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: Denis Kitchen Creatures Risograph and Card Set
What it’s about: When publisher, cartoonist, and advocate of free speech Denis Kitchen and comic book and media historian Christopher Irving started talking about a trading card set for Creatures Out of the Subconscious, they were doing so to bring these weirdos, monsters, and surreal denizens to the masses. Since the originals were all drawn on chipboard, the entire 36-card set will get printed on Kraft stock (just like the old school trading cards), in a snazzy tuck box that opens sideways.
Click here to visit the Kickstarter campaign.
Project #2: Return to Misfit Island
What it’s about: There is an unknown island called Dissidentia. It is peacefully inhabited by Cryptids, monsters and creatures of Myth that have remained hidden for years. But what mysteries will Brody, the jackalope and his friends learn about the island’s history? What will happen when Isla, the Harpy, flies to the mainland? And what about Henry, the son of a Frankenstein monster? All he wants to do is play guitar. How is he connected to this mysterious island?
In Return to Misfit Island, Phoebe will convince Henry to play guitar in the school talent show! But three bullies have plans to turn his performance into a disaster!
Click here to visit the Kickstarter campaign.
Project #3: Augmented
What it’s about: Combining the twin loves of futuristic dystopias, as well as animals and their adaptations, Augmented is a work rooted in deep fascination and passion with fictional settings, as well as our very own natural world – a way for creator J.J. Drucker to explore how we, as humans, fit into our modern, ever-changing world. A world in which the looming warnings of science fiction are becoming an inescapable part of the everyday.
Click here to visit the Kickstarter campaign.
Project #4: While We Burn #1
What it’s about: Fire magic gave birth to monsters and shattered the world. 100 years later, an old chronicler tries to save it by telling his stories. While We Burn is a series of short dark fantasy stories in a comic format, set in the medieval world consumed by monsters and darkness.
In this dark fantasy universe, you will follow the paths of diverse characters struggling to survive as you uncover the mystery of the fallen kingdom on a journey where no one is safe and monsters prevail.
Click here to visit the Kickstarter campaign.
Project #5: No Saints Nor Poets #1-3
What it’s about: Tightrope Press invites you to join us as we continue our debut comic series, No Saints Nor Poets, a chaotic swashbuckling adventure-romance Comic full of sea monsters, motor-gondola races, pride, faith and love triangles.
Created by the critically acclaimed queer writer Iolanda Zanfardino (A Thing Called Truth, Midnight Radio, Alice in Leatherland, You Never Heard Of Me, Hecate’s Will, The Least We Can Do), this story marks their first steps into BL / MLM storytelling!
Click here to visit the Kickstarter campaign.
Project #6: 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.
