New, Centralized Office Space Plays Critical Role in More Efficient Organizing and Shipping of Product For 2024!
BIG things are happening at Crusade Comics as Billy Tucci and company have settled into their new long-term leased, fulfillment office. Since the independent publisher began crowdfunding via Indiegogo and Kickstarter four years ago, Crusade has grown exponentially, making a permanent hub crucial in keeping up with the fulfillment of thousands of backer rewards and daily website orders. “Me, Billy, [Tucci] and everyone at Crusade Comics are humbled by the amazing support and faith we’ve been receiving since returning to publishing”. Stated Executive Director Deborah Tucci. “Organization is paramount to Crusade’s future and by having a centrally dedicated fulfillment center will ensure that Shi fans continue receiving our product at an even more efficient and accelerated pace.”
Fulfillment continues for the Shi Senryaku Omnibus Edition, as are www.billytucci.com exclusive orders. Meanwhile production nears completion for Crusade’s current Indiegogo and Kickstarter, the Shi #1 30th Anniversary Original Art Edition as the 112-page, premium formatted hardcover is scheduled to go to the printer next week for proofing.
Shi-Creator Billy Tucci’s original art table where he will sit while illustrating lithograph remarques and book sketch editions.
BILLY TUCCI’S NEWEST INDIEGOGO, THE SHI #1 30TH ANNIVERSARY ORIGINAL ART EDITION CAN BE FOUND HERE:
https://igg.me/at/r2WUJ9HKIJM/x/20487910#/
After a 30-day campaign, backers from over 20 countries successfully funded Crusade Comics’ ninth Kickstarter, The Shi #1 30th Anniversary Original Art Edition. The book now continues Indiegogo “Indemand” mode until fulfillment begins.
Since its launch last month, the special hardcover The Shi #1 30th Anniversary Original Art Edition #NoFanLeftBehind dual campaign strategy on both the Kickstarter and Indiegogo crowdfunding platforms have surpassed $95,000.00 and has unlocked FIVE Stretch Goals:
• Enlarging the books dimensions to Omnibus Size.
• Gold foil lineage added to covers.
• Special spot glossing enhancement to the covers.
• A premium stock wraparound dust jacket.
• A sewn-in, satin bookmark ribbon exclusive to backers.
Due to the publisher’s #NoFanLeftBehind, both Kickstarter and Indiegogo backers will mutually benefit from each platform with combined stretch goal rewards.
Celebrating Thirty-Year’s of Billy Tucci’s multi-Eisner Award nominee, The 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.
BILLY TUCCI’S NEWEST INDIEGOGO, THE SHI #1 30TH ANNIVERSARY ORIGINAL ART EDITION CAN BE FOUND HERE:
https://igg.me/at/r2WUJ9HKIJM/x/20487910#/
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
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 the US Army’s segregated Japanese-American 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.