Kickstarter 1

Jake Richmond on Aug. 25, 2011

Heres the big news Ive been waiting all week to spill. The first ever Modest Medusa paperback collection is on the way! Modest Medusa Season 1 contains the first 100 strips from the series, including colored versions of the first 15 strips! The book also contains a bunch of bonus material, including a new 10 page story, an illustrated interview with myself, Marah and the rest ofthecast and a photo gallery recreating some of our favorite scenes from the comic, with a special guest star playing the Medusa!
To finance this project Im doing aKickstarter. For those of you who dont know, Kickstarter.com is a site where artists can post projects and seek funding. Each backer is given a reward based on how much they contributed. Rewards include stuff like signed and sketched copies of the finished book, walk on appearnaces in Season 2, Chocodiles and hand crafted Modest Medusa hats! You can see the full list of rewards here at theModest Medusa Kickstarter page!
You guys have been really supportive this last year, and Id like to call on that support again. Printing a book isnt cheap. I need about $2100 to do the initial print run, and if we can raise more than that well, thats even better. The great thing about Kickstarter is that you can help fund this project and still get something out of it (besides the warm feeling of knowing that you supported Modest Medusa)! Contributing $22 will get you a copy of the book, signed by myself and Marah. Ill also do a sketch on the title page. By contributing that $22 youre financing the cost of printing 3-4 books! Now of course you can wait till after the book is printed and buy it then. Hopefully well raise enough money without you (and that isnt meant as a guilt trip). But buying now, pre-ordering throughthis Kickstarter, will really, really help me out. The Kickstarter lasts until September 16th, but dont wait till the last minute to contribute.Typically, the more people who contribute early, the better a Kickstarter does!
The Kickstarter is live now, so you can go on over and contribute. For those of you who want to know more about how Kickstarter works,this is what youll want to read. Id also appreciate it if youd pass the news along via twitter, facebook, digg, google + and whatnot. Thanks!
Oh, special incentive!While our goal is to raise $2100 to print the book, more money is certainly better (and means more books). for every $400 over the goal we go Ill do a special 3 page strip featuring the Mermaids, Charles, the Chainsaw Unicorn or one oftheother supporting characters. I think it would be really awesome if the book had an extra 6, 9 or 12 pages of bonus stories!
Thanks guys. I really appreciate your support. please let me know if you have any questions!