Comfortable Friday the thirteenth, and welcome to a different installment of The Beat’s Comics Crowdfunding Roundup! This week we now have an entire vary of tasks, however we’re kicking off the record with the Darkish Horse Comics’ Home of Worry, for Friday the thirteenth, after all.
(Editor’s Word: This could’ve run on Friday the thirteenth. As a substitute it ran on Saturday the 14th. Which will be simply as spooky! However don’t maintain that towards Rebecca. -JG)
Home of Worry Vol. 1 & 2
Creators: James Powell (author), Jethro Morales (artist), James Hislope (chapter break artwork), Josh Jensen (colours), and Matt Krotzer (letters/designs)
Aim: $11,000
Finish Date: Might 24, 2022
Goodies: Kickstarter unique restricted version, Punk Rawk Ninja Crossover print by Nate Lovett, certain commerce paperback to match the primary Darkish Horse quantity
Our new commerce paperback collects 176 pages of large spiders, shape-shifting aliens, sinister pumpkins, and extra!
With the current launch of Physician Unusual within the Multiverse of Insanity, it’s the right time to get children into age-appropriate scary tales to inform in the dead of night! Home of Worry is Goosebumps meets Tales from the Crypt, and this unique Kickstarter for the second commerce paperback version, Home of Worry: Hair Right now, Gone Tomorrow and Different Scary Tales, collects eight tales from the collection and consists of two new tales as properly, “All That Glitters” and “Hair Right now, Gone Tomorrow”! As well as, the marketing campaign brings again the second challenge of Home of Worry for the primary time ever (and for all you metafiction lovers on the market, this story is for you)!
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Memento Mori: Dying and New Beginnings – A Comics Anthology
Creators: Amelia Board, Annie Hsu, Benyamin Rivera, Brady Evans, Casper Manning, Dan Beglov, Emilio A. Owens, E.P. Witz, Hannah Grey, Hannah Smith, Keiko Nishijima, Lilly Higgs, Liv Hamilton, Mela Rogers, Summersjoy Whittaker, and Svetlana Kurkalova
Aim: $8,500
Finish Date: June 13, 2022
Goodies: DRM-free PDF copy, paperback copy, 3 tarot-themed books, flower sticker sheet, prints, tote bag, a particular “Thank You web page, and artwork booklet
A brand new comics anthology offered by Degree Floor Comics revolving across the themes of dying and new beginnings.
Assist younger, proficient creators with this anthology from Degree Floor Comics, a grassroots writer seeking to give expertise to up-and-coming artists and editors. That is the third anthology from LGC, and it explores the endings (whether or not or not it’s dying or the tip of a job or relationship), grief, and new beginnings. The anthology options 16 authentic comics by 16 totally different creators and is an effective way to see up-and-coming expertise.
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The Fireplace and the Stone
Creators: E.C. Ibes
Aim: $4,000
Finish Date:
Goodies:
This Zoop marketing campaign is bringing the favored webcomic to print for the primary time as a 200-page softcover graphic novel, and is helmed by a feminine creator! Woop! Ibes is a proficient web-creator and will probably be thrilling to see this story in print. The Fireplace and the Stone story is about Pakora, who has been summoned house for the Winter Harvest Pageant the place her dad and mom shall be awaiting elegant choices of spices, silks, gold, and copper to honor them. Nonetheless, as a temple guard, Pakora has none of those anticipated riches. Solely the Matriarch Goddess may also help her now…
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The Comedian Ebook Encyclopedia of Professional Wrestling Volumes 1 & 2
Creators: John E. Crowther (author, wrestling historian), Kevin LaPorte (author, editor), Dell Barras (artwork), Wealthy Perotta (artwork), Rando Dixon (artwork), Alan McMillian (artwork), Javier Lugo (artwork), and Carlos Tron (artwork)
Aim: $3,000
Finish Date: Might 22, 2022
Goodies: All through the marketing campaign, the Kickstarter shall be surprise-dropping AUTOGRAPHED and EXCLUSIVE professional wrestling comics and collectibles from Squared Circle Comics’ catalog as Add-Ons to your chosen Encyclopedia reward tier!
558 pages of true tales of legendary skilled wrestlers, plus authentic encyclopedia entries that includes them & allies & enemies!
Comedian guide histories are the most effective histories. Who doesn’t need their historical past to return with a aspect of comics? Or their comics to return with a aspect of historical past? The 2-volume set accommodates 19 comics about legendary skilled wrestlers plus encyclopedia entries about wrestling superstars!
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Bare Raygun “Damaged Issues” etched 7″ File + Comedian Ebook
Creators: Bare Raygun (Chicago punk band), Josh Bayer (artist), James Romberger (artist)
Aim: $6,200
Finish Date: June 8, 2022
Goodies: report on restricted version pink vinyl (500 copies), restricted version blue vinyl (1000 copies), authentic paintings by Romberger and Bayer, artist-designed Bare Raygun t-shirts, and classic “Free Shit” promotional objects from Bare Ray gun exhibits from a long time previous.
Single track 7″ with etched B-side and authentic comedian guide adaptation by James Romberger & Josh Bayer.
One in every of Chicago’s most iconic punk bands, Bare Raygun, is placing out their first album in 30 years! To rejoice, they collaborated with Eisner-nominated artist James Romberger and Ignatz-nominated Josh Bayer on a restricted version etched Damaged Issues 7″ and comedian guide set, launched by Xylophone Media. The only-song 7” will function the track “Damaged Issues” from the Bare Raygun’s 2021 album Over the Overlords (Wax Trax). As well as, Romberger and Bayer are creating an authentic 14-page full-color comedian impressed by the track that shall be a “visually-driven story drawing on the chaos of our instances, unfolding in a deconstructivist spiral.” Sounds punk to me. In addition to, who doesn’t love a superb pairing of music and comics?
Change into a backer right here.
Listed below are some already-funded tasks price trying out:
And don’t overlook to take a look at final week’s campaigns:
And at last, listed below are some tasks that haven’t launched but, however that look to be price maintaining a tally of:
Miss any of our earlier Comics Crowdfunding Spherical-Ups? Take a look at the archive right here!
