$20K STRETCH GOAL IN SIGHT AS CROWDFUNDING CAMPAIGNS SOAR
With just nine days remaining to Crusade Comics’ 20-day, Rocketeer: Pavlichenko Kickstarter breaking $15,000.00 in funding, writer/artist Billy Tucci’s have announced the campaign’s $20K Stretch Goal Reward, the exclusive Rocketeer Trading Card.
Limited to just backers of both the Kickstarter Exclusive and Indiegogo campaigns, the trading card feature’s the Rocketeer, brandishing his signature broom handle Mauser auto-pistol while standing firmly over a tattered Nazi flag. Both Indiegogo and Kickstarter backers mutually benefit from Crusade’s dual platform #NoFanLeftBehind campaign strategy and share in all acquired Free perks and Stretch Goal rewards.
Rocketeer: Pavlichenko Special Art Edition! features Tucci’s the original story that appeared the Eisner Award winning in Comic For Ukraine: Sunflower Seeds, plus pages of never-before published concept artwork, including rough layouts, pencils, inks, and script.
In Rocketeer: Pavlichenko, our hero, Cliff Secord, encounters the real-life, Ukrainian sniper Lyudmila Pavlichenko in the Crimean Mountains during World War II. Lyudmila was credited with over 300 kills during World War II, making her the most successful female sniper in recorded history and as you’ll find out, she is going to have to put all those skills to the test to save our hero.
The 32-page full-color art special also explores just who this extraordinary young Ukrainian woman was and pays tribute the Rocketeer’s legendary creator, Dave Stevens.
Rocketeer: Pavlichenko Special Art Edition is also currently LIVE on Indiegogo and can be found here:
Rocketeer: Pavlichenko Special Art Edition on Kickstarter is also currently LIVE here:
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: Sun Flower 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, and Sakura. 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 $1,500,000.00.