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.
Pink Midnight Presents: Barber Psychic
Follow eighty years in one man’s life, as Clarence tries to do what’s right by doing nothing, even as an increasingly uncertain future threatens to swallow him whole.
Funding Goal: $4,000
Days Left: 26
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We Belong
An All-Black, All-Queer Sci-Fi and Fantasy Comics Anthology
Funding Goal: $15,000
Days Left: 5
WE BELONG is a comics anthology composed of 100+ pages of sci-fi and fantasy stories that center the queer Black perspective, all from queer Black creatives.
The lack of Black queer characters and stories inspired writer Viktor Kerney (StrangeLore) to develop a collection of these phenomenal tales. Co-editing alongside critic and comics creator William O. Tyler (Theater of Terror: Revenge of the Queers), they have assembled an array of incredible creators to share their stories, including Jay Hero, C.A.P. Ward, Ajuan Mance and many more!
These stories showcase the fact that, despite what the landscape of popular fiction says, Black queer people have and do exist everywhere, in every time and space. Whether we’re fighting monsters or becoming superheroes, we belong. From intergalactic adventures to interdimensional exploration, we belong. As wizards, as mermaids, as witches, fully as ourselves, we belong.
This joint venture between award-winning comics publisher Stacked Deck Press and Prism Comics, a nonprofit promoting LGBTQIA+ comics, comics creators, and fandom, is a moment not to be missed.
Tokyo Fire #1
Superpowered cops, superpowered criminals, radiation, revolution, leather-clad pyrokinetic madmen! Thieves, family, flame, Tokyo will burn.
Funding Goal: $3,000
Days Left: 6
After botching the “one last job” that was supposed to get them up and out of the irradiated slums of the futuristic “Lower Tokyo”, two small-time crooks, Tib and Wren, along with their mentor, aspiring hoverbike racer Lee, are caught between superpowered gangs, a violent police state, a class revolution, and a leather-clad, pyrokinetic madman trying to burn it all down. Thieves, family, flame, Tokyo will burn.
Written by T.S. Luther (Growing Up), drawn by Sky Hawkins (Exhaust), and lettered by Mike Stock (Dead Roots), Tokyo Fire is a seven-issue limited-series that follows two back-alley thieves as they navigate their final days in a city on the brink of collapse and unravel the conspiracy that led to its downfall.
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Previously featured campaigns still running and unfunded:
- THE CODEX Volume I – A Post-Apocalyptic Graphic Novel — 5 Days
- ONE-SHOT: A Chaotic Fantasy Adventure — 18 Days Left
- The Ex-Wives of Frankenstein 1 — 18 Days Left
Previously featured, fully funded Kickstarters Worth A Look:
- THE CODEX Volume I – A Post-Apocalyptic Graphic Novel — 5 Days
- Evie and the Helsings #1–2 — 4 Days Left
- NUCLEUS – The Legendary Mark Wheatley Art Book — 19 Days Left
- Professor Dario Bava: Orgy of the Blood Freaks 1 & 2 — 18 Days Left
Foul Mouth: The Superhero Who Gets Her Powers From Cursing
Her Gift Is To Curse!
Funding Goal: $4,000
Days Left: 12
From the bat$h!t mind who brought you fast killer sloths (Slow Pokes), chancleta wielding grandmas who fight zombies (Zombie Date Night) and Santa fighting robots (X-Maschina), comes a superhero whose gift…is to CURSE!
After the divorce of her parents, teenager Faye Flik is adjusting to her new surroundings. A new city, a new home, and after accidentally getting possessed by a demon, new abilities that turn her curse words into the ultimate weapon against evil.
With amazing art and colors by Sarah Davidson (Hollow, Hero Too) and lettering that brings the whole project to life by HdE, this 20-page comic is filled with laughs, heart, and a F*#! Ton of action.
Check out this interview with Creator Steve Urena
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Arledge Comics’ 2023-24 Comic Line Up
Four new fantasy titles to add to your reading list.
Funding Goal: $9,000
Days Left: 28
Arledge Comics is passionate about creating inclusive titles for the whole family, and we’re excited to showcase four new titles to add to your library!
This year, Arledge Comics is hoping to introduce some talented creators and amazing comics! By backing this Kickstarter campaign, you’ll both ensure these titles go to print, and you’ll get your hands on them before anyone else! This is also your chance to get exclusive behind the scenes artwork and guides, enamel pins, and more.
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STRANGE HORROR #1: EC Style Horror Anthology
80-pages of cosmic horror with The Sandman and Creeps artists, and more!
Funding Goal: $1,000
Days Left: 5
In Strange Horror #1 popular comic book artists and I explore the curious phenomenon we call death, and its mad brother, fear.
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Here Comes CALICO – Issue 7
The Ultimate Defender of Animals takes a ride… Into the South Bronx!!!
Days Left: 27
Hospice: One Damned Good Thing – A One-shot Horror Comic
A terminally-ill prisoner is sent to a hospice to live out his last days, only to find a horrible secret that threatens his very soul.
Funding Goal: $1,000
Days Left: 16
Do you love horror comics?
Are you excited for dark and creepy shared universes?
Are you ready for me to get back to writing horror comics for the first time since 2015?
Then you’ll love Hospice: One Damned Good Thing.
One Damned Good Thing is a one-shot horror comic set in the Hospice universe about a terminally ill prisoner who is given a reprieve to live out his final days at a beautiful hospice. He quickly finds out that this hospice is more sinister than he could have ever imagined.
Fans of my work have been asking me to do more horror work since Ichabod Jones: Monster Hunter launched back in 2014. I mainly work in fantasy, but I love horror comics. So, when Travis Gibb (Voodoo Nation) asked me to write a one-shot in a shared Hospice universe I was psyched to join up. When he told me that we would be working with David Byrne (Stake), Frank Martin (Grimm Space), Jamie Primack (Binary Star), and Michael Watson (Hotshot). I was over the moon. I love each and every one of them both as humans and as brilliant creators
ALTERED EGO: Blocked
Issues #1 – #3 of the comic about a woman with no powers, in a world where everyone else is trying to be a famous superhero.
Funding Goal: $1,500
Days Left: 17
It’s been fifteen years since the first superhero, H.E.R.O. Prime, made his public debut. Today, super powered individuals called Sparklings are a common factor of everyday life.
Our story follows Sue, a woman with no powers, after she has abandoned her dream of saving the world and instead has chosen to hide away from it.
The world, however, might just have other plans for her…
ALTERED EGO #3: Blocked is a full color 28 page superhero comic, written and illustrated by Lee Xopher.
This is the third issue of the comic series that explores the desire to have a secret identity when over-sharing that which makes people special has become normal.
In this chapter, we see Sue once again fail at being a hero, and dealing with the consequences to both her life, and those of the people close to her.
While this campaign is focused on the release of Issue #3, the first two issues are also available for new readers looking to catch up.
INFERNO GIRL RED BOOKS ONE & TWO by Mat Groom + Erica D’Urso
The hit graphic novel series continues — with more superhero drama, teen angst and Tokusatsu action!
Funding Goal: $85,000
Days Left: 12
INFERNO GIRL RED combines the high school super-heroic drama of INTO THE SPIDER-VERSE with the dynamic storytelling and world-building of Japanese tokusatsu superheroes, and the intrigue and relationship drama of British boarding school fiction.
Join writer Mat Groom (Marvel Comics’ ULTRAMAN) artist Erica D’Urso (CAPTAIN MARVEL and XENA: WARRIOR PRINCESS), colorist Igor Monti (RADIANT BLACK, DEEP CUTS), letterer Becca Carey (ROGUE SUN, REDLANDS), editor Kyle Higgins (RADIANT BLACK, NIGHTWING, MIGHTY MORPHIN POWER RANGERS) for an action-packed, 120+ page graphic novel.
Missed INFERNO GIRL RED: BOOK ONE? Don’t worry: this campaign allows you to pledge for both BOOK ONE and BOOK TWO– in either digital or deluxe, oversized hardcover forms!
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DOUBLE FEATURE! Cereal Killer & Welcome to Monster World
Bad Bug Media debuts two new limited series with a promotion that unlocks a third book for free!
Funding Goal: $1,000
Days Left: 12
Kill My Boyfriend #1: A Whodunit Revenge Comic
From the creative minds of Anas Abdulhak and Tench comes a revenge murder mystery that puts a spin on the classic whodunit genre!
Funding Goal: $5,358
Days Left: 4
Kim Wright thought she had it all figured out. A great career, a loving boyfriend, and a dream promotion just around the corner. But her world is shattered when said boyfriend Ethan shamelessly takes credit for her work and steals her dream job. Fueled by hatred, Kim channels her knowledge of murder mysteries to devise the perfect plan to kill her boyfriend and get away with murder!
Kim throws an unforgettable 60s Americana themed yacht party. With her coworkers and friends unknowingly cast as pawns in her diabolical scheme, the stage is set for the perfect crime. But as the story unfolds, the question isn’t WHO dun it. But rather HOW and whether Kim will be able to go through with her plan as she questions the boundaries of justice and the lengths she’s willing to go to reclaim what’s rightfully hers.
The Muck by Aaron Thompson
One person’s trash, is another person’s terror. ‘The Muck’ holds the key to changing your life forever. Fantasy/Psychological/Thriller
Funding Goal: $3,124
Days Left: 21
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