Crowdfunding projects that have caught our eye – mostly comics.
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 ›
The team over at the fabulous Broken Frontier web site, along with over 40 incredibly talented creators, have just launched an ambitious Kickstarter campaign to raise $58,000 for a massive anthology featuring 27 stories, celebrating the unlimited storytelling possibilities of creator-owned comics. … Read More ›
British comic artist and illustrator Lyndon White recently launched his second Kickstarter campaign, for his new comic A Tale of Shadows, a fantasy comic set in a world ideologically split by the arrival of new technology. The comic is written by podcaster Paul Clark-Forse, who has… Read More ›
Titan Comics are to serialise the Kickstarter-funded Smash Hit 21st Century Tank Girl, starting in June 2015. After a break of more than 20 years, artist extraordinaire Jamie Hewlett has returned to the iconic character which made his name, which… Read More ›
Sarah Millman is a regular on the Convention circuit in the UK and has been very busy over the last few years creating her fun webcomic series, The Heart of Time. It’s been printed in a single issue format… Read More ›
A stunning-looking comics project from British Comic Award nominated Owen Michael Johnson, Leed’s based illustrator John Pearson and Colin Bell is well on its way to securing backing on Kickstarter for not one but two editions of the eagerly-anticpated title –… Read More ›
A Kickstarter for Samurai Slasher, a comic anthology based on a fake 1980s slasher film, has just launched, a story written by Mike Garley (the man behind Dead Roots, Eponymous and The Kill Screen and chock full of UK talent. The 38-page title will feature… Read More ›
US publisher Grimalkin Press has launched a Kickstarter to fund Simon Moreton‘s first full length comic collection, Plans We Made – a hauntingly beautiful and poetic look at the cartography of youth. Based in Bristol, Simon is a zine maker… Read More ›
Diego Comics Publishing – the only publisher in the United Kingdom that focuses on some of the best-selling Italian authors for teenagers and adults – has launched a Kickstarter for its proposed European Comics Journal, aiming to rlease the first issue… Read More ›
English PEN, the charity partner has released more information about Draw The Line Here, a crowdfunded book of cartoons in celebration of free speech. The world was shocked by the murders at the offices of Charlie Hebdo magazine in Paris earlier this month…. Read More ›
Here’s the lowdown on Commando Issues 4779-4782, on sale today (Thursday 29th January 2015) from DC Thomson in all good newsagents and digitally on a variety of devices. If you’re interested in the work that goes into putting Commando together,… Read More ›
The latest Graphic Novel to be announced by award winning British award-winning publisher Scar Comics is something very different from their previous output of Science Fiction or Horror that they are most well known for. Teaming up with Scottish manga… Read More ›
Writer Chris Welsh and artist Ammar Al-Chalabi, the team behind the fun, long-running and much-praised “cosmic horror web comic” WART have just launched a Kickstarter to raise funds to publish a print edition. For those that need reminding, the crowd funding site Kickstarter is… Read More ›
The final days of the crowd funding campaign to fund a new Gerry Anderson project, Firestorm, are drawing in – and downthetubes can exclusively reveal a new comic-themed incentive has been added to the project. Lee Sullivan – perhaps… Read More ›
An impressive group of British comic creators have joined forces to launch a Kickstarter campaign for CROSS, a 64-page anthology of satire, born from a group of people who wish Spitting Image was still around to keep us all… Read More ›
Anderson Entertainment has released this teaser graphic to promote its new project, Firestorm, which will be the focus of a Kickstarter appeal that will launch later this month. As yet they won’t be drawn on many further details but elements… Read More ›