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: 16— Funded: 49%
- Ax-Wielder by Nick Pitarra – Campaign Reopened 19 Days Left
Resolution
by Ron Marz, Andy Lanning, Rick Leonardi and Netho Diaz
Current Funding: $23,868
Funding Goal: $18.o00
Days Left: 10
Link: Resolution
***UPDATE APRIL ’23: The book is in the final stages of lettering and will be ready for print this month! Due to the delays and how long it’s taken for the book to be completed, we’re re-opening the campaign for 2 weeks for anyone who missed the original campaign, and for retailers to hop on with the knowledge that the wait time is significantly decreased.
A legendary member of an outer-space corps of heroes has withdrawn to a remote world in solitude. But her past catches up to her as former comrades arrive to convince her to come back and bring a former arch-nemesis to justice.
RESOLUTION is an epic new tale by the masters of cosmic storytelling, presented as an oversized hardcover graphic novel. It is written by Ron Marz and Andy Lanning, who’s also handling inking duties for the project. Originally slated for Rick Leonardi on pencils, changes occurred that took him off the project, but not before he provided the main cover artwork, character and world designs and a few interior spreads for the book. Fortunately, Marz and Lanning were able to recruit rising superstar Netho Diaz to take over the remaining art duties, and enlisted Paul Pelletier, Bart Sears and Tom Raney to handle bonus stories and flashbacks.
Also includes pin-ups by Liam Sharp, Phil Jimenez, Greg Broadmore, Wes Craig, Paul Pelletier, Ron Lim, Bart Sears, Luke Ross, Jeff Johnson and others.
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Thunder Hunters
by Mark A. Nelson
Current Funding: $11,940
Funding Goal: $ 6,000
Days Left: 26
Link: Thunder Hunters
Artist and adventurer J.V. Holbrook has traversed and recorded the natural history of an uncharted planet. Thunder Hunters is the unique, culminated cross-section of his sketches, journal entries, sequential stories, and portraits of inhabitants and the expansive Vermillion Sands region. It showcases his attention to detail and love of his newly explored alien domain, revealing a never before seen world of myth, culture, landscape, and wildlife.
Newly collected in an exclusive oversized hardcover by writer/artist Mark A. Nelson. Plus a rare chance to own the original art!
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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: $4,797
Funding Goal: $8.500
Days Left: 16
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.
Previously featured campaigns still running and unfunded:
- Christabel Vol. 1 13 Days Left – 73% Funded
- Holy West #2 11 Days Left 98% Funded
- Cobblestone Chronicles: The Hero Next Door 17 Days Left 40% Funded
- The Knight and the Lion: A Swords of Arthur Story 15 Days Left 88% Funded
- Lost in the Weeds: A Comics Anthology 12 Days Left 63% Funded
- Metal Eagle 1 – For Those about to Rock! 15 Days Left 26% Funded
Previously featured, fully funded Kickstarters Worth A Look:
- Charles Soule’s Chronicles of Lazarene 4 Days Left
- Like Father, Like Daughter: A Superhero Drama’s Grand Finale 4 Days Left
- Haunting: On the Run – Supernatural Horror Action 4 Days Left
- Alternate Dimension: A 2023 Accidental Aliens Anthology 3 Days Left
- Punchline and the Vaude-Villains • Issues 1 & 2 11 Days Left
- Bunkbed Mishaps 19 Days Left
- Liminality: A Silent Graphic Novel About Depression 9 Days Left
- The Shilling Shockers 11 Days Left
- Moonshine Bigfoot: Moonshine, Muscle Cars, and Mayhem!14 Days Left
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Enough Dough to Buy More Bullets / Space Nazis on the Moon
Two pals drink, smoke, and shoot their way through this all-gas, no-brakes 52-page flip book love letter to mid-century
Current Funding: $2,865
Funding Goal: $5,000
Days Left: 13
Link: Enough Dough to Buy More Bullets / Space Nazis on the Moon by John Pence & Maxim Mel (@UHStudios, @johnnypence)
Two pals drink, smoke, and shoot their way through this all-gas, no-brakes 52-page flipbook love letter to mid-century pulp.
Sunday funny-paper luminaries Wil Eisner, Hal Foster, Segar, and Milt Caniff are, no doubt, spinning in their graves over this two-volume tribute to and send-up of their craft. Originally published as a biweekly serial exclusive on GlobalComix, The Jonesey and Doctor Long Adventures are lovingly concocted by American madman John Pence and Russian madman Maxim Mel to achieve the same breakneck pace of old newspaper funnies, but also metered out in small doses. And, like in the work of the old masters, alcohol, tobacco, and firearms are employed liberally. Unlike in the masterpieces, nothing is serious; nothing is sacred. Two story arcs are collected in this Complete Retro Reversible Val-U Pack, because if ever there was a book that should be flipped upside down when you want to read the other half, it’s this one.
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Stephan Franck’s PALOMINO Volumes 2 & 3
The Critically-Acclaimed Neo-Noir Graphic Novel Set In LA’s Country Music Clubs Continues
Current Funding: $13,253
Funding Goal: $15,000
Days Left: 19
Link:Palomino Volumes 2 & 3 byStephan Franck (@fromdarkplanet, @stephan_franck)
Acclaimed cartoonist and award-nominated animator, writer, and director Stephan Franck has worked with some of the most popular characters of all time—including Spider-Man and the Smurfs — and has contributed to classic contemporary animation projects, including Despicable Me, How to Train Your Dragon, The Iron Giant, and Marvel Studios’ What If…? as head of animation and director. This spring, the LA-based creator is returning to a passion project: writing and drawing the graphic novel series Palomino, a neo-noir graphic novel series set in the lost culture of Los Angeles’ country music clubs. Franck and his company, Dark Planet Comics, are returning to Kickstarter to crowdfund volumes 2 and 3 of the planned 4-volume graphic novel series.
Set in Los Angeles in the year 1981, Palomino is perfect for fans of mysteries, hard boiled dialogue, music, lived-in slice-of-life, and Los Angeles’ weird and forgotten history. The American Century is running on fumes, but the end isn’t anywhere in sight. The cowboy is still America’s most central symbol—and from movies, to music, to the President himself, it all hails from Southern California. Across LA, six nights a week, working musicians, TV actors, stuntmen, cops, hustlers, and broken souls all play their part in the cultural myth making. Most of them are just trying to survive—on the B-side of the City of Angels. This is Palomino — where Farrah Fawcett hair reigns supreme, where Ronald Reagan is beginning his first term as President, and where LA’s hottest music spot is North Hollywood’s historic Palomino Club.
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Detached Volume One
The first 2 chapters of Detached, A comic about learning to love yourself.
Current Funding: $4,375
Funding Goal: $500
Days Left: 14
Link: Detached Volume 1 by Angela Oddling (@angelaoddling)
A comic about learning to love yourself.
After Casey’s personal demons manifest in the real world as creatures called Oddlings, she must learn to embrace and love herself or risk spiraling back into the captivity of her troubled past. The first book of Detached introduces our protagonist Casey a year after her suicide attempt. After being saved by a mysterious creature, she’s thrown back into her life and faced with the things she had been trying to escape. Casey must navigate a world that’s now sprinkled with strange creatures and unpredictable magic while trying to heal the heart-shaped hole left in her body. Volume One sets the pace for Casey’s slow-burning (and awkward) journey as she learns that she’s worthy of love from both herself and her friends and that her past does not define her.
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A Flag to Fly #1-Fantasy Adventure (GoT x SwordAndTheStone)
Issue #1: Flags of Our Fathers is the adventure comedy start to the mini-series that explores the trials of leadership in scary times.
Current Funding: $1,411
Funding Goal: $3,300
Days Left: 15
Link: A Flag to Fly #1: Fantasy Adventure (GoT x Sword and the Stone) by C.Solis (@SolisStories, @llanelloyd, @dlentzletters, @TamingtheMuse, @redtiebear, @wnikeartist)
Issue #1: Flags of Our Fathers is the adventure comedy start to the miniseries that explores the trials of leadership in scary times.
On the Isle of Solomon, the land is in need of a savior in these feudal times! The Crimson King, in his Crimson Keep, with his Crimson Guard, has slowly started to run amok on his people after years of fierce battle and loss. Now his Knight Commander, Bach, has reached their breaking point in carrying out the king’s bizarre orders. Now Bach rides to Tidalstead in hopes of their long-life friend, Lïong Ren, joining their cause as the commander in the coming war to protect the people when everything goes medieval in A Flag To Fly #1: Flags of Our Fathers!
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The Fujoshi Guide to Web Development
Help us put the means of website production back into the hands of those best suited to receive them: fandom people.
Current Funding: $8,385
Funding Goal: $10,000
Days Left: 16
Link: The Fujoshi Guide to Web Developmentby Essential Randomness (@essentialrandom, @BobaBoard)
Help us put the means of website production back into the hands of those best suited to receive them: fandom people.
The web is not what it used to be. That vibrant place of weirdness which accompanied our childhoods has given way to sanitized, closed-down corporate platforms. Many words have been written bemoaning the change, yet solutions are still lacking: Does a thriving web need a permanent ledger to save commercial transactions on? Not really. Open protocols to share content beyond the boundaries of capitalist walled gardens? Most likely. Tools to build online spaces aligned with the goals of the communities that inhabit them? Very much so. But despite all the people working tirelessly to solve this problem, the unfortunate reality is that no one has given the internet what it really, truly needs to return to its glory days… Until now.
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How to Webcomic: 2023 Edition!
Learn to make your own webcomic! It’s time for an updated reprint of How to Webcomic: The Ultimate Guide to Making Online Comics!
Current Funding: $19,297
Funding Goal: $15,000
Days Left: 19
Link: How to Webcomic: 2023 Edition by Starlia Prichard
Learn to make your own webcomic! It’s time for an updated reprint of How to Webcomic: The Ultimate Guide to Making Online Comics!
The updated 2023 edition of How to Webcomic includes all the content from the original book, plus ~70 pages of new, additional content! The book aims to teach you everything you need to know to jump into the wonderful world of webcomics, to help you get your story out there and succeed online! Topics in the book include (but are not limited to): Concepting Writing and scripting Drawing for comics Paneling and visual pacing Art programs Building a website Webcomic platforms Self-promotion Social media marketing Monetization (Patreon, etc.) Building a community …and more!
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PRIDE!
38 Italian artists illustrate a book to spread and support queer art and topics!
Current Funding: $2,958
Funding Goal: $4,428
Days Left: 16
Link: Pride! by Spaghetti Comics ( @giopota, @Baphomouse)
38 Italian artists illustrate a book to spread and support queer art and topics!
PRIDE! Is an illustrated book on queer culture, featuring 38 amazing artists, more and less famous, united by the will to create something beautiful together. The book will be released to celebrate Pride Month. With this project, we want to create a book that can be easily enjoyable and understandable by any person willing to know the queer culture and the important themes it brings with itself.
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A Real Slobberknocker #1 – A Pro Wrestling Comic Book
Two best friends come up through the indies together only to be driven apart by a tragic event.
Current Funding: $1,000
Funding Goal: $2,349
Days Left: 17
Link: A Real Slobbernocker #1 – A Pro Wrestling Comic Book by James Ferguson (@JamesFerguson, @dan_buksa, @mattkrotzer)
Two best friends come up through the indies together only to be driven apart by a tragic event.
Bret and Jake are best friends and lifelong wrestling fans. Their fandom cemented their friendship. They were destined to get in the squared circle. The two rise up the ranks of the indie circuit as a tag team called “The New Kicks.” Just as they get their big break, they’re hit with shocking news that drives them apart. Their friendship will never be the same again, and their differences will be settled in the ring in the biggest match of their lives
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TOXX #1 + #2
The first 2 issues of new post-apocalyptic story. What does it mean to be human in a world that left humanity behind long ago?
Current Funding: $2,437
Funding Goal: $4,000
Days Left: 17
Link: Toxx #1 + #2 by Evan Carothers (@wolven_press, @ec3d_design, @ericpalicki, @MartyGassi94, @jamesbemmett)
The first 2 issues of new post-apocalyptic story. What does it mean to be human in a world that left humanity behind long ago?
Toxx is a five issue post-apocolyptic miniseries filled with action, intrigue, and drama. It’s a story about personal responsibility, hope for the future, and what it truly means to be human. During the recent pandemic, I went through the surreal experience of bringing a child into the world — an experience both beautiful and terrorizing. My wife and I felt helpless to the panic of the world, cut off from our families, and fearful of the world our child would inherit. That life-altering experience inspired me to create the story Toxx — where the world is an actual dystopian wasteland — where the sun itself is poisoning the world with radiation and humanity has long since been sterilized.
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Tuned: A blood-soaked psychological horror graphic novel!
A Neil Gibson Comic
Current Funding: $5,204
Funding Goal: $3,762
Days Left: 14
Link: Tuned by Neil Gibson (@TPubComics, @TwistedNeil, @aymen_swisy)
A blood-soaked psychological horror graphic novel
Tuned is Hostel meets John Wick by way of Old Boy. Horror and gore fans will not be disappointed. Tuned is our darkest and most violent comic to date. Those who back the Kickstarter should expect an absolutely twisted blood soaked ride. People Change. It’s natural. But some change is decidedly… unnatural. Project Coventry was meant to change people for the better, but it ended in tragedy. The project was shut down and everyone moved on.
Except Frank Scalera.
Fully funded Kickstarters Worth A Look:
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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.
