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Exclusive: Fanbase Press’ Shrub: The Collected Edition features an all-new resource guide on processing grief by Dr. David J. Schonfeld, MD, FAAP

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Dr. David J. Schonfeld, MD, FAAP
Dr. David J. Schonfeld, MD, FAAP

Shrub: The Collected Edition, Fanbase Press‘ latest Kickstarter campaign, collects the Graphic Medicine series exploring grief and connection, featuring all-new contributions from some of the biggest names in entertainment and the field of mental health. We have the exclusive reveal that  Dr. David J. Schonfeld, MD, FAAP (Director, National Center for School Crisis and Bereavement at Children’s Hospital Los Angeles) will be contributing an all-new resource guide on processing grief.

In this middle grade adventure, readers will join Shrub who is, well… a shrub… for a cross-country road trip to Hollywood! Join Shrub and a grieving brother and sister as they head out in search of connection. On their journey, pit stops, wacky plant enthusiasts, uprooting, and re-routing abound.

The series was created and written by Emmy Award nominee Shane Portman, illustrated by Andy Alves, colored by Sophia Du and Celia FitzGerald, lettered by Oceano Ransford, and with consultation from comics librarian Moni Barrette.


Shrub explores the various ways that we allow grief to take root, inspired by writer Shane Portman’s experience with the loss of his father. The series features “Letting Grief Take Root” essays written by individuals with a personal and/or professional connection to grief who relate Shrub’s story to their own lived experience. Essayists include Shane Portman and his family, as well as grief doula Kat Primeau and Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist Ariel Landrum (Geek Therapy).

Additionally, every issue of the series includes a fold-out page within the story’s narrative.

Striving to destigmatize loss and promote understanding of the diverse ways that people of all ages grieve, the expanded print edition will also feature a study guide by literacy advocate Creators, Assemble! Inc., an informational essay by clinical psychologist and media consultant Dr. Drea Letamendi, and much more.

Check out a preview of Schrub: The Collected Edition below and back it on Kickstarter today!

  • Cover of the comic book 'Shrub' featuring a stylized green shrub in the foreground, a road with a gas station and a truck in the background, and various signage on the side of the road.
  • A comic panel showing a startled girl at her front door, encountering a bush with a surprised face. She apologizes for scaring it.
  • A comic strip featuring a character researching baby bird care on a smartphone, expressing concern about not having a dog, and discussing suitable food options with a friend.
  • A comic strip featuring a character named Cleopatra discussing food with a plant-like creature called Shrub. The characters are depicted in a cozy living room setting, with humorous dialogue about caring for plants and their needs.
  • A cartoon comic strip featuring a smiling girl with glasses discussing her new friends, who are a plant character and a bush-like creature, while eating snacks and sitting on a couch.

Summit Comics brings the villain-centered series Grymstone to Kickstarter

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Some toys were never meant to be played with. Summit Comics is bringing Grymstone: Soil & Ash to Kickstarter, a five-part surreal folk-horror series written, colored, and lettered by Scott Alan Gregory, with art by Thiago Motta and variant covers from Pete Collins, Juan Angel, and Damian Connelly. The project earned Gregory a contract as the winner of the 2025 Summit Comics Writer Talent Search and now marks the publisher’s first villain-centered series.

A seven-inch-tall ’80s action figure possessed by the ancient spirit of a wicked woodland entity binds three troubled families across three different eras. As GrymStone’s influence takes shape, a Chicago man seeks help for his brother, who believes the talking action figure hidden in his basement is compelling him to commit violent acts.

GrymStone: Soil & Ash draws from the unsettling atmosphere of ’90s Vertigo horror to explore mental illness, inherited damage, and the evil that takes root beneath it all through the surreal, dangerous, and tragicomic storytelling that defined the era’s alternative comics landscape.

Kickstarter backers can choose from rewards including signed scripts, original sketch cards and covers, and the opportunity to appear in the comic in a featured speaking role. A limited number of backers can also become the star of a customized two-page GrymStone story created for the Summit Comics Substack.

GrymStone: Soil & Ash is now live and runs through October 8, 2026.

Comic book cover for 'Grymstone: Soil & Ash' featuring stylized characters, abstract backgrounds with trees and leaves, and a vintage car.
Cover of the comic book 'Grymstone: Soil & Ash' featuring a somber, textured graphic with dark colors and an abstract depiction of a figure. The title and publisher logo are prominently displayed.
Action figure of Grymstone, an earth elemental character, depicted with a muscular build and rocky texture. The figure displays a blue and red costume with a triangular emblem. The packaging features the title 'GRYMSTONE' and includes additional hands and a head sculpt. Background is colorful with textured rock elements.
Cover art for the comic 'Grymstone: Soil & Ash' featuring a dark, brooding figure with glowing red eyes and a rugged, stone-like face.

Exclusive: Explore Clover Press’ Reminiscent: Art of Zeronis with this Exclusive Preview

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Clover Press has announced Reminiscent: Art of Zeronis, a stunning art book showcasing the signature work of one of the most celebrated character and concept artists in modern gaming—Paul “Zeronis” Kwon. The 152-page deluxe hardcover book presents a wide-ranging selection of Zeronis’s art across professional projects, fan art, and personal pieces. Featuring dynamic portraits, striking character concepts, and original designs, the book offers a rare look at Zeronis’ creative evolution and highlights his passion for storytelling through art. The crowdfunding campaign has passed its goal and runs until Friday, October 2 2026 12:00 AM EDT.

Paul Kwon, known professionally as Zeronis, is a concept artist specializing in character design for the video game industry. Zeronis attended the Art Center College of Design in Pasadena, then later built his reputation at Riot Games, where he created fan-favorite League of Legends characters like Ahri, Vi, and Gwen, along with the widely beloved Star Guardian series and the virtual K-Pop group, K/DA. His work has since extended to major titles such as Honor of Kings and Arena of Valor. Known for his ability to fuse semi-realistic rendering with stylized design, Zeronis creates characters that feel both larger than life and emotionally grounded.

The upgraded edition of Reminiscent: Art of Zeronis is housed in a limited edition slipcase, and select tiers will also include exclusive print sets, sticker sheets, a collectible numbered lithograph, and high end acrylic prints, making this a must-have for fans, collectors, and aspiring artists alike.

We have an exclusive preview of the art book, check it out below and don’t miss out and support it now!

A digital painting of a woman with long, flowing, iridescent blue hair and purple horns, wearing intricate armor. She has piercing eyes and ornate earrings, with a mystical and ethereal aura surrounding her.
Digital illustration of a stylish young woman with black and blonde hair, wearing a cropped top and accessories, posing with a peace sign against a colorful abstract background.
Two stylized characters stand side by side in an ethereal setting, featuring glowing blue accents. One character has long white hair and wears a black and white outfit with a swirling design and holds two glowing swords. The other character has blue hair and a cropped top, with mystical accessories, exuding a fierce presence.
Profile view of a character with light gray hair, pointed ears, and decorative horn-like features, set against a pink and purple background with a glowing jellyfish in the distance.

The Chaos! Library Kickstarter Celebrates Purgatori and Chastity!

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Comic book cover featuring Purgatori and Chastity, two female characters with distinctive styles, surrounded by a fiery background. The title 'PURGATORI x Chastity Classic Omnibus Collections' is prominently displayed.

Two iconic comic book bad girls are back in business, as Dynamite Entertainment and Coffin Comics have launched a brand-new Kickstarter offering fans a complete archive of tales starring vampiress vixens Purgatori and Chastity from the beloved Chaos! Comics era! The campaign is live and runs until October 8.

This campaign follows the virally successful first foray in this historic collaboration, when Dynamite and Coffin came together to remaster and compile every story starring Evil Ernie. These new books reprinting Purgatori and Chastity comics are also filled with stunning and boundaries-breaking comics that have long been out of print and sought after by collectors. No longer will fans have to dive deep into back-issue bins, fight over skyrocketing online auctions, and trade one darling book for another in fan groups. The complete storylines of these leaders of the bad girls wave are ready for everyone’s shelves!

Kicking off in 1993, fans flocked to Chaos! Comics like moths to a flame for its genius mix of horror and tropes of the superhero genre. The heavy metal aesthetic and gritty sagas were a perfect representation of the rebelliousness, humor, and spirit of the 1990s and remain as fun today as they were then!

This new Kickstarter offers three books again. Two are devoted to the fables of Purgatori, the ancient slave girl turned demonic vampire. Created by Brian Pulido, she debuted in Evil Ernie: Revenge #1 before launching into her first solo series Purgatori: The Vampires Myth in 1996 with gorgeous artwork by superstar Jim Balent (Catwoman, Tarot: Witch of the Black Rose). Now across two titanic tomes, fans can read chapters of her journey including stories like The Dracula Gambit, Goddess War, Goddess Rising, Purgatori Empire, The Hunted, Darkest Hour, God Hunter, God Killer, and more! In addition to the aforementioned Pulido and Balent, other legendary creators who added to the tapestry of Purgi include David Quinn (Doctor Strange, Faust), Al Rio (Gen13), Mike Deodato Jr. (Avengers, Wonder Woman), Marc Andreyko (Manhunter, Supergirl), Len Kaminski (Iron Man), Joshua Dysart (Harbinger, Swamp Thing), and more.

Teenage girl Chastity Marks was struck with tragedy when turned into a vampire. When she realizes she is undetectable to her fellow vampires, her new devotion in life is hunting other bloodsuckers! Now all her solo adventures will be collected into one comprehensive volume, meticulously assembled for returning and new readers. Readers get to see her deadly skills in Evil Ernie: Straight to Hell, then she broke out into Chastity: Theatre of Pain. Later tales include Rocked, Lust for Life, Reign of Terror, Shattered, Crazytown, and more. On the Chastity front, Pulido is joined by other creators including Ivan Reis (Superman, Aquaman), Ed Benes (Birds of Prey, Justice League), Steven Grant (Punisher), Fabian Nicieza (X-Men, X-Force), Peter Vale, and others.

Each book is oversized at 9 by 12 inches. Fans can opt for three different versions of the books. Signed special editions feature ribbon markers, gilding, as well as signed and numbered bookplates. For the most discerning collectors, the super deluxe editions are limited to 333 copies each. Slipcases are also available, exclusive to the Kickstarter.

In addition to the books at the front and center of the Kickstarter, tons of awesome extras and add-ons are available. Shirts featuring both vampires and the classic Chaos! logo can be added to fans’ closets. Or patch sets can be grabbed for fans to customize their own clothes. Print sets featuring some of the most iconic artwork of these characters by top artists are included. Challenge coins and many other goodies are up for backers too!

As the campaign progresses, Dynamite and Coffin are excited to keep backers and those on the fence engaged with exciting stretch goals and surprise drops.

Early bird backers within the first 66 hours get two FREE trading cards featuring both characters added to their hauls!

Becky Cloonan Brings Organized Chaos to Kickstarter This Fall

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Cover art for 'Fever Dream', a comic book featuring dark, moody colors and surreal imagery of a man and woman entwined, with the title prominently displayed in a ghostly font.

Award-winning comics artist and writer Becky Cloonan has announced her next project, Fever Dream, launching on Kickstarter.

An art book, Fever Dream features 116 pages of never-before-seen comic pages, sketches, and illustrations. An absolute visual treasure trove, Fever Dream is for fans of the process, the raw and the chaotic. Equal parts mysterious and captivating, Fever Dream inhabits the liminal space between a sketchbook and a graphic novel. It is a mosaic made from discarded drawings, panels, and sequentials, with a haunting story that stays just out of reach.

Dark, atmospheric, and intended for mature readers, Fever Dream speaks to the readers who resonate or run on vibes and are looking for the next evocative project to bring their emotions to the surface.

In a collection of rewards only a book titled Fever Dream could bring into being, readers will find:

  • FEVER DREAM Softcover Edition – Signed, not a limited edition.
  • FEVER DREAM Hardcover Edition – Signed and exclusive to Kickstarter.
  • FEVER DREAM HC + Letterpress Bookplate Print – Signed and exclusive to Kickstarter with limited edition 5×7” signed and numbered bookplate out of 250.
  • FEVER DREAM Sketched Hardcover – Signed and exclusive to Kickstarter, with a hand-drawn sketch by Becky Cloonan.
  • FEVER DREAM HC, Stickers + Miniprint Set –  Signed and exclusive to Kickstarter, with a 5 sticker set, and a 5 miniprint postcard set in an exclusive envelope sealed with an artisanal sticker.    
  • FEVER DREAM Sketched Hardcover + Letterpress Bookplate Print – Signed, exclusive, with a hand-drawn sketch by Becky Cloonan. It will also include a limited edition 5×7” signed and numbered bookplate out of 250.
  • FEVER DREAM Collector’s Bundle – Includes a sketched hardcover, limited edition 5×7” letterpress bookplate print, sticker set, miniprint postcard set, A King’s Story minicomic, SWORDS sketchbook, By Chance or Providence trade paperback, and a Becky Cloonan original artwork.
  • Cover Quality 11×17 Commission – Includes a sketched hardcover, with buyer’s choice of a cover quality, and original art by Becky Cloonan.

Uncivilized Books announces a New Comics Anthology, DREGS!

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DREGS!

Uncivilized Books has announced DREGS!, a new quarterly international indie sci-fi and fantasy magazine.

DREGS! features 100 pages of independent and international Science-Fiction and Fantasy comics, inspired by great comics magazines like Garo and Métal Hurlant. Inside, readers will find short comics and ongoing comic series.

Featuring in Issue #1 and #2: Matias Bergara, Michael DeForge, Richie Pope, James Romberger, Delfina Perez Adan, Tom Neely, Keenan Marshall Keller, Glowdark, Suzanne Jana, Jean-Marc Ah-Sen, Tom Kaczynski, Maxime Gérin, Al Gofa, Ronald Wimberly, Gyimah Gariba, Emmanuel Lantam, Tim Peacock, Ylang Lebot, Kevin Catalan, and Jake Zawlacki.

Every issue will also have a special guest artist who will be doing the cover and an in-depth interview. For DREGS! #1, the special guest is Matias Bergara, where he talks about his work and his approach to making comics.

And that’s not all. There will also be other interviews, articles, process pieces, and lots of other extra content throughout the magazine.

DREGS! launches September 25th, and the the crowdfunding pre-sale will run for one month. The Kickstarter will help Uncivilized Books get the magazine printed, pay the artists, and get DREGS! into comic shops.

DC Deck-Building Game: Green Lantern Corps is up now on Kickstarter!

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Cryptozoic Entertainment has launched a Kickstarter crowdfunding campaign for DC Deck-Building Game: Green Lantern Corps. The games is a standalone entry in the DC Deck-Building Game series that takes players from earth to Oa and the farthest reaches of space featuring heroes, villains, and the legendary power rings.

The Kickstarter Edition features an original cover by artist Ryan Benjamin and stretch goals that will unlock throughout the campaign and be unavailable in the retail version.

There’s also two Crisis Expansion Packs, Rebirth One-Shot Pack 4, and an all-new Crossover Pack as part of the campaign.

Backers can also upgrade their collection with the Green Lantern Travel Box, individual playmats, a premium oversized playmat, 2DZ acrylic standees, and a Lantern Corps Light-Up Power Ring Collection. There’s also a chance to get some of the other recent releases for the deck-building game.

The main game features:

  • 52 Starter Deck Cards
  • 20 Hard-Light Construct Cards
  • 16 Weakness Cards
  • 105 Main Deck Cards
  • 16 Transformed Cards
  • 13 Nemesis Cards
  • 1 Randomizer Card
  • 8 Oversized Character Cards
  • 4 Power Ring Tokens
  • 1 Rulebook
  • 2 Multiverse Dividers

The games is for 2-4 players with games lasting 60 to 90 minutes.

Snap Ships Tactics Goes Big with Capital Ships

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Snap Ships Tactics: Capital Ships Box

Snap Ships Tactics returns to Kickstarter with its biggest expansion yet: the Capital Ships Box, a set of construction parts and rules that lets players stretch their fleets to truly massive, multi-stand proportions. This one is for the builders.

Unlike a standard expansion, the Capital Ships Box isn’t a single ship with a fixed set of instructions. Instead, it’s a toolkit complete with new armoured plates, angled connectors, cards, and rules that let builders take the parts from their existing ships and scale them up into three-, four-, and five-stand behemoths with new mechanics and unique super-weapons. The Kickstarter campaign will provide tips and inspiration on how to build custom dreadnoughts.

The box is fully compatible with the rest of the Snap Ships Tactics line. Lead designer Josh Derksen built a three-stand battlecruiser (pictured above) from just a single Gladius kit, a single Trident kit, and one Capital Ships Box. These megaships will make incredible raid bosses for a squadron of fighters or a two-stand battleship to go up against.

Capital Ships use the new stand bridge connector included with all battleships, which can link stand bases in eight different directions. That means capital ships aren’t locked to one silhouette: builders can create long battle-lines, T-shapes, V-shaped flying wings, or even fully operational space stations.

The Capital Ships Box joins the previously announced battleship expansions — Trident, Gladius, Scorpion, and Hammerjaw — and a full reprint of the range, all part of a campaign that more than doubles the size of the award-winning tactical miniatures game and offers a variety of content for veterans of Snap Ships Tactics and new players alike.

What’s in the box

Each Capital Ships Box contains four copies of a full parts set, so players can scale up across their whole fleet:

  • 56 armoured plates (28 per faction) in seven new sizes, for stretching and shaping hulls and nacelles
  • 32 wedges — new double-sided 30-degree connectors for angled, less boxy builds
  • 16 standard cubes for infrastructure
  • 16 orange pegs
  • 2 punchboards of new terrain and tokens, including crew
  • An additional Stand Bridge
  • A full set of chassis and part cards for designing capital ship layouts
  • A Capital Ships rulebook

Pledge levels

The campaign includes reward tiers for both brand new players and veterans of Snap Ships Tactics.

  • Recruit – $99 – for new players – 2v2 or co-op: starter box + Scout Ships expansions + stand pack
  • Recruit Deluxe – $169 – 3v3 – adds Elite Ships and Swarm Box expansions plus an extra stand pack to the Recruit pledge
  • Veteran – $119 – for those who already have a starter box – includes all 4 new Battleships, printed Battleships Rulebook, and a Revised Core Rulebook
  • Veteran Deluxe – $199 – adds the Capital Ships box, AI cards, and 2 stand packs to the Veteran pledge
  • Admiral All-In – $349 – everything from the campaign – starter box + all expansions and three stand packs. Players can have 4v4 games, 4 battleships at once, or field a massive Capital Ship and 4 fighters (or any combination)

Exclusive Preview: I Love Apocalyptic Zombie Misfits from Horror Superstars Doug Wagner and Daniel Hillyard

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Whenever writer Doug Wagner and artist Daniel Hillyard team up, fans can look forward to macabre, madcap, fiercely independent comics where serial killers, cultists, and fashion designers run amok. Since their acclaimed 2017 series Plastic, the two creators have established an acclaimed line of offbeat horror books, selling over 400,000 copies of their killer comics worldwide! Now they are re-uniting to kick off Clover Press’ The Fourth Leaf, a new line of creator-owned comics and graphic novels with their brand-new graphic novel, I Love Apocalyptic Zombie Misfits! The hilarious and horrifying supernatural thriller will be available as a deluxe hardcover. Fans can support the project on Kickstarter now. 

From the creative team behind Image Comic’s bestselling Plastic, Plush, Vinyl, I Was a Fashion School Serial Killer, and Narco comes a brand new graphic novel that blends the dark comedy and horror they’re known for with a wild supernatural twist, all delivered with their signature irreverent humor. I Love Apocalyptic Zombie Misfits begins when a nerdy pacifist finds himself resurrected in a vat of holy motor oil and trapped inside the hulking body of a supernatural slasher and forced to protect a psychic kid from the forces of Heaven, Hell, and everything in between. It’s a lot to process, but at least he’s got a Halloween mask and a squad of homicidal chickens! 

The Kickstarter campaign for I Love Apocalyptic Zombie Misfits will also feature an exclusive Dust Jacket Edition with art from comics legend Chris Bachalo, a Deluxe Slipcase Edition of the book, exclusive art prints, and even a Murder Chickens Card Game! Fans can support I Love Apocalyptic Zombie Misfits on Kickstarter now. 

Check out this exclusive preview and support I Love Apocalyptic Zombie Misfits on Kickstarter now!

I Love Apocalyptic Zombie Misfits

Top Cow Celebrates 20 Years of Seth Green’s Freshmen with a Definitive Kickstarter Edition

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Seth Green is returning to comics. Top Cow Productions has announced the Freshmen 20th Anniversary Kickstarter, celebrating two decades of the cult-favorite superhero comedy Green created with writer Hugh Sterbakov. Launching August 18, 2026, the campaign offers longtime fans and new readers the opportunity to experience the complete Freshmen saga in a definitive anniversary collection. The campaign will also debut an all-new 32-page Freshmen: 20th Anniversary Reunion Special, available as a standalone comic book and included in the hardcover edition.

Originally published in 2006, Freshmen follows a group of socially awkward college students who survive a strange laboratory accident and emerge with superpowers inspired by whatever they were thinking about at the moment of the explosion. Equal parts superhero adventure, college comedy, and coming-of-age story, Freshmen explores what happens when ordinary young people are handed extraordinary abilities without the experience, maturity, or confidence to handle them.

Twenty years after its original debut, Freshmen returns at a time when audiences have embraced more grounded and character-driven superhero stories. The series combined humor, friendship, insecurity, and genuine emotional stakes with unconventional powers and large-scale comic-book action, offering an irreverent alternative to traditional capes-and-tights storytelling.

Headlining the campaign is the all-new Freshmen: 20th Anniversary Reunion Special, an original 32-page comic written by series creators Seth Green and Hugh Sterbakov with artwork by original series artist Leonard Kirk. Set during the classmates’ twentieth reunion, the story reunites the original cast as they reflect on adulthood, friendship, old romances, and one hilariously disastrous mission they never quite managed to forget.

Top Cow and Rocketship Entertainment will manage and fulfill the Kickstarter campaign, presenting the series in a premium anniversary edition featuring exclusive formats, collectible rewards, stretch goals, special add-ons, behind-the-scenes material, and additional surprises created specifically for backers.

The anniversary collection features the complete original Freshmen series by Seth Green and Hugh Sterbakov, with artwork by Leonard Kirk and Will Conrad. The campaign also introduces the all-new Freshmen: 20th Anniversary Reunion Special, written by Green and Sterbakov, featuring artwork by Leonard Kirk, and brand new covers illustrated by Leonard Kirk and Rodolfo Migliari. The hardcover edition also includes behind-the-scenes material, a complete cover gallery, and additional anniversary bonus features.

Check out Freshmen #1 below!

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