The undead/creepy/bizarre toy craze has been going on for over a decade, and now that toys like Ugly Dolls, The Living Dead Dolls, and Mattel’s Monster High dolls are going strong, creators are looking for the next big thing. “My Little Pony” storybook illustrator Gayle Middleton, who in 2005 redesigned Hasbro’s Littlest Pet Shop toy line, thinks she may have found it, and is Kickstarter to launch the new line.
Category Archives: Kickstarter
KICKSTARTER: Dimensions Pen & Paper RPS launches
There are hundreds of role playing systems launching every day on Kickstarter, but what makes the Dimensions Kickstarter campaign different is it being run/launched by former Major Spoilers intern/writer Shane Pelzel and Landry Fehrenbacher.
VARIANT: Elizabeth Torque provide Mercy Sparx #1 Kickstarter variant cover
Devil’s Due Entertainment is doing a Kickstarter campaign to bring back the Mercy Sparx series. The campaign is halfway to its goal with only 10 days left, and to incentivise the drive, Devil’s Due tapped Elizabeth Torque to whip up a variant cover for backers and retailers, but we’ve got a full look, after the jump.
KICKSTARTER: Runners campaign launches
Press Release
The second volume of the highly acclaimed sci-fi comic Runners is now a graphic novel campaign on Kickstarter.com. Originally posting the action comedy about alien smugglers online as a free webcomic at www.runnersuniverse.com, creator Sean Wang now hopes to raise funding to print the new story, Runners: The Big Snow Job, as a full color graphic novel.
KICKSTARTER: Jet Girl tries to fly solo
Press Release
From the unhinged, yet lucid mind of Justin lee Fox and the cunning, contemporary art style of Jacob Crippen comes the action adventure Graphic Novel, “JET GIRL”!
KICKSTARTER: Hex
Press Release
From the mind of Keu Cha (Witchblade, Rising Stars) comes a fantasy unheard off. Join Keu Cha this February as he uncovers a once great land, now steeped in darkness and decay.
KICKSTARTER: Cowboys & Engines to kick of steampunk western film genre
Press Release
James Deen, star of Bret Easton Ellis and Paul Schrader’s upcoming film, “The Canyons,” is onto another project. To make it happen, he is taking to popular fundraising platform KickStarter.com. Deen is producing “Cowboys & Engines,” a short film by writer / director Bryn Pryor, and he is taking The future festival piece is an exciting steampunk western starring Jeff Cannata (“The Totally Rad Show”) and Walter Koenig (“Star Trek,” “Babylon 5″).
KICKSTARTER: Bad Karma Volume One
Press Release
Acclaimed comic creators Alex Grecian, Jeremy Haun, B. Clay Moore and Seth Peck have launched a Kickstarter crowdfunding campaign to finance a new hardcover collection called BAD KARMA VOLUME ONE.
KICKSTARTER: Thrilling Adventure Hour launches campaign for graphic novel
Press Release
Creators Ben Acker and Ben Blacker have teamed up with Quixotic Transmedia to produce a Kickstarter campaign for The THRILLING ADVENTURE HOUR, the popular stage show and Nerdist Industries podcast. Running from October 8, 2012 to November 7, 2012, the 30-day campaign aspires to usher the hit show into multiple forms of media including a graphic novel, motion comic, web series, and concert film.
KICKSTARTER: The Goon Animated Movie seeks fan funding
For years we’ve seen the Goon animated movie trailer floating around the Intardwebz with the hopes that Eric Powell’s characters would finally get H’wood money to make the movie a reality. Well, H’wood isn’t going to fork over the funds, so Blur Studio, Powell, David Fincher, and Dark Horse Comics are headed to Kickstarter to get the project off the ground.
NYCC’12: Kickstarter to appear at convention
We’ve featured Kickstarter projects again and again (and again) on this site, and there is a reason for that – there are many great small and indie projects that are trying to get off the ground and the site is a great central location to organize a campaign. Kickstarter will appear at the upcoming New York Comic-Con to spread the message about the company, and tell creators how it can help them.
KICKSTARTER: Original Sins: The Secrets of the Femme Fatale
Press Release
Best known for writing and creating the generation-defining romance films BEFORE SUNRISE and BEFORE SUNSET, Oscar nominated screenwriter Kim Krizan is “kicking” Hollywood to the curb and taking her career to the crowd — crowdfunding, that is — with her new Kickstarter project: a tongue-in-cheek history of dangerous women entitled Original Sins: Trade Secrets of the Femme Fatale.