We’ve been waiting for what feels like forever to finally say this:
HOLIDAY MARKET FULFILLMENT IS COMPLETE!!!!!!!! ʕっ◕ヮ◕ʔっ ✧･ﾟ:*
What you see in these photos is the very last batch of rewards, all packed and labeled! The big box is sealed and ready to leave with the courier on Monday, August 31 📦💨
In our last update, we estimated that we would finish comfortably before the end of September. Somehow, we managed to beat our own estimate by an entire month and finish before the end of August instead!!
Apparently we really aren’t very good at estimating timelines in either direction ʕ≧▽≦;ʔゞ But for once, we’re extremely happy to have been wrong!
Every single package belonging to a backer who completed their payment and/or survey has now been prepared. There is nothing left waiting in our fulfillment queue for this campaign: once this final batch leaves on Monday, every remaining completed order will officially be on its way!
After all the delays, problems, stress, silence and patient waiting, it feels almost unreal to write this… but this campaign is finally closed. FINALLY!! 🥹❤️
We’re so incredibly happy and relieved. Thank you from the bottom of our hearts for sticking with us. Your patience and kindness have meant more to us than we can properly explain.
Soon every one of these rewards will finally be home with you.
YEEEEAAAAAH!!! 🥳🎉🎉🎉📦💕
With love and an enormous amount of relief, Inari & Mako
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!
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!
We want to start by saying that we’re really sorry, both for how long this has taken and for being so quiet lately.
Life got in the way, then more and more problems piled up behind the scenes, and keeping up with everything became much harder than we expected. We never stopped working, but we didn’t do a good job of letting you know that. We know the silence made an already frustrating wait feel even worse, especially because this one was supposed to be such a quick campaign.
Thank you, truly, for how patient and understanding you’ve been with us through all of this. ❤️
Some of you have already received your packages, and seeing them finally arrive has made us incredibly happy!! 🥺💕 In the meantime, we’ve continued packing and shipping~
In the meantime, we have continued packing and shipping orders, even if at a slower pace than we would have liked. As a two-person team, we’ve also been alternating fulfillment between this Holiday Market campaign and another long-pending campaign of ours, so that both can continue moving forward rather than leaving either one completely at a standstill.
Right now, at the pace we’re working, we expect to have all remaining Holiday Market packages shipped before the end of September, with some room to spare. This is our current realistic estimate based on the progress we’re making now.
You’ll receive your tracking information once your package has been shipped.
📬 If you’re planning to move soon or need to change your shipping address, please contact us as soon as possible so that we can double-check it before your package is sent.
We also want you to know that if we go quiet for too long, you can absolutely ask us for an update. A gentle nudge honestly helps us as a reminder when we’re struggling to keep up. Communication and time management don’t come naturally to us, especially when we’re overwhelmed (they’re often among the first things we unintentionally fall behind on)😰 We know it’s still our responsibility to do better, but kind reminders can genuinely help. We only ask that they remain polite and understanding, as they have been so far. ❤️
Lastly, we’ve added some extra freebies to every package that experienced this additional delay. We know they can’t make up for such a long wait, and we don’t expect them to but we really hope the extra little surprises will bring you a smile when your package finally arrives!!
Thank you again for sticking with us. We really appreciate it, and we can’t wait to see the rest of these packages finally reaching their homes. 💌
With love and gratitude, Inari & Mako
Small transparency note: The content of this update was written by us. Since English isn’t our first language, we used AI to help translate and organize it more clearly.
Two-Eyed Tales Magazine # 3, launching September 1st on Kickstarter, is a 52-page magazine-format comic featuring a framing sequence and four other stories based on the fiction of HG Wells, but amped up to become black & white horror stories in the vein of 1960s and 1970s horror magazines like CREEPY and EERIE.
The framing sequence, called "Wells of Terror," is loosely based on HG Wells' story "The Inexperienced Ghost," but much has been changed about the story. For one thing, our protagonist is HG Wells himself, who wasn't in the original story. For another, our ghost, now a woman, tells of a bizarre afterlife full of strange wells connected to humanity's collective unconscious. Check out the first three pages below with art by Greg Woronchak and edits by Stefani Manard. Follow the page here to get a notification when we launch and to see more preview pages.
