First look at Occupy Comics art! Distribution update!
It's been a while since the last update, but have no fear... we've been pluggin away in the lab making cool art and tinkering with new types of release models.
We let Wired post some excerpts from the works-in progress, including selections from Joshua Dysart & Allen Gladfelter, Douglas Rushkoff & Dean Haspiel, J.M. DeMatteis & Mike Cavallaro, Swifty Lang & Frank Reynoso, Zane Grant, Brea Grant & Jonathan Spies, Ales Kot & Tyler Crook, and Mike Allred.
Check em out here
http://www.wired.com/underwire/2012/03/black-mask-studios-occupy-comics/
The Wired article also gives an update on the release method we're putting together. Initially I was hoping we could partner with a publisher or retailer to work with us on distribution, but we weren't happy with any of the deals we were offered. So instead I decided to invent a solution we'd be happy with, and it wound up seeming like a pretty cool way to support comics creators in general. It's called Black Mask Studios and you can read more about it over at Wired.
Thanks for supporting the project everybody. We're doing our best to make an awesome book. Now that the pages are coming in and the plan is really coalescing, I'll be sending along updates more regularly.
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- First created · 9 backed
- Matt Pizzolo 527 friends
- Website: xzolox.com
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For just ONE DOLLAR you can be immortalized in our website's thank you page! When your grandkids ask where you were during Occupy Wall Street, you can say you were one of its most valued supporters. Hazaa!
Estimated delivery: Dec 2011Pledge $5 or more
32 backers
You lucky dogs get the first OCCUPY COMICS digital comic book delivered directly into your email box! Plus you get a Thank You on the website AND in the digital comic. Way to go, comrade!
Estimated delivery: May 2012Pledge $10 or more
171 backers
Alcohol, tobacco, and drugs! D'oh! That's against the rules. Ok... YOU get a subscription to the entire run of OCCUPY COMICS digital comic books. Maybe it'll be 2 issues... maybe it'll be 200! And each & every issue will have your name thanked in glorious black text!
Estimated delivery: May 2012Pledge $15 or more
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Your very own paper copy of the #1 issue of OCCUPY COMICS floppy book (before we collect the comics into a hardcover anthology). PLUS your name will be immortalized in the thank you section of the collected anthology book!
Estimated delivery: May 2012Pledge $20 or more
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LIMITED, SIGNED & NUMBERED paper copy of the #1 issue of OCCUPY COMICS floppy book (before we collect the comics into a hardcover anthology). The first 100 copies will be numbered and SIGNED by at least one of the creators! Limited edition awesomeness.
Estimated delivery: May 2012Pledge $25 or more
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* Special Last Minute Addition * For $25 you can get a special limited edition t-shirt of Guy Denning's Guy Fawkes protesters illustration. It's a gorgeous design and a nice way to commemorate the sorta-reunion of V For Vendetta creators Alan Moore & David Lloyd who created the Guy Fawkes mask and are both contributing to Occupy Comics. (Please add $5 if you'd like an American Apparel shirt, otherwise it will be a standard brand like Gildan, Anvil, etc). [This pledge amount does not include digital comics or anything else, please add its value to another pledge package and send a message if you'd like the book as well as this shirt] * We are hoping to ship in time for Christmas & Hanukkah *
Estimated delivery: Dec 2011Pledge $25 or more
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You get the Occupy Comics Documentary DVD featuring interviews with the creators explaining why they are inspired to participate, footage of artists drawing portraits of occupiers on-site at the protests, and much more. This special documentary will be directed by Patrick Meaney, the director of beloved comics documentaries "Grant Morrison: Talking With Gods" and "Warren Ellis: Captured Ghosts."
Estimated delivery: Sep 2012Pledge $50 or more
183 backers Limited (12 of 195 left)
An OCCUPY COMICS collected anthology book. Not only will this be an awesome, limited-edition collectible... but you'll get a book that is hand-numbered as one of the first 200 - 400 printed!
Estimated delivery: Sep 2012Pledge $50 or more
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An OCCUPY COMICS collected anthology book. Still awesome and limited edition, these books will be hand-numbered from 401 and up.
Estimated delivery: Sep 2012Pledge $69 or more
32 backers
An OCCUPY COMICS collected anthology book (hand numbered in the 401 and up allotment) PLUS a Documentary DVD as described in Reward #6.
Estimated delivery: Sep 2012Pledge $85 or more
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An OCCUPY COMICS collected anthology book (hand numbered in the 401 and up allotment) PLUS a Documentary DVD as described in Reward #6 PLUS a SIGNED script by one of the writers!
Estimated delivery: Sep 2012Pledge $100 or more
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A SIGNED & NUMBERED (between #1 & #100!) OCCUPY COMICS collected anthology book PLUS a Documentary DVD as described in Reward #6 SIGNED by the film's director! The book will be hand-numbered as one of the first 100 copies printed and will be SIGNED by at least one of the creators!
Estimated delivery: Feb 2013Pledge $150 or more
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A signed piece of ORIGINAL ART (!!!) from OCCUPY COMICS. Plus an OCCUPY COMICS collected anthology book (hand numbered in the 401 and up allotment) and a Documentary DVD as described in Reward #6.
Estimated delivery: Sep 2012
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Creator david Loitz on May 2, 2012
Just wondering when the next update will happen? excited to get my comic soon!