Comics By Request: People, Projects In Need Of Funding



By Tom Spurgeon

* it looks like Steve Rude and Mike Baron will be launching a Nexus project through Kickstarter. That will bear watching. I'm greatly fond of that comic as it was a big one for me in my early teens; something that kept me interested in reading comics. I'm also a fan of Steve Rude's work more generally, its Andrew Loomis in a Sunday Supplement properties. I also wonder if it's not time for a project at this point in its creative cycle to reach out directly to fans, as it may not have a wider marketplace appeal that enables it to get over hurdles being published that way. Very intriguing.

* Mike Peterson digs deeply into recent conventional wisdom on the idea of crowdfunding, with some helpful links and a superior summary of Brian Hibbs' most recent article on same. He notes that Hibbs seems to be saying that if you exploit your core fandom directly, there's no occasion for anyone else to exploit that fandom in a way that can lead to a broder sales success.

* Matt D. Wilson's collection-enabling Kickstarter has a few hours left. It has made its goal, but that doesn't mean you won't want to participate.

* finally, I requested via Twitter if anyone had any favorites out there. Here's a Mike Ploog crowdfunded art book recommended by Mike Meltzer. That's crushed its initial goals but I imagine people just might want that one. He had a very interesting and slightly out of step art style... a style that was served by mainstream comics because at that point there were very few safe harbors for cartoonists that wanted to work in comics.
 
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