Warped Kickstarter Launched
Author: BandOfOne
Warped Comic Kickstarter
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Warped is an all ages comic strip about a doomed spaceman and his robot sidekick.
Our hapless hero explores strange new worlds, has troubles with transporters, fun with flags, and encounters a variety of alien creatures. In the course of these mini episodes our spaceman hero dies in almost every single strip. Hence the name Warped – both for its sci-fi connotations and its allusions to a sense of humour.
I am putting together a printed comic book collection of the first season of Warped Comics. It will be 32 pages, softcover, 260x170mm, in full colour. It will be printed on lovely recycled natural paper which will give the comic a vintage off-white finish which I’m very excited about.
Warped is a spin-off from my Jack Astro Comic. It’s a completely stand-alone comic strip so no prior knowledge of Jack Astro is necessary but it does broaden the canon if you’re familiar with the original story. There is an idea in that book where an infinite number of Jack’s are sent to an infinite number of galaxies in splinter dimensions via the aptly named, Infinity Drive. Warped explores what happened to all of these alternate Jack’s.
I will be printing some extra stock of this book to take to comic conventions, but the kickstarter will be the best price so backers who help make it happen also get the best possible value.
Burton SFFCon
A big thank you to everyone who came by the table on Saturday at Burton SFFCon. It was a really nice event and well attended. Angeline Trevena was a gracious host and kudos to her for organising such a quality little convention.
This con was the first time I’ve offered sketch requests and a lot of folks came out with pretty obscure (to me) choices which were fun to draw.
A few of the pre-prepared sketches sold but mostly people were excited to commission something and enjoyed watching me sketch it for them while they waited.
The last few weeks I’ve been in training for these quickfire sketches. If you follow me on Instagram you’ve probably seen the daily flow of fan art gracing my feed. Despite the practice it was still a daunting experience on the first sketch. It was really a lot of fun once I got going and the reaction from people was totally worth a bit of terror 😄
A few folks with great taste picked up Jack Astro too. At the next con I might have a new comic to debut if the Warped Kickstarter goes well. More news on that soon!
I’m looking forward to returning to Burton SFFCon next year.
