CRUSADE COMICS’ BIGGEST KICKSTARTER EVER CLOSES TONIGHT, THURSDAY, JULY 3rd
RAN: REVENGE OF THE WARRIOR ASHCAN EDITION ADDED TO WWW.BILLYTUCCI.COM!
Click HERE for Your FINAL CHANCE to back SHI: GATECRASHER!
It is the final day to preorder Crusade Comics’ 10th Kickstarter 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, Thursday, July 3rd at 11:59pm EDT.
As Crusade prepares to launch its next crowdfunding campaign, Ran, total returns for Shi: Gatecrasheron both crowdfunding platforms now stand over $233,000.00 on its final day.
“It’s the final countdown! Shi: Gatecrasher ends tonight! It was by far our most successful Kickstarter to date and the first to top, $100,000.00! Stated Shi-creator Billy Tucci. “Everyone involved has worked so hard these many months to bring you the most exciting and unique Shi graphic novel ever and we are humbled by all our backers incredible faith and support.”
RAN! ASHCAN SPECIALS ADDED TO KICKSTARTER & WWW.BILLYTUCCI.COM BEFORE CAMPAIGN CLOSE TONIGHT!
Heralding in its next campaign, Ran: Revenge of the Warrior, Crusade has also added several final-24-hour perks to the campaign for new backers on Kickstarter, The Ran #1 Ashcan Edition. For backers who already pledged on Kickstarter, it is also available at www.billytucci.com.
JOIN BILLY & DEBORAH TUCCI LIVE FOR THE KICKSTARTER CLOSE OUT STREAM!
Tonight, May 3rd, 9pm EDT
Click HERE to Join in on the LIVESTREAM TONIGHT, at 9 pm!
This is it! The final countdown as Shi: Gatecrasher closes for good on Kickstarter! Join Billy and Deborah Tucci (along with special guest stars) as they celebrate the closing of Crusade Comics’ their biggest Kickstarter ever! #TeamShi will be interacting with viewers while showcasing preview pages of the book that is set to go to press in the next few weeks. Campaign ends tonight, Thursday, July 3rd at 11:49pm EDT!
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: 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, Sakura and Gatecrasher. 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.