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 just wanted to share a new fulfillment progress update for this campaign.

The packing of the first selected segment of backers is currently underway, and tomorrow we will begin manually creating/shipping labels one by one for the parcels prepared in this first group.

Once that manual labeling step is completed, these parcels will begin moving into dispatch.

This is still a slower and more manual process than we ever wanted for this campaign, but at least we’re very relieved to finally be moving forward in a concrete way 💝


More updates will follow as progress continues~


Thank you again for your patience and support!
 Inari & Mako

 Hey everyone ~

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 ~ Wrapping up
Midnight Ocean ~ In production
Mythical Garden ~ Shipping early stages
Curiosity Shop ~ In production
Christmas Market ~  Wrapping up
Pods and Pots ~ Surveys out soon  

There was a slight delay since I ended up in hospital for a tiny bit after the last update, but we're pretty much done. There are a few packages just waiting to be collected but that's about it. 

If your package hasn't arrived by the end of April/beginning of May please reach out and let us know! 

 Hi everyone,
We wanted to share another fulfillment check-in for this campaign.

We’ve spent a lot of time working through the workaround shared with us by the BackerKit team, but unfortunately we still have not been able to get it working successfully on our side yet.
We know this workaround seems to have worked for some creators, but not for others. Unfortunately, we are currently among the ones it still has not worked for — and we still do not have a clear answer as to why. 

Shopify also continues not to provide replies, neither to us nor to BackerKit, which has made this situation even more frustrating and exhausting.

At this point, we are going to start manually shipping some pledges by hand in the meantime. (Backers whose pledges are shipped will receive the usual shipping confirmation email with tracking). This is simply to make sure the campaign does not remain completely frozen while we continue working on the platform issue.
It is obviously not the ideal or scalable solution, and it will be much slower on our side, but we would rather start moving at least part of this campaign forward than keep it fully blocked while the technical issue remains unresolved.

We are still continuing to push on the workaround/integration side as well, and we will keep sharing confirmed progress as each part of fulfillment moves forward.


We know this campaign was supposed to be one of the quickest and simplest for us to fulfill, especially since the items were already in hand from the start, and we are truly sorry that it has instead turned into such a long and frustrating wait.

Thank you again for your patience and for sticking with us through this. We genuinely appreciate it!

 Inari & Mako