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Preview: Perfect Crime Party

Perfect Crime Party

EDITOR: Kel McDonald
WRITERS: Various
ARTISTS: Various

PERFECT CRIME PARTY’s contributors had to meet a novel challenge — tell a story centered on crime without grisly murders, brutality, or anguish, but keep it fast paced and fascinating. What we got is a treasury of delightful misbehaviors spanning thousands of years and almost every genre, including renegade planters, card battler bullies, a high stakes rescue in Ancient Greece, literal cat burglars, outer space heists, vampire thieves, and a very relatable dispute over cheese, and those are just a few. It’s brimming with anarchic spirit and rebellious joy, embodying the Iron Circus Comics ethos of “strange and amazing” on every page.

Perfect Crime Party

Exclusive Preview: Perfect Crime Party is 25 tales from over 40 creators

Perfect Crime Party

Spike Trotman’s Iron Circus Comics has launched a BackerKit campaign to publish Perfect Crime Party, a full color 300+ page anthology containing 25 light-heart tales of criminal activity from over 40 incredible creators as well as a cover by Jeff Smith.

From club-style murder mysteries to anxious teens hijinx to acts of protest, Perfect Crime Party asks the immortal questions: What’s the perfect crime? And what do you think you could get away with?

The campaign will feature multiple tiers for backers, including a digital version of the book, a print version of the book featuring additional art, and a bundle featuring all of Iron Circus’s previous general anthologies, including Sleep of Reason, New World, Timrous Beastie, FTY Ya’ll, Failure to Launch, and the Eisner-award-winning You Died!

The campaign ends on September 27 at 11pm EDT.

Check out an exclusive preview from three of the stories below followed by a complete list of what’s inside the anthology!

Trevor n Derrick Le Debacle de Fromage by Matylda McCormack-Sharp –  A mouse is determined to get its favorite cheese all to itself. 

Racked by Chuck Harp, Luis Santamarina, and Rob Jones – When your crimes need art supplies, the answer is more crime

Smugglers Abroad by Michelle Gruppetta and Fleur Sciortino – A family tries to get the best chocolate over the border.

PERFECT CRIME PARTY has quite the wanted list in its line up:

  • Bluedolph the Dead Nose Reindeer by Tayson Martindale – Someone has murdered one of Santa’s Reindeer and there is only one detective who can find out which perp belongs on the naughty list!
  • By The Horns by Malcolm Derikx & Brenna Baines – Teens in ancient Greece plan to save their favorite bull for a sacrificial alter.
  • Darling Doesn’t Know by John Konrad – Two celebrities think murder is an easier solution to their problems than divorce.
  • Grand Theft Octo by Kate Ashwin & Claude TC – This set of thieves is gonna rob the most expensive casino in the galaxy!
  • Joke Theft by Henry Barajas & Kit Mills – A joke thief makes the perfect set.
  • Play It Again by Tango, Amy Chase, Xenon Honchar, & Noah Stephens – A vampire wants to recover memorabilia of his old band for a music collection.
  • Polyphonic Funk: My Outlaw Melody by David Brothers & Alissa Sallah – A delinquent plans a car heist with the help of her dead father’s ghost.
  • Prym and Burn by Mariah McCourt & Jules Rivera – Without easy access to divorce, women in Victorian London need to find other ways to free themselves from abusive husbands.
  • Psikotika Will Strike At Midnight by Illuminated – A detective tries their best to stop a grand theft they were warned was coming.
  • Racked by Chuck Harp, Luis Santamarina, & Rob Jones – When your crimes need art supplies, the answer is more crime. 
  • Reap What You Sow by Ale Green & Fanny Rodriguez – Gorilla gardening is the best solution to beautify the neighborhood and help native plants.
  • Sideswiped by Chris Sebela & Kendall Goode – A sap finds out his first date was a set up.
  • Sincerely A Lady by Molly Muldoon & Caitlin Like – A new wardrobe reveals a history of sneaking, spying, and gossip.
  • Smugglers Abroad by Michelle Gruppetta & Fleur Sciortino – A family tries to get the best chocolate over the border.
  • Spirit Duplicator by Rodrigo Vargas & Coni Yovaniniz – Fraud and theft are the only ways to stop this card-playing bully.
  • The Cloud Thief by Erin Roseberry – A witch needs to steal some clouds to make it rain.
  • The Crime Beat by Van Jensen & Neal Obermeyer – An underpaid journalist takes revenge on their boss.
  • The Good Word by Bevan Thomas & Reetta Linjama – A snake oil salesman meets his match in a small town.
  • The Heist by Amy Chu & Anderson Cabral – In a world where paper is rarer than gold, a thief must break into the most heavily guarded building in town: the library.
  • The Ninth Life of Tabitha Tuxedo by James F Wright & Jackie Crofts – Tabitha Tuxedo conducts an elaborate jailbreak for their partner in crime.
  • The Plague of the Living Rest Benches by Nathaniel Wilson – Scientist and unethical experiments have led to the sidewalks of the world being deadly. 
  • The Swinevald Pearl by Ben Coleman & Cat Farris – All the security in the world won’t stop this otter from getting his pearl. 
  • The Twenty-One Foot Rule by Nick Mamatas & Jules Valera –  A fake and deadly duel turns out to be not so fake after all. 
  • Trevor n Derrick Le Debacle de Fromage by Matylda McCormack-Sharp –  A mouse is determined to get its favorite cheese all to itself. 
  • Written Off by Ryan Estrada & Axur Eneas – A movie crew aims to steal the rights back from the corporation that is ruining their movie. 

Exclusive: What’s the perfect crime? And what do you think you could get away with? Find out in Perfect Crime Party

Perfect Crime Party

Spike Trotman’s Iron Circus Comics is launching a BackerKit campaign to publish Perfect Crime Party, a full color 300+ page anthology containing 25 light-heart tales of criminal activity from over 40 incredible creators as well as a cover by Jeff Smith. From club-style murder mysteries to anxious teens hijinx to acts of protest, Perfect Crime Party asks the immortal questions: What’s the perfect crime? And what do you think you could get away with?

The campaign will feature multiple tiers for backers, including a digital version of the book, a print version of the book featuring additional art, and a bundle featuring all of Iron Circus’s previous general anthologies, including Sleep of Reason, New World, Timrous Beastie, FTY Ya’ll, Failure to Launch, and the Eisner-award-winning You Died!

The anthology features Smugglers Abroad by Michelle Gruppetta and Fleur Sciortino. In it, a family tries to get the best chocolate over the border. 

‘Smugglers Abroad’ is a zany, heart-warming short comic that showcases the lengths a husband will go, to be able to provide his wife with her favourite treats. This short comic is based in  Malta, during the 1980s, a turbulent time when the island was facing harsh restrictions on food importation to boost local products. The government’s strict import laws, which forbade everything from chocolate to toothpaste to pasta, drove people to “acquire” higher quality products through other means; mainly by smuggling them into Malta via Sicily. Those who travelled were inevitably tasked by their friends and family to return with the coveted loot, and most prized among them was definitely chocolate. While this may seem silly to us now, it definitely turned a lot of Maltese people to a ‘life of crime.’

– Michelle Gruppetta

In Racked by Chuck Harp, Luis Santamarina, and Rob Jones, when your crimes need art supplies, the answer is more crime.

Ultimately, ‘Racked’ is a story about determination. A cross-generational struggle to follow our ambitions in the face of fear. This isn’t a crime showcasing evil, but presenting the desperate. Sure, this is a tale of thieving kids painting trains, but it also speaks to the pursuit that starves artists and baffles families.”

– Chuck Harp

As an artist, I believe that “Racked” offers me the opportunities to embark on an immersive urban adventure and push beyond my usual comfort zone, which typically lies within the realm of fantasy.”

– Luis Santamarina

Racked gave me the chance to work on a more fun, grounded and down to Earth comic than I sometimes get to, and it’s a fun story of working together.

– Rob Jones

‘Le Debacle de Fromage’ is by Matylda McCormack-Sharp:

My story features two characters I have been drawing since I was 11; unlikely friends, Trevor (the elephant) and Derrick (the mouse). In ‘Le Debacle de Fromage!’ we see the pair navigate the highs and lows of living with roommates, and what happens when the most heinous crime is committed… cheese theft…

Perfect Crime Party launches soon, so don’t miss out by signing up now.