1/3/2024 0 Comments Kickstarter comics“And they’re more important and applicable than ever, with so many people, more people than ever, anticipating futures where they have to struggle much longer and harder, financially, than their parents ever did. “The Poorcraft books are books I wish I’d been given when I turned 18,” Trotman tells Polygon. And it sounds like exactly the kind of thing for anyone (this writer) whose school district nixed home economics classes before they were out of elementary school. It’s the third installment of the Poorcraft series, which began with Poorcraft: The Comic Book Guide to Practical Urban and Suburban Frugality, the very first Iron Circus book to be funded through a Kickstarter campaign. If a self-managed crowdfunding campaign is the endpoint, The Poorcraft Cookbook hearkens back to Iron Circus’ beginnings. “Folks who have known me for a while know one of my favorite phrases about navigating your career path, whatever it may be, is ‘Own your cool.’ That means always do your best to be the one in control of your own image, your own destiny, your own means to succeed and prosper, and while I feel my hand was forced in the matter, moving our crowdfunding to feels like the natural endpoint of that philosophy.” But, she tells Polygon via email, the move is also very much in line with Iron Circus’ philosophy. Trotman has been open about her opposition to Kickstarter’s commitment to a blockchain protocol, which the company announced in December of 2021 to considerable backlash. I don’t have to worry about being surprised by an announcement or a corporate initiative and we can be directly in touch with backers.” The bottom line is there’s never been a better time to launch the first ever independently run Iron Circus Comics’ campaign. “And, after a dozen years of corporate crowdfunding, it was time to bring Iron Circus’s DIY attitude to all aspects of our crowdfunding campaigns. “The last two years have been eye-opening for me as a publisher,” Trotman says in an official news release. Now, after more than a decade of blowout successes on Kickstarter, Trotman will oversee Iron Circus’ first independently run crowdfunding campaign, hosted on. The publisher has raised a total of over two million dollars through the crowdfunding service, for graphic novels like As the Crow Flies, anthologies like FTL, Y’all!, and print editions of webcomics like The Complete Girls with Slingshots - not to mention the Smut Peddler series of anthologized erotica and one-of-Polygon’s-best-comics-of-2017 Yes, Roya!. In the alt-comics world, Iron Circus, founded by cartoonist and publisher Spike Trotman, is synonymous with massively successful Kickstarter campaigns that often use the platform’s characteristic “stretch goals” for larger paydays for creators, rather than extra goodies for backers. The effort will raise publishing funds for The Poorcraft Cookbook, a comic guide to eating frugally and healthily without skimping on flavor. After 12 years of success on the platform, Iron Circus Comics is conducting its first crowdfunding campaign without Kickstarter.
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