Welcome to the final Comics Crowdfunding Round-Up for January 2023! The column spotlights crowdfunding campaigns by queer creators, disabled creators, girls creators, and creators of shade, which we suppose are an awesome funding, whether or not for a one-shot story or a sprawling anthology. This week’s round-up features a dee-lightful story in regards to the trans expertise, the subsequent quantity of Elisa Romboli and Iolanda Zanfardino‘s A Thing Called Truth, and the subjective true story of one comic artist’s try and not flip into an octopus.
Are you able to dive in? Let’s get going!
Finding Dee – Volume 1
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Creators: Dee Fish, Katy Rewston, Sarah White, and Laurie Foster
Goal: $7,500
End Date: February 14, 2023
Goodies: Dee-mojis, Finding Dee Vol. 1 (Digital or softcover), Dee-namel Pin (Dee, Heidi, & Rainbow Skully), Dee-Shirt, and Lifesize Stan-Dee
A beautiful, hilarious, and emotional assortment of comedian strips a few cartoonist discovering herself as a transgender girl.
Support trans comedian e book creators; they’re superior. Fish’s Finding Dee is a comedic tackle the experiences of being trans, offering a laugh-out-loud take a look at the true-to-life medical experiences and procedures that trans girls must endure as a part of their transition. ‘Nuff stated.
Become a backer right here.
A Thing Called Truth Vol. 2: Drive Home
Creators: Elisa Romboli and Iolanda Zanfardino
Goal: $24,471
End Date: March 1, 2023
Goodies: Digital PDF or bodily quantity, quantity 1 bodily copy, unique Kickstarter door hanger, prints, a particular cameo within the e book, unique signed unique artwork, and retailer bundle
The thrilling epic conclusion to the romantic street journey journey – launched by Iolanda Zanfardino and Elisa Romboli!
I had a particular order at my LCS, Nuclear Comics in San Diego, CA (a newly opened second location), at any time when a brand new challenge of A Thing Called Truth got here out to offer me the sexiest cowl attainable as a result of queer girls deserve horny girls in vehicles too. But this story is more than that, it’s a complicated story about processing grief and remorse whereas studying to embrace life via our selections within the time given to us.
Originally revealed by Image Comics, the creators are calling the comedian e book neighborhood to arms to help the second quantity of A Thing Called Truth. The marketing campaign states, “Let’s present that LGBTQIA+ illustration and storytelling has the viewers, the demand, and the help to offer it an ending worthy of its themes. Help us drive it house: QUEER STORIES DESERVE GOOD ENDINGS.“
Become a backer right here.
Becca Boo the Bimbo Ghost #1
Creators: Garth Matthams and Kenan Halilovic
Goal: $2,252
End Date: February 19, 2023
Goodies: Becca Boo #1 PDF or bodily copy, Kickstarter unique variant covers, signed copy of commerce gown version, Kickstarter unique black and white version of Becca Boo #1, 11×17 inch prints, Ormus #1, Pumpkin #1, and buying and selling playing cards
Is she lifeless? Is she alive? Is she simply actually, actually dumb?!
I really like smut, and smut named after me is even higher. Plus, the creators promise that that is well-written and well-drawn smut. Created by Sun Khamunaki, recognized for her titillating pin-up covers, Becca Boo is a 22-page, full-color comedian about Becca, who, after rising from an open grave, believes herself to be a ghost… and a really sexy one. From the pattern pages, it seems that this comedian contains LGBTQIA+ themes.
Khamunaki has contributed two covers to the primary challenge. In addition, Bill McKay, Pablo Verdugo, Pierluigi Abbondanza, and Inkstasy have all contributed their very own wonderful covers to Becca Boo #1!
Become a backer right here.
Octopus: A Memoir of Flailing
Creators: Richard Fairgray
Goal: $1,501
End Date: February 25, 2023
Goodies: Digital or bodily copy, foil-stamped variant cowl, sketch variant cowl, “Octopus in a Bottle” that comprises comedian and 200+ pages of Fairgray’s again catalog, and enamel pins
The subjectively true story of making an attempt to not flip into an octopus, distracting myself with intercourse golf equipment, consuming, and messy relationships.
Gay and legally blind creator Richard Fairgray, who has made his profession with all-ages content material, describes Octopus: A Memoir of Flailing as “7 connected stories that capture key turning points in my life across 18 months as I try to kill myself, get divorced, break up with my boyfriend, steal a boat, move to Hollywood, live with a surfing philanthropist, meet a nice man and have a lot of wine and regrettable sex. It’s an adult story filled with complicated emotions and steamy sex clubs.”
To all of the haters who stated that Fairgray ought to conceal this e book in an octopus’s siphon, I’m excited to see him take a stab at more grownup content material, particularly after studying considered one of his adult-themed one-shots, which I picked up in LA final yr.
Become a backer right here.
Ten Thousand Beloved Communities
Creators: Kristen Lynn Zimmerman and Beloved Communities Network
Goal: $10,000
End Date: March 11, 2023
Goodies: Get your title on the thanks web page, digital PDF model of the e book and digital worksheets, bodily copy of the e book and accompanying worksheets, signed restricted version, restricted version Beloved Communities Network hoodie, Beloved Communities postcards, 60-minute Beloved Communities Workshop for you and nineteen Beloveds, and a retailer bundle
A graphic novel and information to constructing communities that remodel the world, written with 25 leaders. Foreword by adrienne maree brown.
Based on conversations between and interviews with over 25 artists, cultural staff, motion leaders, and non secular practitioners, Ten Thousand Beloved Communities is a 160-page full-color graphic novel and information that tells the story of the lineage of Beloved Community, the eight important components of training beloved neighborhood, tales of beloved neighborhood in motion, and methods to assist readers combine Beloved Community on the very private degree, with teams and as a means of main. According to the marketing campaign, “the book is for anyone who cares deeply about their community and wants to deepen relationships with the people and places they live.”
Malika Devich Cyril, Judith Le Blanc, Anassa Troutman, and Kazu Haga contributed tales for example Beloved Community in motion.
Become a backer right here.
Here are some already-funded projects price testing:
And don’t overlook to take a look at final week’s campaigns:
And lastly, listed below are some projects that haven’t launched but, however that look to be price maintaining a tally of:
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