ALMOST REAL 5 HAS BECOME… REAL! Thank you so much for your support in bringing this “legendary” issue to life, now it’s onwards to artist bonuses and stretch goals!
This year’s issue of Almost Real: A Speculative Biology Zine is mythology themed, so I wanted the cover critter to be a weird take on an extremely recognizable legendary beast.
The marsupial griffin is my shot at that, a large flying carnivore with a rear-facing pouch like a thylacine. Its unusual front incisors are continuously growing like rodent teeth, but exposed like a beak— nursing young have a gap in between them, but as they wean into sub-adults the gap closes and the teeth grow to a sharp hook for tearing into meat and carrion. Their thumbed hind feet somewhat resemble a primate’s, but with a set of sharp talons for capturing and gripping prey.
Our cover for this volume was illustrated by @ibenkrutt, who really knocked this design out of the park. If you’d like to support our contributing artists and acquire the zine, you can check out the campaign over here!
Legends old and new come to life with Almost Real’s fifth volume; bringing a dozen speculative entries examining all sorts of fantastical creatures!
Head to Twitter to see the full announcement thread and extended sneak peeks from the @FortunaMedias account, but for now: mark your calendars and save the date for Almost Real’s 5th installment on the Kickstarter-alternative platform Zoop: a crowdfunding site dedicated entirely to comics and graphic novels (without the pledge to blockchain)!
This one hits home because in real life I am the guarantor of a total of $5,000 a month in NYC rents being paid by beautiful women who I like to support.
This year’s issue of Almost Real: A Speculative Biology Zine is mythology themed, so I wanted the cover critter to be a weird take on an extremely recognizable legendary beast.
The marsupial griffin is my shot at that, a large flying carnivore with a rear-facing pouch like a thylacine. Its unusual front incisors are continuously growing like rodent teeth, but exposed like a beak— nursing young have a gap in between them, but as they wean into sub-adults the gap closes and the teeth grow to a sharp hook for tearing into meat and carrion. Their thumbed hind feet somewhat resemble a primate’s, but with a set of sharp talons for capturing and gripping prey.
Our cover for this volume was illustrated by @ibenkrutt, who really knocked this design out of the park. If you’d like to support our contributing artists and acquire the zine, you can check out the campaign over here!
This year’s issue of Almost Real: A Speculative Biology Zine is mythology themed, so I wanted the cover critter to be a weird take on an extremely recognizable legendary beast.
The marsupial griffin is my shot at that, a large flying carnivore with a rear-facing pouch like a thylacine. Its unusual front incisors are continuously growing like rodent teeth, but exposed like a beak— nursing young have a gap in between them, but as they wean into sub-adults the gap closes and the teeth grow to a sharp hook for tearing into meat and carrion. Their thumbed hind feet somewhat resemble a primate’s, but with a set of sharp talons for capturing and gripping prey.
Our cover for this volume was illustrated by @ibenkrutt, who really knocked this design out of the park. If you’d like to support our contributing artists and acquire the zine, you can check out the campaign over here!
Thanks to your help and pledges, every backer at the “CONFOUNDING CREATURES” tier and up will have a FREE complimentary 8.5x11″ sticker sheet of our issue’s entries drawn by campaign guest artist @itslittletunny!
We can’t thank you enough for your support already! ✨Check us out today to see our campaign previews, artist roster, stretch goals, and MORE: only on Zoop.gg!
Legends old and new come to life with Almost Real’s fifth volume; bringing a dozen speculative entries examining all sorts of fantastical creatures!
Head to Twitter to see the full announcement thread and extended sneak peeks from the @FortunaMedias account, but for now: mark your calendars and save the date for Almost Real’s 5th installment on the Kickstarter-alternative platform Zoop: a crowdfunding site dedicated entirely to comics and graphic novels (without the pledge to blockchain)!
We ended on an incredible three stretch goals broken (with two of those being well-deserved artist bonuses for all involved contributors!) None of this would’ve been possible without our artist’s imaginations and our backer’s support, and thanks again for helping us make Almost Real… real!
Ending on Monday April 19th at 12PM (PDT), we’ll be closing out Almost Real’s 4th Kickstarter! Since our last update, we broke our 2nd stretch goal of free 8.5x11" sticker sheets illustrated by V Swain if you’re a backer of the SCANNED BLUEPRINTS tier and up!
As it says on the battery, our next stretch goal is our 2nd artist bonus for contributors at $24,000! We’d be more than thrilled at the idea of paying our contributors as much as we can, so get your last minute pledges and/or adjustments in before Monday.
Our Kickstarter has officially started its last week, formally ending on April 19th at 12PM PDT! Thank you all so much for your rousing support to put us at our goal already- your pledges mean the world to us creating this corner of spec bio, and we hope you enjoy what biotechnological wonders our contributors have to offer.
In other exciting news: in the wee hours of the morning, we hit our first stretch goal of $19,500, which means artist bonuses for all our contributors!
Our next goal will be at $21,000, in which we’ll have V Swain illustrate us an 8.5"x11" sticker sheet featuring every design from the entry! And after that? Another artist bonus at $24,000, so let’s see how much we can crank out in our final week!
Wow. Truly, thank you all for an INCREDIBLE first couple of days with your support! With this influx, we’ll be funded in no time, and we hope to crack as many stretch goals (and artist bonuses!) as possible before April 19th!
