About this project
Hi, I'm Jenni Gregory and my project is Dark Mischief Volume One. I'm the editor and a contributor as well. This is a dream project for me, something I've wanted to do for years now. You see, I love comics and I love Halloween and I've always thought that every year around Halloween someone should publish a big collection of great spooky comics stories. You know, fun stuff ... monsters and zombies, ghosts and vampires. Not necessarily light-hearted (though that's OK, too) but stories that are more ... whimsical, more mischievous. At some point I realized that the someone who should publish this collection was actually me. This summer I got up the nerve to finally float the idea to a few fellow comics creators and to my great surprise not only did I get positive reactions -- I got enthusiastic reactions!
So this Halloween will see the release of Dark Mischief Volume One featuring stories by Mitch Byrd (Starman, Predator, Starship Troopers), AP. Furtado (Heavy Metal), Dirk Manning (Nightmare World), Thomas Hall (Robot 13), Dani Jones (My Sister the Freak), Dave Flora (Ghost Zero), Sara Turner (Ghosts of Pineville), Kim Holm, Mark Rudolph, Cayetano Garza, Sam Kirkman, Pam Harrison, Wayne Spencer, Kenny Durkin, Thomas Florimonte Jr, and more.
The collection will be edited by me -- Jenni Gregory -- with an assist by Barry Gregory, design by AP. Furtado, and a cover by Mitch Byrd.
The collection will be printed in full color at standard comics size -- 6.625 x 10.25 -- in both a softcover perfect-bound edition and a limited hardcover edition. A digital download edition will also be available.
We're fortunate in that we don't need to generate funds for printing. One of the benefits of owning a printing press is that printing costs aren't really an obstacle for you.
So what's the purpose of this campaign? Simple ... I'm hoping to raise some funds to pay advances to the artists and writers who have contributed to this project. That's it. 100% of all proceeds from this campaign (after paying for the rewards themselves) go directly to the creators who contributed stories as advances on their royalties.
We're offering some great rewards -- including a limited edition of the book available ONLY as a Kickstarter reward! Take a look to your right and see for yourself!
So thanks for your attention and I hope you'll consider pledging!
For more information -- and previews of some of the stories -- you can visit our website at http://darkmischief.com.
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A pledge of just $1 will earn our eternal gratitude and your name on a "thank you" page printed in Dark Mischief Volume One.
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Five bucks gets you a digital download of Dark Mischief Volume One that you can read on your iPad, iPhone, Android phone or tablet, or your personal computer. Your name will also appear on the book's "thank you" page.
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Pledge $15 and we'll send you a Dark Mischief t-shirt with artwork by the great Mitch Byrd (just let us know your size)! Your name will also appear on the book's "thank you" page.
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For $25 you can get an actual printed copy of the softcover edition of Dark Mischief Volume One signed by editor and contributor Jenni Gregory. As well as your name on the book's "thank you" page.
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A pledge of $40 gets you a copy of the limited edition hardcover of Dark Mischief Volume One signed by editor and contributor Jenni Gregory. As well as your name on the book's "thank you" page.
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For $100 you get a copy of a numbered edition hardcover of Dark Mischief Volume One with a bound-in original sketch from one of the contributors. This edition will ONLY be available as a Kickstarter pledge reward. Your name will also appear on the book's "thank you" page.
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This is the super combo reward. A pledge of $250 will get your name on the book's "thank you" page, a digital download of Dark Mischief Volume One, a softcover edition of of Dark Mischief Volume One, a copy of the numbered edition hardcover of of Dark Mischief Volume One ... AND an original page of artwork from one of the stories in Dark Mischief Volume One.
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Jenni Gregory has been making comics since the mid 1990s.
The Comic Shop News said of her series DreamWalker "I was startlingly impressed by the sense of pacing and storytelling" and her ground-breaking webcomic Abby's Menagerie was hailed at the time by Warren Ellis as "probably the best webcomic I've seen."
She works for Ka-Blam Digital Printing and lives in Florida with her husband, three kids, and a big, very fuzzy dog.
She is hard at work on her first new comics series in years.
