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:
- Warhood Days Left:13 — Funded: 168%
- +Waco Comics Presents: Lady Avalion #1 & Lawbringer #1 Days Left:6 — Funded:203%
Cartoon Puppet Horror Theater by American Mythology
Horror With No Strings Attached!
Current Funding: $199
Funding Goal: $1,500
Days Left: 27
Link: Cartoon Puppet Horror Theater
This is the book for people who love horror movies! This is the book for people who love puppets! This is the book for fans who want to see what happens when a horror vlogger, her jock boyfriends, a B-movie scream queen, a fanboy, a half-baked dead beat, and something called a Faddle are brought together by the mysterious Boo-Keeper to save the puppet “horrorverse” as they know it! No one’s getting out alive if Clarence the Cleaver has anything to say about it! It’s in your felt puppet horror action the way you always wanted it!
It’s in your felt puppet horror action the way you always wanted it! Help us bring puppet horror to the masses by supporting our project!
Horror has been such an important genre for centuries. People have always attempted to face their fears through words on the pages. It’s such a wide and wonderful reflection of humanity. We wanted to pay tribute to all the great pieces of horror literature and film that have come before us, and Cartoon Puppet Horror Theater gives us a vessel to do that!
We’ve brought dimension-hopping fun like in Quantum Leap, Sliders, and even Exiles to the horror masses, and the trip’s just getting started! Grab a seat down front, put some extra butter on your popcorn, and enjoy the show!
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The Other Happy Place – Chapter 0
Vinnie, a young woman who travels to another dimension run by bizarre, otherworldly beings, explores and tries to stay alive, documenting her adventure in the form of a journal.
Current Funding: $15,203
Funding Goal: $ 5,000
Days Left: 26
Link: The Other Happy Place – Chapter 0
The Other Happy Place will be an illustrated prose novel, with a picture on just about every page. A hybrid between a comic, a novel, and a picture book.
The story concerns Vinnie, a young woman who travels to another dimension run by bizarre, otherworldly beings. Vinnie is exploring and trying to stay alive, while documenting her adventure in the form of a journal.
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The book has come together beautifully, with lore and story bits that I can’t wait to share. My narrative partner and I have such incredible upcoming ideas for the larger story that I was literally shakey with excitement to get to make the stuff we were talking about!
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Impostor Syndicate by Matt D. Wilson and Rodrigo Vargas
For fans of superhero satires like The Tick and stories that mix celebrity culture with superheroes like X-Statix.
What happens when a supervillain dies on the job or just gets too old for this $#!+ and retires? Well, somebody’s gotta step up and put on the mask. And actors have to work, don’t they
A down-on-his luck actor. An impossible-to-pass-up opportunity. In a world where superheroes and supervillains are real and also the biggest business in the world — we’re talking movies, TV shows, toys, video games, even Broadway — shadowy employers have ample reason to keep them fighting no matter what.
So what happens when a supervillain dies on the job, or just gets too old for this $#!+ and retires? Well, somebody’s gotta step up and put on the mask. And actors have to work, don’t they? Especially if they’re slumming around doing kids birthday parties, and there are enough zeroes in the check. This series is literally 20 years in the making, so your help can finally bring it to life!
Previously featured campaigns still running and unfunded:
- Uncaped: A Superhero Rom-Com – Original Graphic Novel 12 Days Left — 85% Funded
- Everyday Magus: Comic Issue Number 1 14 Days Left — 56% Funded
- Optometry: A Graphic Novel 21 Days Left — 21% Funded
- MechaTon #1-5: A Rule-of-Cool Comic with Mechs and Kaiju 4 Days Left — 71% Funded
Previously featured, fully funded Kickstarters Worth A Look:
- Jeehyung Lee’s GUMAA #1-7 The Final Chapters
- PAINKILLER JANE- BEAUTIFUL KILLERS
- Covid Cop
- THE JUMP 1-3 from Ringo Award-Winner Rylend Grant
- Frankenstein and Dracula Double Bill
- Cabra Cini: Voodoo Junkie Hitwoman #1-#3
- Hard Justice #1 Comic Book!
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BLEEDING PULP RETURNS WITH ISSUES 1 – 3
The mature readers Horror Pulp comic returns with chapter 3 of I EAT MONSTERS and chapter one of BLUE GEISHA!
Current Funding: $11,678
Funding Goal: $15,000
Days Left: 18
Link: BLEEDING PULP RETURNS WITH ISSUES 1 – 3
Justin Gray is back with his 25th Kickstarter project featuring the three issues of Bleeding Pulp, offering up three 64-page, prestige format, pulpy horror comics with a double creature feature in each.
The main Feature is the supernatural mystery I EAT MONSTERS, in which 9-year-old Annabelle witnessed her brothers being brutally murdered by a ‘monster from under the bed’. She tried to fight back with the only weapon she had – her teeth. The encounter changed her life in more ways than one. 17-years later, Annabelle is looking for answers as to why her family was targeted.
It is the comic that asks ‘what if eating monsters temporarily gave you superpowers’.
In the second feature, named MADAM BELDAM, is a two-part cosmic event is introduced; a woman cursed by a witch joins forces with H. P. Lovecraft to battle the cult of a space god.
Issue #3 also unleashes a new monster in the form of BLUE GEISHA; a half-demon samurai seeking to avenge her mother’s murder by any means necessary.
IMPOSSIBLE JONES & AMERICAN A.N.G.E.L.
54+ Page, Full-Throttle Finale to the IMPOSSIBLE TEAM-UP story arc by KARL KESEL (Harley Quinn, King Shark) & DAVID HAHN (Batman ’66)
Current Funding: $35,104
Funding Goal: $20,000
Days Left: 26
Link: Impossible Jones & American A.N.G.E.L
The fourth and final team-up book! In a story so big it needs EVERYBODY. Who’s the Big Bad? Certainly not Krampus. Holly’s onetime mentor is a single-minded, sadistic anti-Santa intent on spreading misery, but his only “power” is a razor-barbed whip. It’s not like he found a source of unlimited — uh-oh.
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The End of All: Terminus
An apocalyptic, science fiction epic about the last seven species in the universe,aboard the spaceship, Terminus.
Current Funding: $882
Funding Goal: $1,200
Days Left: 27
Link: The End of All: Terminus
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Burn With Me – A Graphic Novel
A 100-page “Modern Folk Horror” graphic novel.
Current Funding: $1,810
Funding Goal: $3,641
Days Left: 15
Link: Burn With Me: A Graphic Novel
Burn With Me is a 100-page “modern folk horror” graphic novel about Jessica Bailey, a woman who is returning to her home town after spending twelve years in prison for the horrific crime she committed at fourteen years old. With her father falling apart and the townspeople hostile towards her, Jessica seeks out her friend Helen from the Old Manor House who would never, ever abandon her…
The story deals with themes of coercive control, misguided beliefs, and toxic friendships. Burn With Me is a single volume telling a complete story, but with scope for a sequel.
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Death Transit Tanager
A young woman with a strange gift travels the galaxy to help lost souls find their way home in this new sci-fi comic series.
Current Funding: $43,342
Funding Goal: $10,954
Days Left: 18
Link: Death Transit Tanager
A young woman with a strange gift travels the galaxy to help lost souls find their way home in this new sci-fi comic series.
Tanager Ray can speak to the dead. One of a handful of young women who have this strange ability, she works as a Death Transit — a ferryman for lost souls stuck between here and the afterlife. Inspired by Metroid and Hellboy and a LOT of manga and anime, each issue of Death Transit Tanager is a murder mystery in space, filled with creeping dread and kinetic sci-fi action! The stand-alone feature story follows Tanager on the job as she tracks down an old asteroid miner’s body, while the all-new Past Lives colour backup story delves into her past — who was she before she became a Death Transit?
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Fractured Realms: A Norse Horror Anthology
24 short horror comics exploring Nordic gods and monsters, and the end of the world
Current Funding: $8270
Funding Goal: $10,640
Days Left: 13
Link: Fractured Realms: A Norse Horror Anthology
Twenty-four short horror comics exploring Nordic gods and monsters, and the end of the world.
The darkest nights of Fimbulwinter are upon us, Ragnarok isn’t far behind, and the Nine Realms are falling… welcome to Fractured Realms, the new anthology from Limit Break Comics. Norse mythology meets contemporary horror in this 24-story collection from Irish and international creators, totalling 96 pages.
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Slaughterhouse Farm
Blood. Death. Pigs. Grindhouse horror graphic novel.
Current Funding: $1,076
Funding Goal: $2,427
Days Left: 18
Link: Slaughterhouse Farm
Slaughterhouse Farm is a blood-soaked love letter to the grindhouse horror classics of the ’70s and ’80s. The horror of The Hills Have Eyes or Texas Chain Saw Massacre relocated to the isolated mountains of North Wales. There is tongue-in-cheek humour and a mysterious plot to be uncovered — but this comic is still as nasty as hell, with decapitations, impalement’s and dismemberment’s to keep gore hounds satisfied.
The story begins with Frankie and Julian taking a minibus full of troubled teens for a weekend in Snowdonia — but horror is literally waiting round the bend in the twisted form of Pigfucker
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Fully funded Kickstarters Worth A Look:
- Rise of Izta: Fantasy Graphic Novel by George Mann & Mariano Laclaustra
- Dead People Throw the Best Parties by Caleb Henshaw
- Kisha: Demon Eater Vol.1 in Full Color by Newton Lilavois
- Vesper & Onion: A Forager’s Story by Vera Greentea & Sarah Webb
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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.
