Crowdfund a book about Jack Kirby and a tale fromThe Obscure Cities

This hebdomad ’s crowdfunding rent us to a rejoinder - ground , and a never - before - translated report from François Schuiten and Benoît Peeters ’ Les Cités obscures . you may also back a docudrama about cicada , a comedian asterisk a young merry superhero , or a Bible about Jack Kirby collected by his Logos .

The Leaning Girl Translated Graphic Novel Project

Some of the books from François Schuiten and Benoît Peeters ’ gorgeous alternating universe series The Obscure Cities have never been published in English , but Steve Smith and Alaxis Press are at long last impart one of those stories The Leaning Girl , an English edition . For a $ 30 toast , you ’ll receive a written matter of the Quran ( which will retail for $ 29.99 ) and a limited edition promotional poster .

Return of the Cicadas

Natural history movie maker Samuel Orr has been filming periodical cicadas since 2007 , and has accumulated more than 200 hours of footage of these infrequent visitors . He ’s presently working on an time of day - farsighted documentary on 17 - twelvemonth - cicada ( as well as other cicada ) , but he ’s still looking to capture footage of the Australian varieties of cicada . For a $ 20 toast , you ’ll get a download of the film , screensavers , and access to a admirer - only production website .

Personal Look into the life of Jack Kirby The King Of Comics

Jeremy Kirby , son of fabled cartoonist Jack Kirby , is couch together a coffee board volume about his father ’s life and work . The Life and Times of Jack Kirby will feature personal exposure , artwork and a never - before - seen manoeuvre written by Kirby . For a $ 10 pledge , you ’ll pick up a PDF of the free rein . For a $ 50 assurance , you ’ll invite the PDF , plus three Kirby prints and a copy of the completed record book . [ viaBoing Boing ]

The Young Protectors Vol 1

As a kid , Alex Woolfson always longed to see more gay heroes in his genre fable stories , and his own webcomic , The Young Protectors , features a closeted jovial hero who embarks on a dangerous itinerary when a supervillain learns his secret . The comic is penciled by Adam DeKraker and colored by Veronica Gandini . For a $ 10 assurance , you ’ll receive a PDF of the book and digital downloads of all substance created for the safari . For a $ 20 pledge , you ’ll receive the digital content , the printed book , and bonus trading card .

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HARBINGER DOWN : A Practical Creature FX Film

A couple of commenters rightly signal to this fantastic - looking project . Harbinger Down will be a science fiction horror moving-picture show with no digital effects . All of the event will be practical , including makeup and animatronics . And it ’s got an amazing team : Lance Henriksen , Tom Woodruff , Jr. , and Alec Gillis leading the way , Pat McClung , Robert Skotak , and Dennis Skotak on visual effects and production , and a grievance by Joel McNeely . Here ’s the pitch :

A mathematical group of grad pupil have booked passage on the sportfishing trawler Harbinger to study the effect of world thawing on a fuel pod of Orcas in the Bering Sea . When the ship ’s crowd dredges up a recently thawed patch of previous Soviet space wreckage , things get downright deadly . It seems that the Russians experiment with tardigrade , bantam resilient animate being capable to withstand the extremes of space radiation . The animate being survived , but not without chromosomal mutation .

For a $ 25 pledge , you ’ll receive a digital download of the film , a photo of one of the creatures , a PDF of the shooting script , digital downloads of the production art , and access code to behind - the - scenes footage .