WITH 5 DAYS REMAINING. CRUSADE’S 10THINDIEGOGO NEARS $70,000.00!
CRUSADE OFFERS NEW “BAD GIRLS” BILLY TUCCI REMARQUE PRINT and HARDCOVER NEW ADD-ONS!
With just five days remaining to Crusade Comics’ Shi: Gatecrasher Indiegogo, the Long Island-based publisher, in keeping with a holiday tradition is releasing a Cyber Monday Remarque Print, exclusive to the campaign.
Limited to just 25 editions, the Gatecrasher “Bad Girls” remarqued print features, Coffin Comics’ Lady Death, Shi and Tarpe Mills’ Black Fury accompanied by a one-of-a-kind personal illustration by Shi-creator, Billy Tucci.
The fans have spoken, and we’ve listened.” Stated Crusade’s Executive Director, Deborah Tucci. “Many have inquired about a specific exclusive for Gatecrasher and we’re thrilled to offer this limited remarque print for our backers to add to their original art.”
Extremely limited to just 25 editions each print boats a one-of-a-kind illustration by Billy Tucci and includes all of Gatecrasher’s unlocked stretch goals.
Tucci and company have also added several new “add-on” hardcover edition perks including the Shi: Omnibus Vol. 1, Shi: Senryaku Omnibus and the Shi #1: Original Art Edition.
FREE STRETCH GOAL REWARDS TO BACKERS!
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. Now with returns nearing $70,000.00, Crusade has announced 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
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 15, 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.