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!
First off, a huge thank you for your patience! We know we've been a little quiet, but that's because we've had our heads down, entirely focused on building out this beast that is BLITZ magazine issue 1. It's packed with some seriously exceptional raw talent!
📢 Since our last update, we've assembled an incredible lineup of international creators to bring you bold art, insightful articles, engaging discussions, and so much more. We have the fantastic work of Italy-based artists Dina Omut and Jute, alongside Mahdi Kheene, who's making waves in the NY indie scene, plus many other contributors—including the promised legendary Jim Mahfood, Shawn Crystal, and Karl Kerschl—plus we've got a few surprises in store, which we'll share more about in the coming weeks.
🎁 Also, the former insert 'Creator Universe' gets an Upgrade!
Instead of being bound within the magazine, the "Creator Universe" section will now come as a separately printed special edition included in a collector's treasure trove of extras. Thanks to the generosity of our incredible creators, we're stuffing this grab bag with original comics, postcards, posters, stickers, and more exclusive goodies!
📆 Printing & Fulfillment Timeline — we're officially on the books to take BLITZ to print in May, and we're printing locally here in Canada, which means fulfillment will begin by late May or early June. We know it's been a journey, but trust us—it'll be worth the wait!
BLITZ has evolved into something much bigger than we originally conceived — and we're trying to make it as unique, memorable, and purposeful as possible. The extra time you, our amazing backers, have afforded us has helped us achieve this. Thank you for your support and patience.
Thank you again for your patience and belief in BLITZ — we can't wait to get this into your hands!
In the meantime, please enjoy some art from some of the new faces going BLITZ issue 1!
Mordecai and Ivy Standees are back up in the Lackadaisy Shop, and this time they're evergreen! If you missed out on the limited run we sold, now's your chance to add them to your Lackadaisy collection!
Happy Spring, fellow Party-goers! It's time to take it outside! 🎉
Oh texture, my beloved, you look so beautiful...
We've got an update with several fun pictures for you to gander at! Currently Perfect Crime Party is finally heading toward the printer after a slightly-lengthy review! 🔍
The spines of the book signatures! I just think it's neat how a book comes together, don't you?
I personally love seeing the shine and texture on black print. You can't get that in a PDF as much as those rock too!
Proofs have been approved for production after a small delay. A few edits had to take place for the printing to look clearer and be more readable but now that that's over, we're currently slated to begin the printing and put-together process. These photos that have been included in the update are from the second proof run, so you're all getting a little sneak peek at the final product before everything else gets stitched up for the cover to be added!
Thank you all for being here and a part of this production! We cannot wait to share this criminal collection with you!
In our first episode of WHAT YOU KNOW GOOD? over on TikTok and YouTube, we talk to artist Jamie Noguchi (THE SCHOOL FOR EXTRATERRESTRIAL GIRLS) about indy comics, his extraterrestrial co-conspirator Jeremy Whitley, and heavy metal guitars.
Jamie also provided the Iron Lady pinup for our forthcoming graphic novel, THE ADVENTURES OF LION MAN!
A quick update as things are coming together for Karma Vol 2 to ship soon. As part of the ComicTopia project there was a cool collaboration gift for backers of both Karma Vol 2 and our partners project The Legend of La Rosa Blanca. Any backers that supported print levels from both campaigns are receiving two special custom Tarot cards. Here's a look at the actual cards that will be included for qualifying backers:
We will be updating more coming up shortly. Shipping will be starting in the coming weeks as soon as we have the confirmed date the books are arriving.
Hi was wondering if there are any updates of the signed Tom Holland Edition i only ask as i have just seen posted by Tom Holland on IG a signed copy of the book for sale on his shop and remembered the last update you gave was waiting for tom to sign the edition that you have look forward to the update
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Our friends over at Burrowed Alive have been hard at work with the pilot of their animated series Far-Fetched! Shortly they're going to be going live with their very first Kickstarter and we were hoping you would be interested! This is our kinda thing, and we're hoping it's going to be yours too! Take a look!
Welcome to Veilport, where the veil is about to be lifted for our merry band of late-2000's misfits in an old ice-cream truck. 🚚💨
Rue has unleashed an adorable little dragon..? animal? demon? dog...? upon the world, but has much more to worry about than that right now. Stumbling into a friend's late 00's niche band, Sesamoid, the crew has set out into the local wooded area of their small town to film an animated video in the hopes of gaining popularity in the days of the young Internet reach.
But the influence they have reaches more into the bizarre, science-y and supernatural rather than the stardom they are all looking for! The little town they live in has its own reasons to not draw attention to itself....
Personally I'm already a big fan of Quinn and his attitude 👀
