What does it take to create a successful Kickstarter campaign? Better yet, what lessons have we learned from previous campaigns?
Doug TenNapel is not new to Kickstarter. He raised over $115,000 with his first campaign to print a beautiful hardbound archive of his sketchbook’s. Now Doug and the founders of Pencil Test Studios, Mike Dietz and Ed Schofield (also from Earthworm Jim and The Neverhood) are joining forces to create a brand new game called ARMIKROG which has already raised over $230,000 in the first 2 days alone. Their goal is $900,000 so head on over to their Kickstarter page and pledge to help them hit their goal.
Patrick Yurick hosted an amazing online discussion about Comic Marketing last night and I was one of the panelists along with Jen Vaughn, Mark Luetke, Lee Cherolis and Enrique Lugo. You can see the whole hour long discussion here:
Guests:
Jason Brubaker of reMINDblog.com
Jen Vaughn Marketing Unicorn at Fantagraphics Books & Journalist at the BEAT
Chikle of www.elchikle.com
Lee Cherolis of littleguardianscomic.com
Little Fish Studio is a Google+ Hangout ONAir Series that connects makers of comics together. It is hosted by +Patrick Yurick, founder of Little Fish Comic Book Studio in San Diego, CA (www.lilfish.us), and +Mark Luetke, web developer & adjunct professor for VCUArts and creator of 2816monument.com. Little Fish Studio come out with a new Hangout each month. See past hangouts at: http://bit.ly/10X55HU
This is Part 2 of the conversation about Kickstarter. You can hear Part 1 here.
Shortly after I ended my second Kickstarter for reMIND Volume 2, which raised over $107,000 Daniel and I got onto Skype to talk about the whole adventure.
Shortly after I ended my second Kickstarter for reMIND Volume 2, which raised over $107,000 Daniel and I got onto Skype to talk about the whole adventure. This is just part one of the conversation. Sorry it took me so long to edit and upload. :(
Jake Parker and Jason Brubaker discuss world building in comics and storytelling, when is it time to quit and much more. Later on in the conversation we are joined by Daniel Lieske.