CAMPAIGN LIVE LINK HERE:

https://igg.me/at/SHI-GATECRASER/x/20487910#/

ANNOUNCES SLEW OF FREE STRETCH GOAL REWARDS TO BACKERS!

ANA, OSWALD, MICKEY, MINNIE AND A MYSTERY MARINER CUT THE RUG ON THEIR WAY TO $65K WITH FREE “EVERYBODY CHARLESTON” 6” X 9” PRINT!

 

In the wake of the campaign’s first full week, Crusade Comics’ 10^th Indiegogo, Shi: Gatecrasher, featuring Coffin Comics’ Lady Death and the world’s greatest heroes has rocketed off to a blazing start and unlocked several Free Stretch Goal rewards. Now with returns totaling over $60,000.00, the New York based publisher has  announced Gatecrasher’s next Stretch Goal, the “Everybody Charleston” 6″ X 9″ mini-print FREE to all our contributors to be unlocked at $65K.

“Shi: Gatecrasher has rocketed past $60,000.00, simply an incredible start!” Stated Shi-creator Billy Tucci., “We just cannot thank our backers enough, but know you’ll all love the slew of new campaign stretch goal rewards we’ve announced.”

Tucci was referring to Gatecrasher’s this list of several campaign tiers to be unlocked:

·       1ST 24-HOURS REWARD: FREE SHI, LADY DEATH & TARPE MILLS’ BADGIRLS 8″X5″ HEAVY VINYL STICKER TO ALL BACKERS WHO CHOSE A PHYSICAL PERK!

·       $55K STRETCH GOAL: EXPAND SHI: GATECRASHER FROM 48 TO 56 PAGES: UNLOCKED!

·       $60K STRETCH GOAL: FREE GATECRASHER DIGITAL EDITION TO ALL BACKERS WHO PLEDGE FOR A PHYSICAL PERK: UNLOCKED!

·       $65K STRETCH GOAL: “EVERYBODY CHARLESTON” MINI PRINT!

·       $75K STRETCH GOAL: ART THIBERT SHI EDITION TRADING CARD!

·       $80K STRETCH GOAL: BILLY TUCCI SHI/RAN TRADING CARD!

·       $85K: “EVERYBODY CHARELSTON ROUGH CUT EDITION TRADING CARD!

·       $90K STRETCH GOAL: RENE STRYCHALSKI TRADING CARD!

·       $95K STRETCH GOAL: STAN SAKAI USAGI YOJIMBO/SHI TRADKING CARD!

·       $100K STRETCH GOAL: ROB LIEFELD EDITION ACTUAL METAL TRADING CARD!

Just twelve days remain to the 20-day Indiegogo campaign.

GATECRASHER!

Based on the Story by writer J.C. Vaughn and Tucci, and illustrated by Tucci, Leandro Oliveira, Hi-Fi Colour Design, with lettering by Mindy Lopkin, Shi: Gatecrasher is literally the “destroy all monsters” of  comic book character collision!

Crusade is also preparing a myriad of unique perks and stretch goal rewards. The campaign will boast many specials, prints, original art and limited variant covers by Tucci along with comic book greats, Stan Sakai, Renie Strychalski, Art Thibert and superstar Rob Liefeld.

Shi: Gatecrasher will also be launching on crowdfunding platform Kickstarter with its own exclusive campaign on January 15, 2025.

COMICS’ SUPERSTAR ROB LIEFELD COVERS SHI: GATECRASHER!

DEADPOOL/AVENGELYNE CREATOR’S LIMITED, EXCLUSIVE & METAL EDITIONS ARE NOW LIVE ON INDIEGOGO!

CAMPAIGN LIVE LINK HERE:

https://igg.me/at/SHI-GATECRASER/x/20487910#/

Rob Liefeld and Colorist Ezequiel Dominguez’s Striking Shi: Gatecrasher Limited Edition!

EXTREME RED METAL SHI

Legendary comics’ creator, Rob Liefeld’s special Shi: Gatecrasher Editions, a pair of limited variants exclusive to Indiegogo. The Liefeld Solid Gold Variant and the premiere Extreme Red Metal Shi Edition, featuring an actual stainless-steel cover are now set as the campaign’s featured perk.  

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 Iconfor Dynamite Comics. His Crusade Comics has recently released a series of new Shi graphic novels, Return of the Warrior, Haikyo, and Sakura. Crusade as also released the collected editions Shi: Omnibus Vol. 1, Shi: 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 $1,500,000.00. 

For Additional Information:

Deborah Tucci

Crusade Fine Arts, Ltd.

support@billytucci.com

You can find Billy Tucci on Twitter, Facebook @billytucci and Instagram @billy_tucci

Visit https://www.billytucci.com.

DEADPOOL/AVENGELYNE CREATOR’S LIMITED, EXCLUSIVE & METAL EDITIONS ARE NOW LIVE ON INDIEGOGO!

CAMPAIGN LIVE LINK HERE:

https://igg.me/at/SHI-GATECRASER/x/20487910#/

Rob Liefeld and Colorist Ezequiel Dominguez’s Striking Shi: Gatecrasher Limited Edition!

EXTREME RED METAL SHI!

Last evening, and with much fanfare, Shi-creator Billy Tucci has unveiled legendary comics’ creator, Rob Liefeld’s special Shi: Gatecrasher Editions, a pair of limited variants exclusive to Indiegogo. The Liefeld Solid Gold Variant and the premiere Extreme Red Metal Shi Edition, featuring an actual stainless steel cover are now set as the campaign’s featured perk.  

 

GATECRASHER CLOSES IN ON $60,000.00 TO UNLOCK NEXT STRETCH GOAL!

Crusade Comics’ 10^th Indiegogo, Shi: Gatecrasher, featuring Coffin Comics’ Lady Death and the world’s greatest heroes as unlocked its first free Stretch Goal reward, to expand the 48-page full-color, graphic novel to 56 pages. Now, on the campaign’s sixth day, Gatecrasher is on the verge of breaking its $60,000.00 Stretch Goal and rewarding all backers (who choose a physical perk) to also receive a free digital edition of the book with cover gallery extras.

Based on the Story by writer J.C. Vaughn and Tucci, and illustrated by Tucci, Leandro Oliveira, Hi-Fi Colour Design, with lettering by Mindy Lopkin, Shi: Gatecrasher is literally the “destroy all monsters” of  comic book character collision!

Crusade is also preparing a myriad of unique perks and stretch goal rewards. The campaign will boast many specials, prints, original art and limited variant covers by Tucci along with comic book greats, Stan Sakai, Renie Strychalski, Art Thibert and superstar Rob Liefeld.

Shi: Gatecrasher will also be launching on crowdfunding platform Kickstarter with its own exclusive campaign on January 9, 2025.

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 Iconfor Dynamite Comics. His Crusade Comics has recently released a series of new Shi graphic novels, Return of the Warrior, Haikyo, and Sakura. Crusade as also released the collected editions Shi: Omnibus Vol. 1, Shi: 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 $1,500,000.00. 

For Additional Information:

Deborah Tucci

Crusade Fine Arts, Ltd.

support@billytucci.com

You can find Billy Tucci on Twitter, Facebook @billytucci and Instagram @billy_tucci

Visit https://www.billytucci.com.

SEXY SCI-FI SPACE ADVENTURE BY COMIC BOOK LEGENDS AMANDA CONNER, JIMMY PALMIOTTI, BRIAN PULIDO and BILLY TUCCI IS NOW LIVE!

KICKSTARTER EXCLUSIVE CAMPAIGN LIVE LINK HERE:

https://ow.ly/K41950TWxlQ

Coffin Comics’ 45^th Kickstarter, The Deadly Trio: Doomslayer #1 launched to much fanfare and in the campaign’s first hours as already surpassed $35,000.00 in total returns.

The long-time friends Amada Conner, Jimmy Palmiotti, Brian Pulido, and Billy Tucci’s all-new Sci Fi comic book is filled with action, adventure, and deadly consequences.

MEET THE CREATOR’S LIVE TONIGHT 8pm EST/5pm PST ON YOUTUBE’S POPXP CHANNEL!

Live Stream Link Can Be Found Here:

THE DEADLY TRIO!

KALISSA GORE, an evil warlord feared throughout the galaxy, hungers for power, demands submission and destroys everyone in her path. She desires an audience with her God. To make this a reality, all life in the universe must be extinguished in her name. 

No one is a match for Gore and her vast armies, but there is a DEADLY TRIO who dares the impossible: DORIAN, a planet-hopping Mechanic and her best friend, REANN-REANN, a fighter pilot with unmatched skills, and GARGA, the cult-leader sister of Kalissa Gore herself!

Can THE DEADLY TRIO overcome insurmountable odds, and each other, or is the universe doomed to extinction? 

Featuring script by Conner, Palmiotti, Pulido and Tucci and  the out of this world artwork by Adriana Melo, Giuliano Peratelli and Marshall Dillon, the Deadly Trio makes the perfect Sci-Fi Adventure!

As a bonus Conner, Melo and Tucci also provide limited variant covers alongside #TeamD3 stable of legendary comics talent, Joseph Michael Linsner, Chad Hardin, Ben Caldwell, Dan Lawlis, Diego Bernard, Leandro Oliveira and more!

All production on The Deadly Trio is completed and its 36-Day Kickstarter ends on December 27, 2024.

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 Iconfor Dynamite Comics. His Crusade Comics has recently released a series of new Shi graphic novels, Return of the Warrior, Haikyo, and Sakura. Crusade as also released the collected editions Shi: Omnibus Vol. 1, Shi: Senryaku Omnibus, Shi: Way of the Warrior Original Art Edition and Shi: Gatedrasher via Kickstarter and Indiegogo uniting backers from over fifty countries and bringing Crusade Comics’ crowdfunding campaign totals to over $1,500,000.00. 

For Additional Information:

Deborah Tucci

Crusade Fine Arts, Ltd.

support@billytucci.com

You can find Billy Tucci on Twitter, Facebook @billytucci and Instagram @billy_tucci

Visit https://www.billytucci.com.

CRUSADE’S INDIEGOGO CAMPAIGN REVEALS DEADPOOL/AVENGELYNE CREATOR’S LIMITED COVER ON YOUTUBE TONIGHT 8PM EST!

 CAMPAIGN LIVE LINK HERE:

https://igg.me/at/SHI-GATECRASER/x/20487910#/

YOUTUBE LIVE REVEAL STREAM LINK HERE:

https://www.youtube.com/live/iq87H4Y9OQA?si=xU8fv0jly6CO2Dyr

FIRST STRETCH GOAL UNLOCKED: GATECRASHER NOW EXPANED FROM 48 TO 56 PAGES!

In less than one week, Crusade Comics’ 10^th Indiegogo, Shi: Gatecrasher, featuring Coffin Comics’ Lady Death and the world’s greatest heroes as un-locked its first free Stretch Goal reward, to expand the 48-page full-color, graphic novel to 56 pages.

Tonight, Shi-creator Billy Tucci will unveil Image Comics founder and Deadpool creator Rob Liefeld’s striking limited edition, “Gatecrasher Mystery Cover” on his YouTube Channel, The PopXP tonight on Thursday, November 21st at 8pm EST.

Tucci will also be welcoming his co-creator’s of The Deadly Trio: Doomslayer #1, Jimmy Palmiotti and Brian Pulido on the channel as the three celebrate The Deadly Trio’s stunning Kickstarter launch.

The Deadly Trio: Doomslayer #1 Kickstarter can be found here:

https://ow.ly/K41950TWxlQ

 

In Shi: Gatecrasher, we find Ana Ishikawa, (allied with RAN, Shi-creator Billy Tucci’s ORIGINAL concept for SHI) trapped within comic book time where she must battle through a cartoonist’s history of four-color imagery to find her way back home.

Starting in 1938, Shi: Gatecrasher takes the reader on an amazing adventure across comics’ incredible decades, trends, and genres. A gripping, funny book fantasy that sees Ana and Ran encountering, war, westerns, horror, apes, nazis, space vixens, superheroes, romance, robots, dinosaurs, commies, cartoons, crime, bad girls, zombies and even the seduction of the innocent!

Along the way the pair will stand side by side with the world’s greatest indie and public domain heroes before coming face to face with Brian Pulido’s iconic LADY DEATH!

Based on the Story by writer J.C. Vaughn and Tucci, and illustrated by Tucci, Leandro Oliveira, Hi-Fi Colour Design, with lettering by Mindy Lopkin, Shi: Gatecrasher is literally the “destroy all monsters” of  comic book character collision!

Crusade is also preparing a myriad of unique perks and stretch goal rewards. The campaign will boast many specials, prints, original art and limited variant covers by Tucci along with comic book greats, Stan Sakai, Renie Strychalski, Art Thibert and superstar Rob Liefeld.

Shi: Gatecrasher will also be launching on crowdfunding platform Kickstarter with its own exclusive campaign on January 9, 2025.

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 Iconfor Dynamite Comics. His Crusade Comics has recently released a series of new Shi graphic novels, Return of the Warrior, Haikyo, and Sakura. Crusade as also released the collected editions Shi: Omnibus Vol. 1, Shi: 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 $1,500,000.00. 

For Additional Information:

Deborah Tucci

Crusade Fine Arts, Ltd.

support@billytucci.com

You can find Billy Tucci on Twitter, Facebook @billytucci and Instagram @billy_tucci

Visit https://www.billytucci.com.

CAMPAIGN UNVEILS SUPERSTAR ROB LIEFELD’S “MYSTERY VARIANT EDITION TOMORROW!

 CAMPAIGN LIVE LINK HERE:

https://igg.me/at/SHI-GATECRASER/x/20487910#/

FIRST STRETCH GOAL UNLOCKED: GATECRASHER NOW EXPANED FROM 48 TO 56 PAGES!

On just it’s fifth day, Crusade Comics’ 10^th Indiegogo, Shi: Gatecrasher, featuring Coffin Comics’ Lady Death and the world’s greatest heroes as un-locked its first free Stretch Goal reward, to expand the 48-page full-color, graphic novel from 56 pages.

Shi-creator Billy Tucci and team have now announced its $60,000.00 Stretch Goal Reward; a Free Gatecrasher Digital Edition to all backers who pledge for a physical perk.

The campaign’s opening weekend launch was by far the indie publisher’s biggest Indiegogo campaign to date.

SUPERSTAR ROB LIEFELD LIMITED GATECRASHER MYSTERY EDITION REVEAL COMING TOMORROW

“We are honored to have Image Comics co-founder and Deadpool creator, the king of kinetic energy art and creation, Rob Liefeld gracing us with his first ever Shi cover!” Stated Tucci. “It truly is one of the most dynamic Shi covers ever and we cannot wait to share the final reveal with you all!”

Rob Liefeld’s limited “Gatecrasher Mystery Cover will be unveiled tomorrow, Thursday, November 21st at 7pm EST.

In Shi: Gatecrasher, we find Ana Ishikawa, (allied with RAN, Shi-creator Billy Tucci’s ORIGINAL concept for SHI) trapped within comic book time where she must battle through a cartoonist’s history of four-color imagery to find her way back home.

Starting in 1938, Shi: Gatecrasher takes the reader on an amazing adventure across comics’ incredible decades, trends, and genres. A gripping, funny book fantasy that sees Ana and Ran encountering, war, westerns, horror, apes, nazis, space vixens, superheroes, romance, robots, dinosaurs, commies, cartoons, crime, bad girls, zombies and even the seduction of the innocent!

Along the way the pair will stand side by side with the world’s greatest indie and public domain heroes before coming face to face with Brian Pulido’s iconic LADY DEATH!

Based on the Story by writer J.C. Vaughn and Tucci, and illustrated by Tucci, Leandro Oliveira, Hi-Fi Colour Design, with lettering by Mindy Lopkin, Shi: Gatecrasher is literally the “destroy all monsters” of  comic book character collision!

Crusade is also preparing a myriad of unique perks and stretch goal rewards. The campaign will boast many specials, prints, original art and limited variant covers by Tucci along with comic book greats, Stan Sakai, Renie Strychalski, Art Thibert and superstar Rob Liefeld.

Shi: Gatecrasher will also be launching on crowdfunding platform Kickstarter with its own exclusive campaign on January 9, 2025.

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 Iconfor Dynamite Comics. His Crusade Comics has recently released a series of new Shi graphic novels, Return of the Warrior, Haikyo, and Sakura. Crusade as also released the collected editions Shi: Omnibus Vol. 1, Shi: 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 $1,500,000.00. 

For Additional Information:

Deborah Tucci

Crusade Fine Arts, Ltd.

support@billytucci.com

You can find Billy Tucci on Twitter, Facebook @billytucci and Instagram @billy_tucci

Visit https://www.billytucci.com.

SEXY SCI-FI SPACE ADVENTURE BY COMIC BOOK LEGENDS AMANDA CONNER, JIMMY PALMIOTTI, BRIAN PULIDO and BILLY TUCCI GOES LIVE AT 8PM EST/5PM PST!

KICKSTARTER EXCLUSIVE CAMPAIGN LIVE LINK HERE:

https://ow.ly/K41950TWxlQ

Visit the PRIVATE PREVIEW to see ALL the Rewards and Preview Pages!

https://ow.ly/6wWn50U5gaJ

Long-time friends Jimmy Palmiotti, Brian Pulido, and Billy Tucci team up to bring readers an all-new Sci Fi comic book series filled with action, adventure, and deadly consequences!

KALISSA GORE, an evil warlord feared throughout the galaxy, hungers for power, demands submission and destroys everyone in her path. She desires an audience with her God. To make this a reality, all life in the universe must be extinguished in her name. 

No one is a match for Gore and her vast armies, but there is a DEADLY TRIO who dares the impossible: DORIAN, a planet-hopping Mechanic and her best friend, REANN-REANN, a fighter pilot with unmatched skills, and GARGA, the cult-leader sister of Kalissa Gore herself!

Can THE DEADLY TRIO overcome insurmountable odds, and each other, or is the universe doomed to extinction? 

Featuring script by Conner, Palmiotti, Pulido and Tucci and  the out of this world artwork by Adriana Melo, Giuliano Peratelli and Marshall Dillon, the Deadly Trio makes the perfect Sci-Fi Adventure!

As a bonus Conner, Melo and Tucci also provide limited variant covers alongside #TeamD3 stable of legendary comics talent, Joseph Michael Linsner, Chad Hardin, Ben Caldwell, Dan Lawlis, Diego Bernard, Leandro Oliveira and more!

Join Deborah Steffens Tucci Francisca Pulido and D3 creators, Brian Pulido, Amanda Conner Jimmy Palmiotti, and Billy Tucci for The Deadly Trio WORLDWIDE LIVE LAUNCH PARTY, Wednesday, November 20, 2024, 8:00 pm EST/ 5 pm PST on Coffin Comics TV YouTube Channel Here:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z3lh4gZiArM

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 Iconfor Dynamite Comics. His Crusade Comics has recently released a series of new Shi graphic novels, Return of the Warrior, Haikyo, and Sakura. Crusade as also released the collected editions Shi: Omnibus Vol. 1, Shi: Senryaku Omnibus, Shi: Way of the Warrior Original Art Edition and Shi: Gatedrasher via Kickstarter and Indiegogo uniting backers from over fifty countries and bringing Crusade Comics’ crowdfunding campaign totals to over $1,500,000.00. 

For Additional Information:

Deborah Tucci

Crusade Fine Arts, Ltd.

support@billytucci.com

You can find Billy Tucci on Twitter, Facebook @billytucci and Instagram @billy_tucci

Visit https://www.billytucci.com.

Disney lead animator UB Iwerk’s first drawing of Mickey Mouse

EVERYBODY CHARLESTON! MICKEY MOUSE TUNS 96!

21-Day Campaign Featuring Coffin Comics’ Lady Death and the World’s Greatest Heroes Opens to Record Numbers!

 CAMPAIGN LIVE LINK HERE:

https://igg.me/at/SHI-GATECRASER/x/20487910#/

On Sunday, November 18, 1928, at the height of the “Roaring 20’s”, a hysterical piece of magic debuted in movie theatres across the fruited plain… and the world would never be the same.

“To anyone who knows me, is acutely aware of my love of Mickey and Minnie Mouse. When I was a kid, I dreamed of being an animator for Walt Disney studios.” Stated Shi creator Billy Tucci. “Alas, life took me into a different career direction, but everything happens for a reason, and I’ve finally come full circle and fulfilled my dream of drawing Mickey and Minnie.”

Tucci is referring to his Shi: Gatecrasher “Everybody Charleston” variant cover featuring Mickey, Minnie, Walt Disney’s Oswald the Lucky Rabbit and another “mystery” public domain character which will be revealed on January 1, 2025.

Below is the de-evolution of Tucci’s “Everybody Charleston” cover artwork. Starting with Gatecrasher colorist’s Brian Miller’s celebration colors, to you can see the cover’s Tucci’s pencils and inks and the rough design sketch. The original art for the rough is included in Crusade Comics’ premium Gatecrasher perk which entails all 60-pages of Tucci’s original black and white Gatecrasher art.  

If you are interested in “Everybody Charleston” the variant edition can be found here:

https://igg.me/at/SHI-GATECRASER/x/20487910#/

  

Crusade Comics’ 10^th Indiegogo, Shi: Gatecrasher’s opening weekend launch was by far the indie publishers biggest campaign to date, garnering total returns just shy of $55,000.00 and clearing 1,000% of its flexible funding goal. The 48-page, full-color, original graphic novel, which launched Friday, November 15, 2024, on crowdfunding platform, Indiegogo. Once the campaign clears $55K, the first stretch goal reward, expanding Gatecrasher from 48 to 56 pages will be unlocked for all backers.

Based on the Story by writer J.C. Vaughn and Tucci, and illustrated by Tucci, Leandro Oliveira, Hi-Fi Colour Design, with lettering by Mindy Lopkin, Shi: Gatecrasher is literally the “destroy all monsters” of  comic book characters as Ana “Shi” Ishikawa finds herself trapped in comic book time where she must battle her way through all the decades, genres and trends of comics.

Crusade is also preparing a myriad of unique perks and stretch goal rewards. The campaign will boast many specials, prints, original art and limited variant covers by Tucci along with comic book greats, Stan Sakai, Renie Strychalski, Art Thibert and superstar Rob Liefeld.

Shi: Gatecrasher Indiegogo Campaign closes Thursday, December 5^th, 2024, and will also be launching on crowdfunding platform Kickstarter with its own exclusive campaign on January 15, 2025.

 

JOIN “THE BROFESSIONALS” LIVE TODAY 7PM EST/4PM PST!

https://www.youtube.com/live/3-XonSWFcoc?si=2bqkvkJh-AOpN2GD

Join Comics’ Superstars Aaron Lopresti, Andy Smith, Art Thibert, Billy Tucci, Dan Fraga and Graham Nolan on “The Brofessionals” LIVE on The PopXP YouTube channel tonight for an entertaining discussion on the ins and outs of public domain comic and cartoon characters. The Bro’s will also introduce their latest “comic hunts” and what funny books they have their eyes on!

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 Iconfor Dynamite Comics. His Crusade Comics has recently released a series of new Shi graphic novels, Return of the Warrior, Haikyo, and Sakura. Crusade as also released the collected editions Shi: Omnibus Vol. 1, Shi: Senryaku Omnibus, Shi: Way of the Warrior Original Art Edition and Shi: Gatedrasher via Kickstarter and Indiegogo uniting backers from over fifty countries and bringing Crusade Comics’ crowdfunding campaign totals to over $1,500,000.00. 

For Additional Information:

Deborah Tucci

Crusade Fine Arts, Ltd.

support@billytucci.com

You can find Billy Tucci on Twitter, Facebook @billytucci and Instagram @billy_tucci

Visit https://www.billytucci.com.

November 16, 2024

 

Crusade Comics’ 10^th Indiegogo Featuring Coffin Comics’ Lady Death and the World’s Greatest Heroes! Goes LIVE at 7pm EST/4pm PST.

 PRELAUNCH PAGE LINK HERE:

https://www.indiegogo.com/project/coming_soon/preview/e11c3b82

CHECK OUT OUR NEW YOUTUBE PROMO VIDEO!

 

https://youtu.be/X68b0wcg36I

 

For the first time in two-years, Crusade Comics is on the verge of launching Shi: Gatecrasher, a 48-page, full-color, OGN TOMORROW, November 15, 2024 on crowdfunding platform, Indiegogo.

SIGN UP FOR OUR PRELAUNCH PAGE MAILING LIST HERE FOR SPECIAL INDIEGOGO LAUNCH INFO AND CAMPAIGN PREVIEW PAGE!

https://www.indiegogo.com/project/coming_soon/preview/e11c3b82

 

In Shi: Gatecrasher, we find Ana Ishikawa, (allied with RAN, Shi-creator Billy Tucci’s ORIGINAL concept for SHI) trapped within comic book time where she must battle through a cartoonist’s history of four-color imagery to find her way back home.

Starting in 1938, Shi: Gatecrasher takes the reader on an amazing adventure across comics’ incredible decades, trends, and genres. A gripping, funny book fantasy that sees Ana and Ran encountering, war, westerns, horror, apes, nazis, space vixens, superheroes, romance, robots, dinosaurs, commies, cartoons, crime, bad girls, zombies and even the seduction of the innocent!

 

Billy Tucci’s Ran & Shi Variant Cover Image

Along the way the pair will stand side by side with the world’s greatest indie and public domain heroes before coming face to face with Brian Pulido’s iconic LADY DEATH!

Based on the Story by writer J.C. Vaughn and Tucci, and illustrated by Tucci, Leandro Oliveira, Hi-Fi Colour Design, with lettering by Mindy Lopkin, Shi: Gatecrasher is literally the “destroy all monsters” of  comic book character collision!

Crusade is also preparing a myriad of unique perks and stretch goal rewards. The campaign will boast many specials, prints, original art and limited variant covers by Tucci along with comic book greats, Stan Sakai, Renie Strychalski, Art Thibert and superstar Rob Liefeld.

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Billy Tucci’s Everybody Charleston Variant Edition

 

Shi: Gatecrasher will also be launching on crowdfunding platform Kickstarter with its own exclusive campaign in the coming weeks.

Lady Death and related logos, characters, and distinctive likeness is a registered trademark of Lady Death, LLC. Used with permission.

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 Iconfor Dynamite Comics. His Crusade Comics has recently released a series of new Shi graphic novels, Return of the Warrior, Haikyo, and Sakura. Crusade as also released the collected editions Shi: Omnibus Vol. 1, Shi: 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 $1,500,000.00. 

For Additional Information: 

Deborah Tucci

Crusade Fine Arts, Ltd.

support@billytucci.com

You can find Billy Tucci on Twitter, Facebook @billytucci and Instagram @billy_tucci

Visit https://www.billytucci.com.

For Immediate Release:

November 15, 2024

Bayport NY

 

Crusade Comics’ 10^th Indiegogo Features Coffin Comics’ Lady Death and the World’s Greatest Heroes! 

 

For the first time in two-years, Crusade Comics is on the verge of launching Shi: Gatecrasher, a 48-page, full-color, OGN TOMORROW, November 15, 2024 on crowdfunding platform, Indiegogo.

 

SIGN UP FOR OUR PRELAUNCH PAGE MAILING LIST HERE FOR SPECIAL INDIEGOGO LAUNCH INFO AND CAMPAIGN PREVIEW PAGE!

https://www.indiegogo.com/project/coming_soon/preview/e11c3b82

In Shi: Gatecrasher, we find Ana Ishikawa, (allied with RAN, Shi-creator Billy Tucci’s ORIGINAL concept for SHI) trapped within comic book time where she must battle through a cartoonist’s history of four-color imagery to find her way back home.

Starting in 1938, Shi: Gatecrasher takes the reader on an amazing adventure across comics’ incredible decades, trends, and genres. A gripping, funny book fantasy that sees Ana and Ran encountering, war, westerns, horror, apes, nazis, space vixens, superheroes, romance, robots, dinosaurs, commies, cartoons, crime, bad girls, zombies and even the seduction of the innocent!

Billy Tucci’s Everybody Charleston Variant Cover Image

Along the way the pair will stand side by side with the world’s greatest indie and public domain heroes before coming face to face with Brian Pulido’s iconic LADY DEATH!

Based on the Story by writer J.C. Vaughn and Tucci, and illustrated by Tucci, Leandro Oliveira, Hi-Fi Colour Design, with lettering by Mindy Lopkin, Shi: Gatecrasher is literally the “destroy all monsters” of comic book character collision!

Crusade is also preparing a myriad of unique perks and stretch goal rewards. The campaign will boast many specials, prints, original art, and limited variant covers by Tucci along with comic book greats, Stan Sakai, Renie Strychalski, Art Thibert, and superstar Rob Liefeld.

Shi: Gatecrasher will also be launching on crowdfunding platform Kickstarter with its own exclusive campaign in the coming weeks.

Lady Death and related logos, characters, and distinctive likeness is a registered trademark of Lady Death, LLC. Used with permission.

 

KICKSTARTER ALERT!

CONNER, PALMIOTTI, PULIDO AND TUCCI PREPARE “THE DEADLY TRIO LAUNCH, 11/20/24 ON YOUTUBE TONIGHT!

https://www.youtube.com/live/LQSOe7usG3k?si=kCEa0HizbKBe3LDL

 

The Deadly Trio #1 Doomsayer – Launches on Kickstarter, Wednesday, November 20^th!

Join long-time friends Jimmy Palmiotti, Brian Pulido, and Billy Tucci LIVE on YouTube TONIGHT as they share with readers their all-new Sci-Fi comic book series filled with action, adventure, and deadly consequences! 

The three creators will also help PLAN YOUR PLEDGES! The Deadly Trio: Doomsayer #1 Kickstarter World Premiere Launch Wednesday, November 20, 2024, 6:00 PM AZ / MST.

Get notified on Kickstarter when we launch: https://ow.ly/K41950TWxlQ

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 Iconfor Dynamite Comics. His Crusade Comics has recently released a series of new Shi graphic novels, Return of the Warrior, Haikyo, and Sakura. Crusade as also released the collected editions Shi: Omnibus Vol. 1, Shi: 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 $1,500,000.00. 

For Additional Information: 

Deborah Tucci

Crusade Fine Arts, Ltd.

support@billytucci.com

You can find Billy Tucci on Twitter, Facebook @billytucci and Instagram @billy_tucci

Visit https://www.billytucci.com.

For Immediate Release:

November 13, 2024

Bayport NY

 

HERE COMES SHI: GATECRASHER!

Crusade Comics’ Launches All-New Shi Graphic Novel Featuring Coffin Comics’ Lady Death and the World’s Greatest Heroes on Indiegogo this Friday November 15th! 

SIGN UP FOR OUR PRELAUNCH PAGE MAILING LIST HERE FOR SPECIAL INDIEGOGO LAUNCH INFO AND CAMPAIGN PREVIEW PAGE!

https://www.indiegogo.com/project/coming_soon/preview/e11c3b82

For the first time in two-years, Crusade Comics is on the verge of launching Shi: Gatecrasher, a 48-page, full-color, OGN this Friday, November 15, 2024 on crowdfunding platform, Indiegogo.

In Shi: Gatecrasher, we find Ana Ishikawa, (allied with RAN, Shi-creator Billy Tucci’s ORIGINAL concept for SHI) trapped within comic book time where she must battle through a cartoonist’s history of four-color imagery to find her way back home.

Starting in 1938, Shi: Gatecrasher takes the reader on an amazing adventure across comics’ incredible decades, trends, and genres. A gripping, funny book fantasy that sees Ana and Ran encountering, war, westerns, horror, apes, nazis, space vixens, superheroes, romance, robots, dinosaurs, commies, cartoons, crime, bad girls, zombies and even the seduction of the innocent!

 

Comics’ Superstar Renie Strychalski’s Variant Cover Image

Along the way the pair will stand side by side with the world’s greatest indie and public domain heroes before coming face to face with Brian Pulido’s iconic LADY DEATH!

Based on the Story by writer J.C. Vaughn and Tucci, and illustrated by Tucci, Leandro Oliveira, Hi-Fi Colour Design, withlettering by Mindy Lopkin, Shi: Gatecrasher is literally the “destroy all monsters” of comic book character collision!

“I cannot begin to tell you how excited I am drawing Gatecrasher!” Exclaimed Tucci. “Every page is a new adventure and style, and I cannot wait to share it with the world!”

Crusade is also preparing a myriad of unique perks and stretch goal rewards. The campaign will boast many specials, prints, original art and limited variant covers by Tucci along with comic book greats, Stan Sakai, Renie Strychalski, Art Thibert and superstar Rob Liefeld.

For special campaign insight, secret launch time and a sneak-peak of the Preview page, please check out Crusade’s GATECRASHER’S CAMPAIGN PRELAUNCH PAGE here:

https://www.indiegogo.com/project/coming_soon/preview/e11c3b82

Shi: Gatecrasher will also be launching on crowdfunding platform Kickstarter with its own exclusive campaign in the coming weeks.

Lady Death and related logos, characters, and distinctive likeness is a registered trademark of Lady Death, LLC. Used with permission.

For more on Shi: Gatecrasher please reach out to Crusade’s official website.

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 Iconfor Dynamite Comics. His Crusade Comics has recently released a series of new Shi graphic novels, Return of the Warrior, Haikyo, and Sakura. Crusade as also released the collected editions Shi: Omnibus Vol. 1, Shi: 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 $1,500,000.00. 

For Additional Information: 

Deborah Tucci

Crusade Fine Arts, Ltd.

support@billytucci.com

You can find Billy Tucci on Twitter, Facebook @billytucci and Instagram @billy_tucci

Visit https://www.billytucci.com.