Hello, holiday marketplace backers!

Here's the latest on fulfillment:

Short version is, the team is wrapping up domestic shipping and moving on to finalize international this week.

Please double check your survey! We do still show a number of incomplete surveys and it's put a couple dozen shipments on hold as of right now.

Thanks everyone - we'll keep plugging away until they're all out the door.

This Holiday Marketplace campaign was in part "leftover special-edition items from prior crowdfundings." Make sure you don't miss the next batch of crowdfunding exclusives! Pinball Crawl Classics is live now with a really cool clamshell box that is a project exclusive. Old-School Adventures #1 also has a neat variant cover. Check out the project now while it's still live!

Hey everyone! 💌
We’re thrilled to let you know that the Smoke Test went smoothly, so we’ve just sent out the remaining surveys to all backers! 🥳
If you haven’t received yours yet, make sure to check your inbox and spam/promotions folder — and feel free to reach out if you need help accessing it! 💻✨

📦 Reminder: the sooner you fill it out, the sooner we’ll be able to start packing and shipping your rewards 🌟 We're prepping everything in the background and can't wait to send all the goodies your way!

📌 Important: Please make sure your payment method is valid and up to date when completing the survey! If the card on file is invalid or empty, we won’t be able to ship your rewards — or they may be significantly delayed. 🥲

✨ As we kick off this brand new year, we wish you all the peace, inspiration, and moments of true happiness, big and small — thank you again for starting 2026 with us! 💖🎊

And thank you so much again for the love and support — we hope you're as excited as we are! ʕ ˵• ⩊ •˵ ʔ

Happy New Year, beloved Inner Sanctum!

2025 was a crazy one for all, and a cruel one for far too many, but as long as we hold fast to one another, we can make sure 2026 is a banner year.

We took some time away from our own projects this year to support a worthy cause, the Horror Not Hate anti-fascist anthology, which Phil has been lending a hand to help Slow Feet Comics editor-in-chief J.M Brandt get the book (and his logo!) designed and ready for press. The good news is: the campaign just launched for the finished book! Over 250 pages of spooky stories and artwork sticking it to The Man!

All proceeds (after printing & fulfillment) will be donated to immigrant rights and LGBTQ+ charities, so you not only get a colossal collection of creeptacular frighteousness — you'll also be helping marginalized communities get out from under the fascist boot!

Support here: Horror Not Hate

Our pal Steven Prince is getting ready to launch his latest Kaiju vs Matador book of mayhem, Monster Matador: Blood of the Matador, for which you can sign up to get early bird deals on now!
  

As for our next Diabolik project, we'll be launching a sign-up page soon, so stay tuned...

Thanks for all your love and support in 2025! Happiest of New Year to all of you from all of us at Diabolik!
—Phil, Ian, and Dan

Hi again everyone,

Just wanted to let you all know that all packages have now been shipped for people who have completed surveys and who's payments have cleared. I've also refunded those of you that accidentally got charged too much postage, so now it's all up to the postal system!

Thanks so much to every one of you for shopping with me whether it was in one campaign or all of them, discovering Backerkit really has made my year and it's such a joy seeing what you all picked!

I'll be back next year with more projects and hopefully a couple of exciting group collabs! But before I plan anything for definite I'd love to ask you what sort of things you'd like to see from me in 2026? I've created a poll but feel free to comment with your ideas...

Best wishes,

Jess

Greetings Hoarders,

We are in the final hours of the campaign and are so close to unlocking the next design!

All pins will have glitter in 2-4 colours for some extra festive sparkle!

So if you have been waiting to pledge because your favourite design wasn't unlocked, you no longer have to wait!

But there is more!!!

As in previous campaigns, this one has a custom designby the beautiful mind of Cassirole. And because I wanted to order the pins as soon as the funds came in, I already designed it.

This little snowman will be added as an add-on in the pledgemanager. But, because I love both the blue and black version, there will be both a blue and black version! (I'm feeling really indecicive today😂)

You guys also unlocked all 5 colouring pages! Which you will get as a digital PDF to enjoy this season ^_^

And because I love my returning backers, I am unlocking the mini pin as well even though we don't have 100 backers. Because *I* need the full set myself!

I can't thank you enough for being here to support my art!

Yours in art,
Therena

BACK before it END

Hi everyone,

We wanted to share a new fulfillment update for this campaign!

After being blocked for quite some time by the Shopify / BackerKit connection issue, we may have finally found a possible workaround thanks to additional guidance from the BackerKit team ❤️

At the moment, this workaround is still in beta territory and hasn’t yet been used on a real project, so we need to test it carefully on our side first. Because of that, we can’t promise success just yet — but we wanted to let you know that there is finally a possible path forward, and we should be able to tell you in the next few days whether it works for us in practice!

If it does, we’ll be able to finally start shipping this campaign's rewards 🥹

This block honestly couldn’t have come at a worse time. This campaign was meant to be a quick and simple campaign to fulfill promptly, especially since the items were already in hand from the beginning. Instead, this platform issue ended up delaying a campaign that should have been one of the most straightforward ones to send out, and we’re truly sorry for that. Honestly, we’re exhausted by how many unexpected hiccups keep piling up everywhere... 

We also know we’re not the only creators who have been affected by this issue. BackerKit actually went as far as building a dedicated app specifically for Shopify in response to their platform changes, which shows how serious and widespread this problem has been. Unfortunately, they are still waiting for Shopify’s approval on their side, and they have not been given a timeline yet either.

In the meantime, they shared this new workaround with us so we can try to move forward rather than remain completely stuck, if it works. That said, as they also explained to us, it is still very much in beta territory and involves quite a few steps, so it’s not the most ideal solution and we’re still actively working through it on our side.

We’ve also directly complained to Shopify ourselves (something even the BackerKit team encouraged us to do) pointing out that deprecating custom apps directly interferes with creators’ ability to properly use their service. Changes like this have a very real impact on how creators are able to manage fulfillment and keep orders moving. 

We’re mortified that this has taken so long for a campaign that was supposed to be fast and easy, and we’re incredibly grateful for your patience.

We understand that delays can be frustrating, and we don’t expect everyone to feel positive about the situation. We simply ask that any questions, concerns, or criticism be shared with patience and kindness, as there are real people behind this project doing their best to move things forward through a very difficult situation. 

We’ll update you again in the next few days or once we know whether this workaround is successful and whether fulfillment can finally begin!

Hey everyone ~

Sorry we're a little late this month.

This update is copy pasted across multiple projects so sorry if you see it more than once!

The overview is looking like this;
Bunnies and Branchs ~ Nearly complete!
Midnight Ocean ~ In production
Mythical Garden ~ Shipping early stages
Curiosity Shop ~ In production
Christmas Market ~  Nearly complete!
Pods and Pots ~ Surveys out soon

The move is done, we're settled into our new (for now) home. The work space is set up and we've done inventory - and discovered a new problem. 

All of the gold (default) leaf sheep pins have... Disappeared. The update is delayed because we've torn the place apart looking for them, including getting in touch with someone at the old property and checking the vehicles we moved in. Nada.

I don't want to delay things any further though, so what we're doing is sending one of either the silver or rose gold/copper plated leaf sheep pins along with a note. If this replacement isn't suitable for you, contact us for a refund or to discuss alternatives. I will be ordering more gold plated leaf sheep, it'll just take weeks for them to arrive; but if you really wanted a gold one I will make a list of people to send them out to. Or attach one to your order for a different campaign, if you'd rather. If you haven't yet recieved your order and it has a leaf sheep in it, this probably applies to you; feel free to leave a comment or send an email to let me know your preferences right away if you want to.

As long as there are no more major set backs, I think we should be completely done by the end of March. There's always a chance something will go wrong but I hope, we'll be done :). Bear in mind if the post is slow that may mean some packages won't arrive until the mid - end of April. 

Thank you for your patience.