Fund Me Friday: Gold Town #0, and A Haunted Girl
Comics Crowdfunding!
Two new comics crowdfunding projects to check out this week!
Gold Town #0 on Kickstarter
A Haunted Girl - Exclusive Extended Edition on Zoop.
Gold Town #0
From the universe of Geek-Girl is Gold Town #0
Featuring characters from Geek-Girl among its cast, Gold Town #0 ties in with and will impact on the Geek-Girl series - with Ali McKenzie (pictured below) set to play a major role in Geek-Girl's Super-Team!
Featuring a cast of characters in black & white flashback and in-color current-day stories illustrated by a team of artists including Geek-Girl's C Granda...
Ali McKenzie: wannabe Starlet with a secret power; Maddox Mack: a third-rate Sorceror-turned-Stage-Magician; Mr. Reed: a Father who has lost his Daughter; and Pete Stenson: a down-on-his-luck Pimp... in Taleda - also known as 'Gold Town' - a 'Hollywood-upside-down' place where the bizarre and paranormal reside and the route to 'making it' is a dark one.
A 'Hollywood-upside-down' place where the bizarre and paranormal reside and the route to 'making it' is a dark one.
A Haunted Girl - Exclusive Extended Edition by Ethan Sacks, Naomi Sacks, & Marco Lorenzana
An extended version of the young adult graphic novel is now available on Zoop.
Launching today on the Zoop crowdfunding platform is A Haunted Girl - The Exclusive Extended Edition from father/daughter writers Ethan and Naomi Sacks, with art by Marco Lorenzana. It's the ultimate collector's item for fans of the acclaimed Image/Syzygy YA supernatural horror story that explores the real-life terror that comes with the struggles of anxiety and depression. It’s a perfect complete story for new readers as well.
Cleo, a 16-year-old adopted Japanese-American whose anxiety and depression drives her to suicidal thoughts, is fresh out of the hospital and trying unsuccessfully to reintegrate back into her old life. What she doesn't know is that her real struggles are just beginning as she finds herself encountering an increasingly terrifying succession of ghosts. Is she losing her grip on reality...or is the explanation much, much worse.
The story is inspired by the real life mental health battle of co-writer Naomi Sacks, who teamed with her father, comic book veteran Ethan Sacks (Star Wars: Bounty Hunters, Old Man Hawkeye), and artist extraordinaire Marco Lorenzana (Hulk), in an attempt to reach readers going through similar struggles.
A Haunted Girl was profiled by CBS News, People Magazine, the Lancet medical journal, and NPR and includes resource help guides from the American Foundation for Suicide Prevention and the American Psychiatric Association.
But the new Exclusive Extended Edition, only available through Zoop, has so much more additional features:
* A stunning hardcover format featuring art by comics legend Joe Quesada
* Artist Marco Lorenzana's how-to guide for drawing Cleo
* A reprint of the People Magazine profile on the real life story behind the comic.
* A script excerpt, layouts, and pencils and ink for a behind-the-scenes look at how a comic book comes together.
And best of all, a portion of the proceeds of the new edition will be donated to the American Foundation for Suicide Prevention to help fund their crucial lifesaving work.
