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: Embers
What it’s about: It’s too late for fairytales.
As faith in magic dwindles and dark forces stir, a Fire Demon stalks the land corrupting the townspeople of Wispmire into cinder and ash. After giving up on magic, Idris, a young wizard returns home to find a town cursed by old sins and in the protection of the mysterious Keeper of the Grove.
While some shun magic and others pay tribute to the Keeper, Idris must come to terms with his past and the town that banished him as a child. Will he forgive the people who caused him such pain? Or let revenge and hatred burn, and corrupt this wizards’ heart?An original fantasy story about magic, monsters and the cost of forgiveness.
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: Hangwater, TX
What it’s about: Hangwater, TX is an era-spanning Southern horror anthology graphic novel set in the fictional town of Hangwater, where we crack the door to the madness, mutilations, and monsters that lie just outside polite Southern conversation. Where modern myths meet creatures under the double-wide.
Think That Texas Blood meets The X-Files‘ Monster of the Week.
Click here to visit the Kickstarter campaign.
Project #4: The Caretaker #2
What it’s about: A series of ritualistic murders has begun. As the body count rises, detective Joe Mercer and HIVE founder Ian Morgan race to stop a killer determined to complete an ancient ritual. But the deeper they investigate, the more terrifying the truth becomes:
The ritual is real. And if completed, it could destroy Blackhaven.
Click here to visit the Kickstarter campaign.
Project #5: Memory Maker #1
What it’s about: Have you ever felt something intangible drain the life out of you? Or have good news give you a jolt to move mountains? Memory Maker visualizes the invisible forces we’re all familiar with, in a fantasy world where Optimism and Pessimism are more than mindsets.
There, Optimists are essential workers, who use art to ignite Inspiration – an inner light that keeps people going. A guild of Realists protects it. Pessimists drain it. What happens when we shut negativity out completely…or let it consume us? Is there a middle ground?
Those are the questions a burnt-out Optimist must face. After losing her powers, she has to relearn how to save her family from Pessimistic blight – without becoming what she’s fighting against. A story for anyone who’s ever run out of light and had to make more.
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.
