Jules Jones

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

I want to give some Kickstarter love to my favourite webcomic, The Young Protectors. The writer describes it thus:

As a gay kid growing up, I loved sci-fi, fantasy and action stories. But I never got to see what I really wanted to see and that’s kick-ass genre stories with gay heroes. Not just gay characters who were the comic relief or who committed suicide or got killed in the end so that the straight protagonist could wind up with the girl. But good stories with real, three-dimensional heroes who get a chance to save the day and who also just happens to like other guys.

With The Young Protectors, I've tried to create the kind of story I’ve always wanted to see.

It has a great storyline and stunning art. Also a superhero/supervillain m/m romance. And it now has a Kickstarter to fund the first print run of Volume 1. Said Kickstarter was funded within 18 hours of opening, which tells you something about the quality of Alex Woolfson's work, but there are plenty of interesting stretch goals. You can find out more about both the comic and the Kickstarter project here: http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/alexwoolfson/the-young-protectors-vol-1-0