Laura Park

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Laura Park joined Kickstarter on September 25, 2009

Hack: More Stories from a Chicago Cab by Dmitry Samarov

A couple of months of not driving a cab to put together the sequel to "Hack: Stories from a Chicago Cab."
- Nonfiction
- Chicago, IL
- 105% funded $6,321 pledged
- 134 backers
Help Sink or Swim launch the Hero Collection! by Kate Sanderson

A one woman show looking to go into production.
- Product Design
- Chicago, IL
- 146% funded $7,332 pledged
- 144 backers
Funded!
I Was A Teenage Michael Jackson Impersonator! by Keith Knight

The first graphic novel by Harvey, Glyph and Inkpot Award-winning cartoonist Keith Knight ("K Chronicles", "Knight Life", "(th)ink")
- Comics
- Los Angeles, CA
- 107% funded $42,843 pledged
- 736 backers
- Funded Apr 06, 2012
Funded!
Injury Comics #4 by Ted May

Injury Comics #4: Ted May, Jeff Wilson and Mike Reddy. Teen spends morning in detention after night of heavy metal! Plus Beast Biplane!
- Comics
- St Louis, MO
- 136% funded $1,701 pledged
- 87 backers
- Funded Apr 07, 2012
Funded!
THE CAVALIER MR. THOMPSON: a comic book novel by Rich Tommaso

A 130-page classical crime adventure set in the town of Big Spring, Texas during the 1920's. Penned by Eisner award-winning cartoonist.
- Comics
- Atlanta, GA
- 230% funded $9,210 pledged
- 280 backers
- Funded Jan 23, 2012
Funded!
Carter Family Comics: Don't Forget This Song by David Lasky

Help us complete the remaining pages of our full color graphic novel biography of the first family of country music, The Carter Family.
- Comics
- Seattle, WA
- 170% funded $8,523 pledged
- 151 backers
- Funded Oct 10, 2011
Funded!
Debut Album From The Lawrence Peters Outfit by Lawrence Peters

Country and rock stalwart Lawrence Peters is completing a record full of good times, heartbreak, and old-skool country mayhem.
- Country & Folk
- Chicago, IL
- 148% funded $7,446 pledged
- 164 backers
- Funded Jun 15, 2011
Funded!
Pocket Guide to Hell's Haymarket Reenactment by Paul Durica

Attn., workers! Pocket Guide to Hell announces a full-scale historical reenactment of the Haymarket Affair, on its 125th anniversary.
- Performance Art
- Chicago, IL
- 120% funded $1,805 pledged
- 40 backers
- Funded Apr 28, 2011
Funded!
Crap Hound No. 5: Hands, Hearts & Eyes, 3rd Edition! by Chloe Eudaly

You can help us publish the next issue of Crap Hound! A great print resource for artists, crafters & designers! 1000s of images!
- Nonfiction
- Portland, OR
- 103% funded $8,308 pledged
- 197 backers
- Funded Dec 06, 2010
Funded!
Soup and Bread: The Cookbook by Martha Bayne

A limited-edition cookbook of recipes from the winter 2009 season of Soup and Bread, a free weekly soup meal and fundraiser at the Hideout in Chicago.
- Nonfiction
- Chicago, IL
- 149% funded $4,496 pledged
- 103 backers
- Funded Nov 16, 2009

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Hack: More Stories from a Chicago Cab by Dmitry Samarov

Help Sink or Swim launch the Hero Collection! by Kate Sanderson

I Was A Teenage Michael Jackson Impersonator! by Keith Knight

Injury Comics #4 by Ted May

THE CAVALIER MR. THOMPSON: a comic book novel by Rich Tommaso

Carter Family Comics: Don't Forget This Song by David Lasky

Debut Album From The Lawrence Peters Outfit by Lawrence Peters

Pocket Guide to Hell's Haymarket Reenactment by Paul Durica

Crap Hound No. 5: Hands, Hearts & Eyes, 3rd Edition! by Chloe Eudaly

Soup and Bread: The Cookbook by Martha Bayne

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