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: American Yakuza (Acts 1 and 2)
What it’s about: Our story follows former MMA heavyweight champion Xavier Watanabe in the wake of personal loss. He has to travel to Japan when his training & business partner, Tenshin, is killed. Xavier uncovers a plot of backstabbing and debauchery that he might wish he left well enough alone.
This murder-mystery will unfold throughout 100+ pages of action, intrigue, and entertainment spread across five 20-page acts (or, issues) in this mature audiences original series.
Click here to visit the Kickstarter campaign.
Project #2: Stellarlands #1-2
What it’s about: THE FIGHT IS ON! The cosmos is at war, billions of lives are at stake, and the night sky is ablaze with starship fire.
On a lunar base in a distant star system, space lieutenant Caladin Gies meets M’Kali, a local blue-skin alien. A devastating mistake by Cal brings the two together, but when the opportunity for Cal’s redemption arises, it comes with the price of leaving M’Kali.
Will Cal choose the path to personal redemption, or will he stay by M’Kali’s side?
Click here to visit the Kickstarter campaign.
Project #3: Don’t Tell My Wife I’m a Cult Leader
What it’s about: It’s 1994. The world faces an impending apocalypse known today as the internet. Floyd, a couch-surfer turned rebel, and Mandy, an artist on the verge of fame, ignite a revolutionary romance where Floyd’s unyielding ambition clashes with Mandy’s creative vision for the world.
The story unfolds in a dystopian hellscape, also known as the present day, where an older, battle-hardened Floyd confronts armed state authorities in his ultimate showdown. As he reflects on his uncanny odyssey, Floyd reveals how his underdog saga rocked the dawn of the digital age.
Click here to visit the Kickstarter 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.
