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: War Lion #2
What it’s about: This dystopian martial arts epic tells the tale of an old warrior returning from exile with his daughter to settle the score with the vicious tyrant that destroyed their lives and controls their city with an iron fist.
In the highly anticipated follow up to our first issue, the revolt against the Overseer continues as War Lion and Kiah come face-to-face with a villain so terrifying it can only go by one name–CRISIS! Nothing will be the same at the end of this battle, which will deliver the ultimate gut punch, and leave you yearning for the conclusion to this pulse pounding, action-packed series!
Click here to visit the Kickstarter campaign.
Project #2: Winds of Numa Sera: The Board Game
What it’s about: Winds of Numa Sera is a dark fantasy series from Darkrose Studios that began as a graphic novel and has now been transformed into an immersive board game.
When the twelve-year-old child Empress inherited the throne of Numa Sera, the “One True Kingdom” became immediately vulnerable. While she grows to carry the weight of the world on her shoulders, across her kingdom a stable boy, a Baron’s daughter, and a warrior meet with their own opportunities . . . to escape, rebel, and rule
Click here to visit the Kickstarter campaign.
Project #3: No Future #1
What it’s about: July 7th, 2025. This is when it started. When Time froze and days started to erase themselves from existence. The survivors called it “A-Day” (Amnesia Day). For this little group of people, the future is the past. Now, they’re racing to not just understand how can Time itself could just go backwards but how to fix it!
Thing is, none of these “survivors” wants to look at their own past.
Clive, the adopted ex-punk British citizen turned insurance company man feels he let his life pass him by. He doesn’t want to go back in Time.
Sasha, the middle-class Jewish Black woman finally found peace and a loving husband after a life of turmoil. She doesn’t want to confront the past.
Zeus, the tech genius who illegally extended his stay in the United States and lives insecurely doesn’t want to relieve his past either.
Leslie, the trans woman whose father is a pastor thought she could look forward and finally be at peace. But fate had other plans for her.
No Future is a new groundbreaking comic book series from Fabrice Sapolsky (Intertwined, Lady-Bird, Spider-Man Noir) and Eder Messias (Kraven: Last Hunt, Venom) with colors from Walt Pereyra and Morby.
Click here to visit the Backerkit campaign.
Project #4: 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 will launch 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 a new foreword by Eisner and Harvey Awards-winning writer Gail Simone (Birds of Prey, Batgirl, Uncanny X-Men), 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 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’s prelaunch page.
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.
