By Request Extra: Last Gasp Kickstarter In Its Last Days

I wanted to drive some extra attention to Last Gasp's crowd-funding campaign on behalf of a full season of books. Last Gasp has been around since 1970, and can be argued is the most important of all the underground publishing entities for its extended relevance past the flowering of that era and into the more complicated 1980s, 1990s and 2000s. They've published a small army of worthy creators, including but not limited to Robert Crumb, Richard Corben, Camille Rose Garcia, Justin Green, Suehiro Maruo, Junko Mizuno, Spain, Mark Ryden, Dori Seda and S. Clay Wilson. Anyone they haven't published, they've likely distributed, and you can make the argument that just by serving comics in that way they're an all-time major player.

I think when established publishers look to crowd-funding it's perfectly fair to examine their history in terms of the quality of what's in print and their ability to consistently make good on their publishing mission. I think Last Gasp more than passes that test, and that if crowd-funding has an activist element for you you're likely to see greater return from what you give to Last Gasp than to picking and choosing individual projects.
 
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