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: Troubled Detective
What it’s about: Troubled Detective is an anthology of mini-comics about Joe Mallard, a private detective. It’s a book about modernity and all the ways that existing in this current timeline can chisel away at you.
Click here to visit the Kickstarter campaign.
Project #2: Klub Zin #5
What it’s about: Klub is an alternative comic and illustration magazine/anthology that has been running for 10 years now. The general idea is to bridge the gap between self-publishing and working with a publishing house. To celebrate the 10th anniversary, this year’s edition of Klub Zin features 20 artists’ comics and illustrations interpreting the theme of “roots” and comes up to over 100 pages.
Click here to visit the Kickstarter campaign.
Project #3: Family and Honour
What it’s about: Phillip, a young baron loyal to King Henry II during his confrontation with his son, Richard “Lionheart” is faced with an impossible dilemma that forces him to choose between the duty to his King and his blood ties.,
Family and Honour is a 35-page one-shot set in 12th century England. It uses the revolt against King Henry II by his children as a backdrop, but it’s its own story, using fictionalised characters to explore themes of loyalty, duty, and… well, family and honour.
Click here to visit the Kickstarter campaign.
Project #4: Shrub: The Collected Edition
What it’s about: GLAAD Media Award-winning and Eisner and Harvey Awards-nominated publisher and media outlet Fanbase Press is proud to announce Shrub, an 8-issue Graphic Medicine series which will be crowdfunded by the publisher on Kickstarter.
In this middle grade adventure, readers will join Shrub who is, well… a shrub… for a cross-country trip to Hollywood! Join Shrub and a grieving brother and sister as they hit the open road in search of connection. On their journey, pit stops, wacky plant enthusiasts, uprooting, and re-routing abound.
The series was created and written by Emmy Award nominee Shane Portman (Tumble Leaf, Shape Island), illustrated by Andy Alves (Cosmic Cadets), colored by Sophia Du and Celia FitzGerald, lettered by Oceano Ransford (Eisner Award-nominated Rikki), and with consultation from comics librarian Moni Barrette.
Shrub explores the various ways that we allow grief to take root, inspired by writer Shane Portman’s experience with the loss of his father. The series features “Letting Grief Take Root” essays written by individuals with a personal and/or professional connection to grief who relate Shrub’s story to their own lived experience.
Click here to be notified when the Kickstarter campaign launches.
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.
