Billy Tucci’s Latest Crowdfunding Campaign, Ran: Revenge of the Warrior First 24-Hour Success Story!
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“Thank you for an incredible first 24-hours!” Stated Ran writer/artist Billy Tucci. “Ran has charged from the gate at breakneck speed, and Deborah (Tucci, Crusade Comics’ Executive Director) and I astonished by our pledging partners who made our dreams of seeing Ran’s untold story become reality.”
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.
In the past thirty-years Shi has garnered accolades, sold millions of comics and along with Brian Pulido’s Lady Death and Vampirella, launched the Bad Girl genre.
Now, and for the first time ever, Eisner Award winner and Inkpot recipient Billy Tucci brings back the character who inspired Shi (who first debuted in 1993’s Razor Annual #1) to fans with her very first graphic novel, Revenge of the Warrior. The 48-page, full color graphic novel, explores the character who started it all and in her most raw and savage form.
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.
Crusade Comics’ 11th Indiegogo, Ran: Revenge of the Warrior launched this past Wednesday, October 22nd, and reached its initial funding goal in less than ten minutes. In Ran’s first 24-hours alone, Billy Tucci’s sexy, neon-noir tale of vengeance now closes in on $50K in pledge returns and has already unlocked it first Stretch Goal, the Ran Hardcover Trading Card FREE to all backers who pledged for a physical perk.
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CRUSADE CELEBRATES SHI: SENRYAKU’S 30TH ANNIVERSARY WITH NYCC EXCLUSIVE JIM LEE COVER!
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Now that Crusade’s convention season has come to a close (aside from November 22nd’s one-day Big Apple Con), Billy Tucci and company are offering some very rare NYCC exclusives the GIANT-SIZED SHI: GATECRASHER & SENRYAKU NYCC EXCLUSIVE EDITIONS on Crusade’s official webstore.
For the first time ever, Crusade is publishing a special limited edition of Shi: Senryaku #1 exclusively for the NYCC sporting a cover by the legendary, Jim Lee! Also offered for Senryaku’s 30th Anniversary will be extremely rare, Metal, Bamboo, Foil and Pearl Exclusives at the con and through https://billytucci.com.
Senryaku is Crusade Comics’ groundbreaking, critically acclaimed series written by comics’ legend and creator of DC Comics’ Amethyst and Blue Devil, Gary Cohn. The book uniquely details Shi’s upbringing and training through thirty-six self-contained Art of War “stratagems”. Stratagems lushly showcased and illustrated by many of the industry’s greatest talents, including Jim Lee, Frank Frazetta, Adam Hughes, George Perez, Jeff Smith, Amanda Conner, Jimmy Palmiotti, Joe Quesada and Billy Tucci.
LIMITED GIANT-SIZED SHI: GATECRASHER NEW YORK COMIC CON EXCLUSIVE DEBUTS WITH SPECIAL SIGNED AND NUMBERED COVERS!
Limited to just 199 sign and numbered editions, the Giant-Sized Shi: Gatecrasher NYCC Exclusive also includes a certificate of authenticity. This massive 11” X 17”, 28-page, black and white Pure Line edition is Part 2 of Tucci’s latest graphic novel. Crusade Comics is also offering the book in a reduced-price, limited package bundle with San Diego Comic Con Part 1, which was offered at the SDCC.
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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 $1,750,000.00
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