Moominvalley is to air on Sky late next year, bringing the characters from the award-winning author Tove Jansson’s classic books back to life in a new Sky Original Production made by Finnish company Gutsy Animations, who successfully secured over $250,000… Read More ›
Crowd Funding Projects
Crowdfunding projects that have caught our eye – mostly comics.
Bastard Galaxia Kickstarter appeal soars to new heights as 1980s toy comic homage captures new fans
Regular readers will recall we plugged the Bastard Galaxia web comic a while back – and now the team behind the book are running a Kickstarter that’s already secured funding for their first print collection – but they’re hoping to… Read More ›
Outlaws: Wanted Anthology Comic offers a Wealth of Comics Talent
Outlaws: Wanted Anthology Comic 2017, a smashing 40-page full colour all ages comic, is on sale now from the Nottingham Comic Con, produced to raise money for charity. All proceeds from this comic will be donated to the three charities:… Read More ›
Crowdfunding Spotlight: cyberpunkdreams by Rob Chant
cyberpunkdreams is a great-looking dystopian world project, encompassing several different media including an illustrated collection of short stories that has already achieved its £4000 Kickstarter target, conceived by Cambridge-based author cyberpunk author Rob Chant. It’s a project by Late Night Games,… Read More ›
Dan Whitehead and David Hitchcock’s Frankenstein comic heads for new heights
Independent gothic western graphic novel Frankenstein, Texas has reached its Kickstarter goal in just five days, and is now raising funds towards additional content, including an all-star gallery of bonus pin-ups from established comic stars. Created by writer Dan Whitehead… Read More ›
Crowdfunding Spotlight: My Comic Shop Country, a new documentary about US comic shops
My Comic Shop Country is a feature-length documentary from Anthony Desiato, who runs a podcast of the same name, exploring comic shops across the United States. He previously directed a feature about now-closed New York comic shop Alternate Realities, My Comic… Read More ›
eOneBook, a manga comics ebook reader that looks like a book!
E Ink Holdings, “E Ink”, a leading innovator of electronic ink technology, has announced a partnership with Progress Technologies Inc., a technical service for design development, to bring E Ink’s ePaper modules to a first-of-its-kind E-Manga solution, the eOneBook. Developed… Read More ›
In Preview: Perrywinkle by Susie Gander
By Susie Gander Lettering and Logo by Robin Jones Self published full colour – 42 pages Out: 14th October 2017 Web: www.perrywinklecomic.com “Perry Winkle is your own personal strong, fearless, cancer killing superhero… and let’s face it, not too bad… Read More ›
In Review: The Human Beings #2 by Stuart J McCune
Created by Stuart J McCune Published by Millicent Barnes Comics Out: Now The second issue of this strangely creepy anthology series and the one where you begin to sense that there is a plan in place. I sense a viciously… Read More ›
Crowdfunding Spotlight: The Penned Guin Presents – To Coldly Go
Back in January we spotlighted The Penned Guin Treasury Edition, a thick A4 collected edition of some 500 of writer/artist Alan Henderson’s humorous penguin strips which was crowdfunded on Kickstarter to over 250% of its target. The completed book was… Read More ›