A new graphic novel for animal lovers: MY FRIEND TOBY!
about 1 year ago – Mon, Apr 03, 2023 at 08:35:37 AM

Hi everyone!

We wanted to let you know that our next Kickstarter campaign is now live, and we'd really love it if you would check it out and support this new project! 😊 It is a bit different from BRINDILLE, but we love it just the same (and hope you will, too):

We love animals. We are big proponents of animal rights and wildlife exploration, with no less than 20 books in our catalog focused on animal tales. From kid's books to all-ages-wildlife adventures, we’ve got graphic novels for animal lovers of all types. April is Animal Cruelty Prevention month, and we are planning a number of things to support that noble cause, starting with our next Kickstarter for MY FRIEND TOBY!

MY FRIEND TOBY is a 144-page, wordless canine adventure about a simple terrier living a simple life with his human friend Marcel, a heartbroken artist who is having trouble making ends meet. But Toby doesn’t know anything about money or bills or electricity; he’s happy as long as there is food in his bowl and new territory to claim in the neighborhood. To him, everything is fine... at least until a stray cat appears, bringing all kinds of questions (and maybe a few unexpected answers)…

This book is adorable, and I’m not kidding when I say I laughed out loud a few times “reading” it. Yes, it is wordless, but it captures the language-less mindset of a dog in a way that seems both perfectly understandable and scientifically plausible. Triple-Eisner Award-nominee Gregory Panaccione (A SEA OF LOVE) is an animation industry storyboard artist turned graphic novelist, and his expert pacing and cinematic eye give this heartwarming story a truly cinematic feature quality.

To help tie MY FRIEND TOBY to our Cruelty Prevention efforts, we will be making an independent donation to the Anti-Cruelty Society based on the campaign’s performance. Kickstarter doesn’t allow pledge funds to be used for charity, or to make it sound like any portion of raised funds will be used as such, but we’ve worked with Kickstarter Trust & Safety Committee to approve our initiative to make a completely independent private donation based on how well the campaign does.

So please consider backing MY FRIEND TOBY to not only get a wonderful graphic novel (or graphic novels, plural – we have several bundles with exclusive bonus items!), but to also help some needy animals find good homes in the process. 😊

Thanks, everyone! We hope to see you there! ❤

KLAW: WERE-WARS Graphic Novel series and Card Game is now LIVE!
over 1 year ago – Wed, Sep 21, 2022 at 12:20:44 AM

Hi everyone!

We wanted to let you know about the newest Kickstarter campaign by Magnetic Press's gaming division, Magnetic Press Play,  that just launched this morning -- KLAW: WERE-WARS!

The campaign is for both the four-volume graphic novel series by Ozanam and Jurion and also for the brand-new Combat Card-and-Dice tabletop game! You can back the project for only the graphic novels, for just the game series, or both! You don't have to be a gamer to help support the campaign! The books alone are a prize!

If you're not familiar with the KLAW series, it opens with teenager Angel Thomassini as he first encounters the secret world of Dizhi as the unwitting recipient of the Tiger Totem. His world is turned upside down from that moment on, introducing him to an entire universe of hidden powers and agendas struggling to maintain a balance between order and chaos. As he grows through the series, he encounters a cast of conflicted characters with shifting priorities, each revealing yet another layer of intrigue. It's an ongoing tale of outsiders and misfits, teens and adults, all put in complicated situations over the primordial powers they've been granted.

We are releasing the fourth volume in the series with this campaign, but don't worry --

You can get all four digital volumes FREE with every copy of the new volume 4 hardcover!

Beyond the thrilling graphic novel saga itself, you'll also want to dive into the action and wage war with other were-creatures in KLAW: WERE-WARS Combat Card-and-Dice Game!

This fast-paced and original card game includes everything you need to initiate beastly battles: 190 Action, Item, Host, and Totem cards, 12 custom dice, 30 conditional token markers, 4 Battle Fan card holders, and a fully-illustrated 24-page rulebook all within a magnetic-latch box. An additional 120 Card expansion set introduces the "Forgotten" Zodiac and dozens of new Items, Actions, and status conditions to add even more depth to the gameplay! Together, with over 300 cards, the possible warrior configurations are in the MILLIONS!

Please check out the Kickstarter page to see all of the campaign-exclusive extras and limited-edition bundles available, including some cool resin miniature statuettes, gaming mats, and dice towers!

This is only our second game category campaign, so we could really use your support! Please check it out and spread the word if you can! 😊

ADRASTEA by Mathieu Bablet launches TOMORROW!
about 2 years ago – Mon, Feb 28, 2022 at 11:40:11 PM

Hi everyone!

Just a quick heads-up if you haven't already seen the news:

OUR NEXT CAMPAIGN LAUNCHES TOMORROW!

ADRASTEA by Mathieu Bablet

For those of you who backed last year's campaign for SHANGRI-LA and CARBON & SILICON, you know how amazing Mathieu's work is. (International backers, you will soon... they're on their way to you as we speak...!) Set in Greek mythology, this new book is equally beautiful, poetic, action-packed, quirky, and epic. It tells the story of a man who cannot die, so after 1000 years of watching loved ones die and his empire crumble, he sets out on a quest to demand answers from the gods of Olympus...

We'll be offering a limited edition, campaign-exclusive "Immortal" Bundle with a bunch of nice extras, as well as the usual array of stretch goals and bonus prints for pre-registering and pledging on Day 1.
Plus:

*** FREE SHIPPING for backers of OGRE GODS or ARSENE LUPIN! ***

Much like we did with SHANGRI-LA + FALSE GUARD + THE WALL, if you backed either of our previous two campaigns for THE OGRE GODS SAGA or ARSENE LUPIN, GENTLEMAN THIEF, or pre-order either from their Backerkit stores before closing at the end of March, we can add your physical pledge items from this campaign to your previous order so that they ship together at no extra cost! Free shipping will be applied to all qualifying pledges during pledge management in Backerkit.

This is going to be another beautiful book, a perfect companion to SHANGRI-LA or CARBON & SILICON, and we're excited to give ADRASTEA the spotlight treatment it deserves!

Hope to see you there tomorrow!

ARSENE LUPIN, GENTLEMAN THIEF ends in TWO DAYS!
about 2 years ago – Thu, Feb 10, 2022 at 01:09:10 AM

Hi everyone!

Just a quick note in case any of you might be interested and missed the news:

There are only TWO DAYS LEFT to join the ARSENE LUPIN, GENTLEMAN THIEF Kickstarter campaign before it ends!

This is a gorgeous and super-fun new edition of the classic crime capers of the original dapper burglar who inspired a century's worth of film and media, including the recent live-action LUPIN series on Netflix and the fan-favorite anime series LUPIN THE 3rd!

You don't want to miss out on the fabulous package of exclusive, limited-edition bonus items that have been unlocked to be included with all physical pledges for FREE! Right now, that's about $40 worth of exclusive collectibles that will not be available anywhere else once this campaign is complete. And you can get this whole beautiful art package for simply pre-ordering the $30 base tier or $40 Limited Edition Cipher Edition tier!

If you also backed our recent OGRE GODS campaign or choose to pre-order OGRE GODS after the fact from our open Backerkit shop, you can get FREE SHIPPING by bundling both packages into one! Both campaigns will ship in May, so it's the perfect way to save on the skyrocketing cost of shipping these days.

We're hopeful that we'll unlock the numbered bookplates at $90k, but if even a portion of you non-backers watching this campaign come on board in the next 48 hours, everyone will benefit from having a matching "Holmes" lapel pin added to the set. It really is a bargain worth taking advantage of! (Can we hit that last stretch goal to make it $50 worth...? The lapel pins are sweet...)

Oh, and of course, there's THE FABULOUS BOOK ITSELF! 😊

Please check it out and help spread the word!

Launching on Tuesday: THE OGRE GODS SAGA!
over 2 years ago – Sun, Nov 14, 2021 at 01:13:16 AM

Hi everyone!

As backers of the dark fairy tale BRINDILLE, we think (hope) you will be as excited as we are about our newest Kickstarter campaign launching THIS TUESDAY NOVEMBER 16th at 10am CST:

A few of you might be familiar with this amazing, multiple-award-winning series by the late Hubert and artist Bertrand Gatignol, but for those of you who aren't, now is the perfect time to jump into this unique and engrossing dark fantasy universe full of gothic drama and moral intrigue!

We are thrilled to announce not only the brand new, fourth and final volume in the series, FIRST BORN, but also a brand new, campaign-exclusive, limited edition Slipcased Boxed Set containing all four books!

For those of you not familiar with the series, it is set in a dark fantasy world ruled by a hierarchy of different sized giants, with each self-contained volume in the series focusing on a different element of the population: the giant Ogre Gods are introduced in PETIT, the tale of the smallest giant’s struggles with family tradition; the plight of the subservient human population is explored in HALF-BLOOD as one charming con artist rises to a seat of power; focus then turns to those humans living in the wilderness beyond the giant’s influence in THE GREAT MAN; the series ends with a look back in FIRST BORN, telling the tale of the first daughter of the first giant and her effort to break the patriarchal chains that each daughter would otherwise suffer.

Personally, this is without a doubt my favorite series we've published (and we've published a ton of amazing stuff). We're publishing this final volume posthumously in the wake of series author Hubert's passing in 2020 (mere weeks after we had the pleasure of dining with him and Bertrand in Paris), and we're hoping this campaign can be a celebration of his thought-provoking work. Bertrand completed the final volume from Hubert's finished script, and we are humbled to bring this final work to light.

If you are a fan of complex, centuries-spanning fantasy filled with mystery, intrigue, moral ambiguity, and hard-hitting dilemma, you will LOVE this series. It is described as GAME OF THRONES as in a BROTHERS GRIMM fairy tale universe, gloriously illustrated in Disney-esque sequential art, with chapters of relevant lore interspersed as illustrated prose throughout. This is a must-have hybrid for fantasy readers of all kinds.

I really hope you will check it out. It is admittedly a bit different from the colorful sci-fi we've been offering lately, but it is undoubtedly still an unequaled reading experience you will never forget.

As usual, you can pre-register for exclusive, bonus linen prints by visiting www.theogregods.com today. We'll be offering a nice array of additional Free Bonuses during the campaign, including some sweet Stretch Goals. 😊

Please share the link and support this fantastic project on Tuesday! Thank you!