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: John Carter of Mars: The Audio Series
What it’s about: John Carter, science fiction’s original and greatest hero, returns in a multi-cast audio drama starring Sean Patrick Flanery of Young Indiana Jones and The Boondock Saints in the title role, and co-starring Tim Russ (Star Trek: Voyager), Bruce Boxleitner (Babylon 5, TRON), and Tom Baker (Doctor Who).
The Kickstarter campaign is also offering a role-playing game supplement compatible with both the Fifth Edition of the world’s most popular RPG, OSR (“Old School Revival”), and Pathfinder Second Edition rules, a digital download of the audio drama, a double CD set with Frank Frazetta art, a foldable map of Barsoom, limited-edition novels published in English and native Barsoomian (Martian), and the first-ever plush of John Carter’s loyal companion, Woola™!
Click here to visit the Kickstarter campaign.
Project #2: My Neighborhood Necromancer #2
What it’s about: My Neighbor Necromancer is a dark YA fantasy about a girl named Jessie who stumbles into the wild world of necromancy and learns how the denial and mistreatment of Death can do more harm than good.
Both the living and the dead deserve love, even if they are not what we expect them to be.
This is the second issue of a (possibly) 6-issue series.
Click here to visit the Kickstarter campaign.
Project #3: Faster Than Light: A Sci-Fi Anthology About Family
What it’s about: Faster Than Light, produced by Lesser Known Comics, is a 54-page anthology featuring 20 impressive creators. The theme is family, and how families of origin and found families stay connected in a fast-paced, futuristic world. The campaign has already surpassed its funding goal, and we’re planning to produce a second volume next year.
Click here to visit the Kickstarter campaign.
Project #4: Afro Punks #1
What it’s about: The Afro Punks are a party of black adventurers and mercenaries in a fantasy world filled with monsters, kings, robots, and airships. The team consists of the cocky and arrogant adventurer Auxiliary who was once the greatest soldier in her class until a tragic accident, the summoner MDSA™ who is the REAL Medusa but lost her name to a trademark violation, the gun mage Danny Deadass who has been alive for so long he can’t take anything seriously, the fairy Genevieve who is a world-class healer but consistently gets arrested for starting fights and the guardian robot Think Tank who lost his voicebox that is now replaced with a calculator so it can only speak in mathematical equations.
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 has launched 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), an afterword by Eisner Award-winning writer John Jennings (Silver Surfer, Kindred: A Graphic Novel Adaptation), 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 Drew Zucker (Canto), 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.
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.
