Frazz (AMS) brings back one of the more delightful memories of college this time of year: The first wisps of snow that brought out the freshmen from Florida and California decked in every stitch of winter parkas, hats and mittens they had brought to Indiana. At which those of us who had, perhaps, put on […]
A big thanks goes out to Daniel Boris, who sponsored the blog last week. He’s running a Kickstarter campaign to raise money for his children’s book Dozi the Alligator based on his Dozi character in his strip. The story follows how Dozi meets Byron Hoxwinder, the other main character in the comic strip. The 20 […]
This week’s sponsor is the talented Daniel Boris, creator of Hoxwinder Hall. Hoxwinder Hall was voted a top-5 finalist in Washington Post’s “America’s Next Great Cartoonist” contest back in 2010 and is now in syndication through Ink Bottle Syndicate. Daniel is running a Kickstarter campaign to raise money for his children’s book Dozi the Alligator […]
Davina Pardo has launched a Kickstarter campaign to fund a documentary called “Very Semi-Serious” about the people and culture surrounding New Yorker cartoons. From the campaign description: Who are the people behind the signatures? And how do they come up with so many subtle and sophisticated ideas? I started researching the cartoonists (first surprise: there […]
Over on Fleen, Gary Tyrrell looks at the four webcomics (Cyanide & Happiness, Machine of Death, Schlock Mercenary and Dresden Codak) who have raised a combined $1.7 million on Kickstarter.
Another webcomic is raising a mass amount of money through Kickstarter. Homestruck is a webcomic in the format of a text-based adventure game that requires readers to click through each page to advance the story-line. According to Gary Tyrell over at Fleen, he calculates that it took Homestruck creator Andew Hussie about 32 hours to […]
Many comic creators are turning to Kickstarter to fund publishing book collections and other projects. Rich Burlew raised $1.2 million; Jake Parker raised $80,000. Those are some of the major success stories. Seth Godin, author and authority on marketing in the internet era, has written an article worth reading on why some Kickstarter projects fail. […]
Last month I mentioned that Jake Parker had launched a Kickstarter project to raise money to create a hard cover collection of some of his short stories. The estimated amount he’d need was $6,000. With one day left he’s raised over $77,000. If you haven’t checked out his work, I encourage you to do so. […]
Anne Hambrock has started up a Kickstarter Project to help fund her second annual Kenosha Festival of Cartooning. She tells me that a lot of her donors and sponsors have seen funding cuts and are unable to contribute this year. This new fundraiser will start April 19 and run through May 22. The goal is […]
RStevens, creator of Diesel Sweeties, has raised over $20,000 to create a complete ebook collection of his work. The amazing part of this crowd-funded project is that his intent is to give away the ebook for free. The original fundraising goal is $3,000 to compensate RStevens for this time to create the book as well […]
Kickstarter is the rage right now. It’s allowing a lot of people match up their pursuits with willing donors willing to help fund it. Shaenon Garrity, creator of the webcomic Narbonic, recently needed $10,000 to create a printed collection of her work. Using Kickstarter she raised $27,226. She’s written a few things (16 to be […]