REVENGE OF THE WARRIOR KICKSTARTER IS NOW LIVE!
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One of the most popular and exclusive perks offered via Eisner-Award winner Billy Tucci’s crowdfunding campaigns are the limited-edition Sketch Variant Cover Editions and Remarqued Prints. “I’ve been having a blast drawing the Shi: Gatecrasher Sketch Covers and Remarqued Prints” Exclaimed Tucci. “These are among my favorite perks per campaign as each one is special and personal to a particular backer. While they do take time to draw, it brings me back to late 1997 when Crusade Comics launched the world’s first unique comic book sketch edition, Shi: The Art of War Tour Book.”
Limited to just 30 editions each, the Ran’s Sketch Editions and remarqued prints feature a one-of-a-kind, personal illustration by Tucci and includes all of Gatecrasher’s unlocked stretch goals.
Billy Tucci’s Shi: Gatecrasher Remarque Print Gets The Final Touch, Tucci’s Kanji “Chop”
Though the Shi: Gatecrasher Sketch Editions and remarque prints are all sold out, Tucci does offer them on his current campaign, Ran: Revenge of the Warrior #1 which has reopened on Kickstarter for late pledges for 2026. In its initial 21-day campaign, Ran #1 smashed $50,000.00 in returns, unlocking its fifth stretch goal, the Ran Kickstarter Exclusive Newsprint Cover Trading Card.
The Kickstarter Exclusive, coupled with Crusade’s limited 22-day Indiegogo campaign now nears $130,000.00 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: Revenge of the Warrior #1 will return to Indiegogo on Wednesday February 11th for those who missed out on the initial launch back in October. Custom Sketch Editions and Remarqued Prints will be made available as perks.
SHI: GATECRASHER FULFILLMENT NEARS COMPLETION!
Deborah Tucci and crew continue fulfilling Shi: Gatecrasher at an incredible pace, with over 2,500 of the campaign’s 2,800 backer rewards shipped. Deborah has been at it almost daily while also hosting “fulfillment parties” on the weekends, where assistants come down to the office, help her pack rewards, talk comics and eat Italian food. “It’s been a wonderful experience hearing what our friends like to see in future campaigns, specials and anniversary editions.” Stated Deborah Tucci. “They always give good insight on what the fans are looking for and Billy and I listen… we cannot wait to offer and deliver what the fans are longing for in 2026.”
COMIC-CON: THE CRUISE SPECIAL EDITIONS!
Crusade Comics Offers Limited-Exclusives On Both Sea, And Land!
Limited SDCC: The Cruise Exclusives Will Be Available Wednesday, January 28, 2026 – Just Click HERE!
Billy and Deborah Tucci will be guests at this weekend’s second annual SDCC: The Cruise where they will offer specials aboard this floating spectacle. Exclusives include the Shi: Gatecrasher Pure Line Editions with premium, metal and sketch-cover books. Due to popular demand, the Con-Cruise sold out in days, but Crusade Comics will offer a very limited amount of their rarities to those who got shut out of the world’s most exclusive comic book convention at https://billytucci.com/store-3/.
Shi-creator Billy Tucci will showcase these exclusives in tomorrow’s press release and the Tucci’s will go live on YouTube Wednesday evening to show them off.
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RAN #1: 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 February 11, 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.