In the end the first launch of "Kind era- Volume 1" was foredoomed. Especially because I did not do enough promotion.
So let´s go for another round with more preparation, promotions and a lot of investment in presentation.
I got more impatient with time, I wanted to launch quick, be fast and finally get my story out. But the fastest ways is most of the time the worst one. It took me a while to rework, to spread the news. But now I think I got good chances to found the campaign...
My kickstarter webside has improved in appearance, the goodies brought a bit more spice into the campaign but made the amount to found a higher. At first I was a bit worried, but since I got so engaged into the campaign, I put in a lot of rework and effort.
The amount of pages will now be around 120, the size still remains 21x26 cm as a Softcover and I finally found a frontcover.So far I´m on the last 10 pages of my comicbook(with all the promotion and preparation the last pages were left behind..), afterwards the comic soon will be digitalised and prepared for the print.
About 200 pieces will be printed, given to the backers and sent to the shops in Switzerland which I contacted. More about the publishing when it comes to it in March.
For the locals: From the 19th January(Wenseday)t you´ll not only find a Flyer with infos about the project in the Comix Shop Basel, you´ll also find new stickers and myself giving infos to potential/interested backers. Since I came back to Basel I wanted kind of a change and now it happened, I´m to find right where all the stories begin. I´m glad to start a new chapter.
The reward banners:
At the 23th January (a Sunday) at 11.00 AM my project will launch, be ready and get exieted before the launch. Share it with everyone who could be interested, be active and get in touch with me if you got questions. And of course stay tuned what´s about to come.
The kickstarter project will last for 1 month, to be exact 30 days. If you´re an interested or a supporter, this lil info to the project is very important:
Promote or be active in founding the campaign in the first 48 hours, the more people are active in the first hours of the campaign, the more known the project will get on kickstarter. If it gets a good start, it is more likely to succeed with the founding. So help me out!
Check out the project on kickstarter:
For active support:
Besides the usual; there are now two strech goal stages:
All the Bobbies:
The first strechgoal gives me the possibility to collab with 3-4 other artists and include them within the artpages. It´s my favorite strech goal since it is a big dream to collab with other artists.
Who are the artist? 3 are already in for sure!
Darkillustraion from Switzerland, beautiful dark artwork, I´m very happy to have her on board since it is a dream of her to make a bit of a living out of her art.
Honiglimonade from Germany, only met once or twice when I was a customer on a festival, but now I´m proud to have these organic lines within my project. I admire the lineart so much, it´s an honor to do this collab.
Reeacat from Canada(if I recall it right;)), we never met, also did not talk, hes my first experience of a good internet aquaintance within the world of art. The smooth lines and vivid colours are impressing and I´m quite lucky I found such an interesting individual to collab with.
So I´m giving my very best to get this far with the campaign.
Bobbies special:
The second one is more special in the making, with reaching it I´ll be able to finance selfmade hardcovers. Bookbinding is one of my favorite handycrafts and I´m exieted to reach this goal.
I´m planing to upload an introduction video shortly before the campaign is launching, I´ll share it on Instagram and Kickstarter, maybe even on this website. Even this video project is a collab with a local friend of mine and he provided the amazing soundtrack. I´m looking forward to show you my creation!
All in one... lots of changes have been made in the campaign and I´m more agitated than ever for it to be successful. But honestly I´m already kinda proud to have made all of this... it still impresses me how simple and smooth encounters with other artists online can be. There are people who never wrote me back and so on, but in general I recieved a lot of good vibes and this alone makes me pretty happy.
Another variant to the kickstarter would be a scholarship or award from my local city. Besides the kickstarter I´ll also give it a go because I already got all my concepts, calculations and so on. If the Kickstarter wont succeed, I´ll have another backup. Honestly right now most of the time I´m thinking and planing about backups because I experienced already a fail version of the campaign. But with your help, I´ll be able to make it work.
Come with me on this new journey and hopefully see it succeed!