(Or maybe it will: Other cards include "Make Up Your God Damn Mind" and, simply, "You're F******.") Although Doherty created the deck in a satirical spirit, he's come to see value in meditating on its absurd messages.
With cards like "Birthday Corpse," "Space Death" and "A Cat Licking Its Own Butt For Eternity," Evan Doherty's tarot deck won't give you clear guidance about your life. "People love that character, and I love to give them what they love." "It's such a rare thing to have a plus-sized lead character who's not played as a joke," he says. (Among them: Dan Price and John Gholson.) Edwards' coolest reward: signed issues of Lucy Chaplin Science Starlet, a one-shot spinoff featuring Halloween Man's brilliant and bodacious girlfriend. Edwards' new campaign is for the "Bat City Special," a print issue drawn by artists hailing from Edwards' home base of Austin, Texas. He was created by writer Drew Edwards way back in 2000, appearing first in a webcomic, then in self-published print, and now on Comixology. Killed by a vampire on Halloween night, zombie superhero Halloween Man has all the immortal power of a horror movie's never-ending string of sequels. Because, hey, if you're going to crowdfund, why not make it a project you could never do alone? The following campaigns - some ongoing, others already funded - include a vinyl record and a satirical Tarot deck. Long-shot campaigns (and their quirky rewards) put the "fun" in crowdfunding, and the year so far has included some gems.
This year has seen some spectacular crowdfunding efforts, like the Trogdor!! The Board Game Kickstarter, which racked up an eye-popping $1,421,903 in pledges. Kickstarter's Senior Director of Publishing Margot Atwell calls comics "small but mighty," noting that comics campaigns on the platform succeed at a 20 percent higher rate than average. "It was something cartoonists had been doing for years: Taking our lives in our hands and asking people to PayPal us enough money to print the book," she says. Maybe that's because, as Iron Circus Comics publisher Spike Trotman points out, artists were crowdfunding before it was even called that.
There's something about crowdfunding and comics: They just taste great together.
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