Funded! This project successfully raised its funding goal on June 23, 2012.
Dear backers,
Please accept my apologies for such a long time between updates. Your patience is commendable; my silence is not.
Sarah Richardson is at work on page layouts and physical pages, literally "cooking" the book(s). For those of you with an interest in design and book arts, here is a look at "how the sausage gets made."
--Ezra Claverie
Dear backers,
The illustrations and text are done, and now in the capable hands of designer Sarah Richardson. Below are two more images by Tim Hutchings and Erol Otus.
Soon we will have some finished page layouts to show you. Stay tuned.
--EC
Dear backers,
Work continues on TSOOP. We're only a few weeks behind schedule, which isn't bad for a project involving six collaborators in five cities.
Dan Zettwoch has finished his illustrations, and Timothy Hutchings and Erol Otus are nearly done. New images from all three artists appear below.
Editor Melissa Larabee works both thoroughly and fast, though the author is dragging his feet regarding her proposed clarifications and improvements.
Expect more soon.
--Ezra Claverie
Dear backers,
The artists have been at work on more images, the editor is cleaning up the text, and the designer is planning how to put them together into a book.
New images appear below. Dan Zettwoch's is a production sketch of the bus driver costume and prop for "Facts Concerning the Late Eadweard Thurston and His Family." (Caption: " 'I have just returned from Brazzaville, where it seems that the quickest way to an officer's commission is for a soldier to wear his uniform neat, clean, and pressed, yet to remain at all times barefoot--even when posing for souvenir photos for tourists.' --Albert Jermyn, letter to Wole Soyinka, 23 June 1962.")
Otus's is a version of "Npobb's Meal" for "The Vostok Dossier." (Caption: "While Npobb was scarfing the penguins, I flung the bloater across the island.”)
Expect news about rewards and some new images from Tim Hutchings in our next update.
--EC
Backers,
Less than four days remain, so give The Shadow out of Providence a push! Tell friends; tweet or Facebook or Foursquare or whatever. Treat yourself to the next reward package up, by kicking in a few more bucks!
Since we’re close to our goal, I’ll see your bets and raise them, with a bonus reward: if the campaign raises $8,500, the hardcover will have marbled endpapers, and every backer’s name will appear in the book, on the roster of the lost members of the 8th US-Soviet Antarctic Friendship Expedition (which, sadly, had no survivors). This list will be separate from the acknowledgments, and part of “The Vostok Dossier” (illustrated by Erol Otus).
And if the campaign raises $9,500, we will make a poster featuring art by one or more of the artists, and every backer will get a PDF of that poster. An extra $20 will get you a silkscreened, hand-numbered print of the poster.
Throughout this campaign, the people who have done the most to get the word out have been running Kickstarters of their own, like Luis Alberto Cayo, metal sculptor and maker of the Cthulhu pendant.
The latest addition to this hall of fame is Adam over at Darkslinger Comics, publishers of Who Will Save the World? As some of you know, I’m not easily persuaded of the merit of zombie narratives in this age of zombie saturation, but this comic’s art is as stylish and inventive as it is horrifying, and it sets the walking-corpse action in a period often ignored by geek culture, The Great War.
Finally, this project isn’t even on Kickstarter, but feast your eyes on Creepycult’s clothbound, mail-bagged, and padlocked edition of “Under the Pyramids” (a.k.a. “Imprisoned with the Pharaohs”), the story that H. P. Lovecraft ghost wrote for Harry Houdini.
Keep spreading the word, TSOOP army!
--Ezra
Funding period
May 24, 2012 -
Jun 23, 2012
(30 days)
7 backers
GRAFFITO: An electronic copy of the book (text only).
39 backers
GLOSS: A PDF copy of the book (text and images).
4 backers
MARGINALIUM: A PDF copy of the book (text and images), plus a bookmark.
3 backers
SCHOLIUM: A PDF copy of the book (text and images), plus a bookmark and a bookplate.
49 backers
SEXAGESIMO-QUARTO: A hardcover copy of the book.
6 backers
TRIGESIMO-QUARTO: A hardcover copy of the book, plus a bookmark.
12 backers
VINGESIMO-QUARTO: A hardcover copy of the book, plus a bookmark and a bookplate.
10 backers
DECIMO-OCTAVO: A hardcover copy of the book, plus a bookmark, a bookplate, and one postcard.
6 backers
DECIMO-SEXTO: A hardcover copy of the book, plus a bookmark, a bookplate, and one postcard by each artist.
3 backers
DUODECIMO: A hardcover copy of the book, plus a bookmark, a bookplate, and one postcard by each artist. One postcard bears handwritten thanks from the author.
1 backer
OCTAVO: A hardcover copy of the book, plus a bookmark, a bookplate, and one complete set of postcards bearing illustrations from the book (artist: backer's choice).
10 backers
QUARTO: A hardcover copy of the book, plus a bookmark, a bookplate, and one complete set of postcards bearing illustrations from the book (artist: backer's choice). The book's acknowledgments will thank the backer by name.
3 backers
FOLIO: A hardcover copy of the book, plus a bookmark, a bookplate, and all three complete postcard sets. The book's acknowledgments will thank the backer by name.
4 backers
SHOGGOTH FOLIO: A hardcover copy of the book, plus a bookmark, a bookplate, all three complete postcard sets, and one signed and numbered print (artist: backer's choce). The book's acknowledgments will thank the backer by name.
0 backers
ATLAS FOLIO: A hardcover copy of the book, plus a bookmark, a bookplate, all three complete postcard sets, and three signed and numbered prints (one by each artist). The book's acknowledgments will thank the backer by name.
1 backer Limited (4 of 5 left)
DOUBLE SHOGGOTH FOLIO: A hardcover copy of the book, plus a bookmark, a bookplate, all three complete postcard sets, three signed and numbered prints (one by each artist), and "The Dossier Out of Providence," a handmade portfolio of documents that appear in the book. The book's acknowledgments will thank the backer by name.
0 backers Limited (5 of 5 left)
RECORDS OF THE 8TH AMERICAN-SOVIET FRIENDSHIP EXPEDITION: A hardcover copy of the book handmade by designer Sarah Richardson, plus a bookmark, a bookplate, all three complete postcard sets, three signed and numbered prints (one by each artist), and "The Dossier Out of Providence." The book's acknowledgments will thank the backer by name.
0 backers Limited (5 of 5 left)
KITAB AL-GEHEEH: A hardcover copy of the book handmade by designer Sarah Richardson, plus a bookmark, a bookplate, all three complete postcard sets, three signed and numbered prints (one by each artist), "The Dossier Out of Providence," and an original exquisite-corpse drawing by the three artists. The book's acknowledgments will thank the backer by name.
0 backers Limited (3 of 3 left)
RADIO TRANSCRIPTS OF TASK FORCE 43, OPERATION "SPRING THAW": A hardcover copy of the book handmade by designer Sarah Richardson, enclosed in a handmade slipcase, plus a bookmark, a bookplate, all three complete postcard sets, three signed and numbered prints (one by each artist), "The Dossier Out of Providence," and an original exquisite-corpse drawing by the three artists. The book's acknowledgments will thank the backer by name, and the backer may name a character whose graffiti will appear in "The Vostok Dossier."
0 backers Limited (2 of 2 left)
LEXICON OF THE NEFANDOUS THINGS: A hardcover copy of the book handmade by designer Sarah Richardson, enclosed in a handmade slipcase, plus a bookmark, a bookplate, all three complete postcard sets, three signed and numbered prints (one by each artist), "The Dossier Out of Providence," and an original exquisite-corpse drawing by the three artists. The book's acknowledgments will thank the backer by name, and the conspiracy cranks at Antarctic Truth will create a web page honoring the backer's work to expose the truth about aliens beneath the Antarctic ice.
