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A feature-length documentary highlighting the world's best cartoonists...talking about the art form they love, and where it's going.

STRIPPED: The Comics Documentary

A feature-length documentary highlighting the world's best cartoonists...talking about the art form they love, and where it's going.
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Small Fish Studios
Small Fish Studios
2,601 backers pledged $109,025 to help bring this project to life.
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New Kickstarter Project from STRIPPED Director

A quick note to Stripped backers:
As comic lovers, we wanted to tell you about a comic project you might enjoy: DRIVE, by Stripped co-director Dave Kellett. The comic's... Read more

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Gift STRIPPED (+ full interviews) with this huge sale!

If you've been meaning to pick up the full interviews for STRIPPED, or wanted to gift them to another comics lover -- now is a prittttttty rad time to be... Read more

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Vegas! Free Screening/Q&A/Giveaway this Sat!

Las Vegas: We're coming to you!

Directors Fred Schroeder and Dave Kellett will be coming to LV this Saturday for a FREE screening, audience Q&A, and giveaways!  Here are the... Read more

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Toronto! Come to a FREE screening/Q&A this Sat!

TORONTO! As part of the TCAF comics festival, we'll be holding a free screening of STRIPPED this Saturday night!

- Plus! We have an amazing panel to follow, with Scott... Read more

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Stripped Now On Netflix!

Today, Stripped launches on Netflix, worldwide!

It's entirely possible that more people will see it on Netflix than saw it any other way: So spread the word to comics lovers!... Read more

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STRIPPED SALE! 50% ENDS 4/17/15

Hey everyone!  Thanks to all of you it's been a year since the release of STRIPPED!  To celebrate the movie and all the bonus materials are 50% OFF for ONE... Read more

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Stripped Goes to Angouleme!

As a fun way to share the experience of France's 250,000-person Angouleme Comics Festival, Stripped Directors Fred Schroeder and Dave Kellett recorded a "travelogue" podcast of the festival, complete with... Read more

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This week only: 50%-off all Bonus Interviews/Packages!

All this week! Get 50%-off the award-winning documentary film STRIPPED: The bonus interviews and packages. "Gift" it to anyone, or treat yourself!

http://stripped.vhx.tv/

Called "a big Valentine to comics" by... Read more

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“Gift” STRIPPED: It’s 50%-off! Aaaand join us for a Live-Tweet, Nov 29th!

Hi Friends!

Making your shopping list? We can help! If you loved STRIPPED, you can gift it to a friend who’d love it, too! And today, it’s 50%-off for the... Read more

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50% Sale on Extras!!!

Hey everybody!

Just wanted to give a quick update that our Bonus Packages featuring the uncut interviews with many of your favorite cartoonists and more are 50% off for until... Read more

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HUGE SALE!

Hey everybody,

Some fun news to share:  We won Best Feature Film and Best Score at the Salt Lake City Film Festival!!

And we are excited to announce:  A HUGE... Read more

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FREE SCREENING THIS WEEKEND!

FREE SCREENING THIS WEEKEND! This weekend we're at Salt Lake Comic Con, Thursday through Saturday, with DVDs and posters at booth 1323! We'll also be having a FREE screening of... Read more

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We Won at Comic-Con!

We Won at Comic-Con! And we’re live in new countries....!
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WE WON AT COMIC-CON!STRIPPED won at Comic-Con! Specifically, “Best Documentary"! It was a lovely honor, and we’re super... Read more

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SDCC Film Fest & Exclusive Poster!

Lots of stuff to report! Here’s what we’ll be talking about, today:

- SDCC Film Fest & EXCLUSIVE Poster!
- Who Else Would You Like To Hear From?
- Stripped... Read more

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More Interviews!! Upcoming Events!! ...Exclamation Points!!

Woohoo! Update on STRIPPED stuff!

MORE INTERVIEWS!
People have been lovin’ the full interviews we made available, so today we’re adding seven more! In-depth chats with Stephan Pastis (Pearls Before... Read more

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Join us! Worldwide Viewing of STRIPPED, this Sat night!

This Saturday, we’re going to do a worldwide “Live-Tweet” viewing of Stripped — and you’re all invited! 

Basically, the entire world hits “play” on the film at the same time,... Read more

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Directors' Commentary

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Full Interviews Now Available!

1.) FULL INTERVIEWS ARE NOW AVAILABLE!
You guys asked for it, and here they are: Full-length interviews from STRIPPED! You can get them individually, a la carte, or make it easy... Read more

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Today is the iTunes push!

TODAY is our big push to be the #1 movie on iTunes for ONE DAY! We're currently #3 doc and rising!

Please tell comics-loving friends to buy/rent the movie today,... Read more

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#1 on iTunes?!?

THREE QUICK THINGS...

1.)
Tomorrow -- Tuesday, April 1st -- we're trying to be the #1 movie on iTunes for ONE DAY! As a super-indie film, it'll be hard, but... Read more

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DVDs!

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The Premiere! The Downloads! The TV shows!

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Poster by Bill Watterson!!!

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The End is Nigh!

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News!

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Update Time!

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Big Backer Reward

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Four Good Things

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Clearances, Clearances!

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The First Five Minutes of the Film!

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"Hurry Up And Wait" Mode

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Sound Mix Is Done!

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Kickstarter drive successful! On to the last stage!

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How To Create 1.1 Seconds Of Footage

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Historical Footage Update!

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Update on the Kickstarter drive!

Guys, the outpouring of support for the final-push Kickstarter has been amazing: We've already unlocked the first of two goals! THANK YOU FOR SPREADING THE WORD!

We recorded a quick 2-minute... Read more

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New trailer, Watterson's voice, New Kickstarter

With the HUGE REMINDER that we're not asking for any additional funds from you, our friends and backers, I wanted to pass along this link to the new trailer:

http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/sequential/stripped-the-final-push... Read more

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You guys get 10 extra minutes! (And more good news!)

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End-of-Year Update!

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When will I get my DVD?

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Festivals!

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Comic Con panel video!

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Fun News!

We wanted to share some particularly fun news for everyone following STRIPPED: 

Bill Watterson will be involved in the film!

Mr. Watterson very kindly answered 15-20 questions on the current... Read more

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Facebook page

Hey guys!

Be sure to check out our Facebook page we've posted some new behind the scenes pics of a special sequence from the movie.  Hope you enjoy it.  Stay... Read more

San Diego Comic-Con

For those of you going to San Diego Comic-Con, a quick update:

STRIPPED will be giving a special panel presentation Friday night, July 13th, from 7-8PM, in the combined rooms... Read more

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Update #12: Secret Stop-Motion Shoot

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Video Update with Footage

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New Year's Update

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New interviews, new music!

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THANK YOU!

From the bottom of our hearts, we want to thank you all for the outpouring of support, links, volunteerism, tips, and friendship that you've sent toward the project.  It has... Read more

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Successfully raised $109,025 with 2,601 backers

Video Update

Just two days left in the Kickstarter campaign! And we're amazingly close to our ultimate goal! (...just take a look at our budget update, here.)

To thank you for your... Read more

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3 Days Left: Can We Reach The Ultimate Goal?

When we launched STRIPPED, we set a Kickstarter goal of $58,000. It was a tightly budgeted, but realistic, amount to finish the film.  And it was intentionally on the low side.... Read more

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Open Call for Animators!

We're extending a worldwide "open call" to independent, freelance, or small-team animators, to produce very short segments for the feature-length documentary, STRIPPED.

Over 50 animators have already submitted samples, before... Read more

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Video Update

With huge, huge thanks for your continued support...and to encourage you to keep spreading word of the film to fellow comics-lovers, we wanted to share four more "rough cuts" (no... Read more

Video Update

In today's bonus video for STRIPPED, we wanted to share four "rough cuts" from our interviews:

Specifically: 
- Kate Beaton (Hark! A Vagrant) talks about being a self-taught cartoonist
- ... Read more

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Bonus Jim Davis Clip: *ONLY* for "Stripped" Backers!

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Project of the Day

Guys, you're AMAZING! We reached our minimum for funding!

This is amazing!  With your help, we reached the funding minimum in SIX DAYS! What a huge outpouring of support!  We can not thank you enough.  And we promise we're... Read more

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