Freelance writer and independent comic book creator.
Documenting the ups and downs of publishing my first graphic novel, along with my thoughts on the comic book industry.
This past spring I had the opportunity to dive deep into chaos that has been the comic book industry over the past 12 months. The divorce between Diamond and DC, the impact of lockdowns and stay-at-home orders on local comic shops, and the rise of independent publishers and Kickstarter have… read more »
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The final Code 45 Kickstarter campaign will go live at 8 am, Tuesday, June 1! This campaign will include the #4-5 Mega-Issue that wraps up the Code 45 story, but it will also offer all five issues, as well as an exclusive 120+ page graphic novel edition of the entire… read more »
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It’s been a continual surprise how far and wide Code 45 has spread across the globe. When we ran our first campaign for Issue #1, the vast majority of our supporters hailed from Canada, which only makes sense. After all, this is where our creative team is based, and as… read more »
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One of the most amazing experiences I’ve had creating Code 45 caught me almost completely by surprise. By the time I began writing the second issue, I knew that I wanted to leverage music from the era our main character, Vanessa, grew up in to provide additional connective tissue between… read more »
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The printing world is one whose tendrils stretch far and wide across the entire globe, and in the early stages of the pandemic that proved to be a major problem for many of our Kickstarter peers. As horizons began to narrow mid-March, so too did the capacity of China’s printers,… read more »
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Our planning for the Code 45 graphic novel mega-issue was drawn from our experience with the first issue of comic book. This proved to be a problem. Since we had spent the better part of 2019 creating and completing Code 45 Issue 1, we didn’t quite have a handle on… read more »
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One of the biggest changes we made going from our first Kickstarter campaign to our second was the decision to bundle issues 2+3 together into what we termed the ‘mega-issue.’ Initially, we considered trying to fund the entire Code 45 project all at once, bundling each of the five issues… read more »
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In my previous post discussing our second Code 45 Kickstarter campaign, I mentioned that we had been prepared for a more modest level of first day support, which is what ended up happening for us. What were hadn’t predicted was the huge influx of people who were backing our comic… read more »
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In my previous post about what it’s been like to create, produce, publish, and fund the Code 45 comic book on Kickstarter during a pandemic I talked about how the coronavirus caught us—like the rest of the world—completely off-guard. In the midst of our campaign the entire world was thrown… read more »
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The timing of our first Kickstarter for Code 45 was both a blessing and a curse. We chose March 3, 2020 as our launch date shortly after having crossed the t’s and dotted the lower-case j’s with Scout Comics in January. This gave us a scant 30 days or so… read more »
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