Thanks for including 'Crazy Latte Thing Called Love' with all these amazing projects! I was lucky enough to be able to support a lot of them this year and can't agree enough.
It's truly wonderful to see so many new and different indie projects out there getting support from both of you.
All the best for 2025!
(BTW, I love the loyalty idea and excited to see how that all plays out.)
Thank you so much for including Blood of Atlantis! I've learned so much from watching the two of you launch successful campaign after successful campaign! Here's to a great 2025 for the Kickstarter comics community!
I know this was a list of your two's favorite Kickstarters, but I started to wonder what a list of MOST INNOVATIVE COMIC KICKSTARTERS would look like. The Tart/Meskatonic High Trading-Card Crossover would certainly make that list. Campaigns that tried something NEW that the rest of us can adapt to our own books, or help us think outside the box.
As I think I told you before, once the election hit, my IMPOSSIBLE JONES KS flatlined. SO MANY people who supported or spread the word about my work went dark on social media. Which meant simply posting on FB and Bluesky (I had given up on Twitter/X long ago) wasn't going to cut it. So I had to start thinking outside the box, looking for ways to get word out that didn't rely on social media: Newsletters, Updates, podcasts… I even did a podcast commercial! It made me realize the importance of a mailing list— something i've heard about for YEARS, but I've never had one! That's changing, believe me! Anyway, This was a totally unexpected turn of events, and i had to make a hard, fast pivot to survive. And it pretty much worked! I raised a few thousand short of what I'd really have liked, but still enough to keep the lights on at Casa Kesel.
(And this isn't me saying I was reinventing the wheel— what I did I'm sure many people do already. But it felt like reinventing the wheel to ME!). ;-)
CARRY-ON: I'm actually in the middle of watching this right now (while I row in the morning) and have to say it's extremely well constructed and smartly written. No fat, everything has a purpose. It's good, but I won't know if I think it's REALLY good until I'm done (tomorrow).
But I know one thing: it is NOT better than DIE HARD as a Christmas Action Movie. No disrespect, Kat, but you're just wrong about that.
Thanks for including 'Crazy Latte Thing Called Love' with all these amazing projects! I was lucky enough to be able to support a lot of them this year and can't agree enough.
It's truly wonderful to see so many new and different indie projects out there getting support from both of you.
All the best for 2025!
(BTW, I love the loyalty idea and excited to see how that all plays out.)
Thank you so much for including Blood of Atlantis! I've learned so much from watching the two of you launch successful campaign after successful campaign! Here's to a great 2025 for the Kickstarter comics community!
Great newsletter, as always.
I know this was a list of your two's favorite Kickstarters, but I started to wonder what a list of MOST INNOVATIVE COMIC KICKSTARTERS would look like. The Tart/Meskatonic High Trading-Card Crossover would certainly make that list. Campaigns that tried something NEW that the rest of us can adapt to our own books, or help us think outside the box.
As I think I told you before, once the election hit, my IMPOSSIBLE JONES KS flatlined. SO MANY people who supported or spread the word about my work went dark on social media. Which meant simply posting on FB and Bluesky (I had given up on Twitter/X long ago) wasn't going to cut it. So I had to start thinking outside the box, looking for ways to get word out that didn't rely on social media: Newsletters, Updates, podcasts… I even did a podcast commercial! It made me realize the importance of a mailing list— something i've heard about for YEARS, but I've never had one! That's changing, believe me! Anyway, This was a totally unexpected turn of events, and i had to make a hard, fast pivot to survive. And it pretty much worked! I raised a few thousand short of what I'd really have liked, but still enough to keep the lights on at Casa Kesel.
(And this isn't me saying I was reinventing the wheel— what I did I'm sure many people do already. But it felt like reinventing the wheel to ME!). ;-)
CARRY-ON: I'm actually in the middle of watching this right now (while I row in the morning) and have to say it's extremely well constructed and smartly written. No fat, everything has a purpose. It's good, but I won't know if I think it's REALLY good until I'm done (tomorrow).
But I know one thing: it is NOT better than DIE HARD as a Christmas Action Movie. No disrespect, Kat, but you're just wrong about that.
Happy Holidays, to both of you!
KK
I hope nobody confuses "Carry On" with those stupid old British comedy movies with that name.