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!
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. Of course, it all seemed fine. We sent out the smoke test surveys and had no problem, then we sent out the rest of the surveys, and pretty much everyone has contacted us to tell they've been double charged. We guarantee that this is not, as one backer put it, "another way to make money instead of giving me the reward for what I already pledged." It's simply a technical error that we're getting fixed.
In the meantime, we recommend not filling out your survey.
We've contacted Backerkit Support to help us figure out what's going wrong. None of you should be being charged twice, and we haven't hit the "collect shipping" button yet, so you should be being charged for that either.
Sorry for the mistake and the trouble. We'll update you all again as soon as we have new information.
Will we be able to unlock this awesome add-on T-shirt in time featuring the Rabbit wanted poster that just might have several hidden secrets in it?! Times running out.
we are only 10 backers away from unlocking the next backer milestone reward and getting ANOTHER freebie for all Physical backers! Can you help us break through that wall by sharing the campaign one last time?
Hi everyone. We've sent out the "smoke test" surveys and haven't had any problems, so we wanted to let you know that tomorrow morning we'll be sending out all the rest of the surveys. Be sure to check your inbox and if you don't see your survey by 9:00 AM PST on May 29, then be sure to check your spam folder to make sure it end up there.
Once survey's start getting filled out, we can begin charging for shipping and start the perk fulfillment process. So be sure to fill out your survey ASAP. It shouldn't take you more than a minute, literally.
Hi Dynamite Entertainment,
I have received items Karma both Volume 1 & Volume 2 yesterday. Thank you very much for the items. Thrilled to get them and the cards along with them.
