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: 24— Funded: 49%
- Cartoon Puppet Horror Theater Days Left: 07— Funded: 27%
- The Other Happy Place – Chapter 0 Days Left: 5— Funded: 417%
- Impostor Syndicate Days Left: 6 — Funded: 141%
- Ax-Wielder by Nick Pitarra – Campaign Reopened 19 Days Left
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: $3,940
Funding Goal: $8.500
Days Left: 24
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:
- Root & Branch Book Six – A Fantasy Adventure Comic 5 Days Left 80% Funded
- Christabel Vol. 1 20 Days Left – 66% Funded
- Haunting: On the Run – Supernatural Horror Action 12 Days Left 84% Funded
- Alternate Dimension: A 2023 Accidental Aliens Anthology 11 Days Left 92 % Funded
- Cirque de Curios: A Fantasy Comic Anthology 7 Days Left 39% Funded
- Punchline and the Vaude-Villains • Issues 1 & 2 19 Days Left 81% Funded
- Holy West #2 19 Days Left 80% Funded
Previously featured, fully funded Kickstarters Worth A Look:
- The End of All: Terminus 5 Days Left
- Impossible Jones & American A.N.G.E.L 5 Days Left
- Charles Soule’s Chronicles of Lazarene 12 Days Left
- Essential Great Gatsby: The Essential Graphic Novel Adaptation 3 Days Left
- Hugs & Hisses 7 Days Left
- Like Father, Like Daughter: A Superhero Drama’s Grand Finale 12 Days Left
- Darla: The Debut Graphic Novel
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BUNKBED MISHAPS
By Mark Russell (@ManRuss)
Current Funding: $6,077
Funding Goal: $5,000
Days Left: 26
Link: Bunkbed Mishaps
Eisner, GLAAD, and Ringo award-winning comic book writer Mark Russell has made a name for himself with his sharply satirical writing in comic books such as Prez, The Flintstones, Exit Stage Left: The Snagglepuss Chronicles, Not All Robots, Superman: Space Age, Second Coming, Billionaire Island, My Bad, and more. Now the writer is turning to a new medium for the first time with BUNKBED MISHAPS, his first-ever collection of cartoons.
“Bunkbed Mishaps collects nearly a hundred cartoons, drawn over the course of three decades, as well as several mini-essays in which I open up about my life and what was going on with me while I was drawing them,” said Mark Russell. “It’s as close to a memoir as I’ve ever written, though most of what it captures is the danker recesses of my mind, which gave birth to these cartoons. I’d be lying if I said that I understood them or why I drew them. But it meant a lot for me to do so and even more now to share them with the world.”
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The Cobblestone Chronicles: The Hero Next Door
A 72-page Full-Color Graphic Novel By David Baron & Elisa Wikey (@DavidBaronCMX, @elisawikey)
Current Funding: $2,259
Funding Goal: $7,000
Days Left: 25
Link: Cobblestone Chronicles: The Hero Next Door
THE COBBLESTONE CHRONICLES is a light-hearted, action-adventure comedy designed to entertain children of all ages with real-life childhood experiences to make us all laugh and enter a dream world of adventure.
From acclaimed comic book creator David Baron (BATMAN, JUSTICE LEAGUE, GREEN ARROW, TEEN TITANS) and artist Elisa Wikey (Official gallery shows featuring: Rick and Morty, WWE Legends, Focus Films, Monty Python; creator of Tiny Framed Things) comes the next installment of their graphic novel series, THE COBBLESTONE CHRONICLES: THE HERO NEXT DOOR.
THE HERO NEXT DOOR teleports the reader to a relatable world that lets us leave our stresses behind as we go on an adventure with our unlikely heroes.
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The Knight and the Lion: A Swords of Arthur Story
A fresh take on a classic Arthurian legend from the creator of Unicorn: Vampire Hunter by Caleb Palmquist (@CalebPalmquist)
Current Funding: $10,767
Funding Goal: $15,000
Days Left: 23
Link: The Knight and the Lion: A Swords of Arthur Story
A fresh take on a classic Arthurian legend from the creator of Unicorn: Vampire Hunter.
The knights of Arthur’s court have a lot in common: they are brave, chivalrous, and mighty, but each of them have their own strengths, their own flaws, and their own paths to follow. The Knight and the Lion: A Swords of Arthur Story is a fantasy adventure comic based on a classic Arthurian legend about a knight named Yvain and his loyal lion companion. It is a story about what it means to be a knight and reclaiming lost honor.
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Liminality: A Silent Graphic Novel About Depression
Using physical and emotional liminal space, an exploration of depression expressed with illustration. Ft isolation monster.from
Current Funding: $2,358
Funding Goal: $1,061
Days Left: 16
Link: Liminality: A Silent Graphic Novel About Depression
Using physical and emotional liminal space, an exploration of depression expressed with illustration. Ft isolation monster.
A person goes about their daily life. It is boring, cyclic. They are then swallowed up and enter the “innerworld.” Here they sink, fight, cage, are chased by, swallowed by their monster. They then must find a way out of the darkness and haul their monster up to “overworld.” They then learn how to accept and live with their monster going forward. Although this may be a hard journey to take, I want it to be an uplifting one.
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Lost in the Weeds: A Comics Anthology
A short comic anthology by ten frantic Chicago-based creators (@letsmake_comics, @celinabarajas1, @daimondrewthis, @widewildblue, @warnerburg, @Lousylouseart)
Current Funding: $1,381
Funding Goal: $2,500
Days Left: 19
Link: Lost in the Weeds: A Comics Anthology
A short comic anthology by ten frantic Chicago-based creators.
Lost in the Weeds is a comic anthology by Let’s Make Comics!, a Chicago-based comic collective. Once a year we pull a theme out of a hat and turn our members loose on it, with weird and wonderful results. This year we explore getting lost, getting in over our heads, not seeing the forest for the trees, and maybe — just maybe — finding our way out in the end.
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The Shilling Shockers – An Horror Anthology
The many faces of fear by Ehm Autoproduzioni (@AntonelloCosen1, @EhmAutoprod)
Current Funding: $1,455
Funding Goal: $3,287
Days Left: 19
Link: The Shilling Shockers
The Shilling Shockers is an anthology of six horror tales, focused on fear.
These stories want to show different sides of “terror” through different interpretations. For this very reason, there are multiple artists at work, and each of them has given their own spin on what terror and discomfort mean, different in both style and way to tell a story; four of these stories are comics and two of them are illustrated. Six stories, six different ways to instill fear in the heart of readers.
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Metal Eagle 1 – For Those about to Rock!
In the early 90’s glam rock is fading but the Cold War is raging! The CIA creates “Metal Eagle” as a front to rock out and spy!
Current Funding: $927
Funding Goal: $4,000
Days Left: 23
Link: Metal Eagle 1 – For Those about to Rock!
The days of glam rock are fading, but the cold war still rages on. The CIA creates a new covert operation “Metal Eagle” a heavy metal band comprised of four agents who travel all over Europe in their tour bus to rock out and spy in a weird first mission.
Ollie Osgood is an aging rocker with a drug aidled brain who holds the secret to stop a disaster. Can Metal Eagle get to him and figure out which is his mumbled gibberish is the the secret they need????
The book also includes a four page back up with a early mission by one of the members of Metal Eagle.
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Moonshine Bigfoot: Moonshine, Muscle Cars, and Mayhem!
The greatest cryptozoological action-adventure-comedy of all time!
Current Funding: $8,929
Funding Goal: $5,000
Days Left: 21
Link: Moonshine Bigfoot: Moonshine, Muscle Cars, and Mayhem!
IMAGE COMICS and SYZYGY bring you Moonshine, Muscle Cars, and Mayhem in this 4 ISSUE mini-series called MOONSHINE BIGFOOT! This 100-page series is jampacked with high octane fun, high revving motors, car chases, and tons of mayhem as we follow Moonshine Bigfoot and his girlfriend Amethyst as they outrun a pack of unruly characters!
Moonshine Bigfoot thought it was a typical day at the ol’ office. Dodging the law, running his shine, and most importantly trying to figure out what to have for dinner. Up until now his biggest problem has been the ghost that inexplicably haunts his still. What our hirsute hero doesn’t know is that his latest batch of moonshine has attracted the attention of an ancient conspiracy with unlimited resources. Now Bigfoot, Amethyst, and Uncle Pineapple must unravel the mystery of Big Level and find out why they are suddenly being chased by Robots, Monsters, and a seemingly endless supply of Goons. Can they outwit an enemy unlike any other, or is Bigfoot going to end up as just another lost legend?
This is a universal tale of growing up, escaping your comfort zone, and becoming the best version of yourself you can be. Just so happens it also has a Bigfoot driving a muscle car.
Join Bigfoot and Company for 4 issues of mayhem and excitement!
This is just the story of a humble Bigfoot just trying to make his way in the world, and the ancient conspiracy determined to ruin his fun.
Fully funded Kickstarters Worth A Look:
- A Place of Our Own by Jordan Nigh & Rick Alves (@rickalvescomics, @JustinBirchz)
- Districts of the Yokai: A One-Shot Horror Comic by Joseph Oliviera (@joeyafterlight, @afterlightcomic, @hernandraw)
- My Friend Toby by Gregory Panaccione
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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.