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: This Comic Kills Fascists Dos
What it’s about: In the summer of 2023, Apollo City Comics launched as a publishing imprint and created a line of emotionally charged punk rock, sci-fi, stoner, political, comic book anthologies and original series!
Today…
We the People…
WE the PEOPLE
…in order to reform this union, have crafted essays, pinups, comix, and resources rejecting fascism, sexism, xenophobia, racism, and hate.
With this collection we will express our dissatisfaction, frustration, and our fears of what this democratic republic has been reduced to. In effect, to use art and words to kill the very idea of fascism. Picking up where we left off, This Comic Kills Fascists Dos continues its rallying cry for equality and justice.
Click here to visit the Kickstarter campaign.
Project #2: Alpha Cat #2
What it’s about: Alpha Cat is a comic book series from award-winning author/comedian/podcaster Chris Mancini and artist Fernando Pinto, the same twisted team that brought you genre-bending comic hits like Long Ago and Far Away and Rise of the Kung Fu Dragon Master.
Alpha Cat is a high-energy, all-ages sci-fi romp with Pixar heart and Looney Tunes chaos. It’s Star Trek with animals by way of Ratchet & Clank… a kinetic, character-driven adventure about a former soldier learning to let go of the past and embrace the thrill of exploration again.
Click here to visit the Kickstarter campaign.
Project #3: Traveling Skulls: Original Art and Drawings on Postcards
What it’s about: Traveling Skulls is a unique, limited art project and illustration series from artist Nathaniel Osollo. This is art that actually moves and travels. It goes from point A to point B and it will do that with your help.
When you support this campaign, Osollo will create original art of a skull on a postcard and mail that out to you. He’ll be drawing or painting on the blank side (where a personal message normally goes). Super simple. Artist’s choice on the skull design. No printing. No shipping costs. Just high-quality, original art that you buy, Osollo puts it on a postcard and mails out to you. But the art isn’t finished then.
These drawings are made with the intention of being handled and carried. They’re going on a journey. They’re going to be drawn, painted, and then dropped in a mailbox.
At that point a mail carrier picks them up and they’ll begin the next part of their voyage. Going through the system, getting stamped, fingerprints, scuffed, on their way to you. And when they get there? THAT’S when the artwork is finished.
Click here to visit the Kickstarter campaign.
Project #4: Super Action Man #1: Let’s Roll
What it’s about: Move aside, Joe! When the shadowy agents of E.V.I.L. rear their ugly heads and kidnap world leaders from Camp David (including the American president!), it’s time to stand up, kick some ass, and defend our country once again! Luckily, Super Action Man is not just the hero that America demands, he’s the hero that we’re stuck with! Introducing Super Action Man: Let’s Roll, a new Super Action Man adventure, featuring the all-new Super Action Team, in a BRAND-NEW 36-PAGE ACTION COMIC!
This brand new, super patriotic All-American, 80’s Action-infused comic book is brought to you by American writer Jonathan London (Geekscape, Miami Vice, Paul London: Hero of the Prophecy), Brazilian artist Guilherme Raffide (Vermillion), Italian colorist Vittorio Astone (Canto, Free Planet), and French Canadian letterer Jérôme Gagnon (Granite State Punk, Cthulhu Invades Wonderland)! Okay… maybe it’s more like an International Action Comics Squad!
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.
