Here’s why you should support it.
Jimmy Palmiotti is a comics legend.
Hes also something of an old hand at comics Kickstarters:Hype, his ninth (!)
I spoke with Jimmy about Hype and some of the peculiarities of making comics through crowdfunding.
Its a project we all are very proud of.
How did the project come together?
We just wanted to tell the story.
Did you lean into the action a little as you started to get pages back from him?
How does the partnership work?
And how does it thrive working across so many genres and mediums?
It really helps that we are best friends.
It seems like there is a really deep world already built around Hype and Noah Haller.
But 52 pages doesnt really give you a lot of time to work with that.
Is there the potential for you to come back to him down the road?
Its why even the smallest commitment to the projects helps us big time… Kickstarter just released some stats on their campaigns, and there have been 3500 successful comics Kickstarters.
Eight of them have been yours Abbadonand a second volume ofSex and Violencebeing the most recent.
What is it about Kickstarter and crowdfunding in general that makes it so good for comic projects?
It is this grass roots set up that for me makes this entire experience so unique.
A lot of comic Kickstarters run into trouble because of their rewards structure.
Having done nine of these, I learned the hard way how to approach the reward section.
Crowdfunding basically forces you to not just be the creator, but the publisher and the distributor, too.
Does that change your approach going into a project?
Our profit is not made on these projects, sometimes, til years later.
If I was a fan of someone like Amanda Conner or Dave Johnson, their reward sings.
The campaign forHypeends on Thursday, February 18th.
For more information on the campaign, check out its pagehere.
Palmiotti and Conner will be guests at Long Beach Comic Expo the weekend of 2/18/2016.
