Crusade Comics’ Rocketeer: Pavlichenko Special Art Edition Kickstarter races towards the finish line in the campaign’s final 24 hours. Written and illustrated by Eisner-award winning creator, Billy Tucci, Rocketeer: Pavlichenko stands at over 3,800% of its original funding goal and nears unlocking its $20,000.00 Stretch Goal, the Free ROCKETEER TRADING CARD.
Offered to all contributors who back a physical reward tier, the Trading Card features Billy Tucci’s rendition of the Rocketeer, bolding standing over a tattered Nazi flag while defiantly wielding his trademark, “broomhandle” Mauser C96.
Billy and Deborah Tucci for The Rocketeer Kickstarter Close-Out Stream Friday, October 4, 3pm EDT/12pm PDT on YouTube!
Join Billy and Deborah Tucci as they welcome special guests for the Kickstarter close out stream, Friday October 3, 2024, on YouTube. The Tucci’s will answer all questions regarding Pavlichenko, celebrate the campaign’s amazing success and the project’s fulfillment.
Rocketeer: Pavlichenko Special Art Edition! features Tucci’s the original story that appeared the Eisner Award winning in Comics For Ukraine: Sunflower Seeds, plus pages of never-before published concept artwork, including rough layouts, pencils, inks, and script.
In Rocketeer: Pavlichenko, our hero, Cliff Secord, encounters the real-life, Ukrainian sniper Lyudmila Pavlichenko in the Crimean Mountains during World War II. Lyudmila was credited with over 300 kills during World War II, making her the most successful female sniper in recorded history and as you’ll find out, she is going to have to put all those skills to the test to save our hero.
The 32-page full-color art special also explores just who this extraordinary young Ukrainian woman was and pays tribute the Rocketeer’s legendary creator, Dave Stevens.
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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 contributed to the Eisner Award Winning, Comics For Ukraine: Sun Flower Seeds and Love Is Love. Billy has also earned the prestigious Diamond Comics Gem Award and his DC Comics’ graphic novel, Sgt. Rock: The Lost Battalion, was awarded the Military Writers Society of America Gold Medal. The Lost Battalion featured the real-life 442nd Regimental Combat Team, which was comprised of 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. His Crusade Comics has recently released a series of new Shi graphic novels, Return of the Warrior, Haikyo, and Sakura. Crusade as also released the collected editions, Shi: Omnibus Vol. Senryaku Omnibus, Shi: Way of the Warrior Original Art Edition via Kickstarter and Indiegogo uniting backers from over fifty countries and bringing Crusade Comics’ crowdfunding campaign totals to over $1,500,000.00.
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