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From club-style murder mysteries to anxious teens hijinx to acts of protest, PERFECT CRIME PARTY asks the immortal questions: What’s the perfect crime? And what do you think you could get away with?
With the campaign debuting on August 19, The Beat scored exclusive details and statements from some of the creators involved in the project. The first three creative teams we have here all have stories about “sticking it to the man.”
- Written Off by Ryan Estrada & Axur Eneas – A movie crew aims to steal the rights back from the corporation that is ruining their movie.
- Ryan Estrada: “Everyone writes crime fiction. We do it in our heads all day every day, without even trying. The second we see a loophole, a security weakness, or an unguarded cookie, we picture in our heads how easy it would be to pull off the perfect crime. This book is full of such ‘I would never do this, but…’ stories by a lineup of amazing artists, authors, and accomplices. In an era where studios are burning completed films for tax write-offs before anyone can see them, my story is about a spurned film crew who uses their moviemaking skills in a heist to steal back their own movie.”
- Axur Eneas: “I was really happy to collaborate with Ryan Estrada in the short story Written Off, about a group of artists pulling a heist to steal back their movie, after the studio decided to shelve the movie for a tax write off. Studios shelving finished movies before release or pulling shows of streaming have become a common thing in recent years, as the creator of the cartoon show Toontorial, I was close to a lot of artists who were fearful their projects would be suddenly canceled or completely erased from the streaming platforms. The last few years the studios have been incredibly disrespectful to artists that pour their effort and time into telling stories, so it was a great feeling to draw a story about a group of artists fighting back.”
- Reap What You Sow by Ale Green & Fanny Rodriguez – Gorilla gardening is the best solution to beautify the neighborhood and help native plants.
- Ale Green: “In our story we wanted to play a little with the definition of what a crime can be. Especially when society develops on outdated and even harmful norms; it’s hard not to stretch the limits of what one can or cannot do for a better future for the generations to come.”
- Fanny Rodridguez: “You’ll never know how the most mundane, simple things can be a plant-er in crime.”
- The Plague of the Living Rest Benches by Nathaniel Wilson – Scientist and unethical experiments have led to the sidewalks of the world being deadly.
- Nathaniel Wilson: “I suppose I’m not as much a crime person as I am a weird fiction and horror guy, but the theme of transgression against societal norms and human and/or natural laws makes its home in each of those genres. Conceptually, that appeals to me as it clearly does many others; tales of people at a point of extremity breaking out of the common flow, and then the reactions of others to that act of deviance is obvious fertile ground for great stories. With this one, I responded to the content suggestion in the anthology’s original prompt, ‘Acts of protest that are technically illegal.’ I live in NYC where new examples of hostile architecture seem to pop up every day like fresh dandelions, and from there I just got really weird and gooey with it.”
“Perfect Crime Party is the platonic ideal of the Iron Circus anthology,” said Trotman. “A cool idea, tossed at incredibly creative people, who are left to do with it what they will! The results are always so fun and unexpected.”
The campaign will feature multiple tiers for backers, including a digital version of the book, a print version of the book featuring additional art, and a bundle featuring all of Iron Circus’s previous general anthologies, including Sleep of Reason, New World, Timrous Beastie, FTY Ya’ll, Failure to Launch, and the Eisner-Award-winning You Died!
To check out the Backerkit campaign, click here.
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