Tyler welcomes Kickstarter's Director of Publishing & Comics Outreach at Kickstarter Oriana Leckert for an open, ask her all your Kickstarter questions session! We'll learn what the current trends and best practices are from the insiders at Kickstarter to help us continue to level up our launches!

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One of the hottest trends at conventions, on Kickstarter and in the online retail comic collector space is offering special variant cover comics with METAL covers. Yes... we're talking real metal! In this session, you'll get a complete primer to everything creators need to know about making metal comics so you can decide whether to offer them with your next launch!

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Tyler tackles Backerkit's main service offering, the Backerkit Pledge Manager with a particular focus on Backerkit Surveys! In this session, you'll learn what Backerkit Surveys can do, who should use them, and how effective they are at not only managing complex campaigns but also raising significantly more funding AFTER your Kickstarter campaign ends.

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Coming back to the Kickstarter platform after a campaign that performs beyond your wildest expectations brings its own set of challenges. Comic writer David Pepose, creator of The O.Z., returns to the ComixLaunch Podcast to discuss doubling down on the success of his first crowdfunding effort with it's second issue launch!

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Over the past month, a wave of high profile comic creators started publishing new email newsletters on Substack, a venture backed platform for independent publishing. In this session, Tyler goes deep on the Substack platform, and weather or not it's a place ComixLaunchers should be.

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Campaign underperforming? You know you need to stay positive in order to keep promoting your Kickstarter... but how do you actually do that when you keep hitting refresh on your project page and aren't liking your funding or backer totals? In this session, Tyler shares why it's so important to shake out of that negative state and how to quickly right your emotional ship.

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Looking for something to do during your Kickstarter campaign to engage your backers and bring some new ones onboard your campaign? Then look no further than the Livestream Q&A! In this podcast, Tyler will break this strategy down step-by-step!

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No question the more times you launch on Kickstarter the easier it becomes for creators... and yet, there are still some problems that arise when you've been launching for a while. After launching his 23rd(!) Kickstarter campaign for ComixTribe's Happy Hill #1, Tyler shares a few problems that he and other veteran creators face, as well as suggestions for how best to handle them.

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