By Request Extra: Jason Lutes Seeks Crowd-Funding

I haven't seen a whole lot of the classic generations of alternative and post-alternative cartoonists take to crowd-funding mechanisms quite yet. The one that comes to mind is Dave Lasky seeking extra funding to complete the Carter Family book with Frank Young, but even that is a bit different than someone taking to those mechanisms in order to facilitate a book. Rich Tommaso, too, did one. I'm probably forgetting something obvious -- or several somethings obvious -- but I think it's still safe to say that that crowd hasn't really taken to those mechanisms quite yet.

The lack of easy-to-remember alternative comics artists making books this way is the primary reason I noticed when Jason Lutes sent along word of this group project he's working on. The educator and artist is about as solid an alt-comix citizen as there is. Moreover, it's an experimental project growing out of his work at Center For Cartoon Studies. And it's already done. So maybe check that one out. I'll try to remember to include it in the regular "By Request" column.
 
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