Campaign Quadruples Initial Funding Goal In Hours And Is Awarded Kickstarter’s Coveted “Project We Love” Moniker
Campaign Can Be Found Here:
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/shiomniv1/shi-1-3oth-anniversary-original-art-edition
Crusade Comics’ launched its ninth Kickstarter, The Shi #1 30th Anniversary Original Art Edition last evening, Thursday, December 7, 2023 and the campaign is off to a record-breaking start.
“What a launch!” Stated Shi-Creator Billy Tucci. “Deborah [Crusade’s Executive Director] and I are so appreciative of the folks of Kickstarter for the honor of being a Project We Love and are deeply humbled by the amazing faith and support from our backers who have far exceeded any and all expectations for this wonderful book.”
The special, oversized The Shi #1 30th Anniversary Original Art Edition is the complete and seminal “Story of Shi”. A 112-page, hardcover coffee table sized collection that is literally 30-years in the making. The omnibus-sized tome contains the complete and remastered original 32-page, Shi: Way of the Warrior #1 plus over seventy additional original pencils/inks and hand-painted colored interior pages, cover designs, and insight into creative process and development.
The campaign also offers many other Shi-related items including prints, apparel, challenge coins, trading cards and special editions, including the SHI #1 PENCILS’ DOWN ASHCAN EDITION. This limited, 32-page comic books features Billy Tucci’s never-before-seen Shi: Way of the Warrior #1 original penciled pages.
The Shi #1 30th Anniversary Original Art Edition Kickstarter closes on January 10, 2024.
The Shi #1 30th Anniversary Original Art Edition
can be found here:
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/shiomniv1/shi-1-3oth-anniversary-original-art-edition
BILLY TUCCI’S NEWEST INDIEGOGO, THE SHI #1 30TH ANNIVERSARY ORIGINAL ART EDITION IS NOW LIVE:
https://igg.me/at/r2WUJ9HKIJM/x/20487910#/
$20,000.00 Indiegogo Stretch Goal Announced
Original Art Edition Cover Will Sport Goil Foil Accents and Enhanced Spot-Glossing!
Launched last week, the Shi #1 30th Anniversary Original Art Edition Indiegogo campaign immediately hit its initial funding goal and unlocked the $15,000.00 Stretch Goal which enlarges the book to the massive 11.25″ X 7.75″ Marvel/Omnibus size. Thanks to Indiegogo backers, Shi #1 now shares the same dimensions as the Shi Vol. 1 and Senryaku Omnibus Editions. Making the collection the perfect Shi-Shelf companion to its published predecessors. Due to Crusade’s #NoFanLeftBehind dual-campaign strategy, both Kickstarter and Indiegogo backers will mutually benefit from each platform with combined stretch goal rewards.
About Billy Tucci
Inkpot Award recipient Billy Tucci is a cartoonist best known for his modern-day samurai saga Shi. Through his company, Crusade Fine Arts, Shi has been printed in five languages and sold more than 3 million comic books. The graduate of New York’s Fashion Institute of Technology has earned the prestigious Diamond Comics Gem Award and has been nominated for four Eisner Awards. In addition to his own creations, Billy’s DC Comics’ graphic novel, Sgt. Rock: The Lost Battalion, was awarded the Military Writers Society of America Gold Medal for its depiction of the real-life 442nd Regimental Combat Team, which was comprised of Japanese-American, US soldiers. His earnest retelling of the Christmas story in A Child Is Born has quietly turned into an international blockbuster, winning the Christian Small Publisher Book of the Year Award. Billy’s critically acclaimed Miss Fury: Joy Division saw the return of the Golden Age Icon for Dynamite Comics. He recently released Shi: Return of the Warrior, Shi: Haikyo, Shi: Sakura, Shi: Way of the Warrior Omnibus, Shi: Senryaku Omnibus and Zombie-Sama via Kickstarter and Indiegogo uniting backers from over fifty countries and bringing Crusade Comics’ crowdfunding campaign totals to over $1,400,000.00.