#NoFanLeftBehind Totals Top $170,000.00 As Crusade Comics Offers New Stretch Goal Awards!
Click HERE for the SHI: GATECRASHER! Kickstarter Campaign!
Momentum continues for Shi: Gatecrasher. With just 14 days remaining, the twenty-eight-day Gatecrasher Kickstarter pace is far excelling all of Crusade Comics’ previous campaigns. On Kickstarter, Gatecrasher has earned a top 2 placement in Kickstarter’s biggest comic book campaigns and has earned the coveted “Project We Love” by the Kickstarter staff.
Shi: Gatecrasher shows no sign of slowing as more and more fans pledge daily on both Kickstarter and Indiegogo (now in “indemand” mode) crowdfunding platforms, bringing Gatecrasher’s total returns to over $170,000.00 this month.
NEW FREE STRETCH GOAL REWARDS ANNOUNCED!
Due to Gatecrasher’s continued success, Crusade as added several more Stretch Goal Rewards to be unlocked.
• STRETCH GOAL: RAN ORIGINAL ART TRADING CARD.
• STRETCH GOAL: SHI: GATECRASHER STORY EXPANDED FROM 48 TO 52 PAGES.
• STRETCH GOAL: RAN WAY OF THE WARRIOR #1 WHAT IF COVER TRADING CARD.
Following Crusade Comics’ #NoFanLeftBehind campaign partnership policy, backers from both Indiegogo and Kickstarter mutually benefit and receive all Gatecrasher announced free stretch goals.
The Stretch Goals unlocked thus far are as follows:
• EXPAND SHI: GATECRASHER FROM 48 TO 56 PAGES
• FREE GATECRASHER DIGITAL EDITION TO ALL BACKERS WHO PLEDGE FOR A PHYSICAL PERK
• “EVERYBODY CHARLESTON” MINI PRINT
• ART THIBERT SHI EDITION TRADING CARD
• BILLY TUCCI SHI/RAN TRADING CARD
• “EVERYBODY CHARELSTON ROUGH CUT EDITION TRADING CARD
• RENIE STRYCHALSKI TRADING CARD
• STAN SAKAI USAGI YOJIMBO SHI TRADING CARD
• RAN DEBUT BOOKMARK
• ROB LIEFELD EDITION ACTUAL METAL TRADING CARD
Just 13 days remain for Shi: Gatecrasher on Kickstarter as the campaign ends on Thursday, February 13, 2025.
Click HERE for the SHI: GATECRASHER! Kickstarter Campaign!
SHI: GATECRASHER! Continues at Indiegogo Indemand HERE!
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 $1,650,000.00.
You can find Billy Tucci on X, Facebook @billytucci and Instagram @billy_tucci
Visit https://www.billytucci.com
Brian Isaacs - Executive Editor / Publisher