“FINAL 24-HOUR SPECIAL” RAN: RETURN OF THE WARRIOR ASHCAN EDITION ADDED TO BOTH INDIEGOGO & KICKSTARTER!
Click HERE for Gatecrasher INDIEGOGO CAMPAIGN! Closes TODAY, Wednesday, July 2nd!
Click HERE for KICKSTARTER CAMPAIGN! Closes TOMORROW NIGHT, Thursday, July 3rd!!
It is the final day for Crusade Comics’ 10th Indiegogo campaign Shi: Gatecrasher. With colors nearing completion and all art and lettering finished, the 56-page graphic novel Indiegogo crowdfunding campaign will close for good tonight, Wednesday, July 2nd at 11:59pm EDT, and on Kickstarter Thursday, July 3rd.
RAN! ASHCAN SPECIALS ADDED BEFORE CAMPAIGN CLOSE TONIGHT!
As Crusade prepares to launch its next crowdfunding campaign, Ran: Revenge of the Warrior,” total returns for Shi: Gatecrasher on both crowdfunding platforms now stand over $216,000.00 in its final days.
This is it! The closing additions to the Shi: Gatecrasher campaign have been updated, just in time for our close out this week. “Want a peak into our next campaign?” Stated Crusade Comics’ Deborah Tucci, “Please back the RAN: Revenge of the Warrior Ashcan Edition, or the RAN CLOSING BUNDLE, which includes the RAN ashcan, limited 1.oz. pure SILVER collectible BAR, and the SHI/RAN CHALLENGE COIN – all bundled for a discount.”
Shi-creator Billy Tucci has also made available is the Ran Ashcan Original Cover Art on the Indiegogo campaign and will be completing it live today on YouTube.
JOIN BILLY & DEBORAH TUCCI LIVE FOR THE RAN ASHCAN ORIGINAL ARTWORK DRAW STREAM!
Click HERE to Join Billy & Deborah’s LIVE STREAM at 2:00 pm TODAY!
Join Ran creator, Billy Tucci as he goes live on the last day for Shi: Gatecrasher’s Indiegogo campaign rendering the FINAL 24-HOUR EXCLUSIVE an: Revenge of the Warrior Ashcan cover. Billy will be interacting with fans while adding highlights, details and actual gold-leaf paint to Ran cover original artwork. The artwork is also up for sale on Indiegogo, which offers fans a chance to own this historic piece of artwork.
In Gatecrasher, Ana Ishikawa, (allied with RAN, 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, crime, and you guessed it, zombie bad girls!
Based on the story by Tucci, scripter J.C. Vaughn and editor Steven Peros, Gatecrasher is illustrated by Tucci, Leandro Oliveira, Fred Benes and Brian Miller with lettering by Mindy Lopkin. Gatecrasher is literally the “destroy all monsters” of comic book character collision!
Gatecrasher also features several striking variant covers by comic book greats, Art Thibert, Renie Strychalski and Tucci.
And as a bonus, four-color legends also join #TeamShi with multi-Eisner award winner, Stan Sakai and superstar Rob Liefeld lending their extraordinary talents as they cover Shi for the very first time!
“Again, THANK YOU for all your amazing support.” Stated Tucci. “The book will be off to the printers in a few weeks and at month’s end we will launch our next project, Ran: Revenge of the Warrior!”
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 $1,750,000.00.