THE CHARACTER THAT INSPIRED SHI DELIGHT’S BACKERS AND ANNOUNCES FREE STRETCH GOAL
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$55,000.00 STRETCH GOAL: THE BILLY TUCCI RAN VARIANT MINI PRINT!
“Thank you for an incredible first week!” Exclaimed Ran: Revenge of the Warrior writer/artist, Billy Tucci. “Deb and I are astonished by Ran’s stunning trajectory from last week’s debut to this morning’s returns. I’m so flattered that you have embraced Ran as you have with Shi and now, the campaign has topped $50K, we’re happy to announce our next Stretch Goal Reward, a mini-print featuring mine and Wes Hartman’s Ran Variant Mini Print!”
Fans have already unlocked Ran’s first Stretch Goal, the Ran Hardcover Trading Card, which like all Stretch Goals are FREE to all backers who pledged for a physical perk. Crusade has scheduled many more Free Stretch Goals as the campaign continues hitting financial milestones.
We’re just fifteen days remain to Ran’s 22-day Indiegogo Campaign, which closes on Friday, November 14, 2025
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SHI: GATECRASHER FULFILLMENT CONTINUES!
Deborah Tucci (Crusade’s Executive Director) and team have been working late into the evening’s organizing and packing Shi: Gatecrasher rewards for over 2,800 backers with the next haul of books shipping this Halloween.
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 has also released the collected editions, Shi: Omnibus Vol. Senryaku Omnibus, Shi: Way of the Warrior Original Art Edition and Zombie-Sama via Kickstarter and Indiegogo uniting backers from over fifty countries and bringing Crusade Comics’ crowdfunding campaign totals to over $1,750,000.00 since 2020.