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: Tell Them of Us
What it’s about: Tell Them of Us is a comic anthology that explores the last recorded voices of human civilization, witnessed through the lens of an alien crew discovering a hastily assembled digital archive of our memories: Our attempt, as a species, at both legacy and warning, created in the face of oblivion.
These collected experiences are tales of triumphs, struggles, hopes, and harsh realities that define the human condition.
In contrast to so many “post-apocalypse” stories where a portion of humanity survives to learn from our mistakes, this book poses an important question: What would we do, and who would we choose to be, if the world was ending and destruction was certain? What is our legacy? How would we wish to be remembered, knowing this was our opportunity to save something of who we were? What do we truly leave behind?
These stories imaginatively answer that question and serve as both bittersweet requiem and clarion call for readers to consider a better future in the here and now.
Click here to visit the Kickstarter campaign.
Project #2: Zero Ghost
What it’s about: Kira Kaine is out for revenge, even if it costs her soul. Literally.
For centuries, the Five Families have operated in the shadows, using hidden magic and sudden violence to dominate the criminal underworld. Kira is heir to the Kaine family, the strongest of them all.
But on her eighteenth birthday, unknown enemies slaughter the Kaine family, intending to use Kira as a sacrifice to attain ultimate power. What they didn’t anticipate was Kira breaking free, leading to her being accidentally bonded to an angel of death named Shrike.
With Shrike, she has the power to enact bloody vengeance on the people who betrayed her family, but every use of his power burns away a part of Kira’s very soul. Can she find the truth and her revenge before Shrike destroys her entirely?
Click here to visit the Kickstarter campaign.
Project #3: The Universal Flaws of Robotics
What it’s about: The smell of iron emanates from blood, and humanity has always tried to purge it. We have fought, we have created, and we have seen ourselves in our creation, a hazy mirror reflecting what we choose to ignore. In an iron face, we see the best and worst of mankind: the search for connection, the kindness, the grace … but also cold detachment, cruelty, and love distorted through metallic shine. For years we have dreamed of the final version of this mirror, the ultimate simulacrum of humanity: We have dreamed of robots.
Universal Flaws of Robotics is a comics anthology collecting 19 stories all about automata. Our amazing team of creators have spun electric dreams of romance, adventure, horror, humor, and more. Dive in, and discover that no two robots are built quite the same.
Click here to visit the Kickstarter campaign.
Project #4: Lawbringer: Season One
What it’s about: Lawbringer: Season One is the six-issue story of Jason Wesley, a 16-year-old who lives with his widowed dad in a family-owned junkyard in the fictional town of Stelly, Louisiana. Jason feels chained to his hometown and his family’s drama that stems from a Hatfield/McCoy-type feud between his father’s family (the Wesleys) and his mother’s family (the Haymakers).
Seeing no way to break free of the black hole that is his hometown, Jason has resorted to stealing car parts and selling them for extra money to purchase an RV to get away from this life. Trouble soon follows when Jason makes a deal with his cousin, Braxton Haymaker, who is associated with a local gang involved in drugs, extortion rackets, and trafficking.
Tragedy strikes. His dad gets shot, and Jason awakens a power that has lied dormant, longing to be discovered. However, before he can figure out what is hell is going on with him, he’s got to figure out how to get his dad a lifesaving surgery despite a gap in the insurance.
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 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.
