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: The Comics Staple
What it’s about: The Comics Staple is a monthly, twelve-page, black-and-white zine for anyone who wants to stay in the know when it comes to comics.
Each issue of The Comics Staple will feature writing about a whole range of comics from manga, to superheroes, to your next favorite indie comic. Expect top comics picks, reviews, interviews with creators, news roundups, creator spotlights, and weird comics history – all brought to you by an amazing team of comics critics and reporters. Pledge for a six-month subscription today through Kickstarter.
Click here to visit the Kickstarter campaign.
Project #2: Schticks & Stones Holiday Special
What it’s about: Get ready to laugh your tuchus off! From the hilariously witty minds of Aaron Cohen & Alex Schumacher comes the Schticks & Stones Holiday Special—a riotous romp through three 8-page Jewish holiday mysteries for the whole family.
This is NOT your bubbe’s comic book! (Even though she’ll probably love it, too!)
Schticks & Stones will take you through the adventures of The Fineman family. Ben and Mark lead their extended family on 3 comedic whodunnit adventures highlighting what makes Purim, Passover, & Hanukkah special, and what makes every family unique and entertaining.
Click here to visit the Kickstarter campaign.
Project #3: Pit of Eden: Comic Book Anthology
What it’s about: Can you hear it? Can you hear the singing?
Outside a small town somewhere in North America, a seemingly bottomless pit filled with an unidentified liquid has been discovered.
Experts are baffled, and as the Eden substance spreads, strange incidents begin to occur: voices sing in dead languages, bodies morph into unexpected forms, old gods arise and make themselves known… Witness the horrors and marvels of the Pit of Eden comic anthology, 14 stories following the end of the world. 160 pages of black-and-white comics explore what happens when Babylonian horrors meet our modern-day lives.
Click here to visit the Kickstarter campaign.
Project #4: Crumbs of Fortune
What it’s about: Office jobs suck—even for rabbits. Marvin works in telemarketing and isn’t very good at it. His job is in danger and he’s also on track to die alone, which his grump of a father is always quick to point out.
But when Marvin is shut out of a company lunch due to his poor performance, a chance encounter and some cheap chop suey delivers a dessert that changes his life. Following the cryptic advice nestled in the fortune cookies that accompany each gut-bomb of a meal, he finds riches, love—and gastrointestinal distress.
Will the fortune cookies turn him into a fat cat, or just make him poop his pants?
Click here to visit the Kickstarter campaign.
Project #5: 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.
