LADY DEATH CREATOR BRIAN PULIDO TAKES BILLY TUCCI ON A TOUR OF HIS AMAZING HEADQUARTERS TONIGHT AT 6:30PM EST/3:30PM PST

LIVE ON THE POPXP! YOUTUBE HERE:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T9_R6hjjWzQ

Join PopXP hosts Billy Tucci and Nile Scala as they share a very special WEDNESDAY NIGHT LIVE as Coffin Comics’ CEO Brian Pulido takes the world on a personal tour of the Mesa, Arizona’s astonishing new headquarters, affectionally dubbed, “Coffin HQ.” Brian will also offer viewer a deep insight to their latest endeavor, COFFIN LAUNCH! 

Coffin Comics is excited to announce the debut of the brand-new Coffin Launch, set to premiere on Thursday, February 6, 2025, at 6:00 PM MST. This exclusive platform will coincide with the release of the highly anticipated Lady Death: Savage Reign graphic novel campaign, marking the beginning of a new era for Coffin Comics’ fan-focused campaigns.

Known for its successful crowdfunding campaigns on external platforms, Coffin Comics is now transitioning to a fully integrated, in-house pre-order system to offer a more streamlined experience for backers. By moving away from third-party sites, Coffin Comics aims to reduce costs for supporters, enhance customer’s experience, and accelerate delivery times for backers.

“With Coffin Launch, we’re offering a direct-to-customer experience that’s faster, simpler, and more cost-effective,” said Brian Pulido, Publisher for Coffin Comics. “Backers can expect a seamless shopping experience similar to what they’re familiar with on CoffinComicsShop.com, along with the top-notch customer service we’ve built our reputation on.”

Coffin Launch registration will open on January 8, 2025, at 12:00 PM MST. Current customers of Coffin Comics Shop will have their accounts automatically migrated to the new platform. New customers can easily sign up by visiting the registration page, where they’ll be prompted to enter an email address. Further details and registration links will be shared soon.

About Coffin Comics
Coffin Comics is an independent publishing company founded in September 2007 by Lady Death creator, Brian Pulido. Coffin is dedicated to rock-n-roll-inspired supernatural stories and crafting authentically rare, limited-edition comic books and treasures for the discerning collector.

For more information, updates, or to join the Coffin Comics community, visit www.CoffinComics.com and follow us on social media.

COFFIN COMICS FANS ANSWER THE CALL TO CRASH THE SHI UNIVERSE!

Crusade Comics’ Latest Kickstarter Features Coffin Comics’ Lady Death and the World’s Greatest Public Domain Heroes!

Crusade Comics’ Latest Kickstarter Features Coffin Comics’ Lady Death and the World’s Greatest Public Domain Heroes! 

KICKSTARTER LINK HERE:

http://kck.st/4hBIuNZ

In less than two weeks, Billy Tucci’s twenty-eight-day Shi: Gatecrasher Kickstarter has steadily become Crusade Comics’ fastest ever crowdfunding opening. The Long Island based publisher’s 11^th Kickstarter launched to a blazing start as funding nears $80,000.00 in gross returns. 

Shi: Gatecrasher, is a 56-page, full-color, original graphic novel that finds Tucci’s sensual Sohei trapped in comic book time where she, (along with RAN, Tucci’s original interpretation of Shi) battles through comics’ colorful history, decades, genres and trends…  and along for the ride is none other than Brian Pulido’slegendary Lady Death!

“Thank You, Sworn Nation!” Stated Tucci. “It is truly an honor to have Lady Death play such a crucial role in Shi: Gatecrasher. For over thirty years, Lady Death creator Brian Pulido has stood as a guiding light of inspiration to not just me, but to all comic creators.  Being #SwornSince94 myself, I am humbled by not only Brian’s faith, but for all of you who have entrusted me to deliver the Lady Death that Coffin fans deserve. I sure as hell will not let you down.”

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

Total returns for Shi: Gatecrasher on both Indiegogo and Kickstarter stands just shy of $170,000.00. Following Crusade Comics’ #NoFanLeftBehind campaign partnership policy, backers from both Indiegogo and Kickstarter mutually benefit and receive all Gatecrasher announced free stretch goals.

The Stretch Goals unlocked thus far are as follows:

• EXPAND SHI: GATECRASHER FROM 48 TO 56 PAGES
• FREE GATECRASHER DIGITAL EDITION TO ALL BACKERS WHO PLEDGE FOR A PHYSICAL PERK
•  “EVERYBODY CHARLESTON” MINI PRINT
• ART THIBERT SHI EDITION TRADING CARD
• BILLY TUCCI SHI/RAN TRADING CARD
• “EVERYBODY CHARELSTON ROUGH CUT EDITION TRADING CARD
• RENIE STRYCHALSKI TRADING CARD
• STAN SAKAI USAGI YOJIMBO SHI TRADING CARD
• RAN DEBUT BOOKMARK
• ROB LIEFELD EDITION ACTUAL METAL TRADING CARD

Crusade has more Stretch Goal Reward planned and announced its latest, the Ran Original Design Trading Card. The illustration dates from 1991 and is Billy Tucci’s first interpretation of the character that eventually became Shi. 

Just days 15 days remain for Shi: Gatecrasher on Kickstarter as the campaign ends on Thursday February 13, 2025.

KICKSTARTER LINK HERE:

http://kck.st/4hBIuNZ

Shi: Gatecrasher Continues on Indiegogo here:

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

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: Sun Flower 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. 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 $1,650,000.00. 

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.

COFFIN COMICS FANS ANSWER THE CALL TO CRASH THE SHI UNIVERSE!

Crusade Comics’ Latest Kickstarter Features Coffin Comics’ Lady Death and the World’s Greatest Public Domain Heroes!

KICKSTARTER LINK HERE:

http://kck.st/4hBIuNZ

In its first week, Billy Tucci’s twenty-eight-day Shi: Gatecrasher Kickstarter has steadily become Crusade Comics’ fastest ever crowdfunding opening. The Long Island based publisher’s 11^th Kickstarter launched to a blazing start as funding has already surpassed $70,000.00 in gross returns.

Shi: Gatecrasher, is a 56-page, full-color, original graphic novel that finds Tucci’s sensual Sohei trapped in comic book time where she, (along with RAN, Tucci’s original interpretation of Shi) battles through comics’ colorful history, decades, genres and trends…  and along for the ride is none other than Brian Pulido’s legendary Lady Death!

“Thank You, Sworn Nation!” Stated Tucci. “It is truly an honor to have Lady Death play such a crucial role in Shi: Gatecrasher. For over thirty years, Lady Death creator Brian Pulido has stood as a guiding light of inspiration to not just me, but to all comic creators.  Being #SwornSince94 myself, I am humbled by not only Brian’s faith, but for all of you who have entrusted me to deliver the Lady Death that Coffin fans deserve. I sure as hell will not let you down.”

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

Total returns for Shi: Gatecrasher on both Indiegogo and Kickstarter now stand over $164,000.00. Following Crusade Comics’ #NoFanLeftBehind campaign partnership policy, backers from both Indiegogo and Kickstarter mutually benefit and receive all Gatecrasher announced free stretch goals.

The Stretch Goals unlocked thus far are as follows:

• EXPAND SHI: GATECRASHER FROM 48 TO 56 PAGES
• FREE GATECRASHER DIGITAL EDITION TO ALL BACKERS WHO PLEDGE FOR A PHYSICAL PERK
•  “EVERYBODY CHARLESTON” MINI PRINT
• ART THIBERT SHI EDITION TRADING CARD
• BILLY TUCCI SHI/RAN TRADING CARD
• “EVERYBODY CHARELSTON ROUGH CUT EDITION TRADING CARD
• RENIE STRYCHALSKI TRADING CARD
• STAN SAKAI USAGI YOJIMBO SHI TRADING CARD
• RAN DEBUT BOOKMARK
• ROB LIEFELD EDITION ACTUAL METAL TRADING CARD

Crusade has more Stretch Goal Reward planned and will announce them in the coming days.

Just days 20 days remain for Shi: Gatecrasher on Kickstarter as the campaign ends on Thursday February 13, 2025.

KICKSTARTER LINK HERE:

http://kck.st/4hBIuNZ

Shi: Gatecrasher Continues on Indiegogo here:

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

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: Sun Flower 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. 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 $1,650,000.00. 

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.

FREE STRETCH GOAL REWARDS UNLOCKED FOR ALL BACKERS!

The Rob Liefeld Stainless Steel Shi: Gatecrasher Trading Card

In its first hours, Crusade Comics 11^th Kickstarter, Shi: Gatecrasher has topped $40,000.00, and unlocked a slew of free stretch goal rewards to Gatecrasher backers on both Kickstarter and Indiegogo crowdfunding platforms. Total Gatecrasher returns now exceed $130,000.00.

“Thanks to our partners at Kickstarter, every Shi: Gatecrasher backer who chose a physical perk will receive all eleven announced Stretch Goal Rewards FREE, including the Rob Liefeld Actual Metal Trading Card!” Stated Shi-creator Billy Tucci.

Following Crusade Comics’ #NoFanLeftBehind campaign partnership policy, backers from both Indiegogo and Kickstarter mutually receive all Gatecrasher announced free stretch goals.

The Stretch Goals unlocked thus far are as follows:

• EXPAND SHI: GATECRASHER FROM 48 TO 56 PAGES
• FREE GATECRASHER DIGITAL EDITION TO ALL BACKERS WHO PLEDGE FOR A PHYSICAL PERK
•  “EVERYBODY CHARLESTON” MINI PRINT
• ART THIBERT SHI EDITION TRADING CARD
• BILLY TUCCI SHI/RAN TRADING CARD
• “EVERYBODY CHARELSTON ROUGH CUT EDITION TRADING CARD
• RENIE STRYCHALSKI TRADING CARD
• STAN SAKAI USAGI YOJIMBO SHI TRADING CARD
• RAN DEBUT BOOKMARK
• ROB LIEFELD EDITION ACTUAL METAL TRADING CARD

Crusade has more Stretch Goal Reward planned and will announce them in the coming days.

SHI: GATECRASHER KICKSTARTER IS LIVE!

ALL-NEW GRAPHIC NOVEL BLOWS PAST INITIAL FUNDING GOAL IN MINUTES – BECOMING CRUSADE’S FASTEST EVER CROWDFUNDING CAMPAIGN SUCCESS!

CAMPAIGN CAN BE FOUND HERE:

http://kck.st/4hBIuNZ

To great fanfare and adulation, Billy Tucci’s multi-Eisner Award nominee, Shi made her long-awaited return to comics as Crusade Comics launched its 11th Kickstarter, Shi: Gatecrasher. Gatecrasher is a 56-page, full-color, original graphic novel, where Tucci’s modern-day samurai finds herself trapped in comic book time and features Coffin Comics’ Lady Death, Stan Sakai’s Usagi Yojimbo and the world’s greatest public domain heroes.

Billy Tucci’s Shi: Gatecrasher Cover Hardcover Edition Featuring Brian Pulido’s Lady Death and June Tarpe’ Mills’ Miss Fury

In Gatecrasher, Ana Ishikawa, (allied with RAN, Shi-creator Tucci’s original concept for SHI) finds herself battling through a cartoonist’s history to find her way back to her daughter, Hotaru.

Spanning the decades from 1928 to the present, Shi: Gatecrasher takes the reader on an amazing adventure across comics’ incredible decades, trends, and genres. A 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!

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

Gatecrasher features several striking variant covers by comic book greats, Art Thibert, Renie Strychalski and Tucci.

And as a bonus, four-color legends also join #TeamShi with multi-Eisner award winner, Stan Sakai and superstar Rob Liefeld lending their extraordinary talents as they cover Shi for the very first time!

The 28-Day campaign ends on Thursday, February 13, 2025.

Gatecrasher is also currently on the crowdfunding platform, Indiegogo. The campaign has since grossed over $90,000.00 unlocking a slew of Stretch Goal Rewards including, free digital download, trading cards, stickers and expanding the graphic novel from its initial 48 pages to 56. Due to Crusade’s exclusive #NoFanLeftBehind campaign strategy, backers on both Indiegogo and Kickstarter mutually benefit from each platform’s stretch goals. 

Shi: Gatecrasher Continues on Indiegogo here:

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

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: Sun Flower 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. 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 $1,650,000.00. 

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.

ALL-NEW GRAPHIC NOVEL BLOWS PAST INITIAL FUNDING GOAL IN MINUTES – BECOMING CRUSADE’S FASTEST EVER CROWDFUNDING CAMPAIGN SUCCESS!

CAMPAIGN CAN BE FOUND HERE:

http://kck.st/4hBIuNZ

To great fanfare and adulation, Billy Tucci’s multi-Eisner Award nominee, Shi made her long-awaited return to comics as Crusade Comics launched its 11th Kickstarter, Shi: Gatecrasher. Gatecrasher is a 48-page, full-color, original graphic novel, where Tucci’s modern-day samurai finds herself trapped in comic book time and features Coffin Comics’ Lady Death, Stan Sakai’s Usagi Yojimbo and the world’s greatest public domain heroes.

“Thank you, backers!” Exclaimed Tucci. “We were hoping that Gatecrasher would catch fire, but did not expect an opening like this. To have breached $25,000.00 in the first two hours of the campaign’s launch is nothing short of exhilarating!”

Billy Tucci’s Shi: Gatecrasher Cover Hardcover Edition Featuring Brian Pulido’s Lady Death and June Tarpe’ Mills’ Miss Fury

In Gatecrasher, Ana Ishikawa, (allied with RAN, Shi-creator Tucci’s original concept for SHI) finds herself battling through a cartoonist’s history to find her way back to her daughter, Hotaru.

Spanning the decades from 1928 to the present, Shi: Gatecrasher takes the reader on an amazing adventure across comics’ incredible decades, trends, and genres. A 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!

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

Gatecrasher features several striking variant covers by comic book greats, Art Thibert, Renie Strychalski and Tucci.

And as a bonus, four-color legends also join #TeamShi with multi-Eisner award winner, Stan Sakai and superstar Rob Liefeld lending their extraordinary talents as they cover Shi for the very first time!

The 28-Day campaign ends on Thursday, February 13, 2025.

COMICS LEGEND ROB LIEFELD COVERS SHI!

Avengelyne and Deadpool creator, Rob Liefeld has lent his extraordinary talents to Gatecrasher by providing the artwork to this Limited-Edition variant! The Rob Liefeld Kickstarter Edition is limited to just 500 copies and features Rob’s striking depiction of a drawn-blood covered Shi wielding an mystical katana.

Comics’ Legend, Rob Liefeld’s Striking Shi: Gatecrasher Cover

Gatecrasher is also currently on the crowdfunding platform, Indiegogo. The campaign has since grossed over $90,000.00 unlocking a slew of Stretch Goal Rewards including, free digital download, trading cards, stickers and expanding the graphic novel from its initial 48 pages to 56. Due to Crusade’s exclusive #NoFanLeftBehind campaign strategy, backers on both Indiegogo and Kickstarter mutually benefit from each platform’s stretch goals. 

Shi: Gatecrasher Continues on Indiegogo here:

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

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: Sun Flower 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. 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 $1,600,000.00. 

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.

ALL-NEW GRAPHIC NOVEL FEATURES COMICS LEGEND’S ROB LIEFELD, STAN SAKAI & LADY DEATH!

SIGN UP FOR LAUNCH NOTIFICATIONS FOR THE CAMPAIGN’S PRE-LAUNCH PAGE:

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/shiomniv1/shi-gatecrasher-kickstarter-exclusive

JOIN CRUSADE COMICS’ FOR YOUTUBE LAUNCH PARTY LIVE TODAY AT 7PM EST HERE:

Today at 7pm EST/4pm PST, Billy Tucci’s multi-Eisner Award nominee, Shi is set to make her long-awaited return to comics as Crusade Comics launches, its 11th Kickstarter, Shi: Gatecrasher. Gatecrasher is a 48-page, full-color, original graphic novel featuring Coffin Comics’ Lady Death, Stan Sakai’s Usagi Yojimbo and the world’s greatest public domain heroes!

VIEW SPECIAL PRIVATE CAMPAIGN PREVIEW LINK HERE:

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/shiomniv1/1068742245?ref=bkdx3m&token=1e556355

Billy Tucci’s Shi: Gatecrasher Cover Hardcover Edition Featuring Brian Pulido’s Lady Death and June Tarpe’ Mills’ Miss Fury

In Gatecrasher, Ana Ishikawa, (allied with RAN, Shi-creator Billy Tucci’s original concept for SHI) finds herself trapped within comic book time and must battle through a cartoonist’s history to find her way back to her daughter, Hotaru.

Starting in 1939 (and perhaps earlier!), Shi: Gatecrasher takes the reader on an amazing adventure across comics’ incredible decades, trends, and genres. A 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!

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

Gatecrasher features several striking variant covers by comic book greats, Art Thibert, Renie Strychalski and Tucci.

And as a bonus, four-color legends also join #TeamShi with multi-Eisner award winner, Stan Sakai and superstar Rob Liefeld lending their extraordinary talents as they cover Shi for the very first time!

COMICS LEGEND ROB LIEFELD COVERS SHI!

Comics’ Legend, Rob Liefeld’s Striking Shi: Gatecrasher Cover

Shi: Gatecrasher Continues on Indiegogo here:

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

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: Sun Flower 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. 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 $1,600,000.00. 

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.

ALL-NEW GRAPHIC NOVEL FEATURES COMICS LEGENDS ROB LIEFELD, STAN SAKAI & LADY DEATH!

JOIN CRUSADE COMICS’ FOR YOUTUBE LAUNCH PARTY LIVE TOMORROW AT 7PM EST HERE:

Tomorrow, January 16, 2025, Crusade Comics will launch, its 11th Kickstarter, Shi: Gatecrasher, a 48-page, full-color, original graphic novel featuring Coffin Comics’ Lady Death, Usagi Yojimbo and the world’s greatest public domain heroes!

SIGN UP FOR LAUNCH NOTIFICATIONS FOR THE CAMPAIGN’S PRE-LAUNCH PAGE:

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/shiomniv1/shi-gatecrasher-kickstarter-exclusive

VIEW SPECIAL PRIVATE CAMPAIGN PREVIEW LINK HERE:

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/shiomniv1/1068742245?ref=bkdx3m&token=1e556355

Irene Strychalski’s Striking Shi: Gatecrasher Cover

In Gatecrasher, Ana Ishikawa, (allied with RAN, Shi-creator Billy Tucci’s original concept for SHI) finds herself trapped within comic book time and must battle through a cartoonist’s history to find her way back to her daughter, Hotaru.

Starting in 1938 (and perhaps earlier!), Shi: Gatecrasher takes the reader on an amazing adventure across comics’ incredible decades, trends, and genres. A 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!

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

Gatecrasher features several striking variant covers by comic book greats, Art Thibert, Renie Strychalski and Tucci.

And as a bonus, four-color legends also join #TeamShi with multi-Eisner award winner, Stan Sakai and superstar Rob Liefeld lending their extraordinary talents as they cover Shi for the very first time!

COMICS LEGEND ROB LIEFELD COVERS SHI!

Shi: Gatecrasher Cover by Rob Liefeld

Shi: Gatecrasher Continues on Indiegogo here:

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

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: Sun Flower 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. 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 $1,600,000.00. 

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 IS GO FOR LAUNCH THIS THURSDAY, JANUARY 16^TH

VIEW SPECIAL PRIVATE CAMPAIGN PREVIEW LINK HERE:

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/shiomniv1/1068742245?ref=bkdx3m&token=1e556355

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https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/shiomniv1/shi-gatecrasher-kickstarter-exclusive

On this coming Thursday, January 16, 2025, Crusade Comics will launch, its 11th Kickstarter, Shi: Gatecrasher, a 48-page, full-color, original graphic novel featuring Coffin Comics’ Lady Death and the world’s greatest public domain heroes!

Yesterday and Today Shi: Gatecrasher Cover Featuring Ran and Ana Ishikawa!

In Gatecrasher, Ana Ishikawa, (allied with RAN, Shi-creator Billy Tucci’s original concept for SHI) finds herself trapped within comic book time and must battle through a cartoonist’s history to find her way back to her daughter, Hotaru.

Starting in 1938 (and perhaps earlier!), Shi: Gatecrasher takes the reader on an amazing adventure across comics’ incredible decades, trends, and genres. A 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!

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

Gatecrasher features several striking variant covers by comic book greats, Art Thibert, Renie Strychalski and Tucci.

And as a bonus, four-color legends also join #TeamShi with multi-Eisner award winner, Stan Sakai and superstar Rob Liefeld lending their extraordinary talents as they cover Shi for the very first time!

LADY DEATH CRASHES THE SHI UNIVERSE!

Shi: Gatecrasher Premium Hard Cover Edition by Billy Tucci

“It is truly an honor to have Lady Death play such a pivotal and crucial role in Shi: Gatecrasher.” Stated Shi creator, Billy Tucci. For over thirty years, Lady Death creator Brian Pulido has stood as a guiding light of inspiration to not just me, but to all comic creators. He was the first pro to treat me as a peer, offer me my first job (a pin up in the Lady Death Swimsuit Edition). His generosity and friendship know no bounds.”

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.

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

Shi: Gatecrasher Continues on Indiegogo here:

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

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: Sun Flower 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. 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 $1,600,000.00. 

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.

SHI: GATECRASHER KICKSTARTER LAUNCHES THURSDAY JANUARY 16, 2025!

Crusade Comics’ Latest Features Coffin Comics’ Lady Death and the World’s Greatest Indie & Public Domain Heroes!

VIEW SPECIAL PRIVATE CAMPAIGN PREVIEW LINK HERE:

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/shiomniv1/1068742245?ref=bkdx3m&token=1e556355

SIGN UP FOR LAUNCH NOTIFICATIONS FOR THE CAMPAIGN’S PRE-LAUNCH PAGE!

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/shiomniv1/shi-gatecrasher-kickstarter-exclusive

On this coming Thursday, January 16, 2025, Crusade Comics will launch, it’s 11^th Kickstarter, Shi: Gatecrasher, a 48-page, full-color, original graphic novel and along for the ride is none other than the Queen of the Bad Girls, Coffin Comics’ Lady Death!

“It is truly an honor to have Lady Death play such a pivotal and crucial role in Shi: Gatecrasher.” Stated Shi creator, Billy Tucci. For over thirty years, Lady Death creator Brian Pulido has stood as a guiding light of inspiration to not just me, but to all comic creators. He was the first pro to treat me as a peer, offer me my first job (a pin up in the Lady Death Swimsuit Edition). His generosity and friendship know no bounds.”

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.

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

SHI: GATECRASHER INDIEGOGO BREAKS $90,000.00! 

HISTORIC FIRST POPEYE COMIC BOOK COVER AFTER HE ENTERS THE PUBLIC DOMAIN!

“Since I was a child, I’ve always loved that rascally sailor and am so proud to have drawn him on very first comic book cover since entering the Public Domain and to have him hoofing it up with Owsald, Mickey, Minnie and Ana is like a dream come true.” Stated Shi-creator, Tucci. “Due to just how fun it was to create, it’s truly one of my all-time favorite Shi covers gloriously colored by Brian Miller of Hi-Fi Design!”

Check it out here:

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

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: Sun Flower 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. 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 $1,600,000.00. 

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.