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

In addition to the backer-only news attached below, I want to mention this campaign going live at 10AM PST on May 5th:

This is a campaign that is ran through primarily my account but also is managed by Chocolat Chaud!! These are primarily ideas we've had for quite some time but didn't think we'd ever have the chance to bring to fruition, so they are "bucketlist" designs for us.

For me, that is because I came up with the concept for this guillotine necklace all the way back in April 2023 and, along with the bandage designs being produced right now that will be available as add-ons, were the "last miscellanious things" that I desperately wanted to have produced before I close my online shop - aka, bucketlist designs. Thanks to Chocolat Chaud, that's possible if this campaign goes well!!

The base goal covers the Vitrail de Cristal collar pin sets, and all the freebie mini pins and holographic stickers for qualifying backers! The new colorway of the thorns design mini bat pin is also unlocked in the base goal.

The first stretch goal is the Cœr de Chat necklace with 2 colorways:

It's a very sentimental piece inspired by grief and love in regards to losing our beloved feline friends and family.

The 2nd stretch goal will be the silver colorway of my guillotine necklace!

The guillotine is a fidget necklace, and is a statement piece at 2" tall. I don't have a good name for it yet but I'm thinking of a couple candidates! There are gifs of it functioning in the campaign bio, but they are apparently too big for me to attach here.

I will be doing fulfillment so that the horrible tariff situation between Japan (where she is based) and the US will not impact fulfillment for anyone other than people in the EU, who will unfortunately not be able to back the campaign. It will be fulfilled sometime this Fall as long as everything goes smoothly!

Thank you for your patience, truly and sincerely!! I can see myself posting 1 last update here if there is another Holiday Market this year, but otherwise that's a wrap!