USA pledges are 94% fulfilled. The warehouse team is working on the last few pledges this week.
Canada is 46% complete
EU/UK is 45%
AUS is 5% (one package out the door so far)
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.
Now Live: Crowdfunding Exclusives for Old-School Adventures and Pinball Crawl Classics
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!
Pledge for the exclusive clamshell edition while you still can!
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. 🥲
🛍️ Also, our Post-campaign Store is now open, so if you missed the campaign or want to grab some extra goodies with the same deals and discounts, you can do so there too!
✨ 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
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!
main cover by Chad Keith
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!
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 cansign upto get early bird deals on now!
cover by Jesus Kartun Pedroza
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
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...
We are in the final hours of the campaign and are so close to unlocking the next design!
🎄✨🔓 But because I am impatient, and absolutely LOVE all the designs (and won't have time for a festive campaign next year) I decided I am unlocking all TEN designs! 🔓✨🎄
Mistletoe Derpy Kisses
Ugly Sweater, cookies & milk
Krampus Derpy
Santa Coal Derpy
Wreath Derpy
Reindeer Derpy
Derpy Gift
Ornament Derpy
Stocking Derpy
Tangled Derpy
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!
Because the grind unfortunately never ends, HoloCat (formerly Fantasy Fox Creations) and I are running a cross-collab ready-to-ship little event on here at the end of this month! This will be my half of it:
Yes, that is a freebie PIN for the cross-collab bonus! It is.... another bat. Lol I'm sorry. I actually drew the pattern for this one 4 years ago and it's been clawing at my brain every few months since, it's actually why I made my "party" design moth. I am very limited on molds I can repeat because manufacturer changes have to happen so frequently as quality control varies dramatically over time, so that left either a bat or a snake, and I just made a boatload of snakes already. I say this as though there aren't over 40 bats that have been made now.
This is basically the same as this campaign was, with a few additions:
Monster Girl Riot gacha machines! They are now properly separated into $15 and $20 base-cost spins based on pin complexity. All designs except the recently funded <vampire> in production are included.
Cryptic Compendium pins: he still doesn't have an individual online store set up, so some of his leftover spider and geode pet stock is up for grabs as blind bags! Since we live together, fulfillment is combined.
Snakes are available as standard grade mini pin gacha spins and also mixed into the seconds pin grab bag options!
Early-bird freebie will be a randomized 2-sticker pack of my larger size of stickers ($15 value) per qualifying backer. I would like to do new freebie stickers as achievement goals like I did with this campaign (sweets bat and gingerbread snake stickers), but we'll see how it goes!
I also want to be forthcoming with a couple of things regarding fulfillment timeline:
I will get surveys out as soon as humanly possible for me, but given that the freebie pin and the rest of my pending BK pledges for my pin campaigns have to go out first to the best of my ability, fulfillment will probably be in around 1.5-2 months for anyone who is going to be receiving the cross-collab bonus.
This extension in processing time also gives us the chance to make sure the remaining people who already backed the monster girls and CC's campaigns will receive their pledges first.
My health has gotten even worse since I ran this campaign in the Holiday Market, so I am so slow and really apologize for that. That's also why my online store still isn't properly reopened (for its closing sale... lol).
Because the fulfillment won't be immediate, you're probably wondering why we chose the "ready-to-ship" format... it's so that we don't have to wait 2 weeks after the campaign has already ended to even start production on the freebies, we could start production in the first week it's running! That actually gives a head start on fulfillment in its own way. We could forego fun new freebies but that would be much less exciting and I feel weird now at the thought of not giving extra gifts to my backers after all this time. And, of course, the main point of this campaign is to offload existing stock at discounted prices!
This time, I compiled a little list for transparency regarding what these funds will be going towards! I obviously don't owe anyone this info, but I'm sharing it as a thank you rather than as a feeling of obligation!
Funds from this RTS campaign will directly go to the following:
Paying a programmer for my game in development, once I find one who works in C# (I have been actively looking for one that's anti-AI for a long time)!! this is something that's become a necessity as my health has declined, because with extreme hand pain I can no longer program it myself.
Producing the freebies for this campaign!
Paying for any additional commissioned merch artwork needed for Apocalyptic Dream's (the game) relaunch campaign!
Our cats, 9/10 of whom were rescued within the last 4 years and our matriarch Luna having been with me for 19 years! (10 cats, several of whom still feel food insecure or have chronic health issues from having lived outside, is expensive - you guys and convention customers have helped so much over the years!!)
Helping the other strays we don't have room for...
Medical expenses, such as mobility aids and my hEDS-specialized physical therapy (completely out of pocket)
Bills and other important living expenses
I hope this answers all questions about the upcoming campaign, if you missed the original Gacha Market but wanted to participate, I hope you will consider this next one! 💕 I am truly trying to destash what I have left in stock, so I tried to even surpass the estimated included value I gave for each listing for this Holiday Market campaign and will do so again! Here is the link again to the teaser page!
Thank you for supporting a chronically ill and disabled artist and cat mom!
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MESSAGE TO PREORDER BACKERS FROM HERE:
I posted this update recently to MGR talking about my fulfillment for that project, and it pretty much carries over to the 2nd monster girl pin collection and also this campaign's snakes.
I am at least pleased to say that the remaining snake orders from this preorder store should all be at the PO next week, about half of which are included in these massive collaborative orders mentioned in the linked update above. It took me waaay too long, especially considering those 2nd round of snakes/Cupcake remakes arrived a while back, but as mentioned in that update as well I was sick when they showed up and lost about a week of memory (which included the fact that they arrived), so I digress. I'm just glad to be checking off boxes now finally. THANK YOU for your patience with these last snake orders, seriously.
