By Chad Burdette

on March 11, 2023

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

by Plus Waco Comics

Current Funding: $1,123
Funding Goal: $7,000
Days Left: 28
Link: +Waco Comics Presents: Lady Avalion #1 & Lawbringer #1

In Lady Avalion #1 we follow Phoebe Avalion, the 99th reincarnation of the legendary King Arthur, as she leads her knights of the round table on a mission to infiltrate a gang of Sirens in London to investigate a string of disappearances. There’s a gunfight, a giant werewolf, and someone loses a hand! Lady Avalion gets the answers she’s looking for, and it puts her sights on The Black Cathedral, a mysterious church secretly run by anti-exorcists!

And in Lawbringer #1 we meet Jason Wesley, a teenage greasemonkey that wants nothing more than to get out of his small hometown in Louisiana and escape the trajector of his boring life. He gets his wish and then some when he is bonded with a set of Zero-Point stones and becomes the newest recruit in the army of the God of Law and Order!

Stay tuned as the Zoop team have some upcoming launches you will not want to miss.

Previously featured campaigns still running and unfunded:

Uncaped: A Superhero Rom-Com – Original Graphic Novel 19 Days Left — 69% Funded
Everyday Magus: Comic Issue Number 1 21 Days Left — 50% Funded
Hancock: The Lad Himself 5 days Left — 33% Funded

Previously featured, fully funded Kickstarters Worth A Look:

THE JUMP 1-3 from Ringo Award-Winner Rylend Grant

A kick-you-in-the-teeth astral projection thriller from the writer of BANJAX, ABERRANT, & FA SHENG ORIGINS.

Current Funding: $8,109
Funding Goal: $7,000
Days Left: 27
Link: THE JUMP 1-3 from Ringo Award-Winner Rylend Grant

THE JUMP is a comic book series from screenwriter Rylend Grant, artist Fabio Alves, colorist Edson Ferriera, and letterer HdE… the same twisted team that brought you Action Lab: Danger Zone’s critically-lauded superhero noir BANJAX, nominated for FOUR Mike Wieringo Comic Book Industry Awards in 2020 including BEST SERIES (along-side BITTER ROOT, SOMETHING’S KILLING THE CHILDREN, & BLACK HAMMER: AGE OF DOOM).

After a series of crippling personal tragedies, Thomas Northrope retreats from his everyday life and finds comfort in an online community dedicated to the art of astral projection. When he demonstrates a unique aptitude for the practice, Thomas becomes the target of a mysterious corporate/political machine – known as HORIZON – bent on using promising young practitioners to win a centuries-old war on the astral plane.

For more about The Jump check out this interview from 2020 about THE JUMP #1

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The Super-Delish Sing-Along Comic Book: Cottage Cheese

A one-of-a-kind book. It’s a comic…it’s a song!! It’s everything you can ever ask for in a fun, all-ages comic book!

Current Funding: $1,521
Funding Goal: $1,800
Days Left: 6
Link: The Super-Delish Sing-Along Comic Book: Cottage Cheese

Welcome to a very special ORANGE CONE PRODUCTIONS project

The Super-Delish Sing-Along Comic: Cottage Cheese is a very personal story about a young boy named Remy and his love of cottage cheese over every other food on Earth. Comic book creator and Co-Publisher of Orange Cone Productions Heather Gibb wrote an amazing song and comic book about her son and the rest of their family as they go on a magical adventure in comic and song.

Comic book creator and Co-Publisher of Orange Cone Productions Heather Gibb wrote an amazing song and comic book about her son and the rest of their family as they go on a magical adventure in comic and song.

In real life, three-year-old Remy Gibb eats cottage cheese EVERY. SINGLE. DAY. He asks for it for every meal (around his snack schedule, of course). We have to travel with it, use top-notch negotiation skills, and sometimes (don’t tell him) we have to save his favorite brand containers and scoop another brand into it when the store is out of his cottage cheese of choice. It has become such a joke within the family, that Heather wrote and sang Remy a song about it, which then morphed into the idea of a book.

What’s better than a regular-old comic book? A SING-ALONG COMIC BOOK – SUPER-DELISH STYLE! What’s better than cottage cheese? Nothing, according to the boy. Although you may have a different opinion about cottage cheese, perhaps Remy and his Miniature Schnauzer Jean-Ralphio can change your mind?

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Optometry: A Graphic Novel by Xiang Yata & Driftwood Press

A woman’s visit to the optometrist catapults her through a multi-medium journey in this kaleidoscopic, experimental full-color comic.

Current Funding: $1,328
Funding Goal: $ $10,000
Days Left: 28
Link: Optometry: A Graphic Novel

A woman’s visit to the optometrist catapults her through a multi-medium journey in this kaleidoscopic, experimental, 250-page, full-color graphic novel.

As the eye doctor calibrates the optometry machine to investigate the faults and fractures in her eyes, our protagonist is transported to a new world, a place full of overlapping images, dots, curves, houses, and light reflections. As she struggles to navigate the various unique planes within the optometry world, she must confront the endless versions of herself to avoid becoming forever lost in a daze. In Optometry, artist Xiang Yata takes you on a journey through multiple art forms to investigate the myriad ways we perceive ourselves.

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MechaTon #1-5: A Rule-of-Cool Comic with Mechs and Kaiju

A slacker, an artist, and a witch discover an alien glove that turns anything it punches into a pilotable mech. The full first arc!

Current Funding: $4,772
Funding Goal: $8,000
Days Left: 11
Link: s MechaTon #1-5: A Rule-of-Cool Comic with Mechs and Kaiju

MechaTon is a story about fighting for your community against selfishness and authoritarianism, getting by with clever thinking and teamwork, and trying to out-pun your little sister and her strange, witchy significant other—also, trash robots punching giant monsters. Think Scott Pilgrim meets Pacific Rim. The first issue is 28 pages, and all subsequent issues are 20 pages.

Luckily, everything they need just fell out of the sky: the MechaTon glove, a machine that converts anything it punches into a real-life Gundam, whether it’s a hotdog stand or the entire planet. They aren’t the only ones who want to take advantage of this power. If they’re going to save their neighborhood, they’ll have to battle corporations, the military, and actual space fascists. Here’s hoping they look cool doing it!

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Frankenstein and Dracula Double Bill

The original graphic novels of Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein starring Boris Karloff and Bram Stoker’s Dracula starring Bela Lugosi.

Current Funding: $66,419
Funding Goal: $75,000
Days Left: 20
Link: Frankenstein and Dracula Double Bill

The original graphic novels of Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein starring Boris Karloff and Bram Stoker’s Dracula starring Bela Lugosi.

Developed in partnership with Sara Karloff and Karloff Enterprises, as well as Lynne Lugosi Sparks and Lugosi Enterprises, these books both feature the likenesses of the horror legends Boris Karloff and Bela Lugosi. The new graphic novel Mary Shelly’s Frankenstein Starring Boris Karloff is a faithful adaptation of the classic horror novel and will come in a two-book set with Bram Stoker’s Dracula Starring Bela Lugosi, only on Kickstarter!

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Cabra Cini: Voodoo Junkie Hitwoman #1-#3

Take Jessica Jones, Deadpool and Doom Patrol and blend – and you get supernatural gun-for-hire, Cabra Cini!

Current Funding: $3,193
Funding Goal: $2,609
Days Left: 21
Link: Cabra Cini: Voodoo Junkie Hitwoman #1-#3

Interview with Sam Johnson about Cabra Cini: Voodoo Junkie Hitwoman

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Fully funded Kickstarters Worth A Look:

Steamy: A NSFW Graphic Novel 5 erotic comics entwine in this sensual, funny, exciting graphic novel by Pat Shand & Amy Shand
Book of Fuligin: Honoring The Legacy of Gene Wolfe A comics anthology telling stories to honor Gene Wolfe’s The Book of the New Sun & celebrate his genre-defining legacy.by Ramón Perales Cano
Crow and the Vengeful Light by Colleen Palmer
Mad Dogs: Volume 1 Cyberpunk LGBT+ crime story by the author of “Paper Roses” webcomic.by v-0-3
My Date Is a Total Ike Woman Japanese Otaku butch Lesbian Comic by Mutsumi Natsu
Sex on Wheels: Volume 1 A story of disabled life, art, and disabled sexuality, collecting the first 6 chapters into one volume by Larine Taylor

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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.