And we’re back again with our weekly Kickstarter Round Up! There’s some great offerings today, so be warned, your checkbook might hate you.
We’re starting off with, Painkiller Jane: Heartbreaker One-Shot by Jimmy Palmiotti & Amanda Conner, which launched today.
PAINKILLER JANE: HEARTBREAKER is a 48-page, self-contained one shot story from the creative team of bestselling writer Jimmy Palmiontti (Harley Quinn, Marvel Knights), artist Romina Moranelli (Sex and Violence, Glarien), and designer extraordinaire John J. Hill (Rage, Pop Kill) who present an action-packed adventure of Painkiller Jane, teaming up with a surprise co-star from her past to deliver a special package. With high stakes, high drama, sexual themes, and tons of action, this a Mature Audience title.
Next (and perfectly timed, methinks) we got, Dracula Visions: A Vampire Art Gallery Publication by Slampress Tomes.
More than two dozen creators offer distinct and stunning interpretations of Bram Stoker’s iconic vampire thriller.
For generations, DRACULA has possessed our nightmares and captivated our imagination as a timeless story told and retold across all media. We are unleashing a murderer’s row of creators and allowing them to present their unrestrained interpretation of the haunting tale. This 56 page book features unique interpretations of the most famous and celebrated vampire in all of literature and popular culture from Ramón Pérez, Eric Vedder, Kalman Andrasofszky, Adam Gorham, Ho Che Anderson, Andy Belanger, and many, many more.
A fun one if you’re into art and actually know what inktober is all about; Charretier & Colinet’s Inktober Graphic Novel by Elsa Charretier and Pierrick Colinet.
31 days, 31 illustrations, 1 story.
Sprout. Fuzzy. Vessel. Splat. Four words out of the thirty-one that make the 2021 prompt list of #Inktober, an internet tradition encouraging artists to create one inked piece of art every day during the month of October. Here’s three more for you: Leak! Crystal! Pressure! Between Oct.1 and Oct. 31, Pierrick Colinet and Elsa Charretier will create an entire story based on these 31 words and publish our first Inktober graphic novel (A Leaky Fuzzy Vessel?! A Sprouty Pressured Crystal?!! These all sound amazing but no, that won’t be the story).
There’s also the lovely, Kardiakia by Francesco Montalbano.
Stories of representation: queer love and fat bodies.
Kardiakìa is a noun of Greek origins which means a “pained heart,” a pain that makes you feel out of breath, anxious, restless. This title brings together the themes of these stories, stories of love, identities, and bodies forced to stay in the shadow, away from the judging and intruding eyes of society. But both in “Magnalia” and in “Talìa,” our main characters bravely take back their right to live under the sun, despite a world that keeps trying to push them back into the darkness. A villa overlooking the sea, five souls united by love, the Nizza of the nouvelle vague. Unrequested attention. And more: a pathological inquisiveness that feeds itself until it explodes.
There’s another spooky offering in, Magic Powder by Jeff Schiller.
A story about living a nightmare in a fantasy, rather than living the dream.
In a world conquered by Elves 2200 years ago, Thesz is the only big city on the planet that still exists outside of Elvish law. The inhabitants are mostly dwarves, orcs, and goblins who don’t fit into Elvish society’s confines, and are instead more interested in the pioneering ways of the outlaw. The Magic Powder cartels provide faerie dust, which is illegal everywhere else in the world, to anyone willing to pay the price. Our story begins just as the peace between all of the cartels comes crumbling down around them.
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