We're just 90 minutes away from the end of the campaign and are so excited to be bringing this project to life. Thanks to everyone for making this our largest comic campaign ever!
We're only about $600 away from our next stretch goal PLUS Suncrest is currently sitting at 81% of our engagement points to get everyone who backs a Suncrest project a freebie digital zine.
If you have anyone that you know would love Bound by Words or any of the other projects in Printopia let them know! As long as the backer train is moving the campaign will stay live in overtime mode!
While we're hard at work on Bound by Words, we also have a few other comics in the pipeline. We've dropped a poll below, let us know what sounds the most interesting.
(All the projects below are in development. These are working titles)
Comic #1: Phantom of the Space Opera - (Sci-Fi Sapphic Romance)
After the last war ended, a decommissioned battle station was turned into an opera house as a gesture of peace for the galaxy. But the deadly AI still haunts the ramparts behind the stage causing trouble for the new owners -- the wealthy elite of a crime syndicate. Christine will need all the wits, skill, and vocal talent she has to infiltrate the opera house, take down the syndicate, and become the opera's new leading lady.
Comic #2: Red Beer Inn (Fantasy Adventure/Gay Romance)
Dunstan, a good-hearted but down-on-his luck dwarf and Hank, a cynical ex-cleric orc, couldn't be more different. But when they discover an abandoned baby human girl, they resolve to raise her together. Hijinks ensue as they try to live a life of adventure before settling down to run a tavern. But their pasts are never too far behind them. Will their love be strong enough to overcome it all?
Comic #3: La Navaja (Crime Drama/Sapphic Romance)
In New York City, a powerful crime boss known as La Navaja (The Knife) ruthlessly protects her community by keeping the gangs there in check. When external forces draw her into conflict with the Mafia, she must join forces with a policewoman to keep her family safe and to root out corruption in the city.
Lumpia Mangga interior artist RAF SALAZAR
Meet RAF SALAZAR, the artist who will be bringing the world of LUMPIA MANGGA to life on page. See his beautiful work on TCNY's THE REALEST BAYANI below.
Just HOURS left for LUMPIA MANGGA #1 - Filipino American Sci-Fi Comic Book!
LAST CALL to join the future of the LUMPIA Deep Fried Universe. Thanks to our current backers, a $25+ pledge gets you TWO bonus enamel pins!
Pledge now to get it before time runs out today 9/29/25 at 1pm PDT.
-If you are a returning backer that has supported any of our past crowdfunding campaigns (LUMPIA 2 film, spin-off comic books, The Ones and Twos, Lineage), your $25+ pledge will earn you a bonus LUMPIA MANGGA Returning Backer Sticker Sheet.
We have updates for our current campaign to make the next comic book chapter of the LUMPIA Deep Fried Universe.
All $25+ backers qualify to win prizes during the livestream. Also one lucky viewer will get a chance to win the live sketch drawing tonight from beee 🤩 DON’T MISS OUT
A manga-inspired independent comic book spin-off of the LUMPIA Movie "Deep Fried Universe". A warrior armed with Filipino spring rolls has to defend his community against a mecha threat.💥
THANK YOU! Thanks to you, we reached our first STRETCH GOAL. LUMPIA MANGGA is now a 24 page FULL COLOR comic book. Also ALL $25+ backers will get another ENAMEL pin of the HERO, which we will reveal soon. (Don't forget to vote!)
NEXT GOAL: $2500 - The book expands to 32 pages! Another enamel pin of another HERO is also unlocked for all $25+ backers
In the book Sherlock Holmes and the Great Detectives: Mistletoe and Mysteries, Holm will work with a different great detective to solve each case. Which great detectives would you like to see Holmes collaborate with?
I wanted to give you a quick update with more good news. I am currently more than halfway done my work on the next Sherlock Holmes holiday collection. sherlock Holmes and the great Detectives: Mistletoe and Mysteries will be crowdfunded in August! My goal is to have all the rewards, including the print editions, went out no later than the end of September. That will give everyone a chance to read the advent calendar of mysteries in print or digital editions starting on December first!
This one will be a crossover collection where Holmes collaborates with a different great detective in each adventure. Please vote in the poll to let me know which great detective you'd like to see Holmes work with in the book.
I also wanted to let you know about my current Sherlock Holmes Kickstarter publishing project as well as two projects from our friends at MX Publishing.
"Harding was a junior member of staff at the Tankerville Club. That’s where he was found early this morning, just as you saw him, laid out in the Trophy Room with that tiger lying at his side, and the both of them covered in blood.”
Before Watson. Before 221B Baker Street. Before the stories of the Great Detective became legend... there was SHERLOCK HOLMES, a recent college graduate forced to seek charity from his disapproving brother while struggling to build his career as a consulting detective.
A man is found murdered in an exclusive gentlemen's club... and the main suspect is a tiger-skin rug! Inspector Lestrade calls on amateur sleuth Sherlock Holmes to see if he can offer any insights into this baffling case. Holmes soon learns that the members of the club can hardly be said to act like gentlemen. Murder, theft, and thrashing the staff are all de rigueur, but cheating at cards is simply scandalous! As Holmes uncovers more of the perplexing plot, he receives unlikely assistance from an irregular urchin, a canine companion... and club member Sebastian Moran. The game is afoot!
Get this wonderful new Sherlock Holmes novel by CLICKING HERE!
I wanted to give you an update on the next advent calendar book. As I've been working on the stories, I've brought in other Victorian era detectives to work alongside Holmes. Thus, the next Holmes advent calendar book will be titled: Sherlock Holmes and the great Detectives: Mistletoe Mysteries. Solve mysteries with Holmes and Watson as well as Father Brown, The Old Man in the Corner, Lois Cayley, and many more! More details about the book are coming soon!
And if you're looking for more Holmes, here's our latest Kickstarter. We're almost at the STRETCH GOAL!
How do you cancel an assassin's contract –– that you took out on yourself? Alton Hughes is desperate to do so, but has no way to call off the killer, and time is running out! Sherlock Holmes swears to protect his client, but how can he locate an anonymous assassin amongst the teeming millions of London?
Thaddeus Tuffentsamer's new novella provides a tense, gripping tale, challenging the Great Detective to save a life hanging in the balance!
Stretch Goals!!!
If the campaign reaches $1,500, this volume will include Thaddeus Tuffentsamer's classic novella "SHERLOCK HOLMES: THE ADVENTURE OF THE GIANT RAT OF SUMATRA"!
In 1881, Professor Moriarty is determined to become the Napoleon of Crime. To finance his expanding criminal empire, he unleashes a vile, villainous vermin on London! As the body count rises as quickly as his extorted gains, the professor finds himself checked by a certain amateur sleuth and his companion. No matter... two more bodies will make no difference...
If the campaign reaches $2,000, we'll also include Thad's classic novella "SHERLOCK HOLMES: THE ADVENTURE OF THE TIGER'S BLOOD"!
Mr. Blanchard has inherited the estate of his late uncle, including a menagerie of rare and exotic animals. Try as he might, his servants will not discuss the circumstances surrounding his uncle's death, only that "...the tiger's blood is on your uncle's hands!" But Mr. Blanchard's uncle never owned a tiger! Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson must unravel a most perplexing, peculiar problem...
Help us reach the stretch goals and make the book TRIPLE in size! Back the project by CLICKING HERE!
We're fairly certain you've heard the word today that our next campaign, covering years 1961-1964, has gone live on Kickstarter today! But just in case, we thought we should send you this update tonight, reminding you of the great EARLY BIRD specials we have live right now!
It's because of backers like YOU that we can commit to publishing ALL the Chester Gould Dick Tracy years in these beautiful softcover slipcase editions.
Endings are hard, but noir endings are murder. Cartoonist and award-nominated animator, writer, and director Stephan Franck and his company Dark Planet Comics are finally cracking the case in PALOMINO Volume 6. The ambitious, Ringo Award-Nominated series chronicles the lost culture of Los Angeles’ country music clubs and throws readers into a pulse-pounding, decades-spanning mystery. The series deftly blends hard boiled noir and Western aesthetics to explore Los Angeles' weird and forgotten history with an unforgettable cast of working musicians, TV actors, stuntmen, cops, hustlers, and broken souls.The saga’s stunning swan song is now live on Kickstarter.
A captivating neo-noir crime mystery, PALOMINO begins in 1981 Los Angeles, where readers meet EDDIE LANG, an old-school, hardboiled former Burbank PD detective juggling his 6-nights-a-week gig in the Palomino house band, his P.I. business, and his teenage daughter, Liz--who might even be more hardboiled than he is! Father and daughter share a killer sense of humor and an unbreakable bond, but tragedy looms large over their past. A brand new case that's hitting a little too close to home upends their lives, sending them each down very dangerous paths. Ultimately, the unsolved mystery haunts LIz into adulthood. In 1995, she’s working as a reporter when a routine assignment opens old wounds and Liz embarks on one final odyssey, where every secret will be revealed and all scores settled. To survive the night, Liz must confront the ghosts of her past and, maybe – just maybe – emerge on the other side reborn and free.
