Here at Fanbase Press, we strive to provide an outlet for up-and-coming creators to promote and showcase their incredible works. With thousands of creators utilizing crowdfunding platforms like Kickstarter and Indiegogo to make those works a reality, we will highlight these talented creators and their noteworthy campaigns through #CrowfundingFridays! We hope that you will join us in giving these projects a moment of your time (and possibly your support).
Project #1: Battlecats: Complete Oversized Omnibus & Soundtrack
What it’s about: In celebration of its 10th anniversary, independent publisher Mad Cave Studios is thrilled to revisit its very first comic book series — Battlecats, a sweeping fantasy epic created and written by acclaimed author Mark London — in its first-ever Kickstarter crowdfunding campaign.
The BATTLECATS OMNIBUS collects the complete saga of Kelthan and his heroic allies, over 500 pages of swords and sorcery presented for the first time in a glorious Library Edition.
Click here to visit the Kickstarter campaign.
Project #2: The Fleischer Studios Art Exhibition
What it’s about: A GoFundMe campaign to raise the necessary funds for the first-ever art exhibit celebrating the production art of Fleischer Studios.
Click here to visit the GoFundMe campaign.
Project #3: The Astounding Allstar #1-2
What it’s about: Jason Kelly is a 19-year-old whose entire world got turned upside down when he mysteriously survived a science experiment gone wrong. Jason always lived life on easy mode: incredible athlete, extremely popular, and had a rich and loving family. Now, he gets to be the world’s first and only superhero. But with his suite of powers, Jason is going to learn the harsh reality of life: Nothing, and no one, is perfect.
After Allstar’s debut in The Astounding Allstar #1, we’ll see how he’s adjusting to this quickly changing world, and how the world is adjusting to him in issue #2!
Click here to visit the Kickstarter campaign.
Project #4: Elementals: Public Dominion
What it’s about: Elementals: Public Dominion is a huge, over-sized anthology tribute to celebrate 40 years of The Elementals – the edgy, indie ’80s superhero title created by Bill Willingham (Fables) and published by Comico. (Originally appearing as the cover to Amazing Heroes announcing the launch of the series! The owner of the original art has generously allowed us to use this image for the cover!)
Click here to visit the Kickstarter campaign.
Project #5: Ripple Effects: The Deluxe Edition Hardcover
What it’s about: Jordan Hart’s critically acclaimed graphic novel, Ripple Effects, has been nominated for the biggest awards in comics and now, on the eve of its 15th anniversary, GLAAD Media Award-winning publisher Fanbase Press has launched the company’s first-ever Kickstarter campaign to fund an expanded deluxe hardcover edition of the book, featuring all-new contributions from some of the biggest names in comics. Ripple Effects follows the adventures of a superhero whose invincibility is offset by an acute case of type 1 diabetes and a defective pancreas that must be monitored and treated daily. The gripping and inspirational story about living with an invisible illness is inspired by writer Jordan Hart’s own lived experience with thrombophilia, an incurable blood-clotting disease.
Ripple Effects was created, written, and colored by Jordan Hart (The Cabinet, Terminarch, Doppelgänger), illustrated by Bruno Chiroleu (El Borde, Mara and Samu), flatted by Shane Kadlecik, lettered by Oceano Ransford (Eisner Award-nominated Rikki, The Sequels, Haphaven), and features cover art by Justin C. Harder (CLAUS Studios) and a foreword by Matthew Noe (librarian, Harvard Medical School).
Striving to increase awareness and representation for individuals with invisible illnesses and disabilities, Ripple Effects: The Deluxe Edition will feature new forewords by Eisner and Harvey Awards-winning writer Gail Simone (Birds of Prey, Batgirl, Uncanny X-Men) and actor/writer Todd Stashwick (Star Trek: Picard, 12 Monkeys), an afterword by Eisner Award-winning writer John Jennings (Silver Surfer, Kindred: A Graphic Novel Adaptation), study guides by Eisner Award nominee and educator Tim Smyth (Teaching with Comics and Graphic Novels) and comics literacy advocate Creators, Assemble!, and an art gallery which pairs youth artists who have invisible disabilities and illnesses ranging from deafness to Autism Spectrum Disorder with superstar artists including Drew Zucker (Canto), Liana Kangas, Ray-Anthony Height (Midnight Tiger), Don Aguillo (Spawn), and Manuel Martinez (DC, Marvel). The deluxe hardcover also features “Unseen Ripples” essays written by individuals with invisible disabilities and illnesses who relate Ripple Effects‘ events to their own lived experience, ranging in topic from paranoid schizophrenia to diabetes.
Click here to visit the Kickstarter campaign.
If you have a crowdfunding campaign that you would like to have included in Fanbase Press’ #CrowdfundingFridays series, please contact barbra (at) fanbasepress (dot) com for details.
