We here at Comic Watch want to highlight and support those projects across the various platforms, especially 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.
In this post:
Star Marshals
Cleaning up the galaxies one perp at a time.
Funding Goal: $3,000
Days Left: 26
From the creative team that brought you HERO HAPPY HOUR, the comic book about superheroes hanging out in a bar, comes STAR MARSHALS, the comic book about space cops, umm…hanging out in, uh—space. This is the sci-fi buddy cop comic book that you didn’t know you were missing.
These are the investigations of the Intergalactic Justice Coalition Marshals. Their oath of service: to apprehend wanted fugitives; to investigate intergalactic violations and felonies. To boldly skew where science fiction and police procedural tropes have gone before.
It’s Lethal Weapon meets Star Wars.
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SCRAP BOOK
Glenn Bray is a renowned collector and archivist of underground comix, low and high art, and the creator of the critically acclaimed books LIBRARY and The Blighted Eye.
Funding Goal: $10,000
Days Left: 20
“There are many different sorts of collectors. Freud attributed the condition to bad toilet training, but he was often something of a kill-joy. Of course, at one end of the spectrum there are The Hoarders, those who turn their homes into dangerous obstacle courses, with treasures and trash combustibly mixed together. Anyone who ever walked through Bill Blackbeard’s large Victorian home, The San Francisco Academy of Comic Art, a three-story house with only narrow paths between the stacked-high bound volumes of newspapers absolutely everywhere but the bathroom (for fear of water-damage), might have diagnosed him with that pathology. Though discerning and prescient (Bill knew the difference between trash and treasure better than most everyone) he tried to collect it All… and it has served my art form well.
Here he has arranged neuron-firing, free-associative found images as a series of two-page spreads that comment and reflect upon each other. By turns darkly funny, apocalyptic and blissful, SCRAP BOOK is a subconscious flow of words and pictures that no one was supposed to save or revere. You’ll see some famous names in the art and cartooning world here alongside anonymous tabloid clippings, forgotten advertisements and bizarre things that somehow wandered into the mainstream.
Sherlock Holmes and The Empire Builders – The Gene Genie Volume One
Sherlock Holmes and The Empire Builders is an epic alternate world sci fi adventure featuring The World’s Greatest Detective as people have never seen him before.
Funding Goal: $5,000
Days Left: 12
When Watson leaves Holmes to help Crick unravel the DNA helix and finds himself in the employ of England’s most evil man, Holmes is forced to team up with an unlikely group to defeat this monstrous figure and return England to its status quo. With your support here we can get the first part of this exciting graphic novel out to readers!
Testing the waters with three shorts which ran in Tripwire magazine, we felt that now was the time to debut this in its own graphic novel series. This will be a hardcover with a dust jacket running at 88 pages with 68 pages of story (much of which will be new material) plus character sketches, script pages and an interview offering extra information on the series.
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A Never-Ending Adventure
The fantastic quest of an aspiring creator looking for an idea.
Current Funding: $1,119
Funding Goal: $4,000
Days Left: 14
Link: A Never-Ending Adventure
A Never-Ending Adventure is a one-shot story of Mark Bear, a young Latino struggling to keep his head straight. A former corporate worker turned comic book writer, Mark needs to think of a winning idea to make a living from his passion. But his –undiagnosed- ADHD disperses his thoughts and ideas, and the modern culture of fast stimuli doesn’t help. Therefore, we will follow a day of his life, trying to accomplish his goals by having great adventures, which include trips to his past and foreign lands. Will he be able to write a comic book by the last page?
We will focus on exploring Mark’s thoughts in the form of a fantastic adventure and the Latino approach to mental health. We will show Mark’s struggle with distractions, disappointing loved ones, and dealing with imposter syndrome. The book will feature a series of side stories, with different art styles and artists, spawning from Mark’s main story, that shows how his head works and how he easily transitions from one thought to another. With your help, we will make this book about career change, mental health, creating comics, and epic quests a reality!
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Milestone #2
Cole Morgan may not want to be the most powerful man in the universe, but he doesn’t have a choice. It’s Milestone in GodQuest #2, as the hit series returns to Zoop!
Current Funding: $1,059
Funding Goal: $4,500
Days Left: 6
Link: Milestone #2
Previously featured campaigns still running and unfunded:
- The Ballad of Valkyrie Sinclaire #1 – 2 — 12 Days Left 98% funded
- Cyko KO’s Colossal Comic Compendium — 12 Days Left 96% funded
- Olympus High #1: Welcome to a School of Gods — 16 Days Left 44% funded
Previously featured, fully funded Kickstarters Worth A Look:
- Sticky Pages — 2 Days Left
- Mr. Lovenstein Presents: FEELINGS — 3 Days Left
- The Sixth Gun Reborn — 12 Days Left
- Into the Deep: A Submerged Space Opera — 5 Days Left
- Kindred Heavens Book One — 4 Days Left
- Collectors Annual #7 MORE Funny Comics About Comics & Wives! — 12 Days Left
- PLAINER JANE – The Complete Full Colour Graphic Novel — 21 Days Left
- Slice of Life: The Kiss – 4 Days Left
- The Hard Switch— 6 Days Left
The Spider-Squirrel & Trash Panda Titan-sized Special!
The Dysfunctional Duo™ is BACK! This titanic one-shot has a NEW 24pg SS/TP story + several shorts from across the Xion Universe!
Current Funding: $3,119
Funding Goal: $6,500
Days Left: 27
Link: The Spider-Squirrel & Trash Panda Titan-sized Special!
Xion Studios is back with another joint for your entertainment!! This time we’re bringing you our first TITAN-SIZED SPECIAL featuring over 80 pages of storytelling fun from across the Xion Universe. With our planned Stretch Goals, this special will be 100 pages in its final configuration!
Our Dysfunctional Duo™ bounce back after their adventures across the Indieverse from Volume One (available in this campaign) and try to get some R&R but after an awkward moment one morning, Spider-Squirrel takes off to fight supervillains at the shipping port while Trash Panda… goes shopping?? This 24-pg story leads off this Special!
Meet NEW character from across the Xion Universe! Visit new locations! Experience new genres!
These additional shorts will visit places like Canada, Japan, and even another planet, showcase characters such as Les Supérieurs, The WatchGuard, 7Ronin, villains Moonshot, Gecko & Kodiak, the powerful enigma Damocles, and Chest Face — a BRAND-NEW hero from the inimitable DEAN HASPIEL!
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Kings & Canvas: Mammoth Edition by Neil Kleid & Jake Allen
“Game of Thrones” meets “Rocky Balboa”, but with pirate referees & talking, boxing dragons! Collecting issues #0-5 & an ALL NEW #6!
Current Funding: $1,004
Funding Goal: $4,500
Days Left: 18
Link: Kings & Canvas: Mammoth Edition by Neil Kleid & Jake Allen
Years ago, a boxing champion named Mammoth was exiled and imprisoned. Now, a decade later, he punches his way out of prison, ready to return to the family, title and country he’d left behind. It’s a land in which man, beast, dragon and champion stride a battlefield and either raise gloves in triumph…or taste canvas in defeat. Journeying across this changed America, Mammoth must train a grassroots army of pirate champions, irritable sea dwarves and talking, boxing polar bears to dethrone an unjust king and the evil councilor who’d exiled him years before.
An original boxing fantasy tale, Kings & Canvas explores the lengths a man will go to find purpose after life, liberty and career have passed him by. Simply described as “Game of Thrones meets Rocky Balboa” (but with sea dwarves, pirate referees and talking, boxing dragons), Kings and Canvas is a tale of dynasties, boxing, family and revenge…in a new world where honor is gained not by using guns or swords, but rather fists, wits and the courage to change.
This campaign collects all the previously published issues of Kings & Canvas (the one shot—”The Dragon’s Gloves”—and issues #1-5, the first five parts of the initial story, “Mammoth”) and also includes the brand new, never-before-seen sixth issue by the original team—Neil Kleid, Jake Allen and Frank Reynoso—wrapping up the first arc!
This will be a 120+ page full color hardcover that will look gorgeous on your shelf!
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Terminus Veil Volume 1 – An Explosive Action Mystery
For Ghost In The Shell lovers—Follow the security firm Guardians Intl. as they fight to survive a violent robbery gone wrong.
Current Funding: $6,532
Funding Goal: $4,000
Days Left: 24
Link: Terminus Veil Volume 1 – An Explosive Action Mystery
Follow Guardians International, a private security firm who are thrust into an epic conspiracy involving dangerous robberies, futuristic weaponry and gut wrenching betrayal. The leader of the Guardians, Wei “Quan” Gong, is locked in a power struggle with a calculating and cutthroat scientist, Dr. Edward Clarence. Discover which members of the Guardians will rise to become heroes and who will betray their peers in the action mystery comic Terminus Veil.
Terminus Veil Volume 1 includes more than 120 pages of explosive action!
- Issues 1-4 for 92 pages of high quality sequential artwork.
- More than 30 pages of supplemental content, including character bios, background story details, and concept art.
- Digital PDF included with every physical book.
- For 16 years old and up!
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TRIGGERGIRL 6: JUSTICE – by Palmiotti, Santacruz and Conner
A two issue, action packed ADULT comic by Jimmy Palmiotti, Juan Santacruz, Amanda Conner, and more
Current Funding: $63,315
Funding Goal: $32,000
Days Left: 26
Link: TRIGGERGIRL 6: JUSTICE – by Palmiotti, Santacruz and Conner
Welcome to another exciting PaperFilms Kickstarter Campaign! That’s right, the creative team of Amanda Conner (@amandarantsalot) and Jimmy Palmiotti (@jpalmiotti) and PaperFilms (@paperfilms1) have launched and funded with extreme success 22 straight Kickstarter projects thanks to the wonderful support of their fans, and now we are back for more!
Triggergirl 6 makes her dramatic return to the comic pages in this action-packed, sexy, and over-the-top adult two-issue tale. Now all of you can be part of the excitement.
FEATURING THE TALENTS OF: Jimmy Palmiotti, Amanda Conner, Juan Santacruz, Adam Hughes, Dave Johnson, Joe Linsner, Ryan Sook, Megan Hutchinson, John J Hill, and Dave Sharpe.
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[Boyish²] Butch×Butch Yuri Anthology[vol.2]
WLW comic (Yuri manga) artists gather from around the world to collaborate on a shared dream!
Current Funding: $19,715
Funding Goal: $10,186
Days Left: 44
Link: [Boyish²] Butch×Butch Yuri Anthology[vol.2]
WLW comic (Yuri manga) artists gather from around the world to collaborate on a shared dream!
Are you craving butch x butch content but can’t find any? Do you wish you could swim in an ocean of quality butch x butch yuri manga? Then this is the book for you! Featuring over 160 pages of WLW butch x butch yuri from creators around the world, paving the way for a new era of unique lesbian comics.
The authors come from all corners of the LGBTQ+ community, with stories featuring lesbian, bisexual, and non-binary characters. This anthology is a joint effort between nations, connecting everyone together.
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Out of Style: a gorgeous, all-new winchestermegg artbook!
Follow the lives and styles of Mila, Yul, and Hana, as they navigate home, school, and work via stunning illustrations and comics!
Current Funding: $24,528
Funding Goal: $19,707
Days Left: 10
Link: Out of Style: a gorgeous, all-new winchestermegg artbook!
‘Out of Style’ follows 3 young Muslim women: Mila, Yul, and Hana, giving us glimpses into their lives as they go to school, work, spend time with family and friends, shop, and more! As well as being a showcase for Meg’s gorgeous art, ‘Out of Style’ is also an unfettered celebration of young Muslim women simply being themselves -goofy, passionate, sporty, anxious, lazy, stylish (the list goes on) – beyond the boundaries of othering perceptions. With over 100 pages of illustrations and 40 pages of comics, this really is an unmissable affirming debut from a rising superstar artist.
With this kickstarter, we’re looking to cover the costs of printing the book, shipping, fulfilment, project management, production, plus kickstarter and payment processing fees.
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Quinn-Finity: Welcome to Quinn-Landia Issue 1 of 5
This is #1 in a 5 issue series as Quinn-Finity watches her world twist and change as her powers are stolen and used against her!
Current Funding: $684
Funding Goal: $2,000
Days Left: 44
Link: [Boyish²] Butch×Butch Yuri Anthology[vol.2]
Once upon a time there was a girl who could turn into ANY superhero, with ANY superpower that she could think of! But… what happens when those powers are stolen!?!? Enter Scribble Scrabble, a villain unintentionally created by Quinn herself. His plan is to steal Quinn’s powers and change and reshape the very world around her in his own image! We’ll see Quinn-Finity heroes like Quinn-ja, Star Fish, and Big Girl as she takes on her newest foe!
Welcome to Quinn-Landia is a 5 issues series that follows our hero Quinn-Finity as she battles the villain Scribble Scrabble. Issue one sets up the story arc, and is a great jumping on point for anyone who missed out on Quinn-Finity volume 1, issues #1-3!
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Rook & Knight: Issue #1 A Fast Paced Action Comic
Daniel Kalban’s Libertyverse expands! A father-son vigilante duo must fight crime…if they’re not fighting each other.
Current Funding: $2,987
Funding Goal: $4,000
Days Left: 44
Link: Rook & Knight: Issue #1 A Fast Paced Action Comic by Daniel Kalban, Jake Baggs, & Sean Baggs
Meet Rook, the muscle of the team. The heavy hitter. The brutal bruiser. Member in…standing with the Liberty Legion. And Meet his partner, Knight. The teen martial artist with a surly attitude and nimble moves. So far, he’s resisted invites to join the Liberty Legion’s teen hero division. However, they got some secret identities to keep. Meet their alter egos,
Jack and Ethan Grant: tycoon of industry and the gymnastics star of Brooklyn Prep. Lately, however, this usually well oiled team has been experiencing some friction. Could be teenage rebellion. Could be old tensions and hurts coming to the fore. Soon, they’ll undertake a case where fault lines will grow and dark impulses might take control…and while doing so, expand the Libertyverse!
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VIXX THE HUNTER #1 – A Thrilling Post-Apocalyptic Fantasy
An adult fantasy set in a dangerous and colorful world with giant, glowing, mutated animals and those that hunt them.
Current Funding: $21,118
Funding Goal: $6,500
Days Left: 12
Link: VIXX THE HUNTER #1 – A Thrilling Post-Apocalyptic Fantasy by Pat Shand, Jeff Massey, & Damien Torres
100 years ago, an event called The Glowing devastated 80% of the population, leaving the survivors with an Earth that has been changed. Water is radioactive, animals have mutated, and the world has been painted with beautiful, dangerous, glowing color. Most of the remaining society has broken into villages in attempt to rebuild the world they lost.
Will Vixx, a lone hunter, and her companion Kit, a giant four-eyed fox, be able to make it on their own? This new dark fantasy/adventure comic from Pat Shand and Team Space Between introduces a new post-apocalyptic hero!