Crowdfunding Roundup - January 2025, pt.2
Because more is better, duh... #murica
Going Bi-Weekly! Too Many Great Indies to Promote!
🚨🚨 ENDING IN A WEEK OR LESS!!! CHECK THESE OUT ASAP!!! 🚨🚨
It’s Fun To Kill People #1-2 - A Dark Comedy Comic - Follow the hijinks of a poorly adjusted kid who has a pair of serial killers as parents.
The Naked Spy #1-4 - NSFW, Spy Thriller Comic - Follow the erotic adventures of Mata Hari as she swaps sex for secrets to survive WWI Europe. 32 Pages, Full Color.
Give Em Hell / Wise Guyz #1 Con Exclusives - Get our tour editions of WISE GUYZ #1 & GIVE EM HELL #1, including never-before-available covers by ELIAS CHATZOUDIS & KEITH GARVEY.
We’re back with another installment of my personal selection of indiecomics and adjacent projects to back on Kickstarter, Zoop, or Indiegogo (I rarely, if ever, use Crowdfundr or FundMyComic or BackerKit, apologies).
From here I do my best to explain to you, in my own idiotic way, why I like these campaigns and why you should consider backing them. So, here we go!
Slice of Life: The Cheerleader Gets the Girl!
Cheerleader Lucy has been crushing on Anime-character-come-to-life Yuriko. See her finally gets the girl at the big football game!
From the campaign:
When gritty anime protagonist, Lady Vengeance, is brought to the real world by a super fan, she'll learn there's more to life than darkness and revenge...and she'll find love with the super fan's twin sister - a closeted cheerleader.
Slice of Life is a queer romance that deconstructs the "slice of life" genre, unpacking the importance of "day in the life" narratives to tell a larger story about the meaning of life from the point of view of a formerly-fictional character.
This is the latest in a long line of high-quality, entertaining Slice of Life books from Lifeline Comics (Kat Calamia and Phil Falco). Not only have Kat & Phil continued to put out consistent, good, enjoyable comics but they have helped to repaint the crowdfunding landscape and pave the way for a lot of the rest of us in indiecomics. I’m a huge fan of their works (Like Father Like Daughter, The Haunting, the SoL series, etc.), and you can bet you’ll find me amongst the Backers of this one, too!
Check out Slice of Life: The Cheerleader Gets the Girl now on Kickstarter!
DEADSKINS! A zombie horror comedy western for mature readers
172-page, 10th anniversary hardcover collection that's "Blazing Saddles" meets "The Walking Dead."
From the campaign:
DEADSKINS! was the first graphic novel we ever created, and it was serialized on our website from 2013-2014.
In 2020, we began Kickstarting three volumes of the series, "remastering"it by darkening the lines to improve print quality and bring out the beauty of our black, white, and red production.
We are now nearly sold out of the entire print run, so if you missed those campaigns, or just love hardcover collections, we're collecting the whole series in one big pop!
I’m a Clay Adams fan. Don’t tell him—have you seen the size of that guy’s head? No the one on his shoulders!
Whether it’s PBOW! or Blazing Blade of Frankenstein, Dreamquest or DEADSKINS!, Clay produces some of the more entertaining comics out there. And, he’s fun to have on a podcast.
Sisters of Blood
Bound by blood. Tasked with vengeance.
From the campaign:
Sisters of Blood is the latest 48 page graphic novel (250gsm cardstock cover and 150gsm internal pages) from the award-winning Australian Publisher COMICS2MOVIES. Written by Stephen Kok with art by Abray Tart and colours by Wilson Go.
When their father is brutally murdered Avia and Evelyn have to live on the streets, constantly fighting for survival. They have never forgotten their oath, to seek their father's killer and exact vengeance.
So join Avia, Evelyn and the rest of the SISTERS OF BLOOD creative team on this crazy adventure and help us bring it to life!
The COMICS2MOVIES crew has put out some fantastic comics content over the years (I first started with the 13th Labor series) and this one looks to be right there with those others!
This book has a great story set-up (revenge, high seas, sisters fighting to survive) and the art by Abray Tart is GORGEOUS!!!
Go check out Sisters of Blood on Kickstarter today!!
HEIRS OF ISILDUR: The Perilous Prospects 1-4 (of 5)|Make 100
Apocalyptic Sci-Fi Set in a steampunk world. With SHADOW'S HAVEN on the brink of annihilation, can anyone devise a plan to save it?
From the campaign:
HEIRS OF ISILDUR: Where STEAMPUNK, COMICS, and METAL COLLIDE, is BACK with the PENULTIMATE installment, BOOK FOUR of FIVE, in THE PERILOUS PROSPECTS story arc. The purpose of this campaign is to fund production of the perfect bound issue #4 (44 pages), as well as provide some fun support merch, wearables, and limited-edition collectibles to go along with it.
As always, we intend on having A FEW FUN SURPRISES along the way as well!
Matt & Steph are some of the dopest humans alive and they’ve been merging music and comics in a super-cool mash-up for years. They once offered a vinyl as a Kickstarter reward tier. So cool!
Check out Heirs of Isildur RIGHT NOW and see what they have for YOU!
Cheeky Comics Annual 2025 - Three NSFW Stories
From the team that brought you NIPPY. An exotic dancer has a wild night, an exhibitionist couple explores, & a vampire meets her match.
From the campaign:
CHEEKY COMICS 2025 ANNUAL is a 32-page NSFW one-shot comic for mature readers featuring three sexy stories from the minds of Pat Shand, Richard Fairgray, & the team that brought you Private Dance and Nippy.
Cheeky Comics was created with the intent to deliver character-driven, art-focused comics to readers and art fanatics. We begin every year with a special comic featuring exclusive stories from our various titles.
Now, we are back with our 2025 annual to kick off our SPICIEST year yet.
CHEEKY COMICS 2025 ANNUAL includes full-color stories that spotlight two of our current titles while introducing a brand new series as well. These are all original stories that are only included in this issue! This issue includes...
PRIVATE DANCE is a spicy story about the overlap of fantasy and reality at a New York strip club. Sabby is a dancer stumbling through life. Her most recent problem? Her car is busted up and the club is dead. Sabby starts her shift with aspirations to make enough money to pay fix her car, but what sort of insanity will she have to deal with to make her goal?
COUNTLESS LITTLE DEATHS is a gothic erotica that follows a submissive vampire and the hunter she falls for. In this story, we see the vampire Mabel's past as she meets the love of her life... and goes up against one of the most vicious enemies she'll ever meet.
Introducing... KYLIE IN PUBLIC! Exhibitionist couple Kylie and Owen set out on a hilarious and horny cross-country adventure as their drive for public... fun puts them in the crosshairs of a mysterious blackmailer. This series begins here with a steamy short, and then we will continue it with an exciting miniseries!
I don’t know what to say about Pat Shand and Cheeky Comics that hasn’t already been said — I’m a HUGE fan of what Pat & co. are doing in terms of both great comics production as well as in their business model. It’s nothing short of incredible, really.
I know many folks think “NSFW” just means “titty book” but Pat has always created great comics with a character-centric story first and foremost. The sex is like the trench coats on detectives in noir books: it’s just dressing, a style. Now, the plus side is, if you just wanna look at tiddies and booties then you will be fulfilled here, too. If you want a mature, character-driven book with great art and a strong story, then you’ll also be fulfilled. It’s no wonder “Six Figs” Shand has been so successful.
Fucking genius.
BACK the Cheeky Comics Annual Here!
Of course, there’s also my current campaign LIVE and FUNDED on Kickstarter right now!
American Yakuza - NSFW Murder Mystery in Japan (Acts 1-3)
Join us on a violent, sexy trip to Japan to solve a murder. The action intensifies and the mystery multiplies as we dive deeper...
From the campaign:
Xavier Watanabe wants to find his friend's murderer. Masashi wants a piece of the American Dream. Kyomi wants justice for her cousin and resolution. Will any of them get what they want??
Now on the run in a race against time, and for their lives, the trio dive deeper into the Japanese underworld. Sex, drugs, murder, and more...!
What more could you want??
I’ve loved delivering every issue of this series so far, and we’re not stopping! After Act III we have TWO MORE issues to bring you and then we have a whole set of adjacent titles coming soon — a manga prequel, a prose prequel, and a possible sequel!
Check out American Yakuza 1-3 and back it here!
And we have our first Blind Squirrel Comics title set for prelaunch on Kickstarter! Check it out:
Rook: Return To Sender
A series launch about a framed & disgraced cop who lost it all but refuses to give up his fight for justice--for himself & his family.
From the campaign:
Jon Marks has been disgraced, his badge taken, and his name dragged through the mud, and now there’s a warrant for his arrest. With nothing left to lose, he’s out to rebalance the scales and restore justice—and he has nothing left to lose…
Learn more about & follow along for Rook: Return to Sender on Kickstarter today!
Well, that’s it for this edition! See you again in two weeks!
It’s true. My head is ginormous. (PS - Thanks for the shout out! Some good company to be in.)