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!
If you're still on the fence about whether to back the project, you have until 5pm PST to jump on board! :) We've unlocked three stretch goals so far, and there's till a shot at unlocking the last one before the clock runs out...!
I will mention, in case any of you are thinking about simply waiting to buy these in stores this Christmas or next year -- certain distribution issues may make that more challenging for fans than anticipated, so you may want to secure your copies from us directly through this campaign. (We won't go into details, but suffice it to say, the distribution and retail landscape is changing on a daily basis, and we're doing everything we can to successfully navigate it...)
Please tell everyone you know about this incredible library of award-winning and surreal adventures!
June has been hectic for the team between a three-weeks sickness, excruciating heat and endless horrors in the news cycle, but we're still standing! And we wanted to share some preview of inked pages (before colours and lettering) with you.
We won't do this a lot because we also want to keep some *mystery* around the story for when you'll actually get your copies this Fall, but I couldn't not share some of the sheer beauty of Kej's inks on Ines' pencils!
Hope you're all doing well. Until next time!
Cheers, MH
PS About 89% of y'all have filled out their surveys! Thanks so much :) Only 28 people to go!
The campaign has been up for 4 hours now, and we're already halfway there! Thank you all so much <3 please remember to spread the word and share to as many people as possible to make sure "The Same Sky" gets printed!
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