Alright folks, gather 'round! Your friendly neighborhood artist, Steve Rude (the one with the crippling art supply habit!), is back with a brand new sketchbook project: The Art of Steve Rude 2025 Sketchbook!
This bad boy's hitting crowdfunding in January, and lemme tell ya, art supplies ain't cheap. That's why your support is golden!
Speaking of gold, be sure to check out our Patreon page – those dedicated dudes and dudettes get some special deals during the launch.
And hey, while you're at it, head over to our launch page (www.steverude.com/2025skb) and sign up for the Backerkit livestream! We'll be dishing all the juicy details about the sketchbook and maybe even throw in a few laughs.
Now, to keep this humble dude motivated, let's hear it! What kind of goodies would make YOU excited for the next crowdfunder? Hit that poll and let your freak flag fly! (Select all that apply)
We just wanted to let everyone know that work on the comic is currently underway, and to say thank you to everyone for their patience. We joined onto the comictopia project on rather short notice, but during the campaign it became clear that while we love Backerkit for our fulfillment solution, we've just built up too much of a an audience on Kickstarter to try and move everyone over here. So we will be launching issue 1, the full issue, over on Kickstarter next month, and we will have enough art to finalize assembly of the ashcan very soon.
Artist Antonio Baldari also had to take on another gig unexpectedly but is back working on CSR, and also contributed this awesome cover for the upcoming full length issue.
So hopefully if everything lines up right, you will have the ashcans in hand just as everyone is starting to talk about the first issue, before it goes to press. This will also get a wide circulation through comic book stores nation/world-wide, making this limited ashcan release something special. As soon as the new kickstarter pre-launch page is live we will share that too. More to come soon!
Books arrived Monday and we've been working tirelessly to count, sign, and bag all presale orders, and we finished the last of the bagging yesterday!
I have to say the hardcovers look AMAZING! It cost us over $5,000 extra to print them plus $2,500 just for the tip in plate, but it was worth it! The Wonder Woman signature plate looks amazing!
Shipping Starts TOMORROW!
Get ready to receive your books! We'll begin shipping them out tomorrow, so keep an eye on your mailboxes.
Important: Update Your Address ASAP!
If you've recently moved, please email us with your new address information immediately.
How to Verify Your Shipping Address:
You can double-check the address we have on file by clicking your survey link (or retrieving it at https://2025-skb.backerkit.com). Then, click "order confirmation" located in the grey area at the top right of the page. This will display all your order details, including your shipping address.
Don't Miss Our Free Comic Book Day Party!
Join us for our Free Comic Book Day Party! We're planning a fun-filled day of livestreams, sketches, and exclusive content. Sign up today at https://www.steverude.com/h2d2025.
We're so excited to finally get these books into your hands! Thank you for your patience and continued support.
The Rude Dude Team
PS: Sketchbook Reminder - Limited Supplies!
If you haven't ordered your sketchbook yet, supplies are limited! Presale has been moved to our online store: www.steverude.com/2025skb Don't miss out!
We're so excited to finally get these books into your hands! Thank you for your patience and continued support.
I was obsessing about being below $2,500 yesterday. We are now $175 short of $3K and 8 backers away from 100. Hopefully, we can reach one or both of those milestones soon.
Since I was talking about her yesterday, I figured I'd share a character I created, Mrs. Polonium. She is based on Carolyn Beatrice Parker, who was one of the Black scientists who contributed to the Manhattan Project (the Dayton Project, in particular, which was involved in developing polonium bombs).
She is the first African American woman known to have obtained a post-graduate degree in physics. She actually got a masters in mathematics from the University of Michigan in 1941 and a masters in physics at MIT in 1951. She was working towards her PhD at MIT when she died of leukemia (apparently, many who worked on the Dayton Project contracted it).
Mrs. Polonium will be featured in my next Lion Man story, which will take place in Nazi Germany. Of course, backing the current campaign will help make this story possible.
Surveys were just sent out! Hopefully everything looks correct. You can still purchase the sticker or physical comic as an add-on if you desire.
For those of you that backed early enough to get the free sticker, that should be applied to your order! If you don't see it for some reason, please reach out to me! If you backed at the PDF-only level and got a sticker, you unfortunately have to cover the shipping for that sticker.
I really wanna see what I receive and understand it takes a long time to plan these things but an update on wave two would be good. Literally by May I would have received a whole new album/ box set and it is a little bit frustrating when there’s been no other updates apart from the digital downloads.
Our artist, EV Cantada, is just a few pages away from finishing the Joe Ledger graphic novel, and Zac Atkinson has started the coloring process.
Jonathan is also working on the prose short story that will be included in the hardcover deluxe edition.
We still have about 50 people who haven't filled out their survey, which we need so we can get your addresses and emails to deliver your awards. Let us know if you haven't submitted your info.
And for those who haven't backed the campaign, you can do so by heading to our Pre-order store.
We're still on target to send out rewards by June!
Here are a couple of pages to preview ... and check below for a preview of a new comic book campaign I launched.
"All the fun of a classic Doctor Who adventure, with all the gratuitous violence and adult language you didn't know you needed!" – Sean Von Gorman (The Pedestrian) THE OMEGA ELEVEN – THE METROPOLIS JOB is off to a great start.
We reached our funding goal in 17 minutes and have already hit our first stretch goal. If you back a physical reward, you'll get this Omega Eleven bookmark for free.
THE OMEGA ELEVEN – THE METROPOLIS JOB is the new chapter in the time-traveling comic series from Monstrous Books. Doctor Omega and the ArtfulDodger must assemble a team of thieves and rogues, known as amalgams — including the vampire detective OrlockHolmes, mastermind MoriartyMouse, and Miss Creation the Barbarian Bride — to pull off a number of heists to save the Omniverse from collapse.
