I am launching my Kickstarter Campaign soon for the Madman of Magic comic book chapter 2. As a way for other artists to learn from my experience, I am creating a video a day. It will be either a check in on my progress, a video on how to run a successful campaign, a look into my comic book production process, or whatever I feel will be helpful.
I hope you enjoy:
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While Kickstarter’s participants can only come from the U.S. or the U.K. Indiegogo has no such restrictions and accepts participants from all nations. Indiegogo is the place to go if your family has lost everything in a flood or if you want to contribute to a cause like MS or AIDS research. You can do things like that with Indiegogo, but not with Kickstarter.
Kickstarter is a strictly non-humanitarian format; mostly catering to small entrepreneurs, graphic artists or the budding technological innovators.
The average funded Kickstarter campaign takes in about $5,500. If you make your goal Kickstarter then takes 5% processing fee and Amazon takes an extra 3%. If you don’t make your goal you get nothing and pay nothing.
Indiegogo doesn’t require you to use the all or nothing model that Kickstarter does; although if you choose all or nothing funding and reach your goal Indiegogo takes only 4% +3% credit card fee = 7% of the project funding. 1% less than the fixed funding payment of Kickstarter.
If an Indiegogo project needs $5,500 but has only raised $500, that $500 does not automatically get sent back to the backers as it would with Kickstarter. The Indiegogo project can choose to keep what they raise. However, if you choose to take an underfunded goal, Indiegogo will take a 12% cut of the project funds (9% fee + 3% for credit card payments).
Tomorrow we will be posting a podcast interview with Mark Thompson (owner of www.devilsduedigital.com) and wanted to take the opportunity to share his current project with all of my friends (that’s you).
With a group of hand selected artists, Mark has launched the first in a number of creator owned titles through Kickstarter. The first title; MONSTRA: ZOMBIE DESTROYER! is up and running right now.
MONSTRA: ZOMBIE DESTROYER will be published as a full color graphic novel containing 125 pages of Flesh Eating, Zombie Killing, ax wielding, awesomeness!
The Press Release for the Comic gives the following Synopsis to the story:
The story involves a sentient zombie and her slacker boyfriend at the outset of the end of days. The government has contained an initial outbreak of infected undead . A widespread zombie outbreak has been averted through military involvement and the
I was recently introduced to this Kickstarter Campaign and had to share it.
comics quest from Frederick Schroeder on Vimeo.
What a great use of 8 bits graphics and Regular Nintendo nostalgia.
Kickstarter Video:
We are finally on the last leg of the Kickstarter Campaign. We received the Comic Books from the publisher and they look great.
Leah and I will be packaging the Rewards this weekend. Your package will be shipped out by Monday. If you did not get a survey from Kickstarter asking for your address (for those that need to receive rewards via mail) please contact me through Kickstarter. I still need several backers’ addresses to ship their rewards.
We want to thank everyone for the wonderful support and your patience in getting the Rewards out. It has been a wonderful experience and an eye opener to the possibility of making this a full time career for my wife and me.
To support this we have:
For those backers that are suppose to get a .pdf copy of the comic, they were sent out last week. If you are suppose to get one and you didn’t please email me. No new news on the printer and the timeline on distribution, but I will have all that figured out by Monday.
For those backers of $5, $10, and $25 or above please check the last update to make sure your name is on the list, is spelled correctly, and is how you want it to appear in the comic book.
I will need any changes and/or corrections by January 1st.
Reviewers are in on the digital comic book (.pdf version) and people are digging the comic.
Here are the reaction I have received from backers so far.
At the bottom of this update is the list of all of those who are in the “Thank You” section. If you are supposed to be on the list (backers of $10 or more and $5 backers), please check that your name is on the list and spelled correctly.
We are still doing changes to the comic book, but we are very close!
The entire family is helping
