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:
- MurderF*cker: Flesh, Blood & Metal by Marco Fontanili Days Left: 6— Funded 92%
- Skin Horse vol. 7 & 8 (Reprint) Days Left: 13 — Funded 31%
- Full Tilt Days Left: 20 — Funded: 385%
5500 Miles of Comics
by Betje Ton
Current Funding: $8,000
Funding Goal: $4,342
Days Left: 27
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.
Stay tuned to Comic Watch for an interview with Betje Ton
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ZURDO – The Art of Jorge Molina
by Jorge Molina
Current Funding: $10,000
Funding Goal: $17,586
Days Left: 27
Link: ZURDO – The Art of Jorge Molina
Jorge “Zurdo” Molina is an illustrator and concept artist who has been a creative force in the comic book industry (as artist, designer and creator on titles such as Star Wars, Spiderman, Thor, Avengers, X-Men and Batman) and video game industry (as concept designer for Activision, Crystal Dynamics, Zynga, and The Initiative).
Jorge Molina has been a creative force in the comic book and video game industry for the past 15 years. After being an exclusive artist at Marvel for 8 years, he has made numerous contributions as an artist, designer and creator on titles such as Star Wars, Spiderman, Thor, Avengers and the X-Men.
Recently, Jorge made his debut on DC comics as Batman’s main artist, working not only on interior and cover art, but also designing new characters and suits for his iconic run on the Dark Knight.
This exclusive hardcover art book will feature Jorge’s favorite artwork from his 15 years as an artist!
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Previously featured campaigns still running and unfunded:
- Crossover Division Vol. 1: Fictions & Other Truths Hardcover –7 Days Left — 86% Funded
- Rainbow Canvas: A Wholesome BL & GL Webtoon Anthology — 20 Days Left — 91% Funded
- The Winchester-Nabu Detective Agency Issue 1 — 3 Days Left — 67% Funded
- Depths – A Graphic Novel About Grief and Underwater Survival — 12 Days Left — 48% Funded
- Sacred Heart Chapter One: The Girl — 6 Days Left — 38% Funded
Previously featured, fully funded Kickstarters Worth A Look:
- Hundo: An Underground Comic Book Experience by Geff Bartrand — 4 Days Left
- The Art of Professor Elemental by Chris Mole — 4 Days Left
- Pseudo: A Graphic Novel by Ellie Egleton — 6 Days Left
- Tamberlane: A Talking Animal Fantasy Comic – Deluxe Omnibus 5 Days Left
- MAGIC POWDER #1-4: NEW Issue of the FANTASY-CRIME epic! — 2 Days Left
- Hunt for the Skinwalker Expanded Edition & Graphic Novel — 19 Days Left
- Coffin Comics’ All-New graphic novel La Muerta #1: Devious! — 21 Days Left
- Mother Trucker #3: The Heat. Serious Space Wrestling Comics — 18 Days Left
- The Art of Arthur Adams — 13 Days Left
- Oyasumi: A Cat’s Purrpose — 40 Days Left
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Current Funding: $10,000
Funding Goal: $13,311
Days Left: 27
Link
BLACK BOX CHRONICLES: A new sci-fi graphic novel anthology
15 intertwined shared-universe stories by a collection of celebrated comic artists tracking mankind’s journey beyond the stars.
Current Funding: $60,087
Funding Goal: $7,500
Days Left: 13
Link: Black Box Chronicles: A new sci-fi graphic novel anthology
15 intertwined shared-universe stories by a collection of celebrated comic artists tracking mankind’s journey beyond the stars.
Welcome to a new original sci-fi universe from Magnetic Press and Horrible Future! An interconnected sci-fi anthology chronicling mankind’s journey into interstellar space as pieced together from the records recovered from the wreckage of various spacecraft found throughout the cosmos. A bold series of tales by a luminous collection of comics’ most talented creators spanning centuries of a fantastic yet plausible future. This exciting new universe bursts onto the scene this fall in a 160+ page graphic novel anthology, encyclopedic art book, and more!
Creators involved with the project include David Mack (Daredevil, Kabuki), Michael Avon Oeming (Powers, Bulletproof Monk), Zach Howard (Hellboy, Wild Blue Yonder), Eryk Donovan (Memetic, Quantum Teens are Go), Marco Fodera (Nathan Never), Gavin Smith (Star Trek: Mirrorverse), Toru Terada (Small World), David Messina (Star Wars: Han Solo & Chewbacca, 3Keys), Giovanni Rigano (Global, Artemis Fowl), Drew Moss (The Crow, Red Sonja), Christian Dibari (Revolvers, Providence of Madness), Taki Soma (Sleeping While Standing, Bitch Planet), and Mario Alberti (Spider-man and the Fantastic Four, The Wall).
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Lucifer Licorice #1
A spoiled brat prince is turned into a licorice monster by a candy witch and must learn to stop being so bitter to break the curse.
Current Funding: $3,529
Funding Goal: $7,500
Days Left: 17
Link: Lucifer Licorice by Russell Nohelty & Angela Oddling – @russellnohelty @uhstudios
A spoiled brat prince is turned into a licorice monster by a candy witch and must learn to stop being so bitter to break the curse.
Lucifer Licorice is an all-ages comic series perfect for fans of The Regular Show, Adventure Time, Stephen Universe, or Summer Camp Island, and will make you feel all the feelings. After being transformed into a licorice monster by a candy witch, Lucifer Licorice sets off on an epic quest to get his old life back. Along the way, he travels through the kingdom with his tea towel ghost companion Moober, encountering weird monsters trying to gobble him up, fighting against emo-demons determined to tear him down, and traveling into the bowels of heck itself learning the error of his ways so he can stop being so bitter and be transformed back into his old body
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Alsatian Cages
A Folk Horror Graphic Novel
Current Funding: $2,998
Funding Goal: $1,116
Days Left: 13
Link: Alsatian Cages by Grayham Puttuock @GrayhamPPuttock
Alsatian Cages is the tale of David Treen, a selfish and narcissistic band manager in his late twenties, who is haunted by an ink-edged absence of childhood memory. He is convinced that something must have happened to him as a young boy — something significant and traumatic — for him to have grown into the unhappy, dissatisfied man he is today.
But he has no memories before the age of six or seven, when he was taken into foster care. Searching for answers, following apparent clues left by his late biological mother, David happens upon the unusual West Country town of Sourbridge, where a horrifying incident in the local woods appears to unleash a torrent of recollection.
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Fearless Dawn:The Bomb #1 & Fearless Dawn:Cold #1
The first issue of the origin story of Fearless Dawn, plus the Fearless Dawn:Cold One shot, Steve Mannion sketchbooks, prints & more!
Current Funding: $9,908
Funding Goal: $3,000
Days Left: 17
Link: Fearless Dawn: The Bomb #1 & Fearless Dawn: Cold #1 @asylumpress, @stevenmannionFD
The long-awaited origin story of Fearless Dawn is finally told! This is a great jumping-on point for any comic book fans who are not familiar with this funny, sexy, stumbling superheroine.
Learn how the awkward Prissy Jones got her superpowers and how she creates her own costume of moose elks, action gloves, and whoop-ass utility belt. The high octane series also features other colorful characters such as Brownhole Jones in Zombie Island Party, and Jungle Chick and the Dinosaur.
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Fowl Language: Tweenage Wasteland
Brian Gordon’s back with more tales from the frontlines of parenting—and this time, there’s teenagers. Oh, the hormonal horror!
Current Funding: $23,284
Funding Goal: $3,000
Days Left: 17
Link: Fowl Language: Tweenage Wasteland by Brian Gordon @fowlcomics, @rocketshipent
Everyone thinks the baby stage is hard, then the toddler stage, but have you even met teens and tweens? They will eff your sh!t UP. The latest installment of Fowl Language by cartoonist Brian Gordon is something all parents of kids ten and older can empathize with. (And maybe cry along to.)
Kids constantly keeping you on your toes. And while tweens and teens are a lot easier in many ways—no more diapers! They can get their own food!—this phase also brings along with it some new challenges that I never saw coming. (Random mood swings! The silent treatment! Occasional jerkitude!) But hey, if we don’t laugh about it, we might cry, and laughing is way more fun in this book.
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Harlem & The Black Rose DOUBLE Feature
Harlem wakes up to a murdered family with Superpowers and the Rose Family try to escape their past in the Wild West! Two Comic Books!
Current Funding: $7,054
Funding Goal: $6,540
Days Left: 15
Link: Harlem & Black Rose Double Feature by Danny J. Quick @TheAceblade, @kyrun49, @TheLumb3rJax
In Ballad of the Black Rose, the Rose family is trying to escape their past as their daughter Primrose has a strange connection to a supernatural creature in the hills. In Harlem’s Renaissance, Harlem finds herself resurrected to a house of horrors.
With her family lying dead, she explodes with powers she doesn’t understand. With chaos waiting outside, she’s running to find answers to the mysteries surrounding her while trying to salvage the remnants of a normal teenage life.
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Current Funding: $3,164
Funding Goal: $6,637
Days Left: 12
Link: Mythic Creature Trainer: A Fun Fantasy Graphic Novel by Rene Pfitzner @RenePfitzner
Ulrick, one of the royal stable hands, loves his work and demonstrates talent for taming the king’s mythic creatures. It’s just a pity he has trouble turning up on time.
With his job on the line, Ulrick’s boss charges him with making a special potion to cure a baby dragon of fever. Ulrick does his best, but his actions have far-reaching consequences that not even he could have predicted!
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Quindrie Press: the 2023 comic collection
Four more brand new comics from some of Scotland’s most exciting indie creators!
Current Funding: $13,376
Funding Goal: $18,603
Days Left: 18
Link: Quindrie Press: The 2023 Comic Collection @quindriepress
A heavy metal demon… a quest to the fae realm… a heartbroken traveller… the last remaining cyborg… From award-winning and Eisner-nominated micropublisher Quindrie Press comes four brand new comics from some of the UK’s rising star creators!
Our first collection was funded on Kickstarter in 2021. Since then we’ve published three graphic novels and anthologies, and now we’re returning to our roots with another collection of four fantastic short stories.
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VISCERE #1: A Body Horror Comics Anthology
Tales of gore and glory from eight emerging comics artists.
Current Funding: $7,938
Funding Goal: $5,500
Days Left: 14
Link: Viscere #1: A Body Horror Comics Anthology @nurse_nurse
Strega Sporca, a new comics publishing imprint by Katie Skelly, is proud to announce the upcoming release of its debut title: Viscere #1: Body Horror, a comics anthology that explores the world of body horror through transgressive genre stories.
Featuring the work of eight emerging artists, the anthology delves into topics ranging from plastic surgery gone wrong to doppelgängers run amuck, ultimately asking readers to have a good think about the flesh they call home.
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WRITE OR WRONG: A WRITER’S GUIDE TO CREATING COMICS (2nd Ed)
An updated edition of the legendary how-to/inspirational book on writing comics — and a chance to get the Dirk Manning figure, too!
Current Funding: $6,050
Funding Goal: $2,222
Days Left: 13
Link: Write or Wrong: A Writer’s Guide to Creating Comics by Dirk Manning @DirkManning, @SourcePtPress
Upon beginning my journey toward becoming a professional comic book creator, I made the following vow: “If I ever start making comics, I’ll do everything I can to help others who want to do the same and create comics, too.”
Now, over twenty years and twenty graphic novels later, I’m continuing to keep that promise with this newly revised and updated 2nd edition of my seminal book Write or Wrong: A Writer’s Guide to Creating Comic
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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.