The HOSPICE Panel: Taking a Big Swing with a Unique Kickstarter Crossover Event

The creators of the HOSPICE shared comic book universe join Tyler James for a discussion about this unique Kickstarter experiment that sees six veteran crowdfunders all launch distinct one-shot projects with the same name! In this panel, expect great insight on campaign design, taking big swings, and shaking up the status quo in crowdfunding promotion.

Highlights of This Session Include:

The big differences between an anthology style project and a shared universe project and why the Hospice team chose the latter.
Setting the ground rules for how a shared universe project could work on Kickstarter and beyond.
Early reactions to the results of the Hospice experiment so far.
Plus: Each veteran creator on the Hospice panel shares one valuable Kickstarter protip!

Today’s Session is Brought to You By…

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Today’s Featured Guests:

Jamie Primack – Jamie Primack is a comic artist, writer, illustrator, and self-proclaimed “space goth” best known for her dark, cosmic ink illustrations and as the creator of the sci fi comic series BINARY STAR.

Travis Gibb – Comic book writer and advocate best known for the comics GRANITE STATE PUNK, VOODOO NATIONS, AND CTHULHU INVADES!

Frank Martin – Comic writer with multiple short stories published in horror anthologies by numerous indie publications. Frank has also had comic shorts appear in the “fluff noir” anthology series Torsobear and the all-ages horror anthology Cthulhu is Hard to Spell, and is a veteran of over 20 Kickstarter campaigns.

David A. Byrne – The former Co-Publisher at Scout Comics and Entertainment and Co-CEO/owner of Brink of Reality Productions. David has an education in film and business and experience as an editor, writer, and retailer. He has spent the better part of two decades in sales and owned and operated independent publisher W.i.N. Pictures, producing the hit comic Stake and Canceled and such well-received titles as Color Me Yellow, Daisy Gets a Brother, Shady Place, and The Couch.

Links Mentioned in Today’s Show:

All the Hospice links: https://linktr.ee/hospicecomics

More About Our Sponsor:

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It’s a fanboy’s dream come true, but there’s a catch…

He’s powerless around anyone he is attracted to.

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Hard to believe it, but EPIC is a concept I first pitched to artist and co-creator MATT ZOLMAN over a decade ago.

I’ve spoken about it on the podcast several times, how one of my biggest regrets as a creator was not realizing how effective Kickstarter could be at serializing comics. See, when we launched the first issue for EPIC on Kickstarter a decade ago, the idea was that the Kickstarter would help us get the project off the ground and then we would serialize it in the direct market… but when Diamond sales weren’t there to sustain it, the project was shelved after four awesome issues.

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I’m thrilled to be working once again with MATT to pick up right where we left off and continue the EPIC series with an all new issue!

In EPIC: Superteenage Wasteland #4, A chemically-spiked batch of “supplements” has turned high school football star Mitch Anderson into Roid Rage, an eight-foot tall muscled monstrosity, causing mayhem at the South Beach High homecoming game, and interrupting Eric’s first date.

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This book means a lot to me and my co-creator Matt Zolman. EPIC is an unapologetically fun comic that let’s Matt and I relive all of the awkwardness of our teenage years wrapped in a superhero shell that celebrates everything we love about capes & comics.

The campaign is built for both O.G. epic fans dying to find out what happens next… AND is new reader friendly with digital and print catch-up tiers.

As hard as it is to make comics, writing EPIC has provided some of the greatest moments of BLISS to me as a creator… and I hope that comes across in the book itself.

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