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: Real Life Comix
What it’s about: Real Life Comix, Only in New York features 51 short stories in a sprawling, high-voltage, memoir, graphic novel anthology celebrating the grit, glory, absurdity and heart of life in New York City.
Co-edited by veteran comix creators Dean Haspiel and Doug Latino, this vibrant collection brings together a wildly eclectic mix of legendary and emerging voices, including New Yorker cartoonists, MAD contributors, and American Splendor collaborators. Storytellers hail from across comix, comics, graphic novels, literature, art, film, and music, each offering their own take on the city that never sleeps–humorous, heartbreaking, surreal or unmistakably true–capturing the everyday chaos and accidental poetry of New York life.
Click here to visit the Kickstarter campaign.
Project #2: The Road to Oz: Chapter 3
What it’s about: The storm is coming. And it remembers Dorothy. One moment, Scarecrow stood watch over the Emerald City — guardian, protector, keeper of Oz’s wisdom. The next? Torn from everything he knew and hurled across worlds. Now he’s here. Hidden in plain sight among broken fence posts in a field that no longer grows. The rains are gone. The soil is dust. And the sky? The sky has turned against them.
Welcome to 1930s Kansas. Welcome to the Dust Bowl. Black clouds roll across the plains like dark oceans — swallowing everything in their path. But Dorothy knows something the others don’t. These storms aren’t natural. They move like they’re hunting. Shapes shift inside the churning black walls. The dust isn’t just choking the land — It’s watching them. And buried within those towering clouds? An enemy thought to be gone forever.
Scarecrow didn’t survive Oz to lose Dorothy here. Not to the dying land. Not to the gathering darkness. Not to what’s coming on the horizon. Because that next black cloud isn’t a storm. It’s war.
The Road to Oz: Chapter Three continues the epic untold story of how saving Oz failed! A reimagining of a classic tale through a fresh, cinematic lens. We’re building this world one chapter at a time, and your support makes all the difference.
Click here to visit the Kickstarter campaign.
Project #3: Payne
What it’s about: Payne is a superhero story based in San Diego, CA. This gritty, action-packed series follows San Diego’s #1 crime fighting duo, ShamPayne, as they protect the city from all kinds of threats, including their arch nemesis, Mabis!
Sham is a telepathic/telekinetic, while Payne is a super strong, brawling badass with a healing factor! Together, they strive to keep San Diego safe from Mabis—a pre-Civil War parasitic body hopper with a vendetta against a certain family.
Click here to visit the Kickstarter campaign.
Project #4: Seekers of Science: Volumes 1 and 2
What it’s about: Seekers of Science is a STEM-based comic created by Tamara Robertson, Dr. Tracy Fanara, and Todd Black.
The trio came together to try and showcase the wonders of science in its many forms, and prove that there absolutely is a field of science for you to enjoy and be a part of, even if you don’t think of the field as being “science-focused.”
Over the last several years, the trio has worked on and off to create one comic after another, touching on topics like oil spill cleanups, how insects can actually kill forests through natural processes (and how to stop them), VR, how aquaponics can help third-world countries, and more!
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.
