If it wasn’t already clear from Penny Arcade’s monster Kickstarter campaign, webcomics about video games get a lot of attention on the crowdfunding platform. The idea was to transfer five years of the webcomic Dresden Codak into a hardback book, which by the end of the campaign featured metallic ink on the cover and a nifty slipcase.ĭresden Codak – a sci-fi comic about philosophy, humanity and death – has won several Web Cartoonist’s Choice Awards. The Tomorrow Girl campaign reached its goal of $30k in less than 24 hours before going on to become the third highest-funded Kickstarter comic of all time. The Tomorrow Girl: Dresden Codak Volume 1 Two of the higher reward tiers included lunch with the creators ($9,000) and becoming a Penny Arcade intern ($7,500). They hit it with just six minutes to spare. The Seattle pair – who also run popular gaming event PAX – offered a ton of tempting rewards to help reach their goal of clearing the homepage banner ad for one year. “Selling out” and “begging for money” on Kickstarter was their plan to strip Penny Arcade of unsightly ads so they could focus on serving fans with nothing but video-game based webcomics. Penny Arcade Sells OutĪfter getting fed up of forcing advertising on their fans to fund their website, Penny Arcade creators Jerry Holkins and Mike Krahulik decided to try a different route to keep the lights on. Ukazu herself has won several comic awards off the back of Check, Please! and was nominated for the prestigious Harvey Award two years in a row. She said, “I didn’t realise how many people cared that deeply about Check, Please! until I launched my first Kickstarter.”Ĭheck, Please: Year One attracted a respectable $74,290, while the latest campaigns for Year Two and Three did more than five times that. Year Two – the most successful of the three – went on to offer stretch goals that improved the quality of the book and even a hockey jersey like the main character’s.
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In an interview with Bloomberg, Ukazu admitted she had no idea the extent to which previously releasing the comic online for free would pay off. ✔ Check, Please!: Year TwoĬheck, Please! by Ngozi Ukazu is the story of a hockey player, vlogger and baking fanatic who struggles to fit in at college. Now to celebrate hitting the funding goal for the latest issue in just five days, let’s revisit the five most-funded Kickstarter comics that served as inspiration… 5. After wiping away the snot and tears, I went back to the drawing board, researched a ton of the most-funded Kickstarter comics and relaunched the campaign with success! However, last year saw me fail miserably at crowdfunding my comic book Milky. The crowdfunding platform saw more than $16m pledged to comic book projects, making it Kickstarter’s most successful year for the category yet with an almost 70% success rate for creators. Kickstarter comics absolutely crushed it in 2018. When he’s not working on the latest issue of Milky, Josh enjoys other peoples’ comics, video games, stand-up comedy and tea. When in doubt find someone experienced to help with technical problems.Joshua Saxon is a comic book writer from the UK currently living in sunny Madrid. Any advice given assumes knowledge of safety procedures and a minimum level of technical competence.
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