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: The Canary That Named the Stars
What it’s about: The Canary That Named the Stars is a 78-page graphic novel set in a fallen fantasy world with no art or stories. When a woman named Chel is framed for the death of her son, she must discover her extraordinary connection to the stars and the magical tales they show her. What she finds might just save her and change the world in the process.
Alongside the graphic novel is an album of original music by progressive rock band Antinode which offers further exploration into the themes and emotions of the story.
Click here to visit the Kickstarter campaign.
Project #2: OneNation: Stronghold
What it’s about: A death in the family takes superhero Damian Strong (a.k.a. Stronghold( back to his roots and the ghosts of his past…
OneNation: Stronghold #1-3 was co-created by Glyph Award-winning writers Jason Reeves (Pax Samson, Spidey and his Amazing Friends: Sounds Like Trouble) and YALSA and ITM Book Award-winner Greg Anderson Elysée (Is’nana the Were-Spider, Dreamer)! With art by Antonello Cosentino (Over The Ropes), OneNation: Stronghold is the revolutionary origin story about growing up in rural Louisiana and coming to terms with sexuality and a family history of racism.
In the aftermath of their crucial intervention during the LA Riots, the Keramats of the Tenth Foundation are thrust into the spotlight as the world’s first superheroes. But they’re not here to protect the status quo, they’re here to tip the scale of justice for the culture.
Click here to visit the Kickstarter campaign.
Project #3: Ambitious Failures
What it’s about: Ambitious Failure is Always More Interesting Than Mediocre Success.
“That’s my take on it, anyway,” notes writer/artist Richard Fairgray. “This book is a mix of memoir and comic book essay about what we put ourselves through to make art. This is a story about pushing things until you feel them start to break, and hope the light through the cracks is magical and not destructive.”
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.
