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Alex de Campi’s Valentine comes to Image Comics

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In September, Image Comics will bring the first volume of Valentine, Alex de Campi‘s digital comic, to print as a 352-page trade paperback.

The year is 1812, and Valentine is one of the few soldiers left of Napoleon’s once-mighty army felled by the Russian winter. Given a mysterious package by a dying general with orders to see it safely back to France, Valentine finds himself pursued through the snow by blood-eyed monsters who intent on stopping him.

In an epic tale of war, love, and unexpected journeys, an unlikely hero discovers that fairy tales are true. Humans share the earth with other beings, trapped here while the world is drained of the magic that sustains them. They want only one thing: to return home. And their only way back is through Valentine.

Valentine was originally distributed digitally through comiXology, RobotComics, and Amazon’s Kindle. With more than 350,000 downloads worldwide, the series is a pioneering work in the ever-growing digital comics market.

Collecting the first ten chapters of the work, with full-color art by Christine Larsen and Tim Durning, a 42-page exclusive bonus story with art by Cassandra James, and a painted cover by Steven Belledin, Valentine, Vol. 1: The Ice Death (JUL120391) will be in stores on September 5 and is available for order now.

Kickstarter Spotlight – The End Is Totally Nigh – Issue #1

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Kara Barrett is a very enthusiastic comic book creator who has turned to Kickstarter to promote her comic The End is Totally Nigh.  I appreciate an indie artist doing some pounding of the virtual street so I absolutely wanted to spotlight this.  Below you can find out about the project and Kara has promised a guest blog post about her experience with Kickstarter.

The End Is Totally Nigh – Offering Death By Comic Book

How would you like to get killed by a demon in an illustrated cameo of a comic book? Well, that’s one of the reward incentives for the Kickstarter campaign, The End Is Totally Nigh.

Oklahoma comic writer and creator Kara Barrett has launched a Kickstarter campaign for issue #1 of her indie comic series about a supernatural heroine keen on preventing the end of the world.

It’s a girl-meets-apocalypse story filled with demon hordes, quippy banter and more than a few bumpy twists and turns. The End Is Totally Nigh centers around Jane, a girl who has the ability to exorcise demons. But it won’t be long before she discovers that her demon knack is not quite what it seems.

Contributors to the project will receive cool reward incentives based on the amount they pledge. Rewards range from printed copies of the comic book, t-shirts and limited edition artwork to illustrated cameos in the book! The first person to contribute $100 to the project even gets to experience death by comic book, with an illustrated cameo of a poor sap who gets killed by a demon.

The story promises lots of action and some pretty cool artwork by artist Vinnie Rico and cover artist Tim Durning.  To learn more about the project and make your pledge just visit the official Kickstarter page at http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/kbarrett/the-end-is-totally-nigh-issue-1-0 .