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KickStarting: Comics

It’s a new week and KickStarting: Comics is back with a look at how much was raised/pledged for comic projects on Kickstarter for the past week!

I realize some projects are not in US dollars, but they all will count the same regardless of origin, for now. $1 US will be the same as $1 CAD, $1 AUD, etc.

Over the past week 21 projects were successfully funded.

For the past week from December 8 to December 14 the statistics are:

Average goal: $5,085
Average pledged: $7,649.52
Average number of backers: 129.90
Average pledge: $58.89
Average percent raised: 150.43%
Most common given amount: $25 (476 times)
Most money from pledge level: $25 level brought in $11,900

Total pledged for the week: $160,640

For the week, the top projects were:

The top grossing project: Jim Balent & Holly G’s -Crossover: When Magick Meets Manga ! – $31,156

Most backers: Translating Pow Pow Press– 410 backers

Highest percent above goal raised: Jim Balent & Holly G’s -Crossover: When Magick Meets Manga ! – 389.45%

Highest average pledge: The Minerva Volume One and Two – $508.53

Lowest average pledge: Sonnet – $28.07

For the month of December, for the 37 successful projects, the statistics are:

Average goal: $5,015.95
Average pledged: $7,211.59
Average number of backers: 125.92
Average pledge: $57.27
Average percent raised: 143.77%
Most common given amount: $25 (630 times)
Most money from pledge level: $50 level brought in $16,300

Total pledged for the month: $266,829

For the month, the top projects were:

The top grossing project: Jim Balent & Holly G’s -Crossover: When Magick Meets Manga ! – $31,156

Most backers: Translating Pow Pow Press– 410 backers

Highest percent above goal raised: Jim Balent & Holly G’s -Crossover: When Magick Meets Manga ! – 389.45%

Highest average pledge: The Minerva Volume One and Two – $508.53

Lowest average pledge: TRETA-YUGA #1 – $23.82

That wraps up this week’s data! I’ll be making tweaks to this as more are done, so let me know what you want to see!

By Brett

Brett is a political consultant who resides in Arlington, VA. He grew up in Cleveland, OH and Buffalo, NY and attended the University at Buffalo, majoring in Political Science.
Since then Brett has made his mark on politics working in various positions such as a Legislative Staffer for the Erie County Legislature, Special Assistant for Senator John Kerry, as the Database Administrator for Forward Together PAC, Database Director for Chris Dodd for President, and Internet/Database Director for Virginians for Brian Moran, and Email Deliverability Czar for Salsa Labs and NGP VAN.
In 2007 Brett formed 5B Consulting providing his expertise on database solutions, new media and email strategy.
He's a long time geek, reading comics since he was a child and learning to spell his name on an Atari 800. When he's not working, he's reading comics, playing video games and relaxing with a nice cup of tea.
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