Saint for Rent - Volume 1 Kickstarter - UPDATE #5. WE’VE REACHED OUR PRINT GOAL! And now… Stretch Goals have been unlocked! Swing by the Updates section to see the news!
Hey again, folks! Iron Circus Comics’ latest anthology project, featuring small animals on BIG adventures, has less than three days remaining on Kickstarter and about $6,000 left to go until its creators’ next pay raise!
Part of the reason ICC pre-orders so many of its projects on Kickstarter is it allows us to improve artist pay. And if (when???) we hit $40,000, our creators will be on the receiving end of a $20 page rate increase.
Saint runs an inn for Time Travelers. Friends and family pop in from various points of their own lives, but they also seem to attract “supernatural” guests to Saint’s home, too.
ᕕ(∵ ･ิ◡･ิ ∵)ᕗ <–This is Saint, btw
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Hi, everyone! Fell Swoop is in its last week on Kickstarter!
Snag a copy of this beautiful sci fi romance adventure comic while you can! I can only bring this to print with a successful Kickstarter.
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Fell Swoop is a sweet LGBTQA+ romance & adventure about a human medic and alien scavenger trying to survive, and ultimately… falling in love.
If you like queer comics and romance, this is for you! If you liked the alien romances in Mass Effect, this is REALLY for you! If you like purple aliens with long pretty hair and pointy ears, hey, I have one, too!
The Kickstarter for my completed romcom webcomic about gay dads, Life of Melody, is live!
I worked on this comic for over two years, and I’ve been keeping it Patreon exclusive, but now you can finally get the book in physical form! It’s over 150 pages of full colour pages, plus a bunch of different extra rewards like stickers, keychains, and postcard prints! You can also get a commission from me! You can read more on the Kickstarter page!
And you can read a 40 page sample of the comic here!
The first ever collection of stutterhug comics is live on kickstarter!! Please take a look and consider becoming a backer. For everyone who’s been reading my silent comics online for years this is a chance to finally have some of them in print form ~
In addition to the book there are all sorts of other goodies on offer including
- prints
-stickers
- commissions
- custom comics (!)
This project was delayed due to the pandemic disruption but I’m really happy its finally here, I hope these little strips will help to spread a little bit of much needed joy and silliness.
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We’ve added a 2 book gift tier to celebrate reaching goal 💕🌸 get
one for yourself and one for a friend with a special gift card print
featuring bun and fox included~
Please check out the Kickstarter for this book I am a part of! 75 pages of art and comics, made for and by LGBT people of all sizes! There is also a postcard pledge bonus of my art~
In addition to the 144 page book, chock full of everyone’s beautiful illustrations, comics, and wips, we also have a selection of holographic prints, acrylic charms, transparent stickers and enamel pins available for you to order! We even have the previous zine PDFs available in a couple bundles!
The main purpose of this fundraiser is to raise additional funding for our artists. Our goal is to raise an additional $50 CAD per page to each artist because our artists are worth it! This Kickstarter will also compensate for shipping everyone’s books via White Squirrel, paying for Kickstarter and credit card fees and finally, having a cushion fund in case things get a little more expensive than initially thought.
Thanks, everyone, for your continuous support and encouragement. Let’s make this a success!
Webcomics are roughly what it says on the tin: comics, which are posted on the web! So, are they just like comics in print, except online instead?
Kind of! There are a lot of comics online which are formatted very
similarly to print comics, and the reasons for this are varied.
Sometimes it’s because the creator intends to print them later, and it
makes this process easier if the pages are already laid out
appropriately. Sometimes it’s just because that is the type of comic
they enjoy reading, and which they’re inspired by.
So they’re like webtoons?
Yes and no. Webtoon is a brand name– a very popular brand, but just as not every can of soda is a coke, not all webcomics are webtoons, although arguably all webtoons are webcomics. They are, after all, sequentially illustrated and use many narrative conventions associated with comics (speech bubbles, panels, etc), and are published online.
But that’s far from the only type of webcomic out there! In the earliest days of webcomics, formats tended to be constrained by users’ bandwidth and limited monitor sizes, so simple art and layouts were a must, as well as small file sizes. But as technology improved and more people started reading and creating webcomics, people started to experiment and play with some of the options that digital formats have to offer. (In particular, use of animation, or of interactive elements such as components of the page that appear or change when a user hovers their mouse over a part of the graphic.)
During the run of the popular webcomic Homestuck, there were a number of updates whose content consisted of full-on video games within the browser screen, which would allow readers to use keyboard commands and mouse movements to control a sprite character and interact with an environment within the browser window, including dialogue trees with other characters, events, and so on. These were mainly coded in Adobe Flash, which has since ceased to be supported, making these games difficult to archive in playable form, but similar effects can be achieved with Javascript, as the popular stick-figure strip comic XKCD has used.
What do webcomics look like?
The style and format of many early webcomics were inspired by newspaper strips, and the daily posting schedule of a webcomic is a close approximation to the way in which newspaper serials were historically published, making it an easy fit. Some of the first webcomics to become widely read utilized this format, such as Penny Arcade. Many of these strip comics are comedy-centric, with each update being a new joke; sometimes, but not always, featuring a central cast of characters. Some comics used the format to branch out into longer ongoing stories, occasionally reaching beyond the comedy genre into fantasy or drama storylines, building dedicated and passionate fan bases as they went.
As the medium became more widely known, more and more different styles and approaches began to appear. For every genre or style of physical comic or graphic novel, there are now webcomics utilizing similar storytelling approaches. Some are inspired by western comic books; by bande dessinee or other European books; photo collages (fumetti), or by manga.
Some webcomics will release a single horizontal row of 3-4 panels in an update. Some may release a full page with 6-10 panels or more, filled with painstaking detail, Some may update with animations, or a single panel at a time almost like a storyboard. And still others use the infinite canvas of the digital screen to create a vertical scroll for the reader to read, which can contain the equivalent amount of content as 2-10 ‘standard’ comic book pages.
What kind of content or themes do webcomics contain?
Hoo boy everything under the sun, huh
Because of the nature of webcomics being without the need of a traditional publisher, the content created has an enormous range in artistic freedom. Many webcomics are more intimate, passion projects that take advantage of the flexibility provided without boundaries, making it an excellent outlet for anyone to create to their heart’s content. The stories vary from a traditional comic style approach with a long running cast and story, auto-bios from the artist’s experience, gag strips, animated games, and much more!
So, ultimately:
They are what they are! Webcomics are in the name, comics published on the web. Varying in artistic quality, format, content, and style, this medium of comic has a diverse range of stories and possibilities. With a large majority free to read, webcomics are both accessible and abundant!
