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: La Oscuridad y La Luz / The Darkness and The Light
What it’s about: La Oscuridad y La Luz is a Latin fairy tale that unfolds like a dream that transforms into a nightmare. It lives in a dark world somewhere between Pan’s Labyrinth and The Witch.
Inspired by Latin myth and folktales, this story follows a young girl as she breaks free of an over-protective mother. But in the winding forbidden forest, her mother’s dichos are made manifest — transforming into tests little Luz will have to pass, thresholds she’ll have to break through.
Through these trials, Luz discovers her own (supernatural) power and an epic struggle erupts between la oscuridad (the darkness) and la luz (the light).
Click here to visit the Kickstarter campaign.
Project #2: Ode
What it’s about: Ode is a 26-page one-shot comic written by Travis Corwin (The Canary that Named the Stars, Finale) and illustrated by Ignatz-nominated artist Faye Stacey (Find a Seat). It follows a small moss plant, somewhere deep in the forest, that one day becomes sentient. It embarks upon a journey of spiritual awakening, facing perils both within and without, and all the while contending with a mysterious voice that could be friend or foe. Ode is a loving tribute to nature, especially the forests of the Pacific Northwest, as well as a personal story about consciousness, identity, and remembering your roots, even as you grow beyond the world that you know.
Click here to visit the Indiegogo campaign.
Project #3: Area 51 Studios #2
What it’s about: From Ernie Altbacker, writer of animated movies such as Aztec Batman, Batman: Hush, Injustice, and Justice League Dark, along with artist Josh White, comes the real story of what goes on at Area 51.
It turns out that Area 51 really is a secret government base, but not for storing alien corpses and crashed spacecraft. It’s actually a studio where aliens make galactic reality shows. (The alien corpses and crashed ship were actually from a student short. Mistakes were made.)
Our story centers on one alien producer in particular, Zephril Boon. ZB, as friends and frenemies alike call him, lives to rub elbows, claws, tentacles, pseudopods, testenticals (don’t ask) with the same outrageous, weird, hilarious, and exhilarating personalities and situations that we’re familiar with in “our” Hollywood. Only…more so. ZBis fighting for his very producorial life. He’s on the last of a long queue of “very last” chances. This is it! He’ll do anything to save his once-great career from the flaming dumpster fire that it will become if his new show, The Human Race, fails.
If you like behind-the-scenes Hollywood comedy like Seth Rogan’s The Studio or The Larry Sanders Show, mixed with Men in Black, then this comic is for you!
Click here to visit the Kickstarter campaign.
Project #4: Model UN: Part 1
What it’s about: It’s 1996, and high schooler Velma just wants to graduate from her stuffy private school and figure out the rest of her life. But first, there’s one final meeting of the Rook College’s Model United Nations club to get through—with the fate of the planet Earth in her hands!
Wait, what? That’s right: A massive mothership has stationed itself over campus and made “first contact” with Velma’s Model UN, mistaking her and her misfit friends and frenemies for the actual United Nations. Suddenly thrust into the role of chief negotiator, and dealing with a self-obsessed alien leader unwilling to admit that it maybe, possibly, probably made a mistake reaching out to her and her buds, Velma has to juggle final exams, her crush, and the massive weight of billions of lives, all in the space of one crazy weekend.
Click here to visit the Kickstarter campaign.
Project #5: The Comics Courier: Issue 3
What it’s about: The Comics Courier is a tabloid-sized newspaper-format journal of in-depth comics criticism aimed at fans who love a tactile, old school reading experience.
Each issue of the Courier is writer-driven, which means that our writers choose their own topics based on their own comics-related interests, so you’ll find a diversity of types and eras of comics written about in each issue.
The third issue will be packed with great essays, reviews, and interviews from comics critics and journalists Susana Polo, Jeremy Dauber, Sara Century, Claire Napier, Zack Deane, Kate Tanski, Hassan Otsmane-Elhaou, Oliver Sava, Benjamin Clark, Steve Morris, David Harper, and Tiffany Babb.
Click here to visit the Kickstarter campaign.
Project #6: In Our Dreams Awake #3
What it’s about: Jason Byron’s lives are nightmares.
In the sword and sorcery nightmare, the mages won, Jason is a prisoner, and his love’s life hangs in the gulf between what the magi demand and what Jason can give. In the sci-fi nightmare, fish aliens and talking cats are drowning the world. Jason Byron and his love are scheming for a way to escape the planet before they are pulled under the waves.
In Our Dreams Awake is the story of both nightmares spinning out of control. What horrible dream is Jason trying to wake up to?
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.
