SHADEDRAWS PROJECTS UPDATE
Back Dangerous Curves/MAVRIX: Enter The Dollhouse? Well, IT’S PRINTING NOW! I should be receiving the copies soon which will be prepped for shipment and then out to the post office!
Also, take a look at this in-progress line art of Santanico Pandemonium for the SCAROUSED! Goth Girl Calendar.
The project is nearly done and will go to print probably by next week. :D
PRE-ORDER/CROWDFUND COMICS ON SHADEDRAWS.COM?
Over the last 9 years, I’ve largely used Kickstarter and Indiegogo to crowdfund my comics and I’ve done fairly well in that time. However, over the last few years, I realized that using third-party platforms always subjected me to the rules and regulations of systems I had no control over.
I always wanted to be independent of these platforms and—at least to some degree—be able to fund the creation of my comics on my own website. SHADEDRAWS.COM launched in 2019. Later that year, I actually integrated a crowdfunding plugin to my website and raised several thousand dollars for AFTER DARK 3.
The path forward is to slowly draw more attention to comics I’ll be funding and publishing from a platform that I own without having to submit projects to people at Kickstarter, Indiegogo or others that must be “approved”.
In light of these developments, I’m going to be integrating a new crowdfunding/pre-order system into my website, SHADEDRAWS.COM, that will allow my customers to pre-order comics directly from me in a way where I’ll truly be able to offer products to you without a filter.
The first project offered through this platform will be an 80-page NSFW full-color illustrated megazine. It will be in the 8x11” format rather than the standard 6.625”x10.25”. The likely price point will be $10 for digital and $20 for both the physical and digital copy. 80 pages for $20 ain’t bad!
There will be early bird perks, variant covers and additional goodies for this campaign.
I don’t know when this will launch as I have other projects in the pipeline to fulfill and others that will show up on Kickstarter and Indiegogo, but this new “SKIN” megazine will ONLY BE AVAILABLE ON SHADEDRAWS.COM. It will be easy to snag as the pre-order system will be just like platforms you’re already familiar with.
I hope you join me when it launches. COMMENT BELOW TO LET ME KNOW WHAT YOU THINK!
That's one gorgeous WIP of Santanico Pandemonium. Best of luck improving your ventures man. You earned it with all the hard work you put in this last (almost) decade.
I'm a huge fan of any Indie creator who'll take this kind of weight on their own shoulders ... you're an inspiration Shade !
I'm a new fan of yours and definitely have an appetite for your work, I will absolutely support this bold new venture of yours.
Hope you don't get in any trouble with the other Crowdfunding platforms crying copycat or anything.
I salute you, Sir ! Bring the first Shade-dedicated-funding of Shade !!!