Welcome to the primary Comics Crowdfunding Round-Up of 2023! The column spotlights crowdfunding campaigns by queer creators, disabled creators, girls creators, and creators of colour, which we assume are an excellent funding, whether or not it’s for a one-shot story or a sprawling anthology. This week’s round-up contains an illustrated mild novel about catgirls, some queer slipstream horror, and a graphic novel a few German boarding faculty with LGBTQIA+ themes.
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Cat Wishes Stories
Creators: Alex Zandra Van Chestein
Goal: $500
End Date: January 29, 2023
Goodies: 64-page guide with a colour cowl, kiss-cut sticker sheets, your identify/nickname on the guide’s thank-you web page, signed version, Cat Wishes Combo (contains each novels), All Cat Bundle (Cat Wishes 1 & 2 + Feline Therapy), Zandraverse Bundle (contains all seven of Zandra’s mild novels), particular person copies of Zandra’s again catalog, and retail bundle
My Friends And I Were Turned Into Catgirls But That Was Just The Beginning Of Our Cat Wishes Stories (or, Cat Wishes Stories), is a sequel to my mild novel, Cat Wishes, and provides one other 64 pages of adventures to the cat-eared solid. And I would like your assist to convey it to print!
For a 2019 Comics Crowdfunding Round-Up, The Beat‘s C.K. Stewart covered a previous crowdfunding campaign by Zandra, describing her style as “always filled with feeling — she has a kind spirit and gleeful sense of humor that permeates all of her books.” Now, Zandra’s crowdfunding her seventh illustrated mild novel, Cat Wishes Stories, about three shy, nerdy faculty roommates who, after an opportunity assembly with a cat goddess, are given the power to flip into catgirls, and their new skills lead them on a journey of self-discovery. A Cat Wishes sequel, Cat Wishes Stories takes place a 12 months later and consists of a collection of illustrated quick tales that target completely different solid members, all revolving across the identical theme: what occurs when changing into a catgirl doesn’t remedy all your issues?
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Green & Gold, Vol. 1
Creators: Lisa Brenner
Goal: $8,139
End Date: February 3, 2023
Goodies: 124-page full-color graphic novel (PDF, softcover, or hardcover), and each printed guide comes with a free postcard of Piet, bookmark, sticker sheet, signed bookplate, and A5 print
Teenagers at a German boarding faculty. What can go improper?
An illustrator and comedian artist primarily based out of Germany, Brenner (Luna Wunderwald) has been publishing an ongoing creator-owned collection, Green & Gold, for free on-line since 2016. Originally aimed toward German audiences, now, Brenner is bringing the story to worldwide audiences with an English-language version. In Vol. 1, new readers will meet sophomore scholar, Piet, and his Seventh-grade mentee, Tim, who’s having bother opening as much as his assigned mentor. Green & Gold contains LGBTQIA+ themes.
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Pixiv Presents Artists in Taiwan and Korea
Creators: These deluxe books showcase over 150 artists, representing only a small fraction of the gifted artists actively engaged on the pixiv platform.
Goal: $10,000
End Date: January 31, 2023
Goodies: Artists in Korea digital PDF/guide, Artists in Taiwan digital PDF/guide, sticker sheets, set of ten 5×7 prints, set of six rock band-style buttons, Kickstarter unique buying and selling card set, t-shirt with artwork by MAKAI, and t-shirt with artwork by VIVINOS
Two collectible artwork books with beautiful art work from the pixiv group, that includes 150+ wonderful artists in Taiwan and Korea!
With over 80 million customers and more than 3 billion web page views month-to-month, pixiv is without doubt one of the world’s largest creation platforms. Thus, Media Do International, Inc. and Clover Press are partnering with the platform to crowdfund two beautiful artwork books on Kickstarter that includes pixiv artists: Artists in Korea, that includes 78 implausible Korean artists, with a canopy by Tiv, and Artists in Taiwan, that includes 83 unbelievable artists from Taiwan, with a canopy by VOFAN. Check out unique photos from the artwork guide right here.
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Pink Midnight Presents: The Butterfly House
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Creators: Paul Allor (author), Juan Romera (artist), and Claire Napier (editor)
Goal: $4,000
End Date: February 15, 2023
Goodies: PDF or bodily copy, virgin variant cowl by Jody Edwards, get each covers (bodily & digital), a printed copy signed by the author, your identify listed on a particular thanks web page, artwork print, ‘No Pain No Gain’ enamel pin, retailer bundle, script assessment with instructed edits, PDFs of Allor’s Clockwork Vol. 1 and Strange Nation, Romera unique artwork pages, and Romera digital commissions
Pink Midnight Presents: The Butterfly House is the primary in a deliberate collection of bizarre, one-shot comedian books from author Paul Allor, artist Juan Romera and editor Claire Napier, all introduced in Juan’s beautiful black-and-white artwork.
The first concern in an anthology collection, The Butterfly House, is a deeply private story for MMPR and G.I. JOE author Allor, described as one “part existential horror story” and one “part allegory for Paul’s discovery of their gender identity.” To inform the slipstream horror story, Allor is teaming up with Romera, one of many first artists they labored with once they began writing comics, on Strange Nation. This guide checks all of my range bins, it’s a horror story (a serious plus) and gives followers of Allor/Romera team-up work one other take a look at the duo. Read the interview with Allor right here.
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Torrent
Creators: Leonie O’Moore (story and artwork) and Micah Myers (letterer)
Goal: $1,300
End Date: February 16, 2023
Goodies: Standard PDF version (52 pages), that includes Cover A; prolonged PDF version (64 pages), that includes variant Cover B; digital comics bundle, together with Torrent – Extended Edition, From Savage Seas, Double Dead Collected Edition, Invoked, and Don’t Fall; Torrent print version, that includes variant Cover C, which comes with a bookmark; and retailer’s bundle
This unusual story follows three girls from completely different deadlines who’re linked by way of a climate occasion.
I like O’Moore’s colourful artwork fashion and deal with feminine characters, so I used to be excited to see her first solo crowdfunding mission on Crowdfundr, aimed toward mature readers, Torrent, a 52-page one-shot comedian about three girls linked by way of a climate occasion, coping with themes of dying. O’Moore is barely providing a small print run primarily based on orders positioned throughout the Crowdfundr marketing campaign, so that is seemingly your solely likelihood to get a print version of the guide. This marketing campaign is a Keep-it-All mannequin, that means pledges are paid out over the course of the marketing campaign, and the creator will solely make as many orders as she receives. That interprets to: get a duplicate whereas it’s sizzling!
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Here are some already-funded projects value testing:
And lastly, listed below are some projects that haven’t launched but, however that look to be value maintaining a tally of:
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