Seriously folks, you know it's true. It's good for you. It keeps you (or for this metaphor your career) healthy and sustained. It also gets overlooked when you get super busy. That's me right now. And though it's all good stuff: Undone Comic Book, Freelance Writing for amNew York & Inquistr.com, Sire #9...it still gets [...]
Hey folks, real quick I wanted to give a heads up that The Sire is on ComicsFix.com. What is ComicsFix? It's basically Netflix but for comics. You pay a monthly fee and you get to binge on unlimited comics. I gotta say, it seems pretty cool! Creators get royalties based on how many "page turns" [...]
Hey everyone, nice to be back on the mikebooks.com blog. This one is a relative short one though. Just going to list the upcoming awesomeness I've got in store over the coming weeks: New York Comic Con: I just got back from @ny_comic_con Special Edition. A bit quiet compared to the big one come October [...]
Whew! How about that guys, it's been a month or so since my Kickstarter for the Undone was fully funded. And it's taken me about that long to recuperate and grind some of the work out. Here are 4 things I've been up to since then: 1) Writing the darn script! I had a basic [...]
UPDATE: We finished with 167 backers for a total of $3380. Thanks to all! Thanks once again to all who helped us get our first funding goal achieved. I'll be doing a post mortem sometime next week detailing the saga that was my first Kickstarter. But in the meantime, we're still not done! More backers [...]
So I'm happy to report that we have reached our funding goal! But does that mean the campaign is over? Heck, no! Let's talk Stretch Goals and (shudder) Dropped Backers. First things first: Mo' money mo' pages. I think a cool way to keep folks into the campaign is to truly give them something to [...]
Well gang, we're in the home stretch - less than a week to go and only $153 or so needed to cross the finish line. With that in mind I want to thank everyone who've gotten us to this point. And also with that in mind, here are some tips for those that want to [...]
Hey folks! We are in full gear with this Kickstarter now! As I write this we are a mere $742 from achieving our funding goal! Woohoo! All this week I want to highlight our awesome artist Soussherpa - the major force behind the Kickstarter itself. His ridiculously awesome art is instrumental in giving the Undone [...]
With week 1 of the Undone Kickstarter behind me, I provide a few takeways for others looking to take the Kickstarter plunge for comics: 1) It's every bit as draining as I was told...and didn't believe them when they told me "You're in for a ride." "Get ready to be consumed." These were some of [...]
So I've been pretty wiped as of late. The fact that I've been passing out early every night despite the fact that March Madness (my favorite time of year) is upon us means this Kickstarter is definitely taking its toll. But in a good way. My most recent update from Saturday says it all: KICKSTARTER [...]