DaveRapoza

Hey everyone!

First of all, thank you all so much for the support! The Steve Lichman Kickstarter has been a huge success, and I can't thank you enough for helping share Steve around and enjoying the comics!

We're coming up on the end of the Kickstarter with only 5 days left! If you'd like to pre-order the book, it's 230 pages, Hardcover, and is entirely completed. The Kickstarter is in place so we can fund the self-publishing!

Pre-Order the 230 page Hardcover here!

Thanks again for all your support, it really means everything to Dan and I. Without you we wouldn't be able to stay independent and pursue our dream projects! 

Dave

Hey everyone!

We're going to be launching the 'Steve Lichman Volume 1 - First Edition' Kickstarter campaign this Tuesday on the 29th! This is super exciting for us, Dan and I have been working on the book for the past year and it's finally completed! The book itself is 230 pages and will be Hardcover! The funding will go towards self-publishing the book ourselves. We really tried to just get everything handled before asking for any help and we hope that everything runs smoothly because of it!

I wanted to come on here and ask for your help in spreading the word. We've started up a Thunderclap event for the launch of the Kickstarter. Basically it will link to your social media accounts and on the 29th, it will send out a message to everyone that the Kickstarter is live! It's an awesome tool to get the word out and we're hoping it helps to make Steve a success!

Please click here if you'd like to help us out!

Thank you so much for all your support! The love for Steve on here has been really huge and we love reading how much you've enjoyed the series so far. We really cannot wait for you to read the whole book!

Thanks again for everything!
Dave

Hey!

Thank you for all the support, comments, messages and emails regarding my previous blog post. It means a lot to me to hear from you regarding your similar situations. The fact that we can put out our own personal experiences, and receive that level of feedback, reinforces the need to just be honest. Admitting all that and hearing from all of you has kicked me back into working on my own ideas. I've willfully ignored a lot of what really matters to me just to receive a paycheck from clients.

But with that previous post, I'm back to what's important, back to writing scripts and building up drafts to destroy and rebuild over and over haha. Time to go step by step and edit/finish 'StarVeil' with the intent on jumping immediately onto 'Skull & Shark'. Both of these will be full comics with hundreds of pages(god help me). Quite a bit of 'StarVeil' has been worked out already, not only what's already available online, but what I've done on my own and haven't shared.

So, onto the next step! I've built up some funds working for clients over the past year or so to make sure I can ride out the creation of the comic. In the meantime I'll have to take on jobs here and there which will slow the process down slightly, but I've also tried planning for that as well. My lovely lady, Kim, has been running the 'Skull & Shark CO.' store that was set up late last year. We've been selling limited edition t-shirts and prints with hopes of being able to build up the store enough to fund bigger projects.

All of this is hopefully going to lead to a world where we wont need Kickstarter or Patreon to build up any of the comics. It never really sat well with me to use Patreon for 'StarVeil' as I don't think I could offer enough value to you with just the comic alone. What I would much rather do is give you something in return, whether it be prints or clothing, just something you can physically own while helping push the comic forward. What we may do, is eventually, when the comic is finished, create a Kickstarter to fund the actual printing of the book. That is to say if a publisher doesn't jump on board.

What we currently have, is 3 prints, 2 of which are 13"x20", the other being 15"x20", both with a 1" margin. They're from my 'StarVeil' series and are limited to 200 prints, all of them are major characters to the story, but hopefully you like them as they are! Each print is on museum grade canson paper, not gonna make believe like I know anything about printing besides what looks amazing, but this is a quote from the printer

- "We are proud to use museum quality acid-free cotton fiber paper at 300 gsm paper weight. We use a ten-ink color system alongside the standard four-color CMYK combination. This advanced system produces an extremely wide and accurate range of color, resulting in beautifully vivid prints."

If you'd like to help support the project, here is what's available now in our shop. Thanks for reading this and thank you for the support, I'm really really, another-really, looking forward to getting this book wrapped up.

-Dave

Click here to visit the store!

If you'd like to follow along, I do a blog style write up in our newsletter(link on the shop) as well as share our next limited product runs!  

Thanks again!

Hey guys!

Firstly, thank you guys so much for helping us out with our first run of shirts. We managed to totally sell out of everything thanks to all your support, it means a ton to be able to be totally independent selling products like this. Skull & Shark CO.'s launch went really well and we are going to continue putting out limited products! 

The next one we'll be releasing is 'Switchblade'! I love skulls and switchblades way too much and hopefully this shirt embodies that .

These are, again, limited to 220 shirts, we wont be rereleasing any of these unless they're color variants or something like that, but no immediate plans at the moment. We've sold about half our stock within the first 24 hours so we're really excited! Hopefully you can get a chance to purchase one if interested!

Anyway, heres the info!

This is a very limited run of 220!

Comes with a Numbered Certificate! 
All Orders ship Early February!

Printed on American Apparel Jersey T-shirts

I've been really excited to work up mini trailers for all the future releases, so here's one for the latest!



If you're interested in purchasing a Pre-Order for the new shirt, please visit SkullandSharkCo.com

Thank you again for all your support!
Dave