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!
The factory is working on the final details of the Terminator Metal Slipcases and the ETA for printing of the omnibus editions. They have asked for an additional week to put the final information together. We are hoping by the end of next week we'll be able to outline the timeline for the printing of all the books. It has been a crazy year for items being manufactured overseas with a lot of ups and downs. We still don't know today what the final disposition will be for these items but we're working with our printing partners to make the books as amazing as they can be.
As soon as we have the printing details from the factory, we'll get another update out so everyone can be in the loop on the upcoming production timeline.
Just checking in as it's been a while since we've had any updates and we've already finished the surveys.
Any update or estimated timeline would be greatly appreciated.
Ascendants, I'm delighted to report that all of the colors are now finished and we're off to letterering and layout. I expect to have PDFs delivered to you within a few weeks and then the graphic novels themselves just a few months later.
Thank you for your patience with this project. Whereas the first volume of Ascendant: Star-Spangled Squadron was largely oriented around solo protagonists, until the final battle at the end, this volume features multiple characters in massive battles throughout the book. Many of the locations are real-world locations with careful attention paid to that. It all turned out to be very complex to draw and color. The wait will, I hope, prove worthwhile.
Hi everyone. We've fixed the problem that was causing everyone's order to double up. No one has been charged at all yet for any post-campaign costs, and no one should be charged for their order twice.
We will post an update one day before we charge cards for shipping. So until you see that update, don't worry, you haven't been charged anything since your initial campaign pledge last year. The only charges that you should have at this point are shipping charges, or add-on charges IF you choose to add items onto your order when you take the survey.
Once we send that next update and charge cards for shipping, IF you are charged twice for some reason due to a system glitch (which should NOT happen), please let us know and we'll gladly work with you to refund any extra that was charged.
So if you haven't taken your survey yet, or haven't finished it because you were waiting for this to shake out, then please go ahead and take/finish your survey so we can move onto fulfillment!
Finally, for those of you who pledged the digital book tier and have emailed us to ask about shipping costs for items that come with that tier, we will be responding to your emails throughout the day today. So please keep an eye out for our response.
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