CRUSADE’S 11th KICKSTARTER FEATURING THE LEGENDARY WALTER SIMONSON & COMIC SUPERSTAR VARIANT COVERS FUNDS IN MINUTES!
PLEDGE TO BACK A GRAPHIC NOVEL FOR THE CHARACTER THAT INSPIRED SHI’S DEBUT BY CLICKING HERE!
“A heartfelt thank you for a fantastic Ran: Revenge of the Warrior Kickstarter launch!” Exclaimed writer-artist Billy Tucci. “When I woke up this morning, I was astonished so see that Ran surpassed $20,000.00 overnight! Deborah (Tucci, Crusade’s Executive Director) and I and cannot express our appreciation to everyone for their faith and support!”
Ran is a comic that is thirty-five years in the making. Tucci’s first created Ran back in 1990 and she is the character that evolved into the multi-Eisner Award nominee. Ran’s initial 22-day Indiegogo closed earlier this month with over $75,000.00 in returns with the campaign’s first four Stretch Goals; the Ran Hardcover Trading Card, Billy Tucci Ran Mini-Print, Dan Lawlis Gilded Variant Trading Card, and the Leandro Oliveira Black Racer Vinyl Sticker all unlocked. Due to Crusade’s exclusive #NoFanLeftBehind campaign strategy, backers on both Indiegogo and Kickstarter mutually benefit from each platform’s stretch goals. All Stretch Goals come FREE to all Kickstarter and Indiegogo backers who pledged for a physical perk.
Set within the violent, neon-lit, Kabukichō district of Tokyo 1993, Revenge of the Warrior details one young woman’s war against a human-trafficking gang of American ex-pat killers aligned with the notorious Yakuza crime syndicate.
The Ran: Revenge of the Warrior Kickstarter will close at 11:59pm EST on December, 22nd.
PLEDGE TO BACK A GRAPHIC NOVEL FOR THE CHARACTER THAT INSPIRED SHI’S DEBUT BY CLICKING HERE!
CLICK HERE FOR THE RAN: REVENGE OF THE WARRIOR INDIEGOGO CAMPAIGN!
BILLY TUCCI TO APPEAR AT THIS SATURDAY’S BIG APPLE COMIC CON!
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Billy Tucci will be appearing this Saturday’s Big Apple Comic Con at the prestigious New Yorker Hotel in Manhattan (481 8th Avenue at 34th Street) where he will join fellow guests, Brian Pulido, Dan Parent, Danny Fingeroth, J.C. Vaughn, Adriana Melo and comic legends, Jim Steranko, Dave Dorman, Larry Lieber. If you are in the tri-state area, please come down to this incredible convention that kicks off the holiday season!
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 $1,800,000.00.