Tag: Crowdfunding

[kickstarter url=http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/elainelee/harry-palmer-starstruck-or-old-proldiers-never-die width=480] Okay, comics just got a little cooler. Elaine Lee and Mike Kaluta have started a Kickstarter to produce HARRY PALMER: STARSTRUCK, a long in the making continuation of their STARSTRUCK storyline. If you...

Writer/publisher Vera Greentea is shooting for her fifth successful Kickstarter comic book campaign. Since 2010 she has raised $22,601 and this time she's trying to hit her $10,000 goal to fund her latest anthology,...

If first you don't succeed.... If you've been following the SULLIVAN'S SLUGGERS controversy—catch up here and here—you know that writer Mark Andrew Smith has gotten a lot of criticism over his handling of the fulfillment...

It's been a HUGE month for webcomics projects on Kickstarter with no less than four six-figure projects. The Cyanide and Happiness crew netted $770,309 for their animation projects—the most ever for an animation Kickstarter....

"This hardcover graphic novel covers the 1920 unsolved murder of author and bridge expert, Joseph Elwell." I doubt you will need more encouragement than the above to go RIGHT THIS MINUTE and support Rick Geary's...

Good news everybody! Today has seen two more Kickstarter projects funded: Guy Adams and Jimmy Broxton's GOLDTIGER, as well as Steven Sanders' SYMBIOSIS. Both projects were featured on The Beat, so we'll take full...

A couple of interviews with more information on Make That Thing, the new company that helps successful Kickstarter campaign actually send out all their rewards. it's a division of TopatoCo, the webcomics's merchandising company which already has a formidable infrastructure—a fork lift!, warehouses, employees!—and manufacturing contacts to help their cartoonists sell their merch. The program is rolling out slowly as an in house project.

Here's a real Kickstarter based on a fake artist whose real work has been forged by Guy Adams and Jimmy Broxton, both of whom are real living people and are not figments of fiction,...

This one is like one of those baseball games that goes into the 17th inning, long and murky with no real payoff.

One of the ways many people stumbled onto their first comic was through the promotional comics that used to come bundled in with action figures. You know the ones - you buy a He-Man...

Popular webcomics getting immense Kickstarters is a real dog bites man story, but here it is: Aaron Diaz has a print project for his fantasy webcomics Dresden Codak up and after a day or so it has $189,773 with 27 days to go. The initial goal was a mere $30,000. It's already the 8th biggest comics Kickstarter of all times, and who knows how big it will get.

I don't know how long this has been around—and I feel stupid for not knowing—but TopatoCo, the great unifying force of the comic book universe, has started a crowdfunding fulfillment house called Make That Thing. An excerpt from their about page: