Freelance writer and independent comic book creator.
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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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 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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The last 12 months have been a whirlwind combination of creativity, stress, uncertainty, chaos, and art. When Angela Hodge, Joe Ng, and I signed our publishing contract with Scout Comics just over a year ago, brought Josh Perez on board as colorist, and then decided we were going to launch… read more »
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Earlier this week Kickstarter sent out a survey asking project creators like us what we liked and what we would improve about the entire crowdsourcing process. It was a fairly extensive set of questions, and it was clear that there are certain areas that their staff are focused on (particularly… read more »
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We had a new shipment that arrive at Code 45 HQ today – the Montreal Metro Map designed by Angela Hodge. This tri-fold map tracks sightings and lore surrounding the dragons that lurk in the metro tunnels. The design combines a version of the early 2000s Montreal metro network with… read more »
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