Billy Tucci launches his latest Indiegogo crowdfunded campaign, Ran: Revenge of the Warrior on Indiegogo this Thursday, October 16th at 7pm EDT/4pm PDT.
Sign up for the PRELAUNCH PAGE on INDIEGOGO by clicking HERE!
For the first time ever, Eisner Award winner and Inkpot recipient Billy Tucci brings back the inspiration to his legendary comic book character, BI In the past thirty-years Shi has garnered accolades, sold millions of comics and along with Brian Pulido’s Lady Death and Vampirella, launched the Bad Girl genre.
One can never argue with success as Tucci’s Ana Ishikawa has become a beloved staple to comics fans the world over, but to him there was always the question of what if?
What if Tucci gone with his initial creation and in her purest and most raw form?
What if Tucci had published…Ran?
Set in1993, Ran is everything Tucci always wanted to do with Shi but never dared. In all its 1990’s Bad Girl glory, Ran introduces the world to the character who started it all in this 48-page story of vengeance set within Tokyo’s neon licked rain-slick streets stained with blood split by the Yakuza.
Sexy, no holds barred, neon-noir samurai macabre that pulls no punches and offers no mercy launches on Indiegogo this Thursday, October 16th. Fans can sign up for the Prelaunch Page here for a free first-24-hour reward to all backers of physical perks.
PREVIEW RAN’S INDIEGOGO CAMPAIGN BY CLICKING HERE!
SHI: GATECRASHER FULL FORCE FULFILLMENT & SHIPPING!
Fulfillment has begun for Shi: Gatecrasher, as Crusade Comics has been busy signing books, packing and shipping product out daily to backers from over 50 countries worldwide.
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CELEBRATE 30 YEARS OF SHI WITH GIANT-SIZED GATECRASHER & SENRYAKU 30TH ANNIVERSARY SPECIALS AT BILLYTUCCI.COM!
LIMITED EDITION NYCC SPECIALS CAN BE FOUND BY CLICKING HERE!
CRUSADE CELEBRATES SHI: SENRYAKU’S 30TH ANNIVERSARY WITH NYCC EXCLUSIVE JIM LEE COVER!
New York Comic Con is once again set to take over the Big Apple TODAY as it hosts 275,000 artists, exhibitors, and fans at Manhattan’s Javits Convention Center. To celebrate the nation’s largest comic book convention, Shi-creator Billy Tucci and company are offered some very rare debut exclusives for NYCC, the GIANT-SIZED SHI: GATECRASHER & SENRYAKU NYCC EXCLUSIVE EDITIONS.
For the first time ever, Crusade is publishing a special limited edition of Shi: Senryaku #1 exclusively for the NYCC! Also offered for Senryaku’s 30th Anniversary will be extremely rare, Metal, Bamboo, Foil and Pearl Exclusives at the con and through https://billytucci.com.
Senryaku is Crusade Comics’ groundbreaking, critically acclaimed series written by comics’ legend and creator of DC Comics’ Amethyst and Blue Devil, Gary Cohn. The book uniquely details Shi’s upbringing and training through thirty-six self-contained Art of War “stratagems”. Stratagems lushly showcased and illustrated by many of the industry’s greatest talents, including Jim Lee, Frank Frazetta, Adam Hughes, George Perez, Jeff Smith, Amanda Conner, Jimmy Palmiotti, Joe Quesada and Billy Tucci.
LIMITED GIANT-SIZED SHI: GATECRASHER NEW YORK COMIC CON EXCLUSIVE DEBUTS WITH SPECIAL SIGNED AND NUMBERED COVERS!
Limited to just 199 signed and numbered editions, the Giant-Sized Shi: Gatecrasher NYCC Exclusive also includes a certificate of authenticity. This massive 11” X 17”, 28-page, black and white Pure Line edition is Part 2 of Tucci’s latest graphic novel. Crusade Comics is also offering the book in a reduced-price, limited package bundle with San Diego Comic Con Part 1, which was offered at the SDCC.
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 $1,700,000.00.