Click HERE for the SHI:GATECRASHER! Kickstarter Campaign!
FOR THE FIRST TIME EVER, COMICS’ LEGEND STAN SAKAI COVERS SHI!
It’s the Final 30 Hours to pledge for Crusade Comics’ 11th Kickstarter, Shi: Gatecrasher. The finish line is in sight as the 28-day crowdfunding campaign closes in on the $90,000.00 STRETCH GOAL: SHI: GATECRASHER COMIC-SIZED, ONE-SHEET 2025 CALENDAR.
USAGI YOJIMBO/SHI MASH UP
VARIANT EDITION BY STAN SAKAI!
Multi-Eisner Award winner, Stan Sakai has been gracious enough to grant one of Shi-creator Billy Tucci’s dreams to come true… a Usagi Yojimbo/Shi Variant Cover for Shi: Gatecrasher! Mr. Sakai is one of the world’s greatest cartoonists and a personal hero to Billy, and now, fans can possess one of, if not the most sensational samurai comic book covers of all time illustrated by the legend himself and colorist extraordinaire Thomas James Gaadt!
In Gatecrasher, Ana Ishikawa, (allied with RAN, Billy Tucci’s original concept for SHI) finds herself trapped within comic book time and must battle through a cartoonist’s history to find her way back to her daughter, Hotaru.
Starting in 1928, Shi: Gatecrasher takes the reader on an amazing adventure across comics’ incredible decades, trends, and genres. A funny book fantasy that sees Ana and Ran encountering war, westerns, horror, apes, nazis, space vixens, superheroes, romance, robots, dinosaurs, commies, cartoons, and even bad girls!
Click HERE for the SHI: GATECRASHER! Indemand Indiegogo Campaign!
JOIN US LIVE FOR THE SHI: GATECRASHER KICKSTARTER YOUTUBE CLOSE-OUT STREAM!
Click HERE for the POPXP Youtube Stream On Thursday, February 13th, 8pm EST/5pm PST
Join Billy Tucci, Deborah Tucci, Nile Scala and special guestsLIVE as they celebrate Gatecrasher’s Kickstarter Close Out! The Tucci’s’ will be on hand to answer all backer questions in this very special fan interaction as Crusade’s historic 28-day campaign comes to a glorious end at 9pm EST!
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