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: Muslim Futures
What it’s about: Muslim Futures brings together a multiverse of stories by veteran authors, filmmakers, and artists, imagining futures for Muslims in America and beyond. These are worlds where Muslims have the conditions necessary to thrive, and where stories are defined by authentic values of community care, justice, and love. Told in their own words and on their own terms, Muslim Futures envisions abundance and belonging as lived realities.
At the center of the project is writer, producer, and founder/CEO of The Utopia Studio, Karim Ahmad (Divide, Futurestates), whose work across speculative fiction, film, and social-impact storytelling anchors Muslim Futures in cultural authorship and imagination. The anthology takes shape across both graphic and prose formats, presenting a wide-ranging constellation of stories rooted in faith, care, and collective possibility.
Click here to visit the Kickstarter campaign.
Project #2: Laser Joan and the Rayguns
What it’s about: In 2016, Laser Joan and the Rayguns starred in a 3-part story in Dark Horse Presents: Volume 3, issues 19, 20, and 21. The story is about a rock band who, in their heyday, were also secret agent crime fighters — a mix of G.I. Joe and Jem and the Holograms with a healthy dose of Joan Jett and the Blackhearts and a side of comic book action shenanigans.
Running parallel with vignettes of secret agent rock ‘n roller adventures is the tale of an older Joan, after the band’s broken up under mysterious and dramatic circumstances, being asked to get The Rayguns back together to save the day once again.
Click here to visit the Kickstarter campaign.
Project #3: Morgana Pendragon #1-2
What it’s about: This issue continues the story of Morgana Pendragon, who having lost her magic when she fled England twenty years ago, leads a mercenary team wherever the best paycheck is. All that changes when she receives a message to return—her brother, King Arthur, is dying. The meeting with Arthur is tense, but nothing can really prepare her for the reunion with her openly hostile son, Mordred.
Click here to visit the Kickstarter campaign.
Project #4: Gods Among Men #1-2
What it’s about: Welcome to the world of Gods Among Men, a world that exists parallel to our own. Follow one man’s descent from the world of the legitimate into the underbelly of society, uncovering that these worlds are much closer than most are comfortable with. Since the release of the first issue, it has proven countless times in its accurate portrayal of the dark side of society.
Click here to visit the Kickstarter campaign.
Project #5: Lady Comic Book History
What it’s about: Lady Comic Book History chronicles and contextualizes the creation and evolution of female comic book characters.
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.
