KICKSTARTER SECRETS hits target, announces Amy Chu/Drew Westphal interview stretch goal!

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By Greg Pak

Yesterday morning I launched a Kickstarter for Kickstarter Secrets, an ebook of advice about… wait for it… running a Kickstarter! Whether you’re an established pro or a first time creator, this is the realistic, practical book of crowdfunding tips for you. Please feel free to check out the campaign, back it, and spread the word!

So over a hundred wonderful backers pushed the campaign past its initial goal in seven hours, and now I’m thrilled to announce our first set of stretch goals!

If we hit $3000, I’ll interview Amy Chu and Drew Westphal, two great creators with incredible Kickstarter experiences that will add huge value to the final book.

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Amy Chu funded her two GIRLS NIGHT OUT comics anthologies through Kickstarter. When people ask me how to break in to comics, I point to Amy, who started as an unknown a few years ago, built her skills and reputation step by step, and now is working on projects like POISON IVY for DC and DEADPOOL and ANT-MAN for Marvel. I can’t wait to talk to her about how she built the network to fund her Kickstarters and what kind of advice she has for creators at the start of their careers.

Drew Westphal is the logistical genius who kept the wheels on the bus during the CODE MONKEY SAVE WORLD Kickstarter, coordinating the production of special rewards, finding and managing vendors, and creating the digital infrastructure for organizing addresses, generating mailing lists, and distributing digital rewards. He’ll shed light on all of the nuts and bolts of running a campaign and probably remind me of a bunch of my mistakes. 😉 Drew works with with a number of artists on custom direct-to-fan sales, customer service, fulfillment and logistics. He is also a partner in the annual JoCo Cruise, which sets sail on March 4, 2017 out of San Diego, CA.

Right now the Kickstarter Secrets campaign is at $2623. Just under $400 more and we’ll add Amy and Drew to the book — and announce the next exciting stretch goal interviews!

Thanks so much for your consideration and all the best!

 

Last day to order ABC DISGUSTING and get December shipping – check the 18 page preview!

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ABC DISGUSTING, the children’s book about disgusting things that I made with artist Takeshi Miyazawa, colorist Jessica Kholinne, and letterer Simon Bowland, will ship NEXT WEEK! If you’d like to get this book in December, please place your orders TONIGHT, December 10, at abcdisgusting.com!

And just so you know what you’re in for, here’s a glorious preview of HALF of the book! Enjoy, and thanks for your consideration!

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2015.12.05 – Greg Pak and Marjorie Liu sign at Dragon’s Lair in Austin!

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Big news! I’ll be signing “The Totally Awesome Hulk” #1 and “The Princess Who Saved Herself” at the Dragon’s Lair in Austin, Texas from 12-6 pm, December 5, with the great Marjorie Liu, writer of “Monstress.”

Here’s the address:

Dragon’s Lair Comics and Fantasy
2438 West Anderson Lane
Austin, TX, 78757

Come see, come see! More details here.

INCREDIBLE HERCULES comics just 99 cents each at Comixology today!

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Hey, hey! Comixology is having a huge digital sale of INCREDIBLE HERCULES comics starring Herc and Amadeus Cho, written by me and Fred Van Lente, and drawn by a slew of amazing artists, including Khoi Pham, Rafa Sandoval, Reilly Brown, Neil Edwards, and Clayton Henry. Check it out!

Also worth noting — the series actually launched with INCREDIBLE HULK #112, which isn’t part of the sale, but which can be grabbed here.

Great write up of the NYCC Asian American Comics panel

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Paul Gullas has posted a great write up of last Friday’s standing-room-only NYCC Asian American Comics and Creators panel, which was moderated by yours truly and featured Marjorie Liu, Larry Hama, Amy Chu, Janice Chiang, Wendy Xu, and Ethan Young. Here’s an excerpt:

Pak said that he sometimes grappled with whether to use things that could be considered stereotypes in his writing. He said that while he loves Chow Yun-Fat and Jet Li movies, he’s never written an Asian martial arts story because he doesn’t want to feed that trope. “But at the same time, am I foolishly cutting myself off from something I love as a result?“ He asked the other panelists about their thoughts.

Amy Chu said that she is grappling with it right now, with a series that she has been considering writing. She brought up the Strange Fruit controversy, and said that there could be a chance of this story being misinterpreted or coming off wrong. She wants to do the story, but on the other hand, there are so many bad depictions of that culture, and does she, as an Asian-American, want to do that? She also doesn’t want to be pigeonholed as “the Asian doing the Asian stories”.

Liu said that she has almost developed an allergic reaction to certain representations of Asians in media. “There’s always the Chinatown episode. There’s always the Yakuza episode. There’s always the ‘abused, beaten Chinese woman terrorized by the Chinese man’ episode.”

Read the whole thing here!