Welcome to this week’s installment of The Beat’s Comics Crowdfunding Round-Up! Join us for a glance into a brand new retelling of an emperor’s rise to energy, a darkish apocalypse fantasy, a cyberpunk spaghetti Western, and a real story fictionalized to your enjoyable!
THE ROMAN STARS – Caesar’s Conquest of the Galaxy
Creators: Ivan Brandon (author) and V. Gagnon (artist).
Goal: $10,000
End Date: Nov. 2
Goodies: A normal version, dustjacket HC version, and a visitor artist variant HC version!
This is a singular have a look at Julius Caesar’s historic climb from Praetor to General to Dictator and how the Roman individuals’s love for him made him unimaginable for the regulation to regulate. Our story follows Caesar, his household, his military, his battles, and his best challenger, himself.
This challenge is a brand new method to find out about Caesar’s story of turning into emperor, via the lens of a fantastically drawn sci-fi fantasy outsized graphic novel. Just from the design alone, it’s not laborious to see it’s an album-style graphic novel. And with explosive colours and stunning designs, we at The Beat suppose The Roman Stars will likely be a must-read for any comedian fanatic’s assortment.
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THE DEAD AND THE DAMNED
Creators: Sebastian Girner (author), Kelly Williams (artist), and Jeff Powel (letterer)
Goal: $13,000
End Date: Nov. 1
Goodies: Digital copy, Physical copy, signed bookplate, artist selection sketch, and your identify within the e book!
The Dead And The Damned is a darkish fantasy apocalypse set in a world that for hundreds of years has been ravaged by a horrifying curse the place all issues that die return to wage struggle on the residing.
Equal elements sword and sorcery epic and end-times highway journey, The Dead and the Damned is a Mature Readers fantasy comedian set in an unique world spanning a centuries-long historical past. It contains a sprawling forged of characters, jaw-dropping visuals, soul-wrenching drama, and darkly humorous journey in a world the place the one destiny worse than demise… is life.
The Dead and the Damned is a darkish fantasy apocalypse that could be a must-read for any fantasy fan. With Beautifully disgusting artwork from Williams, and the award-winning designs from Powel, Girner is about to ascertain Goats Flying Press as a daring new writer, and The Dead and the Damned is precisely how Girner will do it. A narrative about 4 reluctant, undead heroes being despatched out to repair a necromancer’s mistake whereas concurrently preventing hordes of undead and avoiding being destroyed themselves by pursuant hunters? We at The Beat can be remiss to not put the phrase out on this up-and-coming challenge!
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Wastelands
Creators: Ray Caburnay (author and illustrator)
Goal: $1,000
End Date: Oct. 26
Goodies: A digital copy, one customary print copy, a poster, print, and variant cowl!
One lone wanderer’s hunt for recompense leads her to the mining city of Cold Water: a tucked-away nook of the wastes the place outlaws and corpos alike discover a place to put low. Wastelands is an unique story set within the Wild Wastes of the company future by creator/author/illustrator Ray Caburnay.
A cyberpunk story primarily based on a city stuffed with lowlifes, outlaws, and morally ambiguous company slaves? Wastelands is trying to be a singular launch. With fantastic artwork, an intimidating forged of characters, and revealed by Lesser Known Comics, an organization that has labored with over 45 illustrators, writers, and extra to assist in giving aspiring comedian e book creators a platform to launch their careers. Wastelands reveals loads of promise and we at The Beat are going to be maintaining an in depth eye on its launch!
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Nothing Can Stop The Jellyfish-Monkey!
Creators: Stephen Blair (author), Stefano Cardoselli (artist), Juan Gedeon (artist), Mister Hope (artist), Patt Kelley (artist), Sylar (artist), Mike Spicer (colorist), and Joey Sheehan (letterer).
Goal: $14,000
End Date: Oct. 25
Goodies: Digital copy, bodily customary comedian, a selection between three totally different covers, a hardcover copy, and your identify within the “Thank You!” part!
Nothing Can Stop The Jellyfish-Monkey! is a 46-page comedian e book loosely impressed by true occasions and fictionalized to your leisure. Brought to you by a staff of award-winning creators!
In Nothing Can Stop The Jellyfish-Monkey! we comply with Andy, the primary efficiently genetically modified rhesus monkey spliced with bits of jellyfish DNA. We see his creation, his childhood, and his rise to stardom. He’s younger, and the world is so stuffed with promise. He has his entire life forward of him, and he’s cherished the world over. As time goes on, nonetheless, Andy turns into older and is felt to be much less particular. The world strikes on from Andy, and he appears to be forgotten about. He is now simply one other lab animal. In his lonesome grownup life, he spends his days daydreaming concerning the what-if’s.
What is splendidly distinctive about this challenge is that in Andy’s daydreams, it provides a number of superb artists an opportunity to affix in on the enjoyable.
Nothing Can Stop The Jellyfish-Monkey! is brimming with fantastic artwork, dropped at life by over six totally different artists who skillfully render Andy’s Vibrant daydreams. With its distinctive mix of various artworks and fascinating story, we at The Beat are maintaining an in depth watch on its launch!
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