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: On Mars
What it’s about: Who is really in control? And can anyone truly claim a planet on the verge of forced evolution?
Brilliantly visualized by artist Grun, this explosive sci-fi prison drama by writer Sylvain Runberg (Warship Jolly Roger, The Millennium Saga) is available in three premium formats from Magnetic Press including a trade paperback, a campaign-exclusive hardcover, and a limited die-cut slipcase set complete with a gorgeously illustrated exclusive art book.
n 2132, Life on Earth has reached the limits of sustainability. Colonizing Mars has become our only option, and the construction of such a significant enterprise has required massive resources and manpower. The most cost-efficient solution to this requirement is conscripted labor provided by convicted felons – early access to humanity’s future homeworld, but in exchange for the back-breaking and perilous work of constructing the damn thing.
Officer Jasmine Stenford is sent to Mars and sentenced to conscripted labor for a wrongful death committed on her watch. With little defense against the corruption on Earth, she has no idea what sort of nightmare awaits her on the red planet…
Click here to visit the Kickstarter campaign.
Project #2: Starweed: The Complete Series
What it’s about: Starweed: The Complete Series includes the final installment of the three-issue zany sci-fi noir adventure, STARWEED #3: THE END IS HIGH, from co-creators Eisner nominated and Eagle Award-winning writer Lex Wilson (Pinocchio is Punching You, Life is Strange: Before the Storm) and acclaimed comics artist Tony Gregori (The Worst Dudes, Rick & Morty)!
DNA acquisitions agent (or “graverobber”) Digs steals famous corpses for druglord Hooper, who relies on her for the raw material he “soaks and smokes” into vapeable Starweed. Digs would prefer to not rely on anybody, and justly feels that her adventures would be less chaotic if she didn’t have to clean up the mistakes of her intern Taj every mission.
But when Hooper scapegoats Digs to the Feds and Taj gets caught in the crossfire, she has oodles of time in spacejail to reflect on what’s important in life. Things like killing Hooper in the face. Or in the gut. Or maybe getting a cat.
Will Digs escape her orbital prison even if she has to take the “long way” around the sun? Will a rival drug lord exact revenge on her before she can exact revenge on Hooper? Will she figure out how Hooper’s Starweed supply is doing just fine without her? And isn’t a herd of dinosaurs kind of like a cat?
Click here to visit the Kickstarter campaign.
Project #3: Critical Entertainment’s Signature Series
What it’s about: Critical Entertainment is a Los Angeles-based publishing company. Your support will help fund our ongoing projects – The First Americans, Minion, and Planetary Expansion, and you will be able to obtain early copies of these exciting titles. Get in on the ground floor of our art house-styled comic book company!
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.
