By Henry Barajas
Kickstarter has become an avenue for cartoonist to get funding for their projects. Lately more and more working professionals have taken full advantage of this major platform. Here are some projects that are promising and deserve support.
Project: Wild Blue Yonder
Days to Go: 16
Goal: $12,000
Talent/Project Manager(s): Mike Raicht writer; Zach Howard artist; Nelson Daniel colorist
The song and dance: Talk about talent, the creators on this project includes include Zach Howard. Howard has worked for all the major companies and is doing stellar work on the IDW title, The Cape. Zach did provide art for the first four part ‘Cape’ series but only provided the first page of the first issue for the now running prequel ‘Cape: 1969′ The book is written by veteran comic book writer Mike Raicht. Raicht wrote 28 issues run on Exiles in 2001, 21 issues of Wolverine in 1988, Deadpool and many more titles for the other major publishers. The colorist, Nelson Daniel, has worked on numberous IDW projects including The Cape.
The story centers around Cola, a teenaged girl fighter pilot and her family fight to protect The Dawn. The book is set to release $50 gets you the entire five issue series and they are offering 90 limited edition Kickstarter exclusives. The variants are signed, numbered and include a digital download. The creators have offered their expert knowledge as incentives to help get the book funded. If you’re seeking the help and guidance from on a personal project, then you should kick in $150 for a script review with Raicht. If you’re an artist looking for a serious critique there is a $200 Pledge that gets you an hour portfolio review with Howard. Currently this project is sitting at $5,595 and needs another $6,405 to go.
Project: THE CARTOON ART OF MIKE DEODATO, JR. Volume 1
Talent/Project Manager: Mike Deodato, Jr.
Days to Go: 29
Goal: $10,000
The spiel: One of the industry’s top talents for the last decade, First professional American work in 1993; Mike Deodato, Jr. apparently has a cartoon
By Henry Barajas
Kickstarter has become an avenue for cartoonist to get funding for their projects. Lately more and more working professionals have taken full advantage of this major platform. Here are some projects that are promising and deserve support.
Project: Wild Blue Yonder
Days to Go: 16
Goal: $12,000
Talent/Project Manager(s): Mike Raicht writer; Zach Howard artist; Nelson Daniel colorist
The song and dance: Talk about talent, the creators on this project includes include Zach Howard. Howard has worked for all the major companies and is doing stellar work on the IDW title, The Cape. Zach did provide art for the first four part ‘Cape’ series but only provided the first page of the first issue for the now running prequel ‘Cape: 1969′ The book is written by veteran comic book writer Mike Raicht. Raicht wrote 28 issues run on Exiles in 2001, 21 issues of Wolverine in 1988, Deadpool and many more titles for the other major publishers. The colorist, Nelson Daniel, has worked on numberous IDW projects including The Cape.
The story centers around Cola, a teenaged girl fighter pilot and her family fight to protect The Dawn. The book is set to release $50 gets you the entire five issue series and they are offering 90 limited edition Kickstarter exclusives. The variants are signed, numbered and include a digital download. The creators have offered their expert knowledge as incentives to help get the book funded. If you’re seeking the help and guidance from on a personal project, then you should kick in $150 for a script review with Raicht. If you’re an artist looking for a serious critique there is a $200 Pledge that gets you an hour portfolio review with Howard. Currently this project is sitting at $5,595 and needs another $6,405 to go.
Project: THE CARTOON ART OF MIKE DEODATO, JR. Volume 1
Talent/Project Manager: Mike Deodato, Jr.
Days to Go: 29
Goal: $10,000
The spiel: One of the industry’s top talents for the last decade, First professional American work in 1993; Mike Deodato, Jr. apparently has a cartoon
By Steve Morris
An SDCC announcement which mainly seems to have been announced on CBR and not as SDCC, IDW have revealed that their much-teased new Judge Dredd series will be written by Duane Swierczynski! Which, perfect casting surely. Art will be provided by Nelson Daniel, and the first issue is out in November.
What will the series be like? Given Swierczynski’s past novels, and his run on Cable, it’ll be rather gritty. In the CBR interview posted now before anybody had a chance to mention it at the con, he says
I’d like IDW’s Dredd to feel like a transgressive sci-fi black comedy police procedural — like ‘Law & Order,’ if, say, Jerry Orbach were a violent inflexible fascist
Swierczynski and Daniel’s series will be set in the past, looking back at some of the Judge’s earliest perp-shooting jollies, with back-ups for each issue drawn by people like Jim Starlin. It will be violent! And angry. And the helmet doesn’t look like it’s coming off anytime soon. No sign of Rob Schneider yet.
@ The Beat. Ah! My bad!
Always wonders just why Flaming Carrot has been criminally out of publication for so long. It’s well deserving of the over-sized limited edition hardcover treatment much like The Goon Fancy Pants editions. I assume publishers just weren’t offering Bob what he wanted?
Good luck Bob! Hope you sell a million copies!
The only reason a truly talented artist will be ignored in kickstarter is if he can not show his talent among all the other not so talented projects there.
You got to have some marketing skills, talent or no talent.