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Comic Watch Presents: The Korner, Comic Book Crowdfunding Round Up Creator Interviews – May 16, 2026

The Korner - Creator Interviews: @austinahamblin @RichStarkings @humanoidsinc @SourcePtPress @JamesTFerguson @WrathOfTish

Hospice: The Collector

Allen Buchholz is the greatest comic book collector of all time. How did he build his collection? Through horrible horrible acts…

Current Funding: $1,387
Funding Goal: $2,500
Days Left: 14
Link: Hospice: The Collector
Hospice is an ambitious shared universe horror project that started in 2023 for the first season’s trade, created by a powerhouse team of creators: Travis GibbFrank MartinJamie PrimackRussell NoheltyDavid Byrne, and Michael Watson. Together, they delivered a chilling, interconnected world that pushes the boundaries of horror storytelling, blending their unique voices into a haunting experience unlike anything you’ve seen before. Each story is standalone and has the unique style and flair of their respective creators.

Allen Buchholz had assembled the greatest comic collection known to man, but how did he get it? Theft, extortion, and even murder… Hospice: The Collector follows Al as he builds his collection and is recruited to be another kind of collector…a GRIM REAPER a COLLECTOR OF SOULS!

This is a self contained single issue horror/humor comic book.

Based off Austin’s real life relative Allen Buchholz. Allen had an amazing comic collection full of heroes and horror. He left it to Austin after his passing. Austin watched Al die in a Hospice and thought the best way to repay him would be to make a comic with his name and likeness (he would’ve love this and it has all been approved by his estate).

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Dead Air #1-3 90s College Radio Sci-Fi With A Soundtrack

What if one day every year you could talk to the dead?

Current Funding: $6,965
Funding Goal: $9,572
Days Left: 11
Link: Dead Air #1-3 90s College Radio Sci-Fi With A Soundtrack
What if one day a year, every year, you could talk to the dead? That’s the world of Dead Air, where the miraculous D-TALq technology has now been commoditized to the point where it’s lost more than a little of its luster. When main character Michelle finally heads to her local D-TALq franchise to reach out to a long-departed friend from her college radio days, she gets the surprise of her life that forces her to question everything she thought she knew about her past, all while striving to understand its impact on the future of everyone she cares about.
Dead Air jumps back and forth, time-wise, between Michelle’s late-90s college radio scene friendships and the tragedy that shaped her present, and the early-2010s adulthood that she and her fellow post-grads are navigating so many years later. It’s sci-fi with a soundtrack, but more importantly, it’s a look at the ties—and tunes—that bind people together across both time and space.
Issue #1 introduces us to Michelle’s 90’s university radio crew and their adult counterparts in 2011, each of which is plunged into a mystery that’s seemingly linked across the years that separate them — and linked to the D-TALq technology that has defined their future.
Issue #2 sees the clues pile up as we get a deeper look into the effects of D-TALq on society, paired with the detective work — and paranoia — driving our character’s younger selves as they peel back the layers of the cryptic signals they’re receiving and the mortal peril it has them facing. Are they warnings? Threats? And who, or what, is reaching out to them from across the void?

Issue #3 gathers the crew together for the first time as adults, while also showing us the tragic effects of Josie’s genius as she works to solve the riddle being beamed at them from the great beyond. Success, tragedy, and time have changed these once-close friends for better and for worse, but a seemingly impossible ray of hope from the past has the potential to dramatically change their collective future.

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STOMPING GROUNDS x KAIJU HEART!

A gigantic dual project launch for fans of Bob’s Burgers, Cartoon Network & comics with mega monsters (& mega heart)

Current Funding: $8,055
Funding Goal: $9,999
Days Left: 19
Link: STOMPING GROUNDS x KAIJU HEART!
Stomping Grounds

Bob’s Burgers meets Pacific Rim.

It’s 2085, years after The Fermi-Fall remade Earth. Giant creatures waltz across the horizon while fuzzy, house-sized spores bounce through the suburbs like tumbleweeds, transforming backyards and cul-de-sacs into colossal alien forests.

For the Shin family, none of that is the real problem. The problem is getting through the day without losing their minds (or anything else) in the process.

TOMPING GROUNDS is an original graphic novel that mixes the comedic entourage stroytelling in a unique futuristic fantasy setting.Written and developed by Amit Tishler and Elliot Sperl, illustrated by Sarah Stern.

Kaiju Heart

Hiro is a young mechanic in a world at war with kaiju. Then he saves one. Koï is a small shape-shifting kaiju who shouldn’t exist, and the longer Hiro hides her, the more he realizes the war he was raised to fight isn’t the war he was told. The kaiju aren’t what his people believe. And neither, it turns out, is he: a truth hidden even from himself.

KAIJU HEART is a 150+ page graphic novel about mecha, monsters, and the friendships that survive a war. Written and illustrated by Touffe, a debut from one of French comics’ most exciting new voices.

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WHITBY GOTH WEEKEND ASKS FOR MERCY!

Abigail Jill Harding and Richard Starkings return to ASK FOR MERCY, their creator-owned series that debuted on Comixology Originals!

Current Funding: $7,747
Funding Goal: $7,000
Days Left: 1.5
Link: WHITBY GOTH WEEKEND ASKS FOR MERCY!

Every year, members of the Goth community dress up in their finest dark romantic regalia and descend upon the North Yorkshire port town of Whitby, long associated with the Legend of Dracula, Lord of the Vampires.

Come with us to Whitby Abbey and join our Victorian themed Vampire Weekend Warriors alongside Richard Starkings and Abigail Jill Harding, creators of the ComiXology Originals hit digital comic book series ASK FOR MERCY.

Now Mercy and her gang of misfits and monsters mingle amongst the crowd at Whitby Goth Weekend for the first installment of a brand new adventure that puts them on the trail of a menacing Vampire from Space!

Familiar with ASK FOR MERCY? Fantastic, you’ll LOVE this new storyline! Never heard of ASK FOR MERCY? Fear not, this story serves as a great introduction for new readers and a satisfying sequel for those of you who have supported us on Comixology! You can also find the first two ASK FOR MERCY OMNIBUSES as add-ons as part of this campaign!

For the first time on Kickstarter and in physical comic book form, the creators of ELEPHANTMEN and PARLIAMENT OF ROOKS return to their Band of Monsters for this all-new story! WHITBY GOTH WEEKEND ASKS FOR MERCY is a Brand New 41–page full-colour story — containing the first two parts of this new adventure — not available anywhere else! You can order the PRINT edition or a digital copy as part of your support for this campaign.

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Feed Them to the Crows #1 – A Horror / Thriller Comic

Mitch seeks revenge for the death of his mother and he’s finally found the vampire responsible.

Current Funding: $7,747
Funding Goal: $1,500
Days Left: 0

n the cusp of adulthood, a boy failed by the system comes face to face in a chance encounter with the man he blames for his mother’s death many years ago; a man he believes wields supernatural power and influence. This meeting sets our lead on an obsession-fueled quest for revenge that threatens to ruin the life of a younger sibling, the only family he has left. A collision course of blind determination and a thirst for justice, Feed Them To The Crows is a journey of self discovery through a lens of unshakable trauma in the same vein as The Little Things meets Fright Night.

Feed Them to the Crows is a three-issue mini-series from writers Mario Candelaria (KillchellaOne True Love) and James Ferguson (A Real Slobberknocker), artist Daniel Caval (From Parts Unknown), colorist Colin Johnson (Tales of Mr. Rhee), and letterer Tony Riga. Issue #1 includes 22 pages of story. It features a standard cover by series artist Daniel Caval and a Tales from the Crypt homage variant cover by Roberto Duque.

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The Madcaps Issues #1-3

Four friends hunt down a necromancer, who is attempting to curse their town by sunrise..

Current Funding: $2,497
Funding Goal: $499
Days Left: 8 hours
Link: The Madcaps Issues #1-3
The Madcaps is a fantasy miniseries about 4 friends reuniting in their hometown, but being intercepted by an undead outbreak.  Over the course of one night, these friends attempt to confirm weather or not the failed outbreak has anything to do with a local drug in circulation.
After freeing citizens from a fortified hideout, a recovered book reveals that Ivywood will fall to a curse by sunrise. With very little time and only desperate measures at their disposal, our protagonists travel to the origin of this curse in an attempt to prevent the fall of their hometown.

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That’s a wrap for this week.
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

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