Revenge of the NSFW: What's New in Kickstarter Comics - February 3, 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: 265
Total # Comics Launches for This Date: 14
Yesterday’s News
Here they come. February’s been real light on the NSFW comics so far, but Monday rectified that, starting with a (really unattractive) art book that’s not a comic: "Curvy Sexy Bombs". Also dropped on Monday were a pair of porn cover mills that pretty much ignored the existence of actual sequential art:
OCCULT PRESS GRAVESHIFT GIRLS VOL.8- FINAL ISSUE - 100% AI tits
And another porn cover mill, Higher Education #1-2 - NSFW, Stoner Comedy Comic, that actually shows quite a bit of sequential art (what little you can discern past the black bars) based on an actual story premise, but the overall quality doesn’t rise to a level that deserves a recommendation.
However, there is a sublimely unique and fascinating erotic comic - The Unsinkable Ship of Fools by Jonas Goonface - that totally deserves a recommendation, and you should check it out as a “Comic I Like”, below. You will see a NSFW comic that sells itself without black-barring buttholes. Nuance and copy matter, people.
Launch traffic is heavy right now, and the Kickstarter Comics category will soon count 300+ projects on a consistent basis once again. Sadly, not every project is…well…good. Many fall short in terms of art or story concept, and, on first glance and a quick pass, these don’t pass muster:
And a retread no-prize to anyone who can define “unknowningly” for me.
The Journey - Chronicle 01 offers previews of neither cover art nor sequential pages. How are we supposed to believe an actual comic is being made here?
These two have potential but don’t quite rise to the level of being recommended:
Comics I Like
These, I’ll recommend:
Greenzone : Life In The Blocks 1-4 by Fish Lee
Issues 1-4 of Greeenzone: Life In The Blocks
In a world where anyone could be born with superpowers, genomes are viewed as walking weapons… supervillains waiting to happen. Cast out of society and forgotten, they are forced into Greenzones, and packed into super powered ghettos called “the Blocks”
Simple, effective cover art & design
Stylized, expressive art, color & composition
Goal: $3000
End Date: March 3, 2025
Estimated Delivery: December, 2025
No. Pages: Not specified
Lowest Digital Tier Price: $5
Lowest Print Tier Price: $10
Catch-up rewards tiers available
The Unsinkable Ship of Fools by Jonas Goonface by Iron Circus Comics
An erotic train ride full of magical misfits and vagabonds of all shapes and sizes. No bosses! No brakes! Only thrills & carnal bliss!
Freak, geek, or mangey misfit, no one is too strange for this ride. With no boss to answer to and no brakes to slow their roll, creature comforts and carnal bliss are all that remain to this cast of colorful vagabonds!
Look, an actual NSFW/erotic comic that tells a story with professional-level art and design without selling you AI tits or 15 gratuitous crotch shots by contortionists. Will wonders never cease?
Expert cover art & design
Gorgeous, stylized interior art & composition, with next-level coloring techniques. Wow.
Goal: $5000
End Date: March 6, 2025
Estimated Delivery: June, 2025
No. Pages: 250
Lowest Digital Tier Price: $10
Lowest Print Tier Price: $20
I backed this one.