Alright folks, gather 'round! Your friendly neighborhood artist, Steve Rude (the one with the crippling art supply habit!), is back with a brand new sketchbook project: The Art of Steve Rude 2025 Sketchbook!
This bad boy's hitting crowdfunding in January, and lemme tell ya, art supplies ain't cheap. That's why your support is golden!
Speaking of gold, be sure to check out our Patreon page – those dedicated dudes and dudettes get some special deals during the launch.
And hey, while you're at it, head over to our launch page (www.steverude.com/2025skb) and sign up for the Backerkit livestream! We'll be dishing all the juicy details about the sketchbook and maybe even throw in a few laughs.
Now, to keep this humble dude motivated, let's hear it! What kind of goodies would make YOU excited for the next crowdfunder? Hit that poll and let your freak flag fly! (Select all that apply)
We just wanted to let everyone know that work on the comic is currently underway, and to say thank you to everyone for their patience. We joined onto the comictopia project on rather short notice, but during the campaign it became clear that while we love Backerkit for our fulfillment solution, we've just built up too much of a an audience on Kickstarter to try and move everyone over here. So we will be launching issue 1, the full issue, over on Kickstarter next month, and we will have enough art to finalize assembly of the ashcan very soon.
Artist Antonio Baldari also had to take on another gig unexpectedly but is back working on CSR, and also contributed this awesome cover for the upcoming full length issue.
So hopefully if everything lines up right, you will have the ashcans in hand just as everyone is starting to talk about the first issue, before it goes to press. This will also get a wide circulation through comic book stores nation/world-wide, making this limited ashcan release something special. As soon as the new kickstarter pre-launch page is live we will share that too. More to come soon!
Last month we completed page 82 of 102. The end is in sight! Which means we're going to start working on the pledge manager and get that out to y'all soon.
A backer sent me a request for an update so i thought I should share my reply with you too!
So... I was just about ready to go to print when I got back in
touch with an old famous author friend. ( One of his childhood
stories is actually in this book) So, I wanted to check with
him if it would hurt his family that I told what I was going
to tell. He said it's okay but one thing let to another and he
gave me new info into the murder of a mutual friend.
(had been unsolved)
So now I feel like I have to go back and draw more pages to
fill in that part of the story!
And yes, I'm dragging my ass again to get that done. 🙁
My plan is that this coming week i'll only focus on finishing
TNT, no gym, no outings, just TNT and whatever emergency fires that always come up.
I'll let you know how that goes.
Thanks for checking in, I really appreciate it.
Best,
Eric
PS i drew two pages this week, just need to fine tune them, shade, letter and add them to the printers file.
Mine finally came in. It had a shipping date of 7/27/26. Very very minor damage on the spine and either slight water damage, or low quality paper, on top of the pages.
Idk if it is a coincidence or not, but 2 weeks ago I filled out the Contact Us form on Simon & Schuster's website. While I never got a message back, my correct order for my pledge came today!
Important update for non-U.S. backers specifically! I apparently need to recheck international rates and possibly add a separate shipping table for Canada. I will update you when the shipping rates have been corrected.
