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Fund the Third Spacetrawler Book

by Xaviar XerexesJuly 27, 2013

[kickstarter url=http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/654744622/spacetrawler-book-three width=599] Christopher Baldwin is running a kickstarter for the third and last book collecting his science fiction webcomic Spacetrawler. If you’re not already reading this comic — go now. We’ll wait. Still here? Look Baldwin is like your favorite indy film director who has done some amazing work that you, person of taste, distinction and erudition appreciate and love. Now he’s done a take on a genre with his same intelligent and emotionally compelling approach as always. It’s a more accessible, more exciting and still just as much depth as his past work. The past books looked great …

Kickstarter for Ursula Vernon’s Digger

by Xaviar XerexesJune 12, 2013

[kickstarter url=http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1234535943/digger-omnibus width=599] The complete run of Digger in one omnibus edition. The Kickstarter has already blown through its goal and all of the current stretch goals.

Kickstart My Art

by Xaviar XerexesJune 26, 2012

Funding has been a source of constant experimentation in the webcomics arena since almost the start. You give away the webcomic, the thing that you are in the whole thing to do and the question becomes how do I make a living. Or maybe just, how do I fund this cool idea I want to do with the webcomic next? Kickstarter didn’t necessarily bring new ideas but it did bring solid execution, a well-designed platform and eventually a real community around its mission. Webcomics seems to have used it a lot for pre-funding books and other spin-off things based on …