Indiegogo Campaign Now Less Than 50 Backers Away From 1,000!

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

Shi Easter Egg By The Great J. Scott Campbell’s Gen 13 #13 (Image Comics)

955 backers have propelled Crusade Comics’ 11^th Indiegogo, Shi: Gatecrasher’s crowdfunding campaign past $100,000.00.  “Deborah and I would like to all our backers for helping Shi: Gatecrasher smash that hallowed $100,000.00 threshold!” Stated Shi-creator, Billy Tucci. “You’ve now unlocked the campaign’s latest Stretch Goal, The Gatecrasher 2025 Calendar and now we’re moving towards the Ran: Way of the Warrior #1 “What If” Trading card!”

Stretch Goal rewards are free to all Indiegogo backers who chose a physical perk. 

THE FOLLOWING STRETCH GOALS HAVE ALREADY BEEN UNLOCKED AND ARE FREE TO ALL OUR BACKERS WHO HAVE CHOSEN A PHYSICAL PERK! 

• STRETCH GOAL: EXPAND SHI: GATECRASHER FROM 48 TO 56 PAGES: 
• STRETCH GOAL: FREE GATECRASHER DIGITAL EDITION TO ALL BACKERS WHO PLEDGE FOR A PHYSICAL PERK
• STRETCH GOAL: SHI, LADY DEATH & TARPE MILLS B/W TRADING CARD!
• STRETCH GOAL: “EVERYBODY CHARLESTON” MINI PRINT!
• STRETCH GOAL: STAN SAKAI USAGI/SHI TRADING CARD!
• STRETCH GOAL: ART THIBERT SHI EDITION TRADING CARD!
• STRETCH GOAL: BILLY TUCCI SHI/RAN TRADING CARD!
• “EVERYBODY CHARLESTON ROUGH CUT EDITION TRADING CARD!
• STRETCH GOAL: IRENE STRYCHALSKI TRADING CARD!
• STRETCH GOAL:  RAN DEBUT BOOKMARK!
• STRETCH GOAL: ROB LIEFELD EDITION ACTUAL METAL TRADINGCARD!
• STRETCH GOAL: RAN ORIGINAL ART TRADING CARD
• STRETCH GOAL: SHI: GATECRASHER COMIC-SIZED, ONE-SHEET 2025 CALENDAR
•  STRETCH GOAL: RAN WAY OF THE WARRIOR #1 “WHAT IF?” COVER TRADING CARD: ALMOST THERE!

SHI: GATECRASHER #NOFANLEFTBEHIND CROWDFUNDING TOTALS SURPASS $200,000.00!

Kickstarter Exclusive Is Now Open to Late Pledges Here:

 http://kck.st/4hBIuNZ

Pledging Continues on Indiegogo Indemand As Well Here:

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

Shi: Gatecrasher! is a 56-page, full-color, original graphic novel featuring Coffin Comics’ Lady Death, Stan Sakai’s Usagi Yojimbo and the world’s greatest public domain heroes!

For the first time ever, a Crusade Comics’ Kickstarter has cracked the illustrious, six-figure threshold as Shi: Gatecrasher tops $100,000.00. Alongside platform, Indiegogo, the Long Island-based publisher’s 11^th crowdfunding dual-beneficiary campaign totals stand at over $203,000.00 making Gatecrasher Crusade’s fastest-paced and seventh-straight original Shi graphic novel to top six-figures.

Due to the many requests, Shi: Gatecrasher will remain open for “late pledges.” The Kickstarter will continue so for the foreseeable future though many of our specialty perks will be removed once production begins.  If you’d like to pledge, you can do so here:

http://kck.st/4hBIuNZ

Kickstarter Exclusive Campaign Can Be Found Here:

http://kck.st/4hBIuNZ

 And On Indiegogo Indemand 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 $1,750,000.00. 

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.

Kickstarter Exclusive Is Now Open to Late Pledges Here:

 http://kck.st/4hBIuNZ

Pledging Continues On Indiegogo Indemand As Well Here:

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

Shi: Gatecrasher! is a 56-page, full-color, original graphic novel featuring Coffin Comics’ Lady Death, Stan Sakai’s Usagi Yojimbo and the world’s greatest public domain heroes!

For the first time ever, a Crusade Comics’ Kickstarter has cracked the illustrious, six-figure threshold as Shi: Gatecrasher tops $100,000.00. Alongside platform, Indiegogo, the Long Island-based publisher’s 11^th crowdfunding dual-beneficiary campaign totals stand at over $200,000.00 making Gatecrasher Crusade’s fastest-paced and seventh-straight original Shi graphic novel to top six-figures.

Due to the many requests, Shi: Gatecrasher will remain open for “late pledges.” The Kickstarter will continue so for the foreseeable future though many of our specialty perks will be removed once production begins.  If you’d like to pledge, you can do so here:

http://kck.st/4hBIuNZ

“We did it!” Exclaimed Shi-creator Billy Tucci. “Thanks to you, Shi: Gatecrasher has topped $100,000.00 and Deborah and I want to start by thanking Shi: Gatecrasher‘s team of creatives, J.C. Vaughn, Steven Peros, Leandro Oliveira, Brian Miller, Kristy Miller, Mindy Lopkin, Nile Scala, Stan Sakai, Tom Gaadt, Rob Liefeld, Brian Pulido, Irene Strychalski, Wes Hartman, and Brian Blevins for all their wonderful contributions to this incredibly fun project.”

Tucci continued, “Thank you Kickstarter, but most importantly, thanks to all our wonderful backers for your faith and support in funding Shi: Gatecrasher. This fellowship has brought us all together and we are humbled by your faith, championing, and support. We are all #TeamShi!”

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 1928, 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, crime, zombies, and you guessed it, bad girls!

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!

Kickstarter Exclusive Campaign Can Be Found Here:

http://kck.st/4hBIuNZ

 And On Indiegogo Indemand 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 $1,750,000.00. 

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.

LAST DAY TO PLEDGE FOR SHI: GATECRASHER KICKSTARTER

28-DAY CROWDFUNDING CAMPAIGN CLOSES TONIGHT 9PM PST!

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

Shi: Gatecrasher Kickstarter Exclusive:

 http://kck.st/4hBIuNZ

CLOSING IN ON $90,000.00 FREE STRETCH GOAL!

Shi: Gatecrasher! is a 56-page, full-color, original graphic novel featuring 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 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 1928, 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, crime, zombies, and you guessed it, bad girls!

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’s Striking Shi: Gatecrasher Cover

JOIN CRUSADE COMICS’ FOR YOUTUBE CLOSE OUT CELEBRATION LIVE TODAY AT 8PM EST HERE:

https:/https://www.youtube.com/live/Hv5YVUoodeA?si=F51I0rBdNApceqCL

Join Shi-creator, Billy Tucci, Deborah Tucci, and special guests LIVE as they celebrate Gatecrasher’s Kickstarter Close Out! The Tuccis’ will be on hand to answer all backer questions in this very special fan interaction as Crusade’s historic 28-day campaign comes to a glorious end at 9pm EST!

Kickstarter Exclusive Campaign Can Be Found Here:

http://kck.st/4hBIuNZ

 And On Indiegogo Indemand 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 $1,750,000.00. 

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 CLOSES TOMORROW!

CAMPAIGN CAN BE FOUND HERE:

http://kck.st/4hBIuNZ 

FOR THE FIRST TIME EVER, COMICS’ LEGEND STAN SAKAI COVERS SHI!

It’s the Final 30-Hours to pledge for Crusade Comics’ 11^th Kickstarter,  Shi: Gatecrasher. The finish line is in sight as the 28-day crowdfunding campaign closes in on the $90,000.00 STRETCH GOAL: SHI: GATECRASHER COMIC-SIZED, ONE-SHEET 2025 CALENDAR.

USAGI YOJIMBO/SHI MASH UP VARIANT EDITION BY STAN SAKAI!

Multi-Eisner Award winner, Stan Sakai has been gracious enough to grant one of Shi-creator Billy Tucci’s dreams to come true… a Usagi Yojimbo/Shi Variant Cover for Shi: Gatecrasher! Mr. Sakai is one of the world’s greatest cartoonists and a personal hero to Billy, and now, fans can possess one of, if not the most sensational samurai comic book covers of all time illustrated by the legend himself and colorist extraordinaire Thomas James Gaadt!

In Gatecrasher, Ana Ishikawa, (allied with RAN, 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 1928, 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, and even bad girls!

 

Kickstarter Exclusive Campaign Can Be Found Here:

http://kck.st/4hBIuNZ

 And On Indiegogo Indemand Here:

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

JOIN US LIVE FOR THE SHI: GATECRASHER KICKSTARTER YOUTUBE CLOSE OUT STREAM!

8pm EST/5pm PST on the PopXP YouTube:

 

Join Billy Tucci, Deborah Tucci, Nile Scala and special guests LIVE as they celebrate Gatecrasher’s Kickstarter Close Out! The Tucci’s’ will be on hand to answer all backer questions in this very special fan interaction as Crusade’s historic 28-day campaign comes to a glorious end at 9pm EST!

 

Shi: Gatecrasher Kickstarter Exclusive: http://kck.st/4hBIuNZ

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.

#NOFANLEFTBEHIND CAMPAIGNS NEAR UNLOCKING $175K STRETCH GOALS!

Kickstarter Exclusive Campaign Can Be Found Here:

http://kck.st/4hBIuNZ

Indiegogo Indemand Campaign Can Be Found Here:

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

From Billy Tucci:

Crusade Comics’ 11^th Kickstarter, Shi: Gatecrasher is now down to its FINAL 7 DAYS.  t has been an extraordinary first 21 days and presently standing at $78,575.00, the campaign is on track to be our biggest Kickstarter ever!

Scripter J.C. Vaughn, Story Editor Steven Peros and our art team are having a BLAST creating Gatecrasher. We’re about to begin sending pages for color to Hi-Fi Design and cannot wait for you to see the results. Designer Mindy Lopkin has already formatted all the covers, and I will share those in an update this weekend.

Upcoming daily updates until the campaign’s end next Thursday, February 13th, will include Gatecrasher’s final Super Silver Six Days, the legendary Stan Sakai’s world-changing Usagi Yojimbo, and how Mickey, Minnie, Popeye, Miss Fury, and Daredevil work in the Public Domain!

Again, thank you for your support these past five years on Kickstarter and with just one week remaining to the campaign, let’s get Shi: Gatecrasher to $80,000.00!

Tally Ho,

Billy Tucci

WHAT IS #NOFANLEFTBEHIND?

Crusade Comics’ #NoFanLeftBehind campaign partnership policy allows mutual beneficiary perks and Stretch Goals to backers from Indiegogo and Kickstarter campaigns. As of this writing, total returns for Shi: Gatecrasher on both crowdfunding platforms now stand over $174,000.00.

Lady Death: Savage Reign #1 crowdfunding launch tonight 6 PM Arizona time on www.CoffinLaunch.com

FREE challenge coin to all backers of physical claims for the first 31 hours of the campaign! 

Be there: www.coffinlaunch.com

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.

If you haven’t checked out Coffin Comics, please go to www.coffincomics.com . Brian Pulido and crew are now on the verge of releasing their very next Lady Death graphic novel, Savage Reign #1 via their own crowdfunding platform, COFFIN LAUNCH!

Lady Death: Savage Reign #1

www.coffincomics.com 

FREE FULL-COLOR LADY DEATH CITADEL COIN FOR THE FIRST 24 HOURS OF THE LAUNCH! (Free with any purchase of a physically shipping item.)

Lady Death: Savage Reign #1 launches on Coffin Launch on Thursday, February 6, 2025!

A new era begins – bold, relentless, and utterly savage! This isn’t a “What if” or an “Elseworlds.” This story is canon, and it changes everything!

Ripped away from her present-day reality, Lady Death is thrust into a brutal, unforgiving realm where her powers are stripped away. But she’s no stranger to chaos. Can she rise, adapt, and claim dominion over a world that wants to destroy her?

Enter Crucibella – a wickedly sensual sorceress commanding an unstoppable army of ten thousand warriors. She stands between Lady Death and supremacy, wielding perverse dark magic and deadly ambition.

Brace yourself for an R-rated, adrenaline-fueled journey through savage lands. This is epic sword and sorcery at its most raw – crafted in the trademark Coffin Comics style.

Are you ready to embrace the savagery?

Find out in Lady Death: Savage Reign #1 launching February 6th!

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.

30 YEARS OF CREATION, COLLABORATION AND INSPIRATION

By Billy Tucci

The year: 1993. The event: Comic Con International. The place: San Diego Comic Con.

SDCC. I walked the floor interviewing with every comic book company. Showing my humble portfolio to all editors great and small. For three days I anxiously waited on lines for hours and when it was my turn to show my wares, opened my book and hoped the bored-and-hung-over reviewer would awake from his stupor and look up at me wide-eyed as if he’d just made a great discovery, and offer me a job on the spot.

The problem was that no one was interested in me.  From the “Big Two” all the way down to the smallest of publishers, they all turned me down. Every. Single. One. Of. Them.

All except one very inspiring and gregarious young gentleman from New Jersey sitting at his six-foot table in the Small Press section. I had never met Brian Pulido before, or heard of his creations, but his set-up, like Brian himself, was very impressive. But that’s not what set Brian apart from all the other comic creators, publishers, and editors I had met during that weekend. Brian spoke to me like a human being. Though he had just started out in comics a few years earlier and was set to hit the bigtime, Brian found the time to look over my portfolio and gave pointers. And then, amid much conversation about our shared experiences living in New York City, graciously offered me a pin-up, one that eventually found its way into the original Lady Death Swimsuit Special.

And that was pretty much how it all started.

From that day forward, nothing has never been the same. As you know, Brian Pulido and Lady Death created an entirely new genre, Bad Girl comics. One that had roots in the “good girl” art of comics Golden Age, but now with a defiance, where the female protagonists were longer the hapless victim, but rather the hero, or in Lady Death and Shi’s cases, the “anti-hero”. A female force of nature that leads rather than follows, who rules over her domain, her universe and, much to our delight, ours as well.

Brian and I have had our creations share many platforms with one another. From magazines to merchandise, crossovers (including our latest with Jimmy Palmiotti and Amanda Conner, The Deadly Trio) to covers and even the Overstreet Price Guide… and we are just beginning.

Many pretenders to the throne have come and gone, but to this day, our originals thrive.

And continue to rule, in Crusade Comics’ current Kickstarter campaign Shi: Gatecrasher and Coffin Comics’ Lady Death: Savage Reign #1 launching this Thursday, February 6, 2025.

Lady Death: Savage Reign #1

www.coffincomics.com 

This Thursday, Brian Pulido and Coffin Comics take yet another leap forward with Coffin Launch, their very own crowdfunding platform with the all-new graphic novel, Lady Death: Savage Reign #1.

FREE FULL-COLOR LADY DEATH CITADEL COIN FOR THE FIRST 24 HOURS OF THE LAUNCH! (Free with any purchase of a physically shipping item.)

Lady Death: Savage Reign #1 launches on Coffin Launch on Thursday, February 6, 2025!

Brace yourself for an R-rated, adrenaline-fueled journey through savage lands. This is epic sword and sorcery at its most raw – crafted in the trademark Coffin Comics style.

Are you ready to embrace the savagery?

Find out in Lady Death: Savage Reign #1 launching February 6th!

Have weekend all and again, Domo Arigato!

Billy Tucci

Final 10 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.