useful article about using Kickstarter

[julesjones]

Alex Woolfson, the guy behind my current favourite webcomic The Young Protectors, has written an article about creating a Kickstarter project to fund a print edition of the comic. This is a really good article about the nuts and bolts of putting together a proposal for crowd-sourcing the funding for your project -- and the information he lays out is more generally applicable than Kickstarter. I think a lot of what he has to say about building interest and a fanbase could also be usefully read by people who want to go through a more traditional route to publication. The article is here: http://www.bleedingcool.com/2013/06/10/how-to-succeed-at-kickstarter/

The Kickstarter itself is worth chipping into, if a gay superhero comic with a touch of romance sounds like your sort of thing. The lowest pledge level, $10, gets you digital copies of all the stuff that's been created for the stretch goals, in addition to the digital version of the book, which has extra content that won't be appearing on the comic's website. "All the stuff" is currently around 20 trading cards and half a dozen art prints, some with options to have the boys (and girls) with their bits on display. :-> If that sounds interesting, you have 8 days to put your pledge in.
http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/alexwoolfson/the-young-protectors-vol-1-0

Comments

[mishalak]

Kickstarter is somewhat interesting to me in an intellectual way, but I have so little money that it usually does not feel relevant. I almost never buy a book much less have something where I could be a patron of the arts. And I am not an artist of any sort.