COFFIN COMICS FANS ANSWER THE CALL TO CRASH THE SHI UNIVERSE!
Crusade Comics’ Latest Kickstarter Features Coffin Comics’ Lady Death and the World’s Greatest Public Domain Heroes!
In its first week, Billy Tucci’s twenty-eight-day Shi: Gatecrasher Kickstarter has steadily become Crusade Comics’ fastest ever crowdfunding opening. The Long Island based publisher’s 11th Kickstarter launched to a blazing start as funding has already surpassed $70,000.00 in gross returns.
Shi: Gatecrasher, is a 56-page, full-color, original graphic novel that finds Tucci’s sensual Sohei trapped in comic book time where she, (along with RAN, Tucci’s original interpretation of Shi) battles through comics’ colorful history, decades, genres and trends… and along for the ride is none other than Brian Pulido’s legendary Lady Death!
“Thank You, Sworn Nation!” Stated Tucci. “It is truly an honor to have Lady Death play such a crucial role in Shi: Gatecrasher. For over thirty years, Lady Death creator Brian Pulido has stood as a guiding light of inspiration to not just me, but to all comic creators. Being #SwornSince94 myself, I am humbled by not only Brian’s faith, but for all of you who have entrusted me to deliver the Lady Death that Coffin fans deserve. I sure as hell will not let you down.”
Based on the Story by Billy Tucci and writer J.C. Vaughn and illustrated by Tucci, Leandro Oliveira and Brian Miller with lettering by Mindy Lopkin, Shi: Gatecrasher is literally the “destroy all monsters” of comic book character collision!
Total returns for Shi: Gatecrasher on both Indiegogo and Kickstarter now stand over $164,000.00. 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
Crusade has more Stretch Goal Rewards planned and will announce them in the coming days.
Just days 20 days remain for Shi: Gatecrasher on Kickstarter as the campaign ends on Thursday, February 13, 2025.
Shi: Gatecrasher is also available on the crowdfunding platform, Indiegogo. The campaign will continue “in demand” store until the book is sent to the printer.
Click HERE for the SHI: GATECRASHER! Indemand Indiegogo Campaign!
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.