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Post by Crimebuster on Apr 12, 2024 13:15:50 GMT -5
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Post by Crimebuster on Apr 12, 2024 13:04:40 GMT -5
First appearance of the Silver Age Black Canary. I've been hyping this importance of this book for 15 years, but it's only recently that it seems to have caught on some. The classic black cover doesn't hurt either.
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Post by Crimebuster on Apr 5, 2024 16:25:26 GMT -5
If anyone wants to spend their Friday night partying like only comic book nerds can, I'm doing a livestream at 10pm ET to count down the last hour of the campaign. Everyone's invited to join, I'll be fielding questions and talking about comics! The embed feature here doesn't seem to love livestreams, so here's the link.
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Post by Crimebuster on Apr 5, 2024 14:35:32 GMT -5
Well, we hit the goal! Just barely, but I will take it for sure. I really appreciate everyone's support!
There's still 7 hours left until it ends, so hopefully we'll get a couple more backer before it ends, but I'm just relieved it funded. I'm probably going to set a lower goal for the next issue so it's not as stressful. And I am trying to figure out some ways to make this series more sustainable so I can keep it going.
Of the 14 Kickstarter campaigns I've done, the only ones that I've lost money on are all three Quest issues. I'm basically running just 20 backers short of break even but I haven't been able to really grow the backer base at all from the first issue to close that gap. Barring a last minute surge for this campaign, all three issues are going to come in at almost the exact same number of backers and money raised. So I will need to try and cut costs to bring the cost in line with the support that I do have.
I already have most of issues #4 and #5 done and paid for, so I might just have to eat more losses with those, but starting with #6 I'm going to have to do some belt-tightening, probably meaning fewer variant covers from other artists and more by me. I might also start doing the back covers myself as well to save money, though I already have the back cover for #6 done, so that wouldn't be until issue #7.
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Post by Crimebuster on Apr 5, 2024 14:29:23 GMT -5
Issue 7 already, this is quite an achievement! Congrats, Scott! Thank you!
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Quest
Apr 4, 2024 0:37:37 GMT -5
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Post by Crimebuster on Apr 4, 2024 0:37:37 GMT -5
Not sure if it will yield any results, but in the last 2 days I've posted the KS link and a blurb about it on my Twitter, Mastadon and Bluesky with appropriate comics and ttrpg tags, and to a handful of comic and/or ttrpg FB groups we are a part of. I really dug the first 2 issues and want to see #3 (and more). -M Thank you, I really appreciate it!
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Post by Crimebuster on Apr 3, 2024 14:06:04 GMT -5
This week's theme: covers penciled by Bob Oksner. As usual, the rules are: • Post one, and only one, classic cover that fits the theme of the contest. • Your cover must be from a published comic book or collected volume published before April 2014. • Please include the title and the issue number of the comic, preferably in bold, in case some posters cannot see your image. (Admittedly, I never do this) • Covers must be posted before voting begins. • Voting takes place on Tuesday, April 9, 2024, beginning at 12:01 am PST and ending at 11:59 AM PST. • Vote by posting the name of the poster whose cover best fits the theme or that you simply like the most in bold. • The winner of the contest is the entrant with the most votes after the voting period ends. • The winner gets to choose the theme for the next week's contest. • If you don't think the cover fits the theme, don't post disparaging remarks about it. Just don't vote for it and keep quiet. • If a cover is more recent than the classic time frame, kindly point it out to the poster, who may then choose an alternate before voting begins A sample entry:
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Post by Crimebuster on Apr 3, 2024 10:21:12 GMT -5
Thanks, everyone!
I will have something up later this afternoon.
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Post by Crimebuster on Apr 2, 2024 17:13:05 GMT -5
Here's the first look at issue #7! The cover is the only thing done so far, but Mac is working on the first page right now. I'm hoping to have the issue ready for Kickstarter by the end of July, but we'll see. I usually either do the colors myself, or have my flatter put in the basic colors for me and then I do all the finishes. I didn't have time for it this time, though, so I had colorist Adirel Dalla Vecchia do the coloring for me. It's a little bit more painterly / airbrushy than usual, which I think is fine for this issue.
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Apr 2, 2024 17:09:36 GMT -5
Post by Crimebuster on Apr 2, 2024 17:09:36 GMT -5
Not coming here to promote, just vent I guess. Vent's not the right word really, but boy. This campaign has been the hardest I've done. I've done more promotion on this than anything I've done before, just hours and hours and hours for months on end trying to make sure this one does well. It's just been a brutal grind, and right now I'm not sure we're going to fund at all. It's really, really discouraging to spend like 5 straight hours doing videos and posts and emails and stuff and the result is someone cancels a big pledge and you go backwards by $100 or more, erasing days of slow gains. That's happened twice so far this campaign and it makes you feel like you're really wasting your time. I really appreciate all the support from everyone here, not just buying the comic, but more importantly just the community here. It's hard to find as much time as I'd like to post here when I'm busy around the clock fighting for every backer to get these comics printed. Days like today it feels like I would have been better using my time just talking about comics instead of making them. The crowdfunding process is really hard work, and just super discouraging. Anyway, that's it, thanks for listening. I love everything about making comics except this part, but without this part I can't afford to make more than one a year, so... yeah. I'm going to try and figure out how to make Quest cheaper in the future so it's easier to hit my funding goal, but for now I'm going to spend the rest of the week until the campaign ends Friday night just screaming into the void of social media. For what It's worth, I'm damn proud of you and impressed by all you've accomplished. I personally can't afford to keep backing each one of your projects, but I'm supporting you in spirit. Looking ahead is important, but don't forget to take a glance back at all you've already accomplished too. Thanks Jeff, I appreciate it.
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Quest
Apr 1, 2024 18:11:14 GMT -5
Post by Crimebuster on Apr 1, 2024 18:11:14 GMT -5
Not coming here to promote, just vent I guess. Vent's not the right word really, but boy. This campaign has been the hardest I've done. I've done more promotion on this than anything I've done before, just hours and hours and hours for months on end trying to make sure this one does well. It's just been a brutal grind, and right now I'm not sure we're going to fund at all. It's really, really discouraging to spend like 5 straight hours doing videos and posts and emails and stuff and the result is someone cancels a big pledge and you go backwards by $100 or more, erasing days of slow gains. That's happened twice so far this campaign and it makes you feel like you're really wasting your time. I really appreciate all the support from everyone here, not just buying the comic, but more importantly just the community here. It's hard to find as much time as I'd like to post here when I'm busy around the clock fighting for every backer to get these comics printed. Days like today it feels like I would have been better using my time just talking about comics instead of making them. The crowdfunding process is really hard work, and just super discouraging. Anyway, that's it, thanks for listening. I love everything about making comics except this part, but without this part I can't afford to make more than one a year, so... yeah. I'm going to try and figure out how to make Quest cheaper in the future so it's easier to hit my funding goal, but for now I'm going to spend the rest of the week until the campaign ends Friday night just screaming into the void of social media. Fingers crossed you make your goal. I backed and I put up stff on my twitter with comic & ttrpg hashtags trying to draw attention to it. Hopefully you get a late surge to get it funded. -M Thanks man, I really appreciate it very much.
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Post by Crimebuster on Apr 1, 2024 16:47:42 GMT -5
Not coming here to promote, just vent I guess. Vent's not the right word really, but boy. This campaign has been the hardest I've done. I've done more promotion on this than anything I've done before, just hours and hours and hours for months on end trying to make sure this one does well. It's just been a brutal grind, and right now I'm not sure we're going to fund at all. It's really, really discouraging to spend like 5 straight hours doing videos and posts and emails and stuff and the result is someone cancels a big pledge and you go backwards by $100 or more, erasing days of slow gains. That's happened twice so far this campaign and it makes you feel like you're really wasting your time. I really appreciate all the support from everyone here, not just buying the comic, but more importantly just the community here. It's hard to find as much time as I'd like to post here when I'm busy around the clock fighting for every backer to get these comics printed. Days like today it feels like I would have been better using my time just talking about comics instead of making them. The crowdfunding process is really hard work, and just super discouraging. Anyway, that's it, thanks for listening. I love everything about making comics except this part, but without this part I can't afford to make more than one a year, so... yeah. I'm going to try and figure out how to make Quest cheaper in the future so it's easier to hit my funding goal, but for now I'm going to spend the rest of the week until the campaign ends Friday night just screaming into the void of social media.
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Quest
Mar 29, 2024 11:03:11 GMT -5
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Post by Crimebuster on Mar 29, 2024 11:03:11 GMT -5
I love that Marvel style cover! Thank you!
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Post by Crimebuster on Mar 29, 2024 2:18:41 GMT -5
Flessel returned to DC 30 years later in the early 70s to work with Joe Simon. He apparently mostly did inks during that stint, but this is one of a few romance covers from the time (Simon was editor) that the folks at GCD attribute to Flessel.
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Post by Crimebuster on Mar 25, 2024 22:20:17 GMT -5
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