an essential crowdfunding project for anyone interested in women’s rights, free speech, or simply great comics.
Proceeds will be donated to Planned Parenthood.
Current Funding: $3
Funding Goal: $
Days Left: 26
Link: sds
Previously featured campaigns still running and unfunded:
- Optometry: A Graphic Novel 07 Days Left — 42% Funded
- BLEEDING PULP RETURNS WITH ISSUES 1 – 3 5 Days Left — 95% Funded
- Burn With Me: A Graphic Novel 8 Days Left — 85% Funded
- Slaughterhouse Farm – 11 Days Left — 47% Funded
- Root & Branch Book Six – A Fantasy Adventure Comic
Previously featured, fully funded Kickstarters Worth A Look:
- THE JUMP 1-3 from Ringo Award-Winner Rylend Grant 13 Days Left
- Cabra Cini: Voodoo Junkie Hitwoman #1-#3 7 Days Left
- The End of All: Terminus 13 Days Left
- Impossible Jones & American A.N.G.E.L 13 Days Left
- Death Transit Tanager 4 Days Left
- Charles Soule’s Chronicles of Lazarene19 Days Left
- Essential Great Gatsby: The Essential Graphic Novel Adaptation 10 Days Left
- For Molly: Modern Fantasy Graphic Novel with Talking Dogs – 5 Days Left
- Hugs & Hisses 15 Days Left
Like Father, Like Daughter: A Superhero Drama’s Grand Finale
A powered teen must choose between her deadbeat superhero father or evil spy mother! EVERYTHING CHANGES in this JAW DROPPING finale.
Current Funding: $7,564
Funding Goal: $ 8,000
Days Left: 20
Link: Like Father, Like Daughter: A Superhero Drama’s Grand Finale
A father with superpowers, leaves his wife and daughter to become “Invulnerable” – the world’s only superhero. Ten years later his daughter discovers that she has inherited the very superpowers that made her father leave their family.
Invulnerable isn’t the only person keeping secrets! Casey’s mom has been a villain this whole entire time as a lifelong KGB agent. But is being a villain or hero as black and white as we paint them out to be?
This is the 21 page grand finale of Like Father, Like Daughter. Don’t worry Casey and friends will be continuing their adventures, but the book is going to look very different following the ramifications of this issue. YOU DON’T WANT TO MISS IT!
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Cristabel Vol. 1
The princess Cristabel is a formidable young warrior, but a chance encounter with a sorceress changes everything.
Current Funding: $5,464
Funding Goal: $10,000
Days Left: 28
Link: Christabel Vol. 1
The princess Cristabel is a formidable young warrior, but a chance encounter with a sorceress changes everything.
Cristabel, a princess-turned-mercenary, works as a bounty hunter among the Six Territories. Having been banished from her father’s kingdom eight years prior on the order of her sorceress stepmother, Queen Geraldine, Cristabel travels in search of something that will break Geraldine’s hold on King Leoline. Along the way, Cristabel is reunited with her mentor, Wasiun, a disgraced knight from her father’s court, who was dismissed when he was outed as gay. As the old friends catch up, we learn that Geraldine has set the bewitched Leoline on the path to war with a neighboring territory. Hoping to rescue her father, Cristabel and Wasiun are joined by Roland, a charlatan with some real magic abilities. Together, the trio searches for the shaman who holds the key to killing Geraldine.
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HAUNTING: On the Run – Supernatural Horror Action
A FEMME FATAL Ghost Hunter prepares to end our favorite bratty teenage necromancer’s reign of terror. Permanently.
Current Funding: $6,089
Funding Goal: $9,000
Days Left: 20
Link: Haunting: On the Run – Supernatural Horror Action
A femme fatale ghost hunter prepares to end the life of our favorite bratty teenage necromancer.
Wherever this bratty teenage boy goes, the dead rise! Bram’s done a pretty good job at avoiding the consequences of his strange ability up until this point. But his reckoning has finally arrived in the form of Hope, a skilled and ruthless ghost hunter who has made it her mission to end Bram’s unintentional reign of terror. Permanently. Welcome to the beginning of an exciting new arc: HAUNTING: On the Run!
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Alternate Dimension: A 2023 Accidental Aliens Anthology
Escape to a world not our own with the Accidental Aliens latest anthology! Six new stories by more up and coming comic creators!
Current Funding: $2,220
Funding Goal: $3,500
Days Left: 18
Link: Alternate Dimension: A 2023 Accidental Aliens Anthology
Escape to a world not our own with the Accidental Aliens latest anthology! Six new stories by more up-and-coming comic creators!
The pandemic hit a lot of us hard. But after three years, we’re finally back at it again! Picking up from where we left off, we’ve created six new comic short stories featuring adventures into an alternate dimension.
Because what better way to process what we went through than escaping to a world not like ours?
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CIRQUE DE CURIOS – A Fantasy Comic Anthology
A collection of fun and adventurous short comics set in a whimsical dark fantasy carnival
Current Funding: $1,507
Funding Goal: $4,029
Days Left: 14
Link: Cirque de Curios: A Fantasy Comic Anthology
A collection of fun and adventurous short comics set in a whimsical dark fantasy carnival
The Rat Pack Collective are proud to present Cirque de Curios: a bumper anthology of eight short comics set in a spooky supernatural circus. Step right up and see the wondrous Clockwork Acrobat, applaud for the amazing Trinkety Troupe, and are you brave enough to receive a fortune from the Oracle? (There’s even performing rats in this one!) This is our biggest and best anthology yet, with 60 pages of stunning full-colour artwork in a perfect bound book. Get yourself a ticket to the Cirque, and help us bring this fantastic anthology to life!
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Darla – The Debut Graphic Novel from Josh Ruben
Darla explores the disturbing underbelly of Americana through politics, health, psychosis and murder.
Current Funding: $4,538
Funding Goal: $8,500
Days Left: 10
Link: Darla: The Debut Graphic Novel
Darla explores the disturbing underbelly of Americana through politics, health, psychosis and murder.
Twisted, edgy, and blackly comic, Darla conjures up feelings of Requiem for a Dream, Dead Zone, and The Babadook… with a heaping helping of Tales from the Crypt sprinkled in! Darla is centered around the title character and the debauched goings on in her home of Derryl County. Fracking has destroyed the groundwater and an accident at the metal foundry where Darla used to work has left her injured, in pain, and searching for answers. On top of that, Darla is starting to hear things… see things… and she’s not exactly sure what’s real anymore.
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Punchline and the Vaude-Villains • Issues 1 & 2
The super clown throws down in C-Town! Punchline squares off against Apama in a brutal battle that will change both characters forever!
Current Funding: $4,264
Funding Goal: $6,000
Days Left: 26
Link: Punchline and the Vaude-Villains • Issues 1 & 2
The Fight of the Year is Here!
The Erie Lake Earthquake! The C-Town Throwdown! The War on the Friggin’ Shore! It’s Punchline versus Apama in an epic blast-out brawl for the ages!
Drayton Hayes was a down on his luck heavyweight boxer who was kidnapped by the mysterious Vaude-Villains and transformed into a super-powered clown assassin Punchline. The character was an instant fan-favorite after his debut in issue #1 of Tap Dance Killer (April of 2018.)
Now Punchline faces his greatest challenge as he takes on the main superhero in the Hero Tomorrow comics universe – Apama (a humble ice cream truck driver who finds himself bonded with the spirit force of the most savage beast mankind has never known!)
Punchline and the Vaude-Villains is a 5 issue series that turns on a dime from horror to comedy, and from the super-heroic to the dark and supernatural.
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Holy West #2
An Old West adaptation of the Quest for the Holy Grail.
Current Funding: $5,355
Funding Goal: $8,000
Days Left: 26
Link: Holy West #2
Percy, Fire Eyes, Rosa, and Grant continue their quest for the Holy Grail which lies hidden in a mysterious castle which appears all throughout the frontier before vanishing…while an unhinged outlaw known as The General hunts them across the wilderness with his army of cutthroats. If they fail to find the Grail before him, the Old West will remain a wintry Wasteland forever.
28 page main story written by Seth Jacob and illustrated by Daniel Irizarri.
20 extra pages, including short stories with art by Simon Roy, Artyom Trakhanov, Grim Wilkins, Dillon Snook and Logan Stahl. Pin ups by Goran Gligovi?, Katrin Dirim, and Daniel Irizarri. 48 pages total.
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Fully funded Kickstarters Worth A Look:
- Red Morden: Master Edition by Jay Fotos
- Power Rangers 30: A Tribute & Celebration in Comic Books by BOOM! Studios (for more details: BOOM! Studios Celebrates the 30th Anniversary of Power Rangers with a New BOOM! Direct Reserve Campaign)
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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.