A Kickstarter for ONE Page of a Comic: What's New in Kickstarter Comics for March 29-30, 2025
First-glance analysis of the Kickstarter comics market, all summarized in one place!
The mission of The Comic$ Crowd is to curate the crowdfunding campaigns in the Kickstarter Comics category in order to identify and spotlight those projects most likely to yield actual comics and to yield the most high quality comics in terms of story, design, and cover/interior artwork.
To visit the Kickstarter page for any of the projects below, simply click on its title.
By the Numbers
Total # Live Comics Projects on Kickstarter: 296
Total # Comics Launches for These Dates: 10
Yesterday’s News
Every time I dare to think I can’t be surprised at something on Kickstarter, I run across a campaign that does the trick. From this weekend comes IRON DUST CHRONICLES (ISSUE 1, PAGE 2), which seeks funding for ONE PAGE of a comic. It’s not even for the first page. It’s for page 2. A $10 pledge gets you early access to a digital copy of page 2, but not page 1, and you get the right to vote on aspects of the story as it moves forward. Or see page 2 without the vote for $5. The third and final reward will hit you for $300, but you’ll get a named thanks on “social media” and a signed/personalized mini-poster of the cover art. How nice. Wow.
If you thought the Kickstarter Comics economy was out of whack before, with 20 page comics priced at $10 and up (a subject for another time), try this guy’s plan and pay $100 for 20 pages. Of course, it’s on layaway, so drop $5 (minimum) every few months for years, and you just might get a complete story one day. No, you definitely won’t. This is an absurd plan for making a comic that will result in no funding and, ultimately, no comic. But, if you’re really into second pages by themselves, here’s your action.
Beyond that ridiculousness, the weakest of weekends offered no projects I can formally recommend. MIKE WOLFER'S GALLERY OF EDGAR RICE BURROUGHS® is a pin-up book, not a comic. There was another quartet of projects that don’t show all the necessary aspects of a comic book:
The Interstellar Travels of Alfred and Stu' - No cover
Origin of Ashfall: Series - No cover or interior art samples
Blood & Blades: Action Manga/Comic - No cover or interior art samples
DWARVES volume 1 and 2 - PILIPIUK & LARWA - No interior art samples
Even the campaigns that managed to show themselves as actual, completely conceptualized comics did not rise to the ‘Comic I Like’ standards, which, sadly, has been typical for weekends:
Comics I Like
Disperse! Nothing to see here!
These updates can be SO amusing! This one had me laughing out loud.
Is the future going to be panel by panel fundraising?