BOOM Studios on Tuesday launched a Kickstarter for the graphic novel collections of BRZRKR, an upcoming series about an immortal warrior seeking to end his life, a development project for actor Keanu Reeves, co-written by Matt Kindt, drawn by Ron Garney, colored by Bill Crabtree and lettered by Clem Robbins. By Friday, it had made…
Up-and-coming indie comics creators and start-up publishers need to answer a lot of questions. How much money do I need to publish my comic? How can I work with comic shops to market the comics? How do I select a printer? Entertainment contracts attorney Gamal Hennessy seeks to answer those questions in The Business of Independent Comic…
Chances are, if you make comics, at some point youâll be out here crowdfunding a book through Kickstarter. But just like every comic may be some readerâs first, creators, too, need to start somewhere when it comes to promoting their first indie or self-published comic. After covering Kickstarters and similar projects on his own site,…
Comics have a long history of taking traditional tales and giving them new takes, whether itâs Stan Lee and Jack Kirby recasting the Norse gods as superheroic archetypes in âThe Mighty Thorâ or Alan Moore cramming an entire 19th-century lit classâ worth of characters into one story in âLeague of Extraordinary Gentlemen.â Writer David Pepose…
Writer and comics journalist Zack Quaintance (Comics Bookcase, The Beat) returns to the show to talk about his first Kickstarter project, Next Door, transitioning from writing about comics to making them, and the never-ending quest to bag and board them all.
One of the beautiful things about Kickstarter as a platform for comics creation is that it allows voices that are marginalized in mainstream comics to be heard. The crime genre is one that has grown considerably in recent years, but, as with much of mainstream comics, it has remained mainly white. So itâs exciting to…
As I write this, itâs June 30, the final day of LGBTQ Pride Month (and the eve of Wrath Month). And by a nice coincidence, itâs time for another Kickstarter spotlight. âGlitter Vipers,â from writer Joe Glass (âThe Prideâ), artist Kate Fleming, colorist Kelly Fitzpatrick, letterer Lucas Gattoni, editor Ted Brandt (âCrowdedâ) and cover artist…