Crowdfunding projects that have caught our eye – mostly comics.
After a chance meeting at a convention in 2011, Simeon Aston and Jeremy Biggs began working together to create the illustrated cyberpunk novella Metal Made Flesh, a collection of three separate but interlinked stories set in a futuristic world created and illustrated… Read More ›
Our Friend Satan Writer: Dominik L. Marzec Inks and Pencils: Michael Murawski Colour: Lukas Lalko Format: 80 pages – full colour throughout The Story: Our Friend Satan is a rip-roaring story about Satan in the middle of his midlife crisis…. Read More ›
Manchester-based actor, comics writer and artist Brian Gorman has just launched a crowdfunding campaign to continue his creator-owned SF espionage story Borderliners: True Realities – a strip “starring” two characters based, with permission, on actors Ian McKellen and Roger Moore that has… Read More ›
Comic creator Tzvi Lebetkin, perhaps best known for his indie project BIBLICAL and his Doctor Who-inspired, fan strip “Ice Warriors” (drawn by Stefano Cardoselli), has just launched a IndieGoGo crowd funding appeal for a new project, The Imperium – a… Read More ›
The creators of the all-ages comic book series Bayani, who include British artist Grant Perkins, have launched a Kickstarter campaign to continue the adventures, which if successfully crowdfunded, will be published by Caliber Comics. A tale of Filipino folklore and mythology,… Read More ›
If you’re the find of comics person that’s backed Hunt Emerson‘s Kickstarter to publish a deluxe edition of his Hot Jazz comic strips (in the vein of his marvellous Calculus Cat collection last year, now on sale), then this new… Read More ›
Comic creators Chris Welsh and Ammar Al-Chalabi are closing fast on their modest Kickstarter to fund WART Book Three at the moment, so we thought we’d give him a deserved plug to hopefully help him gain full backing. In January, he successfully funded books One… Read More ›
A train journey to the Lakes afforded me the chance to listen to this terrific episode of the Resonance FM ’Panel Borders‘ podcast about the positives and negatives of crowd funding your comic projects. This show concluded a month… Read More ›
Within just 24 hours, the Kickstarter campaign for Thunderbirds 1965 – a Kickstarter project with the aim of creating three new Classic Thunderbirds episodes using 1960s audio recordings – has reached 56% of its base goal – £42,000. As we reporteed earlier this week, this September… Read More ›
This September marks 50 years since Gerry and Sylvia Anderson’s ground-breaking Thunderbirds series blasted onto TV screens in the UK. To celebrate this special anniversary, the iconic puppets will be making a spectacular return in three brand new episodes in… Read More ›
Continuing a month of shows about comic book creators who have used online fundraising to launch various titles, Alex Fitch talks to Amanda Gomes and Julie Wright about their webcomic Riven Seal – Ars Ianua, which is hopefully being collected as a… Read More ›
Top comics artist Glenn Fabry has easily secured funding for his planned Sketchbook 3 book project, which will feature over 40 full colour pages of never seen before exciting images by the artist perhaps best known for his work… Read More ›
Brett Uren, the creator of the acclaimed Torsobear project, has re-launched his bid for funding a second volume of stories on Kickstarter, his enthusiasm undimmed after an ambitious bid to secure £13,500 earlier in the year fell short of target, despite… Read More ›
Starting a month of shows about comic book creators who have used crowd funding to launch various titles on Panel Borders, Britain’s only regularly broadcast radio show about comics, Alex Fitch talks to writer and Sequart’s founder, Dr. Julian Darius and… Read More ›
With less than two days to go before the Broken Frontier Kickstarter campaign for its proposed comics anthology to reach its target of $58,000, comics writer and artist David Hine, one of the creators involved in the project, reveals why he feels it could be… Read More ›
Continuing a month of shows about creators whose work sits in the middle ground between ‘mainstream’ and independent comics on Britain’s only over the air regular show about comics, Alex Fitch talks to creator Brett Uren about his graphic novel series TorsoBear, a… Read More ›
One of the highlights of last year’s “Best of….” list that we ran amongst creators was the first volume of Torsobear. Largely the work of a group of creators based in the south of England, it’s a great anthology with a central theme… Read More ›
The first issue of Beast Wagon, the black comedy set in a zoo launched at Eisner Award-nominated OK Comics, Leeds last weekend following a hugely-successful Kickstarter campaign, which reached its goal in 24 hours, eventually going on to double… Read More ›
The Hollow Girl Created by Luke Cooper Kickstarter by: Scar Comics The Story: Six years ago, little Katherine Harlow killed her own parents. Showing no signs of remorse or regret, she was said to be a girl without a soul. A… Read More ›
It’s a bird… It’s a plane… It’s the European debut of The Death of ‘Superman Lives’; What Happened? a documentary about a planned Man of Steel film starring Nicholas Cage, directed by Tim Burton that was on the cards for a… Read More ›