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Crowdfunding Corner: Limit Break Comics launches Wish Upon a Star

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Irish comic collective and publisher, Limit Break Comics has launched the Kickstarter campaign for its fourth myth anthology, Wish Upon a Star. The campaign seeks to raise €16,500 in the month of March to publish a comic anthology of far-future adaptations of fairy tales.

Wish Upon a Star is the start of a new trilogy of myth anthologies, with Limit Break writers and editors Paul Carroll and Gary Moloney directing their attention to modern mythology.

The line-up of creators for Wish Upon a Star includes:

Brendan Albetski, Christian Angeles, Akira B., Adam Bagley, David Baillie, Paul Carroll, Peter Clinton, Alice Coleman, Pablo Moreno Collar, Shay Commander, Dave Cook, Colin Craker, Matias De Vincenzo, Sachi Ediriweera, Chandra Free, Matt Garbutt, Alex Garrick-Wright, Oliver Gerlach, Reed Hinckley-Barnes, Megan Huang, Joonatan Itkonen, Seamus Kavanagh, James Killian, John Kissee, Gareth Luby, Andriy Lukin, Marin, Robby Melendez, Dan Membiela, Michiums, Gary Moloney, Alex Moore, Micah Myers, James Nadiger, Carlos Pedro, Mari Rolin, Narjes Ruyan, Andrea Schiavone, Diana Sousa, Noah Stephens, Dan Tappan, and Johanna Taylor.

Overall, Wish Upon a Star received more than 200 pitches from creators around the world. Fewer than 10% were accepted into the book, accompanying stories by the Limit Break core creators: Paul Carroll, Gary Moloney, Gareth Luby, and Seamus Kavanagh.

If funded, the book is due for release in the second half of 2024. Accompanying the anthology on Kickstarter are a range of pins, stickers and prints, including work from Reckless Hero artist Chris Imber, and Irish illustrator Isabella von Metzradt (Helixel).

Enlightened delivers a basic introduction to Prince Siddhartha’s journey

A spirited young prince longing to learn more about the world grows into a man on a quest to find the cause of human suffering in this first-of-its-kind graphic novel retelling of the life of Siddhartha, the founder of Buddhism.

Story: Sachi Ediriweera
Art: Sachi Ediriweera

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It’s Tales From the Pandemic. No Testing Required.

Black Mirror? Twilight Zone? No. This is COVID-19. Inspired by events during the 2020 lockdown, Tales From The Pandemic is a 29-page collection of shorts, a visual mixtape rather, created by comics folks to help cope with the worldwide, life-altering event!

Writer and Comedian Mario Candelaria leads a stellar team of nine up-and-coming artists from the indie comics scene with seven scintillating stories that are Tales From The Pandemic: “Paper House” by Andy Michael, “Lips” by J. Paul Schiek, “Flight 616” by Randy Haldeman, “Happy Hour” by Joe Hunter, “Litterbug”, Dan Buksa, “Stride” by Sachi Ediriweera, “Are You Still Watching?” by Adam Ferris. Cover by Skylar Patridge and letters by Scott Ewen, with a foreword and afterword by MLS Cup winning soccer player, Danny Earls.

Tales From The Pandemic is available for purchase as a downloadable PDF via gumroad — just name your price!

Tales From The Pandemic