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: Kismet
What it’s about: A new 3-issue story arc of the Arcane Cocktail Enthusiast, taking readers into the past to explore the origins of Lark’s father, the magical chef Shepp Leraar. Years before Lark discovered his grimoire, Shepp and his partner D the Minotaur were at the forefront of the early ’90s culinary explosion in Las Vegas! But when the eldritch powers who secretly run the city want Schepp to sell out his diners with mystical bad luck, it’ll be a battle royale to protect the secrets of KISMET! It’s The Bear meets The Sopranos in an urban fantasy showdown that will leave you starved for more!
Click here to visit the Kickstarter campaign.
Project #2: The Fog Within #1-3
What it’s about: The Fog Within is a dystopian sci-fi comic book which follows what seems to be an average joe protagonist, Hunter, into this unfamiliar new world of a future with an unsuspecting and mysterious power.
In the present, the town of Brooks has been rocked by a cataclysmic event, an infection spreads to those surrounding the blast and the ill start to disappear. Not knowing how to stop the spread, the government quarantines the town, leaving a vacuum of power for an evil militia called Schism to take control with their cybernetic soldier hive mind, the swarm. We start our story 26 years later when Hunter is pushed through a time traveling fog.
Click here to visit the Kickstarter campaign.
Project #3: New Punk Signal and Fwishi’Shi
What it’s about: New Punk Signal – two college boys, Mike and Steve, have big dreams to support their friends and their indie music…until the pandemic hits and shuts everything down. Now, they have to figure out how to support the people they love when the world is changing its frequency.
Fwishi’shi – Fuloos is a bird-man who lives alone, in a home in a cliff by the sea. By day, he runs a radio show in the small town of Seabank. One day, he meets a fan of his work and her boyfriend – and everything changes.
These two stories are about community, assistance, and platonic love that saves the day. And with your help, I’d love to get these stories in the hands of more readers!
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.
