CRUSADE COMICS 11TH CROWDFUNDING CAMPAIGN NEARS $40,000.00 – NEW STRETCH GOAL ANNOUNCED!
PLEDGE FOR THE CHARACTER THAT INSPIRED SHI’S DEBUT In HER FIRST SOLO GRAPHIC NOVEL BY CLICKING HERE!
With just THREE DAYS REMAINING, backer momentum continues to spur on Billy Tucci’s Kickstarter, Ran: Revenge of the Warrior. In Ran’s first 18 days, fans from over 20 countries have propelled the 21-day campaign’s returns to near $38,000.00 and 750% over its initial funding goal. Crusade Comics has just announced Ran’s $50K Stretch Goal, the Ran Kickstarter Exclusive Newsprint Cover Trading Card.
The Kickstarter Exclusive, coupled with Crusade’s limited 22-day Indiegogo campaign has now broken over $113,000.00 in initial total returns. Due to Crusade’s groundbreaking #NoFanLeftBehind campaign strategy, backers on both Indiegogo and Kickstarter mutually benefit from each platform’s stretch goals.
Ran’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 have already been unlocked and come FREE to all Kickstarter and Indiegogo backers who pledged for a physical perk.
RAN: COLORED PAGES AND LETTERS!
Please see the following first four pages, Ran: Revenge of the Warrior, with striking colors by Fred Marinho and dynamically lettering by Mindy Lopkin.
“Fred’s colors are just incredible, and aside from adding more blues, oranges, reds, greens and yellows to the neon on page 1… done.” Stated Tucci. “I just love what both are doing and am also stoked by the small nuances Mindy adds to the lettering, like leaving out the black border around the word balloons and the colored “drop shadow” unique to each character’s dialogue. Check them out!”
PLEDGE FOR THE CHARACTER THAT INSPIRED SHI’S DEBUT In HER FIRST SOLO GRAPHIC NOVEL BY CLICKING HERE!
RAN: A GRAPHIC NOVEL 35 YEARS IN THE MAKING
Set within the violent, neon-lit, Kabukichō district of Tokyo 1993, Revenge of the Warrior details one young woman’s battle for justice against American sex-trafficking, ex-pat killers aligned with the notorious Yakuza crime syndicate.
This sexy, 48-page, full-color neon-noir samurai epic will be available on Kickstarter until Thursday, December 11, 2025.
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 $1,800,000.00 since 2020.