Billy Tucci’s latest crowdfunded campaign, Ran: Revenge of the Warrior Goes LIVE on Indiegogo Tonight, October 22nd at 7pm EDT/4pm PDT.
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“Tucci Troopers! Tonight is the Night of Night’s!” Exclaimed Inkpot Award recipient writer/artist Billy Tucci. “My latest graphic novel, Ran: Revenge of the Warrior launches TONIGHT on Indiegogo.”
Ran is a comic that is thirty-five years in the making, as the character is Tucci’s first and the one that evolved into Tucci’s multi-Eisner Award nominee, Shi.
Click HERE for a Preview for RAN: REVENGE OF THE WARRIOR on INDIEGOGO!
Ran is the character that inspired Tucci’s legendary comic book character, BI In the past thirty-years I has garnered accolades, sold millions of comics and along with Brian Pulido’s Lady Death and Vampirella, launched the Bad Girl genre.
But Revenge of the Warrior, an all-new, original 48-page, full color graphic novel, explores Tucci’s first creation and in her most raw and savage form.
Set within the violent, neon-lit, Kabukichō district of Tokyo 1993, where the embattled Yakuza turn to American, ex-pat killers to do their dirtiest of work.
Led by Vietnam Veteran, “The Wolf”, these Yanks follow no Bushidō, just their own brutality and a twisted loyalty that buys power.
But not everyone stayed bought.
Enter Ran Moban. Orphaned as a child, trafficked and vanished at twenty. Until now, Ran’s whereabouts were unknown. Now, Ran has returned to Tokyo carrying steel and thirsting for vengeance against the man that destroyed hers and hundreds of other Japanese lives.
This sexy, no holds barred, neon-noir samurai macabre that pulls no punches and offers no mercy goes live on Indiegogo TODAY, Wednesday, October 22nd at 7pm EDT/4pm PDT. Fans can sign up for the Prelaunch Page here for a free first-24-hour reward to all backers of physical perks.
Click HERE for a Preview for RAN: REVENGE OF THE WARRIOR on INDIEGOGO!
SHI: GATECRASHER FULL FORCE FULFILLMENT & SHIPPING!
Deborah Tucci and crew have been busy as hundreds of Shi: Gatecrasher rewards have been packed up and are shipping out. Crusade Comics continue fulfilling weekly this entire month and into November for Gatecrasher’s 2,687 backers. “I am so proud of how amazing Gatecrasher came out now that fulfillment has begun, cannot wait for you to have it in your hands!” Stated Tucci.
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.