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Crowdfunding Corner: KARCIS #1 – An Investigative Horror For Mature Readers

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Paranormal Investigator Paul Karcis becomes entangled in a mystery that uncovers horrifying forces at work in a snowy Alaskan town.

When he is called to investigate a mauled and ravaged body discovered in a snowy small town, Karcis becomes entangled in a mystery that uncovers horrifying forces at work in the frigid community of Thompson Pass, Alaska.

Karcis #1 is the first instalment from writer and editor Brian Hawkins‘ new production company BlaX Trauma Production, a new Horror studio for Hawkins creative writing and comics work.

Karcis #1 features art by creator Nathan Kelly, color by Don Mathias, lettering by Francisco Zamora, and graphic design by Jerpa Nilsson.

The campaign runs until Thursday, December 7 at 8:57am.

Crowdfunding Corner: Magnetic Press announces The Didier Cassegrain Collection

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The Didier Cassegrain Collection

Now live on Backerkit, Magnetic Press presents a collection of four cinematic graphic novels colorfully illustrated by the uniquely identifiable Eisner Award-winning creator, Didier Cassegrain! This exciting collection includes Don’t Let Go, Black Water Lillies, Trapped on Zarkass, and Tao Bang!

Don’t Let Go

This island-set thriller filled with murder, mystery, and kidnapping… or so it would seem…? Based on the best selling novel written by Michel Bussi…

In an idyllic resort on the island of La Réunion, Liane Bellion and her husband Martial are enjoying the perfect moment with their 6-year-old daughter. Turquoise skies, blue sea, palm trees, a warm breeze.

Then Liane disappears. She went up to her hotel room between 3 and 4pm and never came back. Her husband, worried, had gone to the room along with the concierge – the room was empty but there was blood everywhere. Despite his protestations of innocence, the police view Martial as their prime suspect. He was the only other person who went to the hotel room between 3 and 4pm according to the staff of the hotel.

Then he disappears along with his daughter. With Martial as prime suspect, helicopters scan the island, racial tensions surface, and more corpses are found. Is he really his wife’s killer? And if he isn’t, why does he appear to be so guilty?

Black Water Lillies

A twisty who-done-it about a murder in Monet’s garden in Giverny and the three women who may know who did it! Eisner Award-nominated title based on the best selling novel by Michel Bussi!

Giverny, France. During the day, the town is the home of the famous artist Claude Monet and the gardens where he painted his Water Lilies. But once the tourists have gone, there is a darker side to the peaceful French village.

This is the story of thirteen days that begin with one murder and end with another. Jéme Morval, a man whose passion for art was matched only by his passion for women, has been found dead in the stream that runs through the gardens. In his pocket is a postcard of Monet’s Water Lilies with the words: Eleven years old. Happy Birthday.

Entangled in the mystery are three women: a young painting prodigy, the seductive village schoolteacher, and an old widow who watches over the village from a mill by the stream. All three of them share a secret. But what do they know about the discovery of Jéme Morval’s corpse? And what is the connection to the mysterious, rumored painting of Black Water Lilies?

Trapped on Zarkass

A gonzo sci-fi adventure through the planet Zarkass based on the classic novel by Stefan Wuhl!

It is the third millennium, and gender definitions are gone, references practically banned. Larry and Marcel are two Earth agents sent to the lush and threatening jungles of the planet Zarkass forced to collaborate for an ultra-secret mission. Their official cover is to study the fauna, flora, and the unique customs of the native Zarkassian people. But really they are there to find and examine the mysterious wreckage of an alien vessel that has the government concerned. But the two young agents start to suspect that each of them might be hiding the real reasons for their presence on Zarkass… reasons that are much more personal…

Adapted from the classic sci-fin novel by celebrated author Stefan Wul, TRAPPED ON ZARKASS is a colorful, updated take on “odd couple/buddy cop” adventures with a gender-bending undertone, adapted by writer Yann.

Tao Bang

A soaring pirate fantasy reprinting Didier Cassegrain’s first graphic novel! An exhilarating, swashbuckling fantasy adventure packed with scoundrels and anti-heroes by authors Daniel Pecqueur and Olivier Vatine.

Ellora’s business has been in freefall since the dragon sheikh Ad Arphax opened a competing brothel nearby. So she sets out with ruffian Norden to find the Isle of Mermaids, whose siren song should bring in the customers and put her back on top. But the journey is wrought with fantastic dangers, not the least of which is the Amazon pirate Tao Bang – an old acquaintance of Norden’s – now in the employ of Ad Arphax…

Crowdfunding Corner: Stan Lee’s Genesis, the official tabletop game honoring Stan Lee

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The first ever Stan Lee tabletop game is now on Kickstarter! Produced by Rocketship Entertainment, T-Minus 10 Games, and Stan Lee’s POW! Entertainment. 

In Stan Lee’s Genesis, players must harness their creative energy to give birth to a unique universe. Stan Lee’s Genesis is intended to put the power of creation into the hands of the players and honor the legacy of Stan’s brilliance as one of the preeminent creative forces of the 20th century. Every game is different as players both compete and collaborate as they construct a comic book universe full of heroes, villains, super teams, evil syndicates, galactic threats, and all-encompassing crossover events!

Recently announced, due to popular demand they are creating a solo mode for the game and there will be a Solo Story Campaigns Book included as a comic book with at least 10 solo scenarios. 

The campaign for Stan Lee’s Genesis runs until Friday, December 15, 2023 at 7:03 PM EST.

Stan Lee's Genesis

Crowdfunding Corner: Head to the high seas with Binary Sea

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Binary Sea #1

YouTube’s Captain Midnight presents a supernatural tale of the sea. Graham Blackaby, Jason Piperberg, and Luca Romano have teamed up for Binary Sea.

Following coordinates given to them by a mysterious soothsayer, the crew of the HMS Pontus embark on the most dangerous journey of their lives. Led by the cold and calculating Captain Willett and loaded with a brig full of pirates, tensions have never been higher. On the Binary Sea, threats lurk where sailors least expect them.

The digital version of Binary Sea #1 can be purchased for just $2. You’ll be able to read the Digital Edition when the campaign ends. Shipping of Binary Sea #1 Physical Edition is expected to commence in February 2024.

Also interesting is the listed stretch goal. If the campaign reaches $20,000, $1,000 will be donated to The Hero Initiative. The Hero Initiative is an organization that creates a financial safety net for comic creators who may need emergency medical aid, financial support for essentials of life, and an avenue back into paying work.

Crowdfunding Campaign: Celebrate 10 Years with Adventure Time Card Wars

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Cryptozoic Entertainment and Warner Bros. Discovery Global Consumer Products have launched the Kickstarter campaign for the Adventure Time Card Wars 10th Anniversary. Fans can pledge now on Kickstarter.

Based on the “Card Wars” episodes of Cartoon Network’s Emmy and Peabody Award-winning animated series, Adventure Time, the Adventure Time Card Wars tabletop games from Cryptozoic have been hugely popular with fans in the last decade, spawning over 10 product releases. The campaign brings together all six original packs into the new Adventure Time Card Wars: Ultimate Collection featuring nearly 500 game cards, with new game content to be unlocked during the campaign. In addition, fans can preorder the Deluxe Edition of the Doubles Tournament game, the Collector’s Storage Box, a playmat, card sleeves, and much more. 

Adventure Time Card Wars features easy-to-learn rules as two players go head to head, spending Actions to defeat their opponent and become the “Cool Guy.” Using a deck of 40 cards, each player plays Creatures onto their Landscape tiles to attack their opponent, Buildings to enhance their Landscapes, and Spells to gain an advantage. The first player who reduces their opponent’s Hit Points to 0 wins.

The Adventure Time Card Wars: Ultimate Collection at the heart of the Kickstarter brings together the six original Collector’s Packs: Finn vs. Jake, BMO vs. Lady Rainicorn, Princess Bubblegum vs. Lumpy Space Princess, Ice King vs. Marceline, Lemongrab vs. Gunter, and Fionna vs. Cake. Stretch goals throughout the campaign will reveal upgrades and additional content, including new cards.

Adventure Time Card Wars: Doubles Tournament (Deluxe Edition) adds teamwork to the core gameplay, as two players become Jake and Charlie as they battle two players who play as Grand Prix and Moniker. This Deluxe Edition includes additional Heroes and special packaging.

The Adventure Time Card Wars: Collector’s Storage Box can store every card ever released for the series, with room to grow in the future. It features an original piece of art by Robb Mommaerts on the cover.

The Adventure Time Card Wars 10th Anniversary Kickstarter starts today and runs until December 15, with pledge tiers starting at $65. Stretch goals, if unlocked, will add numerous additional cards and upgrades. Preorder items are expected to be delivered to backers in September 2024. 

Crowdfunding Corner: The Conan the Barbarian – Colossal Edition on adds a Barry Windsor-Smith cover

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Conan the Barbarian - Colossal Edition Barry Windsor-Smith cover

Conan is back, and BIGGER than ever. Everyone’s favorite Cimmerian has found a new home, with brand new publishing entity, Pan-Universal Galactic Worldwide, or PUG Worldwide.  Spearheaded by industry veterans John Nee, John Barber and Nate Murray, PUG Worldwide is shaking up the comic market with their first release Conan The Barbarian: The Colossal Edition. Available on the crowdfunding platform Zoop, the campaign has added a new option to get a the book featuring a cover by Barry Windsor-Smith!

The Colossal Edition is the first of many planned, and is PUG’s version of the oversized Artist Edition that fans have grown to love. The book clocks in at over 190 pages of 11×17 scans of original Conan The Barbarian art from masters and legends, such as John Buscema, Gil Kane, Barry Windsor-Smith, Neal Adams, Howard Chaykin, and many others. The campaign nowoffers fans the choice between three different covers – one by Jim Lee, and the others by the aforementioned Buscema and Windsor-Smith.

PUG has partnered with licensor Heroic Signatures for the book and is offering the highest quality printing, with book design by Ian Chalgren. The scans are immaculate, the paper will be the finest quality, and the book itself will stand above the rest. This is a book not to be missed.  

Not only that, but the legendary Roy Thomas will be signing limited numbers of the book, while limited numbers of high end art prints will also be available. This is fans’ only chance to pick up these exclusive collector’s items!

Sandstorm partners with Cation Arts for Primal Showdown

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Primal Showdown

Sandstorm Comics and Cation Arts have announced their first partnership release with Primal Showdown, an all-new dueling card game, which will launch exclusively through the Kickstarter platform in 2024.

The game, which is being co-developed by Sandstorm and Mohamed Alqadi, whose previous credits include the massively successful All-Time Wrestling, which has now seen multiple record-smashing expansions, and One Earth; a game widely praised for its mission-centric approach to the fight against climate change, putting players directly into the environmental impacts of their decisions within the game to raise awareness around a global issue. Prior to that, Alqadi had developed Conqueror: The Final Conquest, which pitted players against each other as some of history’s great empires in a battle for global dominance. 

Each campaign was tremendously successful with the international gaming community, helping to put Abu Dhabi on the global stage for tabletop gaming and geek culture. Their unprecedented success today leads to the collaboration with the region’s exciting new comics art studio Sandstorm, led by Mo Abedin, and tapping resident artist Saroush Barazesh to take the gaming experience to the next level.

Cation Arts’ newest game Primal Showdown is inspired by some of the all-time greatest fighting games, as well as the most beloved parts of the All-Time Wrestling gameplay for an action-packed experience filled with drafting, rock-paper-scissors, bluffing, dice rolling, and push-your-luck elements, all in a battle of wits and strategy that can be played in under 5 minutes. The immersive world of Primal Showdown features over 25 unique characters, each impeccably designed by Saroush Bazaresh, and is guaranteed to delight gamers of all levels of experience with its quick action and easy-to-follow rules of play.

The game will debut at the inaugural Storm the Block event taking place on December 8-10 in Abu Dhabi, and attendees can register now for a tournament on the final day of the event at 3PM on Sunday December 10. Sign up here to reserve your spot!

Crowdfunding Corner: Soaring Penguin Press gets into Family and Relationships Therapy

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I Do I Don’t: How To Build A Better Marriage

Why doesn’t marriage come with a manual? Now it does – in graphic detail!

I Do I Don’t: How To Build A Better Marriage by licensed therapist Chandrama Anderson (MA, LMFT) and talented cartoonist Nur Jaffar G. Latip tells the story of a young couple, Ben and Grace. Struggling to make their marriage work, they turn to a couples therapist in an effort to find out the root of their problems and how to fix them.

A unique blend of narrative, theory, and applied practice, I Do I Don’t allows readers to follow along with Ben and Grace as they learn how upbringing and personal trauma impact our relationships and attachments. The book makes use of visual cues including colored word balloons to emphasize emotional states to make complicated concepts more understandable. Each chapter ends with Put It Into Practice, a set of worksheets that parallel the homework set for Ben and Grace by the therapist.

Anderson effortlessly breaks down complex neuroscience principles that affect our behavior in a way that anyone can understand while also using more familiar self-help concepts like Love Languages and various other therapeutic practices. Latip’s crisp, beautiful, and expressive black & white art allows the reader to empathize with them all the more. I Do I Don’t also features a foreword by John Killcullen, CEO and founder of the “…For Dummies” line of informational books.

Whether you’re a graphic novel lover or new to the art form, I Do I Don’t seamlessly allows any reader to quickly absorb, understand, and put into practice Anderson’s therapeutic concepts. I Do I Don’t is an essential tool for couples seeking to improve communication in their committed relationships as well as students and therapists looking for new tools to reach their patients.

Soaring Penguin Press is running a Crowdfundr campaign until December 21, 2023.

Crowdfunding Corner: Realistic Future Nudes And Other Issues: Free Spirit News Anthology 2012-2021

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Realistic Future Nudes And Other Issues: Free Spirit News Anthology 2012-2021

Free Spirit News is a free, submission based, art and satire newsprint publication made in Portland Oregon. The newspaper contains no “news,” but rather a collection of comics, drawings, jokes, puzzles, poetry, gags, optical illusions, visionary doodles and other untethered expressions. The news of the spirit! 

For the past few years, Free Spirit News has been working to compile a hard bound book collection of the entire run of the paper thus far. The impending hefty tome “Realistic Future Nudes and Other Issues: A Free Spirit News Anthology 2012-2021” contains all fourteen issues, including photos, ephemera and other related nonsense. Published in collaboration with Floating World Comics and Container Corps Press, the book should make a wonderful coffee table book, door stop, and a supremely effective bathroom reader. 

In addition to a small but very helpful RACC (RIP!) grant a few years back, this Crowdfundr Pre-order is the the main funding source for this book. In a perfect world this collection would be free just like the paper, but alas. The final book will retail in shops for $45-$50, but you can order yours today for the low low price of $40. Many deluxe options also exist, which include fun extras and goodies. If all goes according to plan the book should begin shipping out early in the new year and make a great post holiday gift. 

Crowdfunding Corner: Dracula returns with Cult of the White Worm #2 from Dacre Stoker

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Dracula The Return: Cult of the White Worm #2

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Dracula The Return: Cult of the White Worm was a hit on Zoop with a first issue that hit its goal and then some. Dacre Stoker, the great grand nephew of Bram Stoker, along with co writer Chris McAuley and art team Chris Geary and Matt Soffe make a triumphant return with publishers Scratch Comics and the second installment of this historic and authentic continuation of the classic novel.

Dracula The Return: Cult of the White Worm #2 takes the story in a daring new direction as the Lord of Vampires recruits his mysterious new allies to exact a plan of revenge on the heroes who thwarted his plans.

Dracula fans who missed the first issue are also be able to grab the first issue with this campaign and of course you’ll be able to grab some exclusive bonus rewards including original sketches from the artist and official Dracula The Return merchandise.

Some unique add-ons include an online Zoom lecture from Dacre Stoker and even a chance to have dinner with Dacre!

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