Thank you! And Today I Learned...

Thank you, Friends of Black Eye! ❤️ With your help, Dishman has reached over 6x our funding goal, and backers will receive all three of our stretch goals: the bonus 6-page story, the digital edition of The Cheese Heads No. 5 by Nick Craine, guest starring Dishman as drawn by John MacLeod, and the glow-in-the-dark emblem pin back badge.

This was a spontaneous project, with the first seeds of the idea going back only a short while ago to November 2021. So a special heartfelt thanks to John MacLeod for sharing Dishman with us all again! ☕️ and for trying this alternate crowdfunding platform!

Files are going through their final production check in the coming days, and will be going off to press as soon as Monday. Printing and shipping updates will be posted here as I find out more info from our printing partner.

And Today I Learned…

While I had used Fundrazr back in 2019 for Black Eye Books' revival and first crowdfunded project, Pickle No. 11: The Lost Issue, following that up with Jay Stephens' Dejects collection, it had been some time away from the platform.

One aspect that's different than Kickstarter is that the deadline for a project doesn't necessarily mean the end of the campaign. I was pleasantly surprised this morning to see a banner saying 'Campaign Extended: You Can Still Help'. On Fundrazr, the deadline is the deadline to be funded. 

So if you missed out, we'll be keeping the page up for a little while longer to gather pre-orders. Once Dishman is printed, the campaign will stop, and sales of the book will move to the main Black Eye Books site, but those won't include any of the stretch goal goodies.

Thanks again to all of you for coming along on this adventure in alternate platform crowdfunding! Dwellings No.3 is up next, launching Feb.15 at go.blackeye.ca/dwellings

And our friend Matthew Allison is giving Fundrazr a try as well with his 216-page hardcover Cankor collection! Launching Feb 7 at fundrazr.com/CankorBook with lots of amazing looking stuff, like signed copies, exclusive trading card, and full colour marker drawings!