HISTORIC 21-DAY CAMPAIGN BREAKS $85,000!
Click HERE for the SHI: GATECRASHER! Indemand at Indiegogo!!!
Backers from over 30 countries have propelled Shi: Gatecrasher past $85,000.00, making the 21-day campaign Crusade Comics’ fastest ever.
The Long Island-based publisher’s 10th Indiegogo is STILL LIVE and “indemand” or store-mode where new backers can continue to back many perk levels.
“I just do not know what to say aside from, astonishing.” Stated Shi-creator Billy Tucci. “The support from our backers from the short campaign just extraordinary and we are extremely humbled by your faith in Shi and Crusade Comics.”
Based on the Story by Shi-creator Billy Tucci and writer J.C. Vaughn, 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!
In Shi: Gatecrasher, we find Ana Ishikawa, (allied with RAN, Tucci’s ORIGINAL concept for SHI) trapped within comic book time where she must battle through a cartoonist’s history of four-color imagery to find her way back home.
Starting in 1928, Shi: Gatecrasher takes the reader on an amazing adventure across comics’ incredible decades, trends, and genres. A gripping, funny book fantasy that sees Ana and Ran encountering war, westerns, horror, apes, nazis, space vixens, superheroes, romance, robots, dinosaurs, commies, cartoons, crime, bad girls, zombies and even the seduction of the innocent!
The campaign has also unlocked a myriad of stretch goal rewards that are free to all backers who pledged for a physical perk. The campaign boasts 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.
$90,000.00 FREE STRETCH GOAL!
Crusade Comics’ 10th Indiegogo, Shi: Gatecrasher, has unlocked several Free Stretch Goal rewards and verges on unlocking Gatecrasher’s next Goal, the Irene Strychalski trading card FREE to all contributors to be unlocked at $90K.
Shi: Gatecrasher’s List Of FREE STRETCH GOAL Tiers
• 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! UNLOCKED!
• $80K STRETCH GOAL: BILLY TUCCI SHI/RAN TRADING CARD! UNLOCKED!
• $85K: “EVERYBODY CHARELSTON ROUGH CUT EDITION TRADING CARD!UNLOCKED!
• $90K STRETCH GOAL: RENE STRYCHALSKI TRADING CARD!
• $95K STRETCH GOAL: RAN DEBUT BOOKMARK!
• $100K STRETCH GOAL: ROB LIEFELD EDITION ACTUAL METAL TRADING CARD!
Shi: Gatecrasher will also be launching on crowdfunding platform Kickstarter with its own exclusive campaign on January 14, 2025.
Shi: Gatecrasher will remain in Indiegogo Indemand into 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.