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:
- Skin Horse vol. 7 & 8 (Reprint) Days Left: 6 — Funded 95%
- Full Tilt Days Left: 6 — Funded: 400%
- ZURDO – The Art of Jorge Molina Days Left: 21 — Funded: 193%
- SERENO – Exclusive Hardcover Collection Days Left: 21 — Funded: 110%
5500 Miles of Comics
by Betje Ton
Current Funding: $7,025
Funding Goal: $8,000
Days Left: 13
Link: 5500 Miles of Comics
With over 250 pages of humorous and heartfelt comic journals, Betje Ton chronicles family life in Los Angeles and her move to the Netherlands during a global pandemic.
Autobiographical comics, as they’re written and drawn by the person who had the experiences, are an incredible way to see the world from someone else’s perspective. Now that we all seem to live in bubbles of like minded people, it’s incredibly meaningful to have this kind of insight into the life of someone you wouldn’t meet otherwise. You will either recognize yourself in these stories or learn something new.
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Trailer Park Warlock tarot
by Matt Rainwater
From Matt Rainwater, creator of the hit Webtoon Original series Trailer Park Warlock, comes a divinatory companion for the working class witch or warlock in your life!
Current Funding: $6,000
Funding Goal: $2,500
Days Left: 28
Link: Trailer Park Warlock tarot
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Just Another Swamp Song
by Danny Djeljosevic & CJ Camba
A pseudo-romantic teen horror comedy about an outcast and her best friend, an increasingly murderous swamp monster. Could things get worse? Yes, it takes place in Florida.
Laurel Wright is a bored, antisocial high school senior, but she’s graduating soon and moving as far away as possible from the so-called Sunshine State. She just has to keep it together for a few more weeks.
There’s just one problem: her best friend is a swamp monster who keeps killing people.
Bog wasn’t always a killer swamp monster. He used to be the kind of cool, friendly swamp monster you’d be stoked to hang out with, and Laurel was more than happy to keep him secret from everyone else in town.
That is, until he crossed the line and killed a bunch of teachers and parents. Laurel can’t cover for Bog anymore, especially because, as the closest thing the town has to a goth, her peers and teachers are getting mighty suspicious of her.
As the weeks go by and tension mounts — both at school and in the swamp — the stage is set for the weirdest prom ever.
Comics from the Kitchen
by Foreign Press Comics
This is a unique combination cookbook/comic anthology that not only captures 20+ amazing stories, many of which are taken right from their creators’ memories, but it also includes delicious recipes, from comfort foods like Alberto Valesco’s lasagna, to family recipes like Jimmy Gaspero’s dad’s meatballs, to decadent desserts like Rowena Zahnrei’s cannoli cream layer cake, and international recipes like Wren Rios’ pinchos del puente.
We all know that food has a very profound effect on our lives, specifically on memories. Maybe it’s walking into the kitchen and smelling freshly baked chocolate chip cookies. Maybe it’s the meal you had at that Michelin-starred restaurant. Maybe it’s the bowl of ramen that you ate every night in college. This anthology is dedicated to all of the food memories that we’ve made and the people who have helped us make them.
This project is not only a full-blown comic anthology, but it’s also a bonafide cookbook! Each story includes a recipe that coincides with the contents of the comic. We have comics that range from autobiographical to post-apocalyptic, recipes for everything from meatballs to banana bread to fried boniato, but no matter the genre, they are all made with a deep love of food. So whether you like comics, you like to cook, or you just like food, give us your support! With your help, we can make sure that the world gets a chance to see these amazing recipes and even better comics.
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Previously featured campaigns still running and unfunded:
- Lucifer Licorice — 11 Days Left — 69% Funded
- Quindrie Press: The 2023 Comic Collection — 11 Days Left — 88% Funded
- Black Spot Comics Presents… Lone Tales by Nick Goode
Previously featured, fully funded Kickstarters Worth A Look:
- Hunt for the Skinwalker Expanded Edition & Graphic Novel — 5 Days Left
- Coffin Comics’ All-New graphic novel La Muerta #1: Devious! — 7 Days Left
- Mother Trucker #3: The Heat. Serious Space Wrestling Comics — 4 Days Left
- Oyasumi: A Cat’s Purrpose — 26 Days Left
- Rainbow Canvas: A Wholesome BL & GL Webtoon Anthology — 5Days Left
- Fearless Dawn: The Bomb #1 & Fearless Dawn: Cold #1 — 11 Days Left
- Fowl Language: Tweenage Wasteland — 3 Days Left
- Charlie’s Spot—The Complete Series — 14 Days Left
- Insomniac’s Delights Issue #1 — 11 Days Left
- Prism World Volume 1 — 11 Days Left
- Tales of Asunda #1–3, Niobe & Dura #2, Morka Moa #3, and MORE! — 11 Days Left
- The Thinker #1 — 9 Days Left
THE POWER PRINCIPLE: HeroesCon 2023 Edition
Exclusively printed for HeroesCon attendees… and YOU
Current Funding: $810
Funding Goal: $750
Days Left: 9
Link: THE POWER PRINCIPLE: HeroesCon 2023 Edition
When I was young I went to a very special, magical place: A school in a mansion on a hill. I was brought in to interview with the headmaster, renown in his field and admired enormously by… people like us. Although I had shared my abilities with my closest friends, I was still wracked with nerves when I met with him. Amazingly, when I showed him what I could do, he accepted me.
That was 1982, the headmaster was Joe Kubert, and he accepted my admission to his School of Cartoon & Graphic Art in Dover, New Jersey.
Those were heady days of self-discovery. I was a teenager heading off to live with complete strangers, and I had one powerful coping mechanism going for me: I was a comicbook geek! I was already well-versed in all things Marvel (and some things DC), but the emerging independent comic companies of the day, like Comico, First, and Eclipse, had lit a fire in me that led to the creation of my semi-autobiographical comic, THE POWER PRINCIPLE.
I am reintroducing The Power Principle as I see it now, with the new art and re-edited story beats, starting over at Chapter One. Think of it as a Variant me from 2022, going back to 2012 with more art development and story deliberation. That’s what’s on offer here in this Kickstarter.
Chapters One and Two (currently sitting completed in digital form and online at the Patreon) are being printed in this HeroesCon 2023 edition to also be sold at the convention.
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Haunted Hill: The Complete Volume 1
A Surrealist Soap Opera About Life in Hollywood
Current Funding: $2,493
Funding Goal: $1,489
Days Left: 24
Link: Haunted Hill: The Complete Volume 1
What if life worked the way you thought it did when you were a kid? What if you and everyone else had to act like adults with big feelings and serious intentions even though treehouse passwords worked, detective clubs solved major crimes and you really don’t fall until you looked down? Welcome to Haunted Hill.
This graphic novel series functions like a surrealist soap opera as it follows Eva in pseudo-real time, navigating life in the grime of Hollywood. This is a town where even the smallest moments become charged with impossibility as people search for high-stakes in the lowest places.
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Crater City [The Complete Graphic Novel]
Being sixteen can be weird, but being sixteen and living in a city built inside a giant meteor crater can be weirder!
Current Funding: $3,476
Funding Goal: $5,000
Days Left: 17
Link: Crater City: The Complete Graphic Novel
The town of Crater City hosts an annual celebration of the city’s namesake with a weekend-long treasure hunt. The challenge: find the missing piece of the famed Bollinger meteorite, excavated from the crash site forty years ago, which is currently on display in the city’s museum.
As the town outcasts, sixteen year-old Jodi Ehman and her mother never take part in the festival. Her grandfather hasn’t been the same since the night of the great impact and ten years ago her father disappeared without a trace! The city’s founding members shun the family’s questions and label them as delusional.
What is Jodi’s connection to the lost meteorite piece? Is the town’s biggest mystery hidden closer than she thought? Would she save the town she desperately is trying to get away from?!
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Dead Air #1 90s College Radio Sci-Fi With A Soundtrack
What if one day every year you could talk to the dead?
Current Funding: $6,130
Funding Goal: $9,680
Days Left: 19
Link: Dead Air #1 90s College Radio Sci-Fi With A Soundtrack by Benjamin Hunting & Joe Ng
That’s the world of Dead Air, where the miraculous D-TALq technology has now been commoditized to the point where it’s lost more than a little of its luster.
When main character Michelle finally heads to her local D-TALq franchise to reach out to a long-departed friend from her college radio days, she gets the surprise of her life that forces her to question everything she thought she knew about her past, all while striving to understand its impact on the future of everyone she cares about.
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Dream Weaver: Tales from the Subconscious
A new comics anthology presented by Level Ground Comics revolving around the theme of dreams.
Current Funding: $3,996
Funding Goal: $10,000
Days Left: 22
Link: Dream Weaver: Tales from the Subconscious by Level Ground Comics
When we go to drift to sleep or allow our minds to wander, we slip into a subconscious state where anything is possible.
You become a legendary hero, your crush finally asks you out, or maybe pigs can fly. In this state, we become pathfinders on the precipice of endless possibility. In Dream Weaver: Tales from the Subconscious, Level Ground Comics invites you to take a deep dive inside your unconscious mind and explore what your dreams and desires may hold
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Phantomarine: Volume One
Volume One of the spooky seafaring webcomic Phantomarine, in print!
Current Funding: $17,590
Funding Goal: $5,212
Days Left: 18
Link: Phantomarine Vol. 1 by Claire Niebergall
Phantomarine is an award-winning fantasy adventure webcomic about a ghostly princess and her perilous journey across a haunted sea, hoping to save her soul from a devious, shapeshifting death god known as the Red Tide King.
Expect all manner of maritime mysteries – monstrous sea creatures, sacred lighthouses, strange afflictions, accursed marauders, feuding gods, grand sea battles, and a heaping helping of humor in between.
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Rusalka – Whispers of the Forest
A mythical woman with strange powers and a dark secret. Discover this dreamlike folk tale, inspired by Slavic mythology.
Current Funding: $6,380
Funding Goal: $7,500
Days Left: 20
Link: Rusalka: Whispers of the Forest by Pigeon
Rusalka is a mysterious water demon of Slavic mythology: living by the lake in the ancient Forest, she is the deadly threat luring in lost wanderers…or so the old legends say. But who really is Rusalka and how did she come to be? Where do her powers come from and what dark secrets might hide in her fragmented memories?
Following Rusalka in her journey of self-discovery, you will stumble upon other creatures present by Eastern European myths, such as the mischievous water demon Vodnik or the deity of the underworld Veles.
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Sticky Pages
Four erotic adult comics made by four different artists.
Current Funding: $3,377
Funding Goal: $3,320
Days Left: 44
Link: Sticky Pages by Colourbae, Kimmilewds, Ran, & E
Four professional artists, four stories, four kinks.
They started their spicy journey together in making an erotic anthology. Make yourself comfortable, get some tissues ready, and enjoy these sweet and spicy comics made with love!
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TRY NOT TO DIE #1 | A brutal omni-horror comic
Survivors of familiar horror legends are forced to take part in a deadly competition that pits them against killers and monsters.
Current Funding: $2,999
Funding Goal: $4,000
Days Left: 20
Link: Try Not to Die #1: A Brutal Omni-Horror Comic by Damien Becton & Kenneth Laster
When familiar faces from classic horror films are transported and taken hostage by a mysterious and powerful being and forced to take part in their deadly competition, fates get crossed, tempers get tested, trust becomes obsolete, and, of course, blood is shed.
In this game, the competitors come face to face with each other’s nemeses — there is nowhere to hide from these revenants, monsters, and killers. Find out what happens when the Student, the Boyfriend, the Auteur, the Babysitter, and the Liability cross paths and are pushed to their limits by the Host.
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Polar Destroyer
Polar Destroyer is what happens when a cyborg polar bear is wronged and seeks revenge on a blood-soaked thrill ride. This is issue 1.
Current Funding: $3,550
Funding Goal: $5,050
Days Left: 15
Link: Polar Destroyer
The simple elevator pitch? A Cyborg Polar Bear with the tone of cheesy 80’s action movies, but in comic book form. You don’t want to be a penguin on the wrong side of his revenge..
Like many of you reading this, I’ve always wanted to create something, something I could call my own. While Polar Destroyer was not intended to be a comic originally, as it has taken many forms over the years, it has naturally evolved into a comic book. Polar Destroyer is at its core, the very definition of a passion project.
A polar bear, whom we know as Jack, is king of the North Pole and sits atop the societal hierarchy of arctic animals.. until he doesn’t. A mutinous uprising, led by the Penguins with their superior technology and nefarious experiments, succeeds at dethroning Jack, or so it seems. Against all odds and from the brink of death, Jack must be rebuilt from the shadows to become a cybernetic killing machine fueled by rage and bent on revenge…a POLAR DESTROYER
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Echoes of the Triumphant #3
Echoes of the Triumphant #3 is finally here! Enjoy over 100 pages of kick-ass story telling!
Current Funding: $175
Funding Goal: $707
Days Left: 9
Link: Echoes of the Triumphant #3
Echoes of the Triumphant #3 is a 30 page & fully coloured comic book to an ongoing series printed on a 8.5 x 11 inch comic format on high-quality paper. Echoes of the Triumphant mixes the genres of science fiction and crime dramas by creating a kick-ass thriller. The story takes place in the vibrant & semi-futuristic year of 2035 in the not-so-shy fictional streets of Echo City.
Created and written by myself, edited by Alexi Kott, coloring by Egameh Omo (with help from myself), design by Dominic Bercier, cover art by Greg Woronchak, drawn and inked by Jarrod Bezzina and lettered by Michael McAdams.
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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.
