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.
Porkchop Robot Killer #1
Isolated in a dystopic wasteland, overrun by AI-driven robots, a lone pig is on a quest to smash them all!
Funding Goal: $3,000
Days Left: 26
Porkchop Robot Killer #1 is a 32 page, full color, special edition comic created by Tony Gregori (The Worst Dudes, TMNT, Deuce Of Hearts, Ancient Noise).
Originally inspired to honor a familial patriarch, Dominic “Porkchop” Gregori, Sr., the concept emerged from the sketchbook of a man sitting in a laundromat, doodling washer and dryers, thinking of odd combinations of appliances to source robot parts from, and the best possible creature to destroy them. A love of pigs, and especially talking pigs, lead to the birth of our heroic ham, PCRK!
Check out the Comic Watchers interview with Tony:
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COMICS FOR UKRAINE: Sunflower Seeds
by Scott Dunbier (Editor)
A benefit anthology featuring an all-star lineup of comic book creators, with all proceeds being donated to Ukrainian refugees.
Funding Goal: $35,000
Days Left: 08
August: Purgatory Underground – Book One
Benjamin W. Morse brings back the classic Captain August franchise in this epic collection of AUGUST: PURGATORY UNDERGROUND!
Funding Goal: $3,000
Days Left: 19
Benjamin W. Morse (We Are Scarlet Twilight) brings back the classic Captain August franchise in this epic collection of AUGUST: PURGATORY UNDERGROUND!
The book will also include a never before published 13 page prequel comprised of earlier drafts of the final story that fill in more of Captain August’s fall from celebrated hero to galactic pariah!
Death Sentence Trilogy & Artbook
Funding Goal: $2,000
Days Left: 18
People across North America and Europe are contracting the deadly G+ Virus, an STD that gives them weird abilities and six months to live. What can they do in the time they’ve got left? That’s the dilemma facing Verity, a frustrated artist, Weasel, a burned-out rock singer, and Monty, an insane movie star.
The more creative they get the more dangerous they become – because G+ is a virus that turns artists into gods, leading to an epic confrontation between our protagonists.
The series is wild, dark, and blackly funny, for mature readers. Each book continues on from the last and provides a satisfying story in its own right. You can start with any book or get the whole set, with the artbook adding the latest amazing artwork from series co-creator Monty Nero. It’s a deep, thrilling, intricately plotted series infused with fear and mystery that rewards repeat reading. Like all the best comics it features characters who feel touchingly real leading incredible lives we can only dream of.
If you’re into Akira, William Gibson or Grant Morrison and detailed atmospheric art then you’ll love this series, with Death Sentence hailed as timeless comic art and writing. It has been favorably compared to the greatest graphic novels ever made, with some of the best art and most addictive storytelling ever.
This is the perfect time to get the entire epic story, a decade in the making, and explore the fresh vision in the new artbook!
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Star Marshals
Cleaning up the galaxies one perp at a time.
Funding Goal: $3,000
Days Left: 12
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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Previously featured campaigns still running and unfunded:
- Foul Mouth: The Superhero Who Gets Her Powers From Cursing — 16 Days, 40% Funded
- Cthulhu Invades Neverland – 200+ Pg – Graphic Novel — 6 Days, 71% Funded
- BASEMENT SHOW: A One-Shot Punk Rock Horror Comic — 22 Days, 7% Funded
- FREE HANDS Issues 1 & 2— 12 Days, 67% Funded
- Optometry: A Graphic Novel — 22 Days, 68% Funded
Previously featured, fully funded Kickstarters Worth A Look:
- [Boyish²] Butch×Butch Yuri Anthology[vol.2] — 16 Days Left
- Sapphic Pulp: Collected Tales of Love and Desire — 5 Days Left
- THE FEW AND CURSED #9 — 4 Days Left
- Mike Grell’s Jon Sable Freelance Deluxe Hardcover Vol 1 & 2 — 16 Days Left
- The Beast & Snow #1 – NSFW Queer Fairytale Romance — 16 Days Left
- ANTICUCHO and other Peruvian Cyberpunk stories— 19 Days Left
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EXPOSURE: TOP SECRET BOXED SET by Campiti, Rio, and Coronado
A collectible slipcased set of the EXPOSURE Vol. 1 and Vol. 2 trade paperbacks PLUS an exclusive new EXPOSURE: TOP SECRET comic book!
Funding Goal: $500
Days Left: 16
Murder City Devil 3
Legendary Boogeyman, Spring-Heeled Jack, is resurrected in the 21st century to wreak havoc on Murder City’s criminal underworld!
Funding Goal: $669
Days Left: 20
In 1996, a dark entity is accidentally released from an old funeral home. Twenty five years later, the legendary boogeyman, formerly known as Spring-Heeled Jack, appears to wreak havoc on Murder City’s criminal underworld!
In an abandoned cemetery, the Murder City Devil faces off against his most nightmarish foe, The Midnight Angel!
However, even if the Murder City Devil manages to survive, sinister forces have started to gather to find a way to destroy him!
Murder City Devil reads like modern day pulp magazine, rife with ghostly horror, murderous crime, mind shattering suspense, dynamic action and occult mystery! All in a 22-page full color comic book!
*WARNING* This comic book is suggested for mature readers and contains scenes of coarse language and sexuality. Reader discretion is advised.
13: Last Chance
100 pages of misfortune, magic and madness in the Las Vegas underworld.
Funding Goal: $3,500
Days Left: 5
Midnight Tiger: The Complete Origin
A beautiful 100+ page hardcover collecting issues 0 through 3 of MIDNIGHT TIGER!
Funding Goal: $$8,000
Days Left: 25
Gavin Shaw is a Blerd. He loves anime, reads comics, fanboys over superhero culture, plays Minecraft, and is rarely seen without his equally nerdy besties Ryan and Dex. In the streets of Apollo Bay, blerds are considered soft and are guaranteed to get no respect. In a city where respect is the currency for survival, you triple your odds of being a target.
At the same time, Gavin has deep roots in the criminal underworld of Apollo Bay. On a DNA level. He’s had a disproportionate amount of exposure to the ravages of that lifestyle and watched the people he cared about be systematically eviscerated. Raised with a strong moral code by his kind-hearted father, Gavin has a certain sensitivity to the suffering of others struggling to survive in his community. A community that seems invisible to the rest of the world.
ENGINE #1
Sci Fi Sword and Sorcery mixed with Dragonball z and Star Wars with a Jack Kirby influence.
BIG Big Bang Comics!
A treasury-sized 40th Anniversary Anthology Tribute to Big Bang Comics!
Funding Goal: $10,000
Days Left: 5
Michael Fitzgerald Troy, Pop Art Comics, and Cosmic Lion Productions Present the very FIRST Big Bang Comics Kickstarter. In conjunction with Gary Carlson and Big Bang Comics- “BIG Big Bang Comics” is an over-sized treasury, anthology, and pop art tribute to one of the longest running indie comic publishers still in the business after a lucrative 40 year run.
Gary Carlson started self-publishing Megaton Comics some 40 yrs ago managing to publish what would amount to 8, 64 Page Annual Anthologies over roughly a decade. Gary would create, co-create and/or write many iconic characters and storylines over the course of the series. Introducing the comic book world to memorbale characters like Megaton, Vanguard and Berzerker! (The Latter of which would enjoy his own 6-issue mini-series during Gary’s time with Calibre Press). Carlson’s keen eye for recognizing young talent helped spawn the careers of superstar comic artists like Erik Larsen, Rob Liefeld, Butch Guice, Angel Medina and many other talented artists over the years. Megaton was where you would find early appearances of Larsen’s Savage Dragon and Liefeld’s Youngblood who would both soon move on to greener pastures and more lucrative careers at the ”Big Two” of DC and Marvel Comics!
PRIVATE DANCE #1 – NSFW comic where fantasy & reality meet
The team behind THIRSTY and CHEEKY delivers a funny, sexy, & exciting new comic series about the dancers at a New York strip club.
Funding Goal: $6,900
Days Left: 6
