The End seems to be nigh for that scoundrel of the highways Dick Turpin, who looks to be facing a fear-filled death in Dick Turpin and The Vengeful Shade, a new comic from Time Bomb Comics
Crowd Funding Projects
Crowdfunding projects that have caught our eye – mostly comics.
Crowdfunding Spotlight – Borderx: A Crisis In Graphic Detail
Find out more about Borderx: A Crisis In Graphic Detail, a comics anthology to raise funds and awareness for the humanitarian crisis at the southern US border
Australia Burns, a comic anthology, out this March, pays tribute to heroic firefighters and volunteers
Australia Burns is a fantastic-looking charity fundraising anthology book of art and stories in tribute to many heroic firefighters and volunteers
Meet The77 Creators: Dave Bedford and Morgan Gleave
Here’s the second in a series of “Meet the Creator” interviews conducted by Morgan Spiceman with the writers and artists involved in The77 comics anthology. This time out, it’s a chat with writer Dave Bedford and artist Morgan Gleave, the… Read More ›
Meet The77 Creators: Artist and Writer Drew Marr
Here’s the first in a series of “Meet the Creator” interviews with the writers and artists involved in The77 comics anthology, beginning with its youngest, Dundee-based Drew Marr
Crowdfunding Spotlight: A Chat with ‘Findlay Macbeth’ creator Kev F. Sutherland
Comic artist, writer, tutor and creator of the hilarious Scottish Falsetto Sock Puppet Theatre, Kev F. Sutherland has launched a modest crowdfunder for Findlay Macbeth re-writing Shakespeare’s tragedy
Crowdfunding Spotlight: DOSE! by Sean Ellis and John Gebbia
US independent publisher IT’S ALIVE has launched a crowdfunder on Indiegogo for DOSE! by Sean Ellis and John Gebbia
Crowdfunding Spotlight: The Dan Dare Audio Adventures
B7 Media has just launched a crowdfunder for a new season of Dan Dare Audio Adventures, completing a trilogy to story arcs that reinvented the classic Eagle comic character for the 21st Century and coinciding with the space hero’s 70th anniversary this year.
The77 retro anthology smashes crowdfunding target, expands publication plans
There’s great news for fans of anthology comics this morning, after retro anthology project The77 smashed its relatively modest Kickstarter target within days of launch
Creating Comics: An Interview with the team behind “The77”, a new retro anthology comic
The77 is a brand new, retro anthology comic currently seeking crowdfunding on Kickstarter that aims to be a fantastic quarterly comic showcase for UK’s emerging talent, present day professionals and heroes from your childhood, and downthetubes caught up with its… Read More ›
Crowdfunding Spotlight: The Unseen Art of Hollywood Storyboards by Trevor Goring and Joyce Kaskey Goring
US publisher Hermes Press has launched a Kickstarter to fund The Unseen Art of Hollywood Storyboards, what looks like a fascinating and wonderfully illustrated book detailing the history of film storyboards, by comics and storyboard artist Trevor Goring – whose credits include 2000AD and more – and his partner, the late Joyce Kaskey Goring
Crowdfunding Spotlight: The Penned Guin – Vision by Alan Henderson
Just launched on Kickstarter is a campaign for a print edition of the wonderfully silly, critically-acclaimed comic strip The Penned Guin by Alan Henderson, an all new collection titled Vision, comprising of the daily cartoons that appeared on-line throughout 2019…. Read More ›
Lakes International Comic Art Festival launches GoFundMe appeal to expand youth-focussed comics programming
The Lakes International Comic Art Festival, the only festival of its kind in the UK, is a not for profit arts festival, aiming to raise awareness of the transformational power of comics – and has just launched a GoFundMe specifically… Read More ›
Brian Bolland “Rok the God” Variant Cover Reveal
Work is proceeding apace on the Kickstarter-funded Rok the God graphic novel from John Wagner, Alan Grant and Dan Cornwell, the sequel to Rok of the Reds, out next year. One element of the campaign was a limited edition variant cover by Brian Bolland – and the artist has now revealed the final cover.
The Joy of Audio – Delivering Dan Dare: The Audio Adventures Volume Three
As already revealed, B7 Media have announced plans to crowdfund a third volume of its critically-acclaimed Dan Dare: The Audio Adventures, coinciding with Eagle comic hero Dan Dare’s 70th anniversary in 2020. Here, producer Helen Quigley offers an insight into… Read More ›
Exclusive Cover Reveal: Dan Dare – The Audio Adventures Volume Three Cover Art by Brian Williamson
B7 Media have announced plans to crowdfund a third volume of its critically-acclaimed Dan Dare: The Audio Adventures, coinciding with Eagle comic hero Dan Dare’s 70th anniversary in 2020 – and we can exclusively reveal the cover art for the… Read More ›
Crowdfunding Spotlight: The Last Confession, a short film written by Kev Hopgood
The Last Confession, currently seeking crowdfunding on Greenlit, is a new short, from writer and comic artist Kevin Hopgood and director Dustin Curtis Murphy. Described as a genuinely shocking and frightening tale, it pushes genre and convention to pull the… Read More ›
“The 77” comics anthology line-up revealed
The line-up of creators contributing to the upcoming The 77 anthology – offering a fast and furious mix of old school strips and shocks – has been revealed
Crowdfunding Spotlight: “Bods” by Greenspike hits target in just six hours
After the crowdfunding success of the illustrated guide to the hidden world of the trolls of Oxford, The Oxford Trollomicus, it’s great to see the first novel set in the same world, Bods, has smashed its target goal within six hours of launch
Crowdfunding Spotlight: The Mary Boys
What’s not to love about an irreverent comic centring on four brothers who gain superhuman abilities from getting drunk? Because that’s exactly what you’re being offered in The Mary Boys by comics writer and artist Karl Stephan… and it looks great.