CRUSADE’S 10TH INDIEGOGO CLOSES 11:59 PM PST FRIDAY DECEMBER 6TH!
Click HERE for the SHI: GATECRASHER! Indiegogo Campaign!
LIMITED EDITION LIEFELD, SAKAI, TUCCI AND OTHER COMIC SUPERSTAR VARIANT COVERS!
With just 40 hours remaining to Crusade Comics’ Shi: Gatecrasher Indiegogo, the Long Island-based publisher is proud to reveal the campaign’s legendary list of limited variant covers!
The impressive slew of cover artists joining Shi-creator Billy Tucci are multi-Eisner Award winner, Stan Sakai, Inkpot recipient Rob Liefeld and superstar creators Irene Chen Strychalski and Art Thibert. Alongside Shi and Ran (Tucci’s original concept of Shi) the covers feature Coffin Comics’ Lady Death, Sakai’s Usagi Yojimbo and the world’s greatest public domain characters.
JOIN BILLY AND DEBORAH TUCCI LIVE TONIGHT ON YOUTUBE!
With Shi: Gatecrasher Indiegogo ending at 11:59pm PST Friday December 6th, Billy and Deborah Tucci will be going LIVE on the PopXP! YouTube channel tonight at 7pm EST/4pm PST to discuss the campaign’s final hours, specials and answer questions from fans.
$75,000.00 FREE STRETCH GOAL!
Crusade Comics’ 10th Indiegogo, Shi: Gatecrasher, featuring Coffin Comics’ Lady Death and the world’s greatest heroes has rocketed off to a blazing start and unlocked several Free Stretch Goal rewards. Current returns near $75,000.00 and are on the verge of unlocking Gatecrasher’s next Stretch Goal, the Art Thibert Shi trading card FREE to all our contributors to be unlocked at $75K.
See Gatecrasher’s this list of several campaign tiers to be unlocked:
• 1ST 24-HOURS REWARD: FREE SHI, LADY DEATH & TARPE MILLS’ BADGIRLS 8″X5″ HEAVY VINYL STICKER TO ALL BACKERS WHO CHOSE A PHYSICAL PERK!
• $55K STRETCH GOAL: EXPAND SHI: GATECRASHER FROM 48 TO 56 PAGES: UNLOCKED!
• $60K STRETCH GOAL: FREE GATECRASHER DIGITAL EDITION TO ALL BACKERS WHO PLEDGE FOR A PHYSICAL PERK: UNLOCKED!
• $65K STRETCH GOAL: “EVERYBODY CHARLESTON” MINI PRINT: UNLOCKED!
• $75K STRETCH GOAL: ART THIBERT SHI EDITION TRADING CARD!
• $80K STRETCH GOAL: BILLY TUCCI SHI/RAN TRADING CARD!
• $85K: “EVERYBODY CHARELSTON ROUGH CUT EDITION TRADING CARD!
• $90K STRETCH GOAL: RENE STRYCHALSKI TRADING CARD!
• $95K STRETCH GOAL: STAN SAKAI USAGI YOJIMBO/SHI TRADKING CARD!
• $100K STRETCH GOAL: ROB LIEFELD EDITION ACTUAL METAL TRADING CARD!
The 20-day Indiegogo campaign closes this Saturday, December 6, 2024 at 12am PST.
GATECRASHER!
Based on the Story by writer J.C. Vaughn and Tucci, and illustrated by Tucci, Leandro Oliveira, Hi-Fi Colour Design, with lettering by Mindy Lopkin, Shi: Gatecrasher is literally the “destroy all monsters” of comic book character collision!
Crusade is also preparing a myriad of unique perks and stretch goal rewards. The campaign will boast many specials, prints, original art and limited variant covers by Tucci along with comic book greats, Stan Sakai, Renie Strychalski, Art Thibert and superstar Rob Liefeld.
Shi: Gatecrasher will also be launching on crowdfunding platform Kickstarter with its own exclusive campaign on January 14, 2025.
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: Sunflower 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. 1, Shi: 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 $1,600,000.00.