We are well into the campaign now, sitting just under the halfway-funded mark with 15 days left on the clock. I've been pushing this comic hard on all social media fronts, but to be frank—we need your help to push through this middle-campaign plateau.
If you’ve already pledged, thank you. If you can share the link or tag just one friend who loves history or indie comics today, our 20 revolutionaries can easily clear that halfway mark before July 4th.
If you are currently following the page and waiting for the right moment to jump in, this is it.
To celebrate our semiquincentennial, I'm offering a neat little freebie for all of our current $15+ physical supporters, and anyone who joins them by 11:59 PM on July 4th. Everyone eligible for a physical reward will receive a Continental Dollar bookmark included with their package!
No cash value. Bearer is not entitled to receive eighty Spanish milled dollars or an equal sum in gold or silver.
Help us crash the British plot, save the currency, and cross that 50% line - or more!
It's been a fantastic start to our campaign - we are over a quarter of the way to our goal, and closing in on the 1/3rd mark ($1,100). It's all possible thanks to your generous support, and so I wanted to quickly say thank you!
We have 24 days to raise at least $2,367 to secure the funding for The New Amsterdam Game: Gooseberry's Counterfeit Caper, and I am confident we can do it with your help!
Please, take some time this week to reach out to your friends and family that you think might be interested in this comic. In a time where algorithms constantly bury small, independent voices like ours, word-of-mouth remains the most powerful tool for promotion and the best chance we have at success.
"Mad Man" Michael has been working like his pen is on fire, and we currently have about half the book penciled and inked, ready for the gorgeous coloring work by "Lovely" Linda Scott Campbell and letters by the inimitable "Jolly" Justin Birch (eat your heart out, Stan Lee)! We're all incredibly eager to make this new Gooseberry story a reality and put it in your hands!
Again, thank you for your support and for spreading the word about The New Amsterdam Game. We're eternally grateful, and eternally optimistic for success!
Hi all. Real quick, the campaign was obviously supposed to launch about 20 minutes ago. We are still waiting for final review from BackerKit. As soon as the review is good, we will launch!
We're inching ever closer to our crowdfund launch date, and I'm so thankful for your support so far. I wanted to take a moment to highlight two other projects current raising funds that might pique your interests. Both are comics that fall under the broad category of historical fiction (which I hope you have realized is what The New Amsterdam Game is)!
The first one is a collected volume of the long-running and well-received series by Madeleine Holly-Rosing, The Boston Metaphysical Society. Madeleine is a wonderful writer, a pillar of both the indie comics and historical fiction communities, and just a super nice person to boot. Her current Kickstarter is for the third volume of the series, subtitled Mystery at Pike's Peak. I'll let her own words describe the series and volume:
"[T]he original six issue mini-series is about an ex-Pinkerton detective, a spirit photographer, and a genius scientist who battle supernatural forces in late 1800’s Boston. They live in an alternate steampunk history where ghosts and demons are a normal part of life. Families known as the Great Houses control the economy of the Great States of America while the middle class and lower classes sole purpose are to serve the Great Houses.
Mystery at Pikes Peak is about the team (Samuel, Caitlin, Granville, and Alma), fearing arrest, flee Boston to arrive at the only safe haven they have--Tesla's Experimental Station in Colorado Springs. There they meet Tesla’s most unlikely partner, Meihui Zhou, a scientist from the Great House Zhou in California. Life gets more complicated when an attempt is made on Tesla’s life and Caitlin’s psychic abilities take a dangerous turn. Now, they must figure out who is trying to kill Tesla and what Caitlin’s visions are trying to tell her before anyone else dies."
Madeleine is well past her initial goal and is currently in the stretch goal phase with 15 days remaining as of this post. If you want a brilliantly spooky, steampunky story by a master of the craft (in a high-quality hardcover edition or otherwise), please take a moment to go over and support her!
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Next is another volume of a series I love: Athena Voltaire, by Steve Bryant. Steve is a extremely talented writer who I had the pleasure of meeting at HeroesCon last summer (after sort of being ships passing in the night for years). This series is extremely well-reviewed (having garnered multiple nominations of major awards), and so chock-full of pulpy Nazi-punching goodness that you cannot miss it. If you like The Rocketeer (I do) or The Mummy (I do) or Indiana Jones (who doesn't), you absolutely must pick up Volume 1 of Athena Voltaire: The Complete Adventures.
As Steve describes Athena Voltaire: "In the knuckle-dusting style of classic pulp adventure comes Athena Voltaire, the globetrotting aviatrix who takes on Nazis, secret societies, mythical beasts, and unspeakable occult creatures! From sunken galleons to haunted mountain-top lairs to hidden jungle temples, our heroine faces peril at every turn as she races to save the world!"
If that cover doesn't do it for you, I can't help you. Steve is also well into the stretch goals of his campaign, so you can get yourself a 256-page, five-story, hardcover-bound collection! Don't miss it!
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So please take a moment to check out two very different but both very excellent and engaging reads! I'll try to update this post with more project as they come to my attention,
Again, thank you for your support and I hope you are all getting excited for The New Amsterdam Game!
Hi all! We've reached 30 pre-launch followers - thank you, and welcome to our new friends!
As promised, here is the fully-inked version of artist Michael Bruland's cover for The New Amsterdam Game: Gooseberry's Counterfeit Caper!
Man, that is so cool. Look at that face! I love Michael's face-work (that's the proper term that I'm going with. Face-work).
Thank you all for following us and believing in this project! Get a friend or two to join, and we'll hit 50 followers soon - I'll have to have some reward for that, too!
