USA pledges are 94% fulfilled. The warehouse team is working on the last few pledges this week.
Canada is 46% complete
EU/UK is 45%
AUS is 5% (one package out the door so far)
Short version is, the team is wrapping up domestic shipping and moving on to finalize international this week.
Please double check your survey! We do still show a number of incomplete surveys and it's put a couple dozen shipments on hold as of right now.
Thanks everyone - we'll keep plugging away until they're all out the door.
Now Live: Crowdfunding Exclusives for Old-School Adventures and Pinball Crawl Classics
This Holiday Marketplace campaign was in part "leftover special-edition items from prior crowdfundings." Make sure you don't miss the next batch of crowdfunding exclusives! Pinball Crawl Classics is live now with a really cool clamshell box that is a project exclusive. Old-School Adventures #1 also has a neat variant cover. Check out the project now while it's still live!
Pledge for the exclusive clamshell edition while you still can!
Hey everyone! 💌 We’re thrilled to let you know that the Smoke Test went smoothly, so we’ve just sent out the remaining surveys to all backers! 🥳 If you haven’t received yours yet, make sure to check your inbox and spam/promotions folder — and feel free to reach out if you need help accessing it! 💻✨
📦 Reminder: the sooner you fill it out, the sooner we’ll be able to start packing and shipping your rewards 🌟 We're prepping everything in the background and can't wait to send all the goodies your way!
📌 Important: Please make sure your payment method is valid and up to date when completing the survey! If the card on file is invalid or empty, we won’t be able to ship your rewards — or they may be significantly delayed. 🥲
🛍️ Also, our Post-campaign Store is now open, so if you missed the campaign or want to grab some extra goodies with the same deals and discounts, you can do so there too!
✨ As we kick off this brand new year, we wish you all the peace, inspiration, and moments of true happiness, big and small — thank you again for starting 2026 with us! 💖🎊
And thank you so much again for the love and support — we hope you're as excited as we are! ʕ ˵• ⩊ •˵ ʔ
2025 was a crazy one for all, and a cruel one for far too many, but as long as we hold fast to one another, we can make sure 2026 is a banner year.
We took some time away from our own projects this year to support a worthy cause, the Horror Not Hate anti-fascist anthology, which Phil has been lending a hand to help Slow Feet Comics editor-in-chief J.M Brandt get the book (and his logo!) designed and ready for press. The good news is: the campaign just launched for the finished book! Over 250 pages of spooky stories and artwork sticking it to The Man!
main cover by Chad Keith
All proceeds (after printing & fulfillment) will be donated to immigrant rights and LGBTQ+ charities, so you not only get a colossal collection of creeptacular frighteousness — you'll also be helping marginalized communities get out from under the fascist boot!
Our pal Steven Prince is getting ready to launch his latest Kaiju vs Matador book of mayhem, Monster Matador: Blood of the Matador, for which you cansign upto get early bird deals on now!
cover by Jesus Kartun Pedroza
As for our next Diabolik project, we'll be launching a sign-up page soon, so stay tuned...
Thanks for all your love and support in 2025! Happiest of New Year to all of you from all of us at Diabolik! —Phil, Ian, and Dan
Just wanted to let you all know that all packages have now been shipped for people who have completed surveys and who's payments have cleared. I've also refunded those of you that accidentally got charged too much postage, so now it's all up to the postal system!
Thanks so much to every one of you for shopping with me whether it was in one campaign or all of them, discovering Backerkit really has made my year and it's such a joy seeing what you all picked!
I'll be back next year with more projects and hopefully a couple of exciting group collabs! But before I plan anything for definite I'd love to ask you what sort of things you'd like to see from me in 2026? I've created a poll but feel free to comment with your ideas...
We are in the final hours of the campaign and are so close to unlocking the next design!
🎄✨🔓 But because I am impatient, and absolutely LOVE all the designs (and won't have time for a festive campaign next year) I decided I am unlocking all TEN designs! 🔓✨🎄
Mistletoe Derpy Kisses
Ugly Sweater, cookies & milk
Krampus Derpy
Santa Coal Derpy
Wreath Derpy
Reindeer Derpy
Derpy Gift
Ornament Derpy
Stocking Derpy
Tangled Derpy
All pins will have glitter in 2-4 colours for some extra festive sparkle!
So if you have been waiting to pledge because your favourite design wasn't unlocked, you no longer have to wait!
But there is more!!!
As in previous campaigns, this one has a custom designby the beautiful mind of Cassirole. And because I wanted to order the pins as soon as the funds came in, I already designed it.
This little snowman will be added as an add-on in the pledgemanager. But, because I love both the blue and black version, there will be both a blue and black version! (I'm feeling really indecicive today😂)
You guys also unlocked all 5 colouring pages! Which you will get as a digital PDF to enjoy this season ^_^ And because I love my returning backers, I am unlocking the mini pin as well even though we don't have 100 backers. Because *I* need the full set myself!
I can't thank you enough for being here to support my art!
I just wanted to touch base real quick. As of last week, 80% of pledges have been shipped and should be making their way to your homes!
Unfortunately, I ran out of large boxes, so the other 20% will get sorted next weekend after the boxes arrive and mailed the week after that. (mid April).
I just wanted to keep everyone in the loop that your Derpies will make their way to you soon!
We did, all orders for The international Player's Review Year One have now shipped (most long ago). I hope you've all been enjoying your zines. If anyone has brought them to table yet feel free to share stories in the comments below.
Now for some truly BIG news, cyclopean even...
Year 100 Million B.C. is coming May 7th!
An Epoch Defining Event!
Golden Achiever's latest project pits your players against a strange prehistoric world where fire is new and barely understood and the night is full of terrors... and adventure!
First previewed in IPR, this is Golden's release of the full ruleset. Designed completely from the ground up by our favourite graphic arts afficionado, including art, layout, and writing. If you love your IPR zines, you will be all-in on what may be the greatest expression of paleolithic hi-jinks since Quest for Fire!
Thanks for reading and all the best until the next collection comes along!
Yours truly,
Dave
P.S. If you haven't checked it out already, my big Mothership adventure antholog and sandbox Dying Hard on Hardlight Station is entering its final days on Kickstarter. Back it here before time runs out.
Hello! While I'm publishing this here, it is actually being sent to all of my past backers and followers. I've found through sending them to myself that using the email list feature from BK leads to them basically being sorted as promo spam... so this is the best way of reaching interested parties.
This is primarily a jewelry campaign, with necklaces, rings, and collar pin sets. But there are also some enamel pins (mini bats, the porcelain one being Chocolat Chaud's artwork), and the freebie stickers. There's also 1 other pin design I'm working on and may be able to squeeze in as the final stretch goal.
My included designs are just the black spoon, silver spoon reorder, the recolors of the thorn and skelebat mini bat pins, and my pride and joy guillotine fidget necklace.
The "blade" is attached to the chain, not the structure of the guillotine itself, so it will be possible to move the "blade" up and down. It features enamel and recessed metal detailing throughout, as well as a CZ heart embedded up top. I'll do my best to have a 3D model ready in time for campaign launch in order to better be able to describe it.
Chocolat Chaud's designs are the gold and white porcelain-patterned mini bat, and beautiful gemstone pieces - the memorial/locket-inspired cat pendant necklaces, and the stained glass window rings, necklaces, and collar pins!! ✨️✨️
These collar pin sets will be the base goal, along with our 2 freebie stickers. The magical kitty is my design and for Early Bird backers, while the mystical window is hers and for Returning Backers (of either of us)!
We'll also have a lot of add-ons of my pre-existing jewelry and pins, and her stickers (and hopefully her existing jewelry also)!
The reason we're running this together but through my account is so that it can be fully fulfilled from the US. Some of you know due to pending orders from her that Japan's tariff agreements with the US are super extreme. A simple single order package to the US costs around $30 USD to ship here now from Japan, and that is excluding tariff costs once it gets here! 🫠 So please be patient with us while I work on fulfilling of hers what I can in addition to my own orders. We'll be seeing if it will be possible to include her pre-existing jewelry as add-ons too, but please keep in mind that thanks to the above it may not be possible.
The guillotine necklace was on my bucket list of merch for years now, but had to continually be put off throughout last year due to all of these global financial circumstances. I'm hoping that now it can become reality!
A lot more info including all jewelry sizing and detailed material composition will be present in the campaign bio. Mine are always plated brass and Chocolat Chaud's are looking to be stainless steel this time.
