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12 hours to go in the Book 2 Kickstarter project!

Wednesday, April 11th, 2012

Multiplex: There and Back Again Lightning Round has met (and surpassed) its secondary funding goal of $17,500! Thank you to everybody who has pledged so far and made the Book 2 Kickstarter even more successful — both in terms of number of backers and money raised — than the Book 1 Kickstarter! Many readers (and a few reviews) commented on the production quality and design of Multiplex: Enjoy Your Show, and the extra time and money I can spend on Book 2 will help me ensure that this one turns out even better.

The next (tertiary?) funding goal is the following — with about 12 hours left in the funding period, it’s a bit of a long shot at this point, but I thought I’d dangle that carrot here anyway…

$20,000 — eBooks will be produced in both PDF and ePub format. All backers [with eBooks included in their reward packs] will be get both formats (or just one, if you want). Also, backers at the $100 Reward Level and up will get their Chapter 1–10 eBooks delivered on a USB key along with their other pledge rewards.

While I will be opening up for PayPal donations soon, the USB key is only for Kickstarter backers, since I’ll need to start costing the custom production ASAP (the keys will have the Multiplex logo printed on them). It is off the table after the Kickstarter funding period ends tonight at midnight.


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48 hours to go! (And an original art giveaway for Kickstarter backers!)

Monday, April 9th, 2012

Pencils for Multiplex #647 

There 48 hours to go in the Multiplex: There and Back Again Lightning Round Kickstarter drive.

In celebration of this, and to promote one final push upwards, I will be giving TWO page of original sheets* of pencils or inks (signed by me) from the current zombie storyline away to a random Kickstarter backers. If you’ve already pledged, you are already entered! You can pledge $1 (although I’ll only get like 65¢ from that, you know that right?), or you can pledge $3,333. You have the same chance of winning. Only Kickstarter backers — of any amount — are eligible. Sorry, people waiting for the PayPal option to open up.

But wait! There’s more! If we get to the secondary funding goal of $17,500 — less than $700 away — by the end of the Kickstarter project at MIDNIGHT, Thursday, April 12th, I will increase that to FOUR sheets.

This is in addition to the super awesome bookmark that will be added to the Basic Sponsor Pack (and Super Sponsor Pack) rewards.

AND THAT’S NOT ALL. If we get to the next funding goal of $20,000 by the end of the Kickstarter project, I will increase that to SIX sheets.

* I say “sheets” because I draw them on 11×14 sheets of Bristol paper. Some strips/pages of the finished comic are broken up across two sheets. And some sheets only have one panel on them. Which page you get is random. But they’re all awesome, man. All of them.


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Trailer Watch: Whit Stillman returns with Damsels in Distress

Sunday, April 8th, 2012

The film that brought a pre-dental-makeover Kate Beckinsale into the spotlight here in the US, Last Days of Disco was a wonderful dialogue-driven, social-commentary-packed indie comedy… and a massive dud at the box office. It was well received in film nerd circles, though, and enjoys — like Metropolitan, Stillman’s first and best received film (which I have yet to see, though it’s in my Netflix queue) — a space in the Criterion Collection.

The fact that it took Stillman fourteen years to make another film after Disco is a bit perplexing, especially when the trailer for his new film, Damsels in Distress, looks so damned charming. In the film, “three beautiful girls set out to change the male-dominated environment of theircollege campus, and to rescue their fellow students from depression, grunge and low standards of every kind.”

You can read a bit more about Stillman and in a recent NPR interview.

Greta Gerwig, Adam Brody, Analeigh Tipton, Zach Woods, Megalyn Echikunwoke, Carrie MacLemore, Aubrey Plaza, and Caitlin Fitzgerald star. The film is in limited release now, so check your local listings if you’re interested!


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Ichigo Kurosaki vs. Samurai Jack

Saturday, April 7th, 2012

(Please don’t laugh at my complete ignorance of actual swordfighting technique.)

Another commission, this time for Chris Riley, who asked for Ichigo Kurosaki (in his Bankai fighting mode) vs. Samurai Jack. I’ve never seen Bleach, so I don’t know who would win here. Any of you guys have an opinion about this?

Want a sketch from me? You can always get one through the Multiplex Store — or, for the next few days, pledge for the Draw Something Pack in the Book 2 Kickstarter Project.


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