CRUSADE COMICS 11TH CROWDFUNDING CAMPAIGN’S MOMENTUM GOES FOR $50,000.00 & NEW STRETCH GOAL!
Due to popular demand, Eisner-Award winner Billy Tucci’s latest crowdfunding campaign, Ran: Revenge of the Warrior #1 has reopened on Kickstarter. In its initial 21-day campaign, Ran #1 stands just $200 shy of unlocking its $50K Stretch Goal, the Ran Kickstarter Exclusive Newsprint Cover Trading Card.
The Kickstarter Exclusive, coupled with Crusade’s limited 22-day Indiegogo campaign nears $125,000.00 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.
JOIN BILLY AND DEBORAH TUCCI TONIGHT FOR SPECIAL HOLIDAY LIVE STREAM!
CLICK HERE TO JOIN BILLY AND DEBORAH ON YOUTUBE TONIGHT AT 9 pm EST/6 pm PST!
Join Ran: Revenge of the Warrior creator Billy Tucci, Crusade Comics’ Deb Tucci and friends for a very special HOLIDAY LIVE STREAM TONIGHT, December 18th at 9pm EST/6pm PST. The Tucci’s will celebrate the year with friends and holiday cheer and talk up their present campaigns and what exciting things are in store for 2026!
The live stream will go on until the Kickstarter officially closes at 11:59pm EST. It will simultaneously stream on social media platform’s X (https://x.com/BillyTucci) and on the official Crusade Comics Facebook Page (https://www.facebook.com/crusadecomics/).
SUPERSTAR CREATORS JOIN COMICS LEGEND WALTER SIMONSON TO COVER RAN: REVENGE OF THE WARRIOR KICKSTARTER!
Crusade Comics’ is proud that several of today’s top comic’s talent have joined the legendary Walter Simonson for a host of beautiful variant covers offered on the Revenge of the Warrior Kickstarter. Contributing artists include Ran creator Billy Tucci, artist-extraordinaire Dan Lawlis, Fred Benes and Leandro Oliveira. All covers are also offered in special signed/numbered trade, foil and actual metal editions.
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 also be available on Indiegogo January 14, 2026.
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.