PLEDGE FOR THE CHARACTER THAT INSPIRED HIS DEBUT GRAPHIC NOVEL HERE http://kck.st/3KbD4xM

Billy Tucci’s latest graphic novel, Ran: Revenge of the Warrior Kickstarter Exclusive continues to light up the crowdfunding world as fans from over 20 countries have propelled the 21-day campaign’s first five days returns to over $30,000.00 and 600% over its initial funding goal.

That is phenomenal news according to Tucci, what’s got him even more excited is the fact that one of his comic book heroes, the legendary Walter Simonson has graciously contributed his talents to a special Ran wraparound cover. Exclusive to the campaign, Walter’s Ran is digitally painted by artist-extraordinaire Dan Lawlis, features a stunning wraparound portrait surrounded by a flowing mane of hair and wielding steel.

“One of the highlights of my career is befriending comics reigning king and queen, Walter and Louise Simonson.” Stated Tucci. “The adage is to never to meet your heroes, but in the case of the Simonsons, it is the complete opposite. Their contributions literally turned a page in comics history, by creating some of the greatest characters and storylines, while their generosity and goodwill towards fandom have made them ambassadors of the highest order.”

Weezie and Walter Simonson have selflessly contributed thousands to charity including veterans Garden State Comic Fest.

“It is truly an honor and a fanboy’s dream to have Walt render one of my creations in such a gorgeously striking fashion.” Continued Tucci. “Now add Dan’s colors to this wraparound cover and we now have our Ran’s Kickstarter’s crème-de-la-crème.”

Crusade Comics is also offering very limited premium foil and stainless steel-covered special Ran: Revenge of the Warrior editions to the campaign.

PLEDGE FOR THE CHARACTER THAT INSPIRED HIS DEBUT GRAPHIC NOVEL HERE http://kck.st/3KbD4xM

RAN: A GRAPHIC NOVEL 35 YEARS IN THE MAKING

Set within the violent, neon-lit, Kabukichō district of Tokyo 1993, Revenge of the Warrior details one young woman’s battle for justice against American sex-trafficking, ex-pat killers aligned with the notorious Yakuza crime syndicate.

Ran: Revenge of the Warrior Kickstarter Exclusive launched last Thursday evening and reached its initial funding goal in minutes.

Ran’s initial 22-day Indiegogo campaign closed earlier this month with over $75,000.00 in returns unlocking Ran’s first four Stretch Goals: The Ran Hardcover Trading Card, Billy Tucci Ran Mini-Print, Dan Lawlis Gilded Variant Trading Card, and the Leandro Oliveira Black Racer Vinyl Sticker.

Due to Crusade’s exclusive #NoFanLeftBehind campaign strategy, backers on both Indiegogo and Kickstarter mutually benefit from each platform’s stretch goals. All Stretch Goals come FREE to all Kickstarter and Indiegogo backers who pledged for a physical perk.

Crusade will announce Ran’s next Stretch Goal unlocked at $40,000.00 on Friday.

This sexy, 48-page, full-color neon-noir samurai epic will be available on Kickstarter until Thursday, December 11, 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 Icon for Dynamite Comics. His Crusade Comics has recently released a series of new Shi graphic novels, Return of the Warrior, Shi: Haikyo, Shi: Sakura and Gatecrasher. Crusade has also released the collected editions, Shi: Omnibus Vol. 1, Senryaku Omnibus, Shi: Way of the Warrior Original Art Edition and Zombie-Sama via Kickstarter and Indiegogo uniting backers from over fifty countries and bringing Crusade Comics crowdfunding campaign totals to over $1,800,000.00 since 2020.

For Additional Information

Deborah Tucci
Crusade Fine Arts, Ltd.
support@billytucci.com

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

Visit https://www.billytucci.com

NEW KICKSTARTER LAUNCH!

CRUSADE’S 11 th KICKSTARTER FEATURING THE LEGENDARY
WALTER SIMONSON & COMIC SUPERSTAR VARIANT COVERS

FUNDS IN MINUTES!

PLEDGE FOR THE CHARACTER THAT INSPIRED SHI’S DEBUT

GRAPHIC NOVEL HERE:
http://kck.st/3KbD4xM

“A heartfelt thank you for a fantastic Ran: Revenge of the Warrior Kickstarter launch!”
Exclaimed writer-artist Billy Tucci. “When I woke up this morning, I was astonished so
see that Ran surpassed $20,000.00 overnight! Deborah (Tucci, Crusade’s Executive
Director) and I and cannot express our appreciation to everyone for their faith and
support!”
Ran is a comic that is thirty-five years in the making. Tucci’s first created Ran back in
1990 and she is the character that evolved into the multi-Eisner Award nominee. Ran’s
initial 22-day Indiegogo closed earlier this month with over $75,000.00 in returns with
the campaign’s first four Stretch Goals; The Ran Hardcover Trading Card, Billy Tucci
Ran Mini-Print, Dan Lawlis Gilded Variant Trading Card, and the Leandro Oliveira
Black Racer Vinyl Sticker all unlocked. Due to Crusade’s exclusive #NoFanLeftBehind
campaign strategy, backers on both Indiegogo and Kickstarter mutually benefit from
each platform’s stretch goals. All Stretch Goals come FREE to all Kickstarter and
Indiegogo backers who pledged for a physical perk. 
Set within the violent, neon-lit, Kabukichō district of Tokyo 1993, Revenge of the
Warrior details one young woman’s war against a human-trafficking gang of American
ex-pat killers aligned with the notorious Yakuza crime syndicate.
The Ran: Revenge of the Warrior Kickstarter will close at 11:59pm EST on December,
22 nd .
PLEDGE NOW FOR THE CHARACTER THAT INSPIRED SHI’S

DEBUT GRAPHIC NOVEL HERE:
http://kck.st/3KbD4xM

Walter Simonson’s Wraparound Ran Cover!

Click Here for Ran’s Indiegogo Campaign:

https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/ran-revenge-of-the-warrior-graphic-

novel/x/20487910#/

BILLY TUCCI TO APPEAR AT THIS SATURDAY’S BIG APPLE

COMIC CON!

https://www.google.com/search?client=safari&rls=en&q=big+apple+comic+con&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&channel=31

Billy Tucci will be appearing this Saturday’s Big Apple Comic Con at the prestigious
New Yorker Hotel in Manhattan (481 8 th Avenue at 34 th Street) where he will join fellow
guests, Brian Pulido, Dan Parent, Danny Fingeroth, J.C. Vaughn, Adriana Melo and
comic legends, Jim Steranko, Dave Dorman, Larry Lieber. If you are in the tri-state area,
please come down to this incredible convention that kicks off the holiday season!

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 Icon for Dynamite Comics. His Crusade

Comics has recently released a series of new Shi graphic novels, Return of the Warrior,
Haikyo, Sakura and Gatecrasher. 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 $1,800,000.00. 

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.

Billy and Deborah Tucci launch their latest Kickstarter, Thursday,
November 20 th , at 7pm EDT/4pm PDT LIVE on YouTube.
Please and Sign-Up for the Campaign’s PREVIEW

PAGE here:

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/shiomniv1/ran-revenge-of-

the-warrior-kickstarter-exclusive

CRUSADE’S 11 th KICKSTARTER FEATURES THE LEGENDARY
WALTER SIMONSON & COMIC SUPERSTAR VARIANT COVERS!

Walter Simonson’s Wraparound Ran Cover!

A GRAPHIC NOVEL 35-YEARS IN THE MAKING
Revenge of the Warrior is set within the violent, neon-lit, Kabukichō district of Tokyo
1993, and features the character and story that inspired Tucci’s legendary Shi.
“Ran is very near and dear to my heart by being my “first” and the character that
eventually evolved into Shi.” Stated writer/artist Billy Tucci. “We’re going to go all-out
‘Bad Girls’ on this one and I cannot wait to share her decade’s long story of vengeance
and triumph!”

Revenge of the Warrior details one young woman’s war against a human-trafficking
gang of American ex-pat killers aligned with the notorious Yakuza crime syndicate.
Billy Tucci’s latest graphic novel, Ran: Revenge of the Warrior debuts on crowdfunding
platform Kickstarter this coming Thursday, November 20 th , at 7pm EST/4pm PST. The
short 22-day campaign will close at 11:59pm EST on December 22 nd .
RAN: REVENGE OF THE WARRIOR KICKSTARTER PRE-LAUNCH

PAGE LINK IS HERE:

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/shiomniv1/ran-revenge-of-

the-warrior-kickstarter-exclusive

JOIN BILLY AND DEBORAH TUCCI FOR THE LIVE
LAUNCH PARTY TONIGHT ON YOUTUBE!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7jmSHnqU2WI
Join, Billy and Deborah Tucci and friends LIVE for tonight’s launch of Crusade Comics’
11th Kickstarter, RAN: REVENGE OF THE WARRIOR on their YouTube channel, Billy
Tucci’s PopXp! Thursday, November 20th, at 7pm EDT/4pm PDT. The Tucci’s will give
creative insight into the campaign and will be on hand to answer any questions fans
have. Also, joining the conversation will be several special comic book guest stars.

RAN INDIEGOGO PASSES $75K BEFORE

CLOSE!

Fred Benes’ Ran: Revenge of the Warrior Variant Cover Art

Ran launched on Indiegogo last month and reached its initial funding goal in less than
ten minutes. The 23-day campaign closed this past Friday with over $75,000.00 in
returns and the campaign’s first four Stretch Goals; The Ran Hardcover Trading Card,
Billy Tucci Ran Mini-Print, Dan Lawlis Gilded Variant Trading Card, and the
Leandro Oliveira Black Racer Vinyl Sticker all unlocked. Due to Crusade’s exclusive

NoFanLeftBehind campaign strategy, backers on both Indiegogo and Kickstarter

mutually benefit from each platform’s stretch goals. All Stretch Goals come FREE to all
Kickstarter and Indiegogo backers who pledged for a physical perk. 

Click Here for Ran’s Indiegogo Campaign:

https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/ran-revenge-of-the-warrior-graphic-

novel/x/20487910#/

SHI: GATECRASHER FULL FORCE
FULFILLMENT & SHIPPING!

Deborah Tucci and crew have been busy as hundreds of SHI: GATECRASHER rewards
have been packed up and are shipping out. Crusade Comics continue fulfilling daily this
entire month and into December for Gatecrasher’s 2,687 backers. “I am so proud of
how amazing Gatecrasher came out now that fulfillment has begun, cannot wait for you
to have it in your hands!” Stated Billy Tucci.
Fulfillment has begun for Shi: Gatecrasher, as Crusade Comics has been busy signing
books, packing and shipping product out daily to backers from over 50 countries
worldwide.

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 Icon for Dynamite Comics. His Crusade
Comics has recently released a series of new Shi graphic novels, Return of the Warrior,
Haikyo, Sakura and Gatecrasher. 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 $1,800,000.00. 

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.

Billy Tucci launches his latest Kickstarter Thursday, November 20th, at 7pm EDT/4pm PDT. Please and Sign-Up for the Campaign’s PREVIEW PAGE here: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/shiomniv1/ran-revenge-of-the-warrior-kickstarter-exclusive

CRUSADE’S 11TH KICKSTARTER FEATURES THE LEGENDARY WALTER SIMONSON COMIC SUPERSTAR VARIANT COVERS!

A GRAPHIC NOVEL 35-YEARS IN THE MAKING

Revenge of the Warrior is set within the violent, neon-lit, Kabukichō district of Tokyo 1993, and features the character and story that inspired Tucci’s legendary Shi.

“Ran is very near and dear to my heart by being my first and the character that eventually evolved into Shi.” Stated writer/artist Billy Tucci. “We’re going to go all-out ‘Bad Girls’ on this one and I cannot wait to share her decades long story of vengeance and triumph!”

Revenge of the Warrior details one young woman’s war against a human-trafficking gang of American ex-pat killers aligned with the notorious Yakuza crime syndicate.

Billy Tucci’s latest graphic novel, Ran: Revenge of the Warrior debuts on crowdfunding platform Kickstarter this coming Thursday, November 20th, at 7pm EST/4pm PST. The short 22-day campaign will close at 11:59pm EST on December 22nd.

RAN: REVENGE OF THE WARRIOR KICKSTARTER PRE-LAUNCH PAGE LINK IS HERE:
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/shiomniv1/ran-revenge-of-the-warrior-kickstarter-exclusive

RAN INDIEGOGO PASSES $75K BEFORE CLOSE!

Ran launched on Indiegogo last month and reached its initial funding goal in less than ten minutes. The 23-day campaign closed this past Friday with over $75,000.00 in returns and the campaign’s first four Stretch Goals: The Ran Hardcover Trading Card, Billy Tucci Ran Mini-Print, Dan Lawlis Gilded Variant Trading Card, and the Leandro Oliveira Black Racer Vinyl Sticker all unlocked.

Due to Crusade’s exclusive #NoFanLeftBehind campaign strategy, backers on both Indiegogo and Kickstarter mutually benefit from each platform’s stretch goals. All Stretch Goals come FREE to all Kickstarter and Indiegogo backers who pledged for a physical perk.

Click Here for Ran’s Indiegogo Campaign:
https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/ran-revenge-of-the-warrior-graphic-novel/x/20487910

SHI GATECRASHER FULL FORCE FULFILLMENT SHIPPING!

Deborah Tucci and crew have been busy as hundreds of SHI GATECRASHER rewards have been packed up and are shipping out. Crusade Comics continue fulfilling daily this entire month and into December for Gatecrasher’s 2,687 backers.

“I am so proud of how amazing Gatecrasher came out now that fulfillment has begun, cannot wait for you to have it in your hands!” Stated Billy Tucci.

Fulfillment has begun for Shi Gatecrasher, as Crusade Comics has been busy signing books, packing and shipping product out daily to backers from over 50 countries worldwide.

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 Icon for Dynamite Comics. His Crusade Comics has recently released a series of new Shi graphic novels, Return of the Warrior, Haikyo, Sakura and Gatecrasher. Crusade as also released the collected editions, Shi Omnibus Vol. 1, 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 $1,800,000.00.

For Additional Information

Deborah Tucci
Crusade Fine Arts, Ltd.
support@billytucci.com
You can find Billy Tucci on Twitter, Facebook @billytucci and Instagram @billytucci
Visit https://www.billytucci.com

Sign Up for the Campaign’s Pre-Launch Page Here:

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/shiomniv1/ran-revenge-of-the-warrior-kickstarter-exclusive

CRUSADE’S 11TH KICKSTARTER FEATURES THE LEGENDARY WALTER SIMONSON COMIC SUPERSTAR VARIANT COVERS!

DEBUT GRAPHIC NOVEL OF THE CHARACTER WHO INSPIRED SHI LAUNCHES 7PM EST/4PM PST

A GRAPHIC NOVEL 35-YEARS IN THE MAKING

Revenge of the Warrior is set within the violent, neon-lit, Kabukichō district of Tokyo 1993, and features the character and story that inspired Tucci’s legendary Shi.

“Ran is very near and dear to my heart by being my first and the character that eventually evolved into Shi.” Stated writer/artist Billy Tucci. “We’re going to go all-out ‘Bad Girls’ on this one and I cannot wait to share her decades long story of vengeance and triumph!”

Revenge of the Warrior details one young woman’s war against a human-trafficking gang of American ex-pat killers aligned with the notorious Yakuza crime syndicate.

Billy Tucci’s latest graphic novel, Ran: Revenge of the Warrior debuts on crowdfunding platform Kickstarter this coming Thursday, November 20th, at 7pm EST/4pm PST. The short 22-day campaign will close at 11:59pm EST on December 22nd.

RAN: REVENGE OF THE WARRIOR KICKSTARTER PRE-LAUNCH PAGE LINK IS HERE:
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/shiomniv1/ran-revenge-of-the-warrior-kickstarter-exclusive

RAN INDIEGOGO PASSES $75K BEFORE CLOSE!

Ran launched on Indiegogo last month and reached its initial funding goal in less than ten minutes. The 23-day campaign closed this past Friday with over $75,000.00 in returns and the campaign’s first four Stretch Goals: The Ran Hardcover Trading Card, Billy Tucci Ran Mini-Print, Dan Lawlis Gilded Variant Trading Card, and the Leandro Oliveira Black Racer Vinyl Sticker all unlocked.

Due to Crusade’s exclusive #NoFanLeftBehind campaign strategy, backers on both Indiegogo and Kickstarter mutually benefit from each platform’s stretch goals. All Stretch Goals come FREE to all Kickstarter and Indiegogo backers who pledged for a physical perk.

Click Here for Ran’s Indiegogo Campaign:
https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/ran-revenge-of-the-warrior-graphic-novel/x/20487910

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About Billy Tucci

Billy Tucci is the 2015 Inkpot Award recipient, known worldwide for his comics art and work on characters like Shi and throughout his own Crusade Fine Arts. His work has been translated into 8 languages and has sold over 5 million comics worldwide. The Fashion Institute of Technology graduate and a life-long New Yorker, his work on DC Comics’ Sgt. Rock: The Lost Battalion earned him the US Military Writers Society Gold Medal in 2009 for Excellence in Graphic Novels. His other projects include the best-selling A Child Is Born (Thomas Nelson Publishing), work with the Archie Comics Group, Miss Fury: Joy Division (Dynamite), and his recent launch of the record-breaking Shi/Daredevil crossover and Shi Vol 5 #1.

Since 2018, Billy Tucci has launched 10 consecutive crowdfunding campaigns on Kickstarter and Indiegogo, totaling over $980,000.00 in combined returns.

For More Information:

Deborah Tucci
Crusade Fine Arts, Ltd.
support@billytucci.com
Twitter / Facebook @billytucci
Instagram @billytucci
https://www.billytucci.com