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: Death of Comics Bookcase, Vol. 2
What it’s about: At a strange school dance, a group of teens rediscover … the Comics Bookcase! They soon find themselves on an adventure filled with new worlds, oddball superheroes, sci-fi action, and much more!
Death of Comics Bookcase, Vol. 2 is a 48-page comic from writer Zack Quaintance (Macabre Valley) and artists Nick Cagnetti (Archie, Pink Lemonade), John P. Golden (Adventure Time), Luke Horsman (2000AD), Jeremy Hyler (Veefriends), Jim Lavery (Medal of Honor), and Ryan Lee (Rick and Morty, Mountainhead), with colorists Michael Woods and Dearhbla Kelly, plus design by John J. Hill and lettering by AndWorld Design!
This issue features an oddball superhero lost in a dead mall, comics pros running amok at Comic-Con, mankind fighting to survive the slop-pocalypse, a space war between apes and sharks, and more!
Click here to visit the Kickstarter campaign.
Project #2: Shrub: The Collected Edition – NOW LIVE!
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 middle grade Graphic Medicine series which will be crowdfunded by the publisher on Kickstarter.
Readers will join Shrub who is, well… a shrub… for a cross-country adventure 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.
Striving to destigmatize loss and promote understanding of the diverse ways that people of all ages grieve, Shrub: The Collected Edition will also feature:the collected trade paperback of the Shrub series, featuring contributions from leading comics and mental health voices, including a foreword by Eisner Award-winning writer David F. Walker (Big Jim and the White Boy, Bitter Root), an introduction by voice-over actor, writer, and producer Yuri Lowenthal (Peter Parker / Spider-Man – Marvel Rivals, Marvel’s Spider-Man), an afterword by Emmy and Eisner Awards-winning writer Amalia Levari (Over the Garden Wall), and a resource guide by Dr. David J. Schonfeld (Director, National Center for School Crisis and Bereavement at Children’s Hospital Los Angeles).
Click here to visit the Kickstarter campaign.
Project #3: Planetoid Raiders Retro-Style Action Figures
What it’s about: Launch into orbit with the coolest, quirkiest space travelers known to the universe! Planetoid Raiders are here! Inspired by the classic knock-off Space Action Figures of YESTERYEAR! Get ready for a wave of 5-point, retro-style, 1:18 scale GALACTIC HEROES ready to rock your toy shelves!!!
Wandering Planet Toys is ready to unleash the weird space aliens of tomorrow, inspired by those cosmic KOs of yesteryear! PLANETOID RAIDERS: Wave 1 features 8 retro-style figures, each including space-tacular accessories, and are available in two packaging styles! The retro-inspired card backs, or… in a COLLECTOR SET packaged neatly in a retro style metal lunchbox-style collector’s case! You want them carded? We got you! You want to carry them in their collectible case? We got you!
Click here to visit the Kickstarter campaign.
Project #4: My Neighbor Necromancer #1-4
What it’s about: My Neighbor Necromancer #4 is the penultimate issue of the dark, humorous, award-winning comic book for everyone ages 12 and up.
After a hard-fought battle against the Grimkins and Gatekeepers last issue, Jessie and Cirino are welcomed into the Body Farmer’s home. But the moment is short lived when they learn the true reason they were invited. Emotions run high as Rackus reveals her motivations for seeking the Hand of Death. And as Cirino faces his darkest moment, Jessie confronts Death itself in order to save her friends. But will it be enough?
Travel the across the Deadlands with Jessie and Cirino to the ruins of the Bolingbroke Necromancy Academy. And join us in the battle between good and evil. One side wields the magic to embrace death, and the other, to take life!
Click here to visit the Kickstarter campaign.
Project #5: The Foreskin Awakens
What it’s about: GLAAD Award-winning creator Richard Fairgray has returned from a galaxy far, far away for the fifth installment of his little books of dicks, and this time, they look a heck of a lot like characters from a particularly popular sci-fi/fantasy franchise . . .
Click here to visit the Kickstarter campaign.
Project #6: The Kovadrin Chronicles: The Mourning Tower
What it’s about: For a thousand years, Kovadrah has endured endless night, broken only once every 70 years when the Mourning Tower awakens and a champion’s sacrifice returns the dawn. Ilyas Kalivar is one of six chosen to make the brutal ascent, expected to reach the summit and give his life for the world. But when a buried secret threatens his place among the champions, Ilyas must decide whether redemption is worth the tower’s price—or whether breaking the cycle of sacrifice will doom the world he loves.
Click here to visit the Kickstarter campaign.
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.
