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Kickstarter advice from someone who has done it exactly one time

November 24, 2020

Blog, comic, comic book, crowdfunding, kickstarter, list building

A comic book creator found me on Kickstarter, presumably by doing homework and seeing what books had been successful recently, I don't know. They asked for some advice and I ended up writing quite a bit, it was...

Black Lives Matter, and the chapter we skipped

Colin Devonshire

June 3, 2020

Blog, comic, comic book

Work to do My high school history teacher skipped the chapter on slavery. This was around 1990, at a prestigious New York City prep school. The teacher was himself an institution there, much loved by genera...

No sleep ’til Kickstarter! What is Kickstarter, exactly…?

Colin Devonshire

May 9, 2020

Blog, comic, comic book, crowdfunding, kickstarter

Kickstarting and screaming into the world Friday, 5.15.20 5 pm ET through 6.14.20! Making a thing a thing What is all this stuff?! A feature film (and signed script) written and directed by my friend Nelson...

For the nerds: an aside on viral list building for comic creators

Colin Devonshire

February 14, 2020

Blog, comic book, crowdfunding, list building

I am the (email) Warrior This is a niche post for my creator colleagues who are always working to build up their email lists. Growing your list the organic way with friends, family, and word of mouth is of c...

Come here, 2020, I’m going to crush you

Colin Devonshire

January 21, 2020

Blog, comic, comic book, crowdfunding, kickstarter

Onwards and upwards Ezra may have gotten an action figure or two from Santa... In December I started an end-of-the-year review of whatever the hell I did in 2019 but realized I had no interest in writing it...

Sizzle Sizzle

Colin Devonshire

June 14, 2019

Blog, comic, comic book, crowdfunding, kickstarter, sizzle reel

It's Getting Hot in Here Kickstarter: Launch Date 6.24.19 Last time I emailed about the magic of crowdfunding, Kickstarter in particular. Well it had better be Gandalf-fighting-a-Balrog level magical beca...

The Anthrax guitarist killed my comics career and cost me a year of my life!

Colin Devonshire

April 10, 2019

Blog, comic, comic book, rock music

Fistful of Comics The Anthrax guitarist killed my comics career and cost me a year of my life! That guy, Scott Ian. It was 2015, I had been working for 18 months on my first comic book. I’d gotten an in...

Our story begins…

Colin Devonshire

February 25, 2019

Blog, comic book

By the Time I Get to Dallas: Book One PREVIEW Remember when you first signed up for this email list and you got a preview of this indie comic By the Time I Get to Dallas, and it looked awesome but it starte...

2019: Goals, panels and Banana Man!

Colin Devonshire

January 4, 2019

Blog, comic

Happy New Year! I personally feel like boiled crap after a stressful couple weeks around the holidays, with too much work in the ER, all the stress of the season, and very little down time. But it’s a new year ...

To make a comic book, make a comic book

Colin Devonshire

November 9, 2018

Blog, comic book, webcomic

This one is about the nitty gritty of making comics. By the Time I Get to Dallas is largely written, and the whole story calls for 200 pages of art. I have an art team I paid to make an awesome sample minib...