LUCHA FOREVER, RIVALS, and three extra campaigns we love!

This week, Comics Beat‘s Comics Crowdfunding Spherical-Up has indie comics campaigns from throughout all of the crowdfunding platforms that I may supply — and it at all times makes me completely happy to present y’all choices — from Crowdfundr to Kickstarter to Zoop, listed here are a number of the most fun comedian e-book tasks to again this week.

I Thought You Liked Me

Creators: MariNaomi
Aim: $17,500
Finish Date: October 30, 2022
Goodies: Digital or bodily version, bookplate, 1-hour Zoom or telephone name with Mari, an authentic piece of comics artwork from MariNaomi’s Turning Japanese (2016), an authentic piece of artwork, and a retail bundle

I Thought You Liked Me is MariNaomi’s Gen X graphic memoir, which is instructed in prose, collage, and sequential artwork, explores queer tradition, feminism, race, class, intercourse work, and the flawed nature of reminiscence as Mari works to uncover a long-lost greatest good friend that she will now not keep in mind however can’t let go of.

I’m a BIG fan of MariNaomi, who I first got here throughout not via their writing however via their activism. They’re the founder and administrator of the Cartoonists of Shade Database, the Queer Cartoonists Database, and the Disabled Cartoonists Database, all of that are superb assets. Then, I found the award-winning creator’s inventive works like Kiss & Inform: A Romantic Resume, Ages 0 to 22, and Issues That Go Bump within the Evening, amongst others and was simply as blown away. And I doubt this newest work from MariNaomi can be an exception. 

Change into a backer right here. 

Lucha Perpetually

Creators: John Aviña (author), with artwork by Mozart Eros (artist), Julio Santos (colorist), Miguel Silva (designer/promoter)
Aim: $5,000
Finish Date: October 10, 2022
Goodies: Digital or PDF copy, stickers, iron patches, subject #1 or Kickstarter unique cowl poster 11×17, and Voidwalker Regulation Cap,

Aliens, robots, and auditions all plague the as soon as well-known wrestler Guillermo Diaz, in his pursuit of a star on the Hollywood stroll of fame.

If you happen to’ve been following alongside since I took over the comics crowdfunding column, then you’ve gotten most likely found out that I like wrestling comics. They’re enjoyable. They’re colourful. They’re about real-life action-adventure heroes, effectively, sorta… but it surely’s shut sufficient for me. And this marketing campaign, Lucha Perpetually, is about one wrestling champion’s pursuit of happiness within the Metropolis of Angles as he makes an attempt to wrestle his strategy to his personal star on the Hollywood stroll of fame (besides issues go unsuitable when there’s an alien invasion). Yeah, I’m right here for that premise, and the artwork seems to be dope too.

Change into a backer right here. 

RIVALS: The Loyalty of Sago Astar – Deluxe Difficulty #1

Creators: Paul Gerrard and Mike Clarke
Aim: $5,000
Finish Date: October 7, 2022
Goodies: Digital copy, bodily copy with both Cowl A, Cowl B, or Cowl C, Artwork of Rivals e-book, “The Ghost Struggle” poster, be drawn in as a background character or a recurring character, and authentic pages

NOW IN EARLY DEVELOPMENT AS A LIVE-ACTION TV SHOW

If you happen to’re a fan of Mad Max, Conan the Barbarian, Fist of the North Star, Berserk, Dune, Heavy Metallic, and 2000AD, then Rivals is your new comedian e-book habit. It’s a post-apocalyptic film that meets Hong Kong motion cinema, and it’s about to be a live-action TV present. Earlier than all your mates get into the TV collection, get a leap on studying extra about Rivals, which stars none aside from 90s motion film legend, Gary Daniels… as a result of don’t all of us comedian e-book followers care about being cool?

Change into a backer right here. 

Nether Realms: Sci-Fi Non-Binary Erotic Comics Anthology

Creators: 6iirls, Bandaid, Butchflux, C. Bedford, Cactu Artwork, Alex van Gore, Faeri Sami, Faye Stacey, Fydbac, The Neon Caster, Jade ‘Jude’ Sarson, Quenby, Azzie, Ryan Breadinc, Perry Wheeler, Rye Hickman, Seren Krakens, Shane Basement, Shae Beagle, Tab Kimpton, Luce Northstar, and Caterina Gerbasi
Aim: $29,804
Finish Date: October 13, 2022
Goodies: Neath Realms PDF or graphic novel,

Unusual, horny tales from far throughout the universe, with characters who’re non-binary or gender explorers!

From the Prism Comics and Lambda Award-nominated writer of Nectar & Ambrosia: Trans Femme & Masc & Non-Binary Erotic Comics, comes Nether Realms: Sci-Fi Non-Binary Erotic Comics Anthology. So I simply picked up Nectar & Ambrosia from Prism Comics’ QCon and LOVED IT, so I extremely suggest this anthology for anybody into queer erotica. 

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Kærshovedgård Tales: Comics from a deportation middle

Creators: Johan Bitsch (posters), Iben Bitsch (posters), Små Broer (volunteer group)
Aim: $3,361
Finish Date: October 13, 2022
Goodies: Digital version or graphic novel, risograph printed poster

A graphic novel benefiting refugees in a Danish deportation camp.

Per the crowdfunding marketing campaign web page, “Kærshovedgård deportation camp is located in an remoted a part of Denmark, distant from the consciousness of the final Danish public. It’s a closed camp with fences and no bus cease. The immigrants and refugees listed here are caught with no checkout date, residing in a vacuum with fixed uncertainty about what tomorrow will carry. As a rejected asylum seeker in Denmark you aren’t allowed to work, examine or entry the nation’s common well being care system. As a result of of this many refugees stay untreated and unmedicated whereas in absolute poverty.”

Kærshovedgård Tales can be a risograph printed 200+ web page graphic novel in shade, made by a devoted group of asylum-seeking storytellers and volunteer cartoonists. The graphic novel is predicated on 10 interviews with individuals residing in Kærshovedgård, containing on a regular basis moments of peoples’ existence within the camp and their life tales and illustrating how the violence and oppressive asylum system harms human beings affected by it.

Change into a backer right here. 

Listed below are some already-funded tasks price testing:

And don’t overlook to take a look at final week’s campaigns:

And at last, listed here are some tasks that haven’t launched but, however that look to be price keeping track of:

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