We are over 75% funded! There’s a little under two weeks to go now, so if you’d like one of these hand-embellished prints that will neverbe available anywhere else, go kick in HERE!
I’m excited to launch my Kickstarter! You can find it HERE!
Made Me Come Undone was painted as a response to my own overthinking. I wanted to turn off my brain and just paint without judgement and without analysis. What emerged from this free-form painting experience was this ghostly, almost intangible vision, a gossamer apparition as delicate as a moth’s wing.
I feel this painting ties in well with the story behind this Kickstarter. For years I’ve been painting other people’s visions, creating for them worlds and characters that they had previously only seen in their heads. It is now time for me to reclaim my artistic vision and start creating for myself and this project is a way to help me do that. I want to emerge from the pupa stage and spread my own wings, to make more paintings like this, more paintings that are mine and more paintings I can share with all of you. Maybe this resonates with some of you, maybe you just want to see more paintings like this one. Either way, I would love for you to be part of this bid for freedom.
We’re all about new wave crowdfunding. We’ve made multiple videos for successful Kickstarter campaigns and we also love backing innovative products. Excited to use the Pinhole Pro multi-aperture lens!
HEARTWOOD: Non-binary Tales of Sylvan Fantasy is the next P&M Press anthology headed to Kickstarter Fall 2018.
Across time and cultures, humanity has spun tales about the forest: tales of caution, adventure, rites of passage, and discovery. Some of those stories persist as the folklore and fairy tales that delight our imaginations today, and the forest remains a symbol for facing the unknownandemerging transformed.
This anthology is for everyone who’s walked through the undergrowth, in the silence of nature, and longed for an adventure of their own to unfold. These stories of modern-day sylvan fantasy will showcase the best non-binary cartoonists of our day, guiding characters like us into the woods and back again.
It seems so surreal at the moment but we finally did it!!! We reached $13,000!!! Seriously. Thank you all for your help!! Y'all been incredible, hyping it up & giving us Latinxs a chance to have this book made!
A special shout out to supporters and those helping spread the word. Without you and our wonderful contributors, this project would be nothing!
La Raza Anthology: Unidos y Fuertes - An unique anthology filled with comics, illustrations, poems and short stories celebrating & analyzing Latin American heritage. - http://kck.st/2bV7S3P
LESS THAN 46 HOURS TO GO TO FULLY FUND OUR BOOK?!? Please help spread the word! We need a project like this to represent marginalized creators! Every contribution counts :)
Let’s start off the Latinx Heritage Month by supporting amazing #Latinx&#hispanic creators!! We have incredible stories that address important topics such assimilation, racism, feminism, queer & self identity.
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Born in 1996 in Chile, A.C is currently studying 3d Animation. The artist is heavily inspired by SouthAmerican culture and young artists from all over the world and portrays their perception and personality through different characters. Interested in every art form, wants the art and animation industry to grow in South America as an important contribution to the different countries.
Where is your family from?
My family is composed by two nationalities. My mother is Russian and my father is Chilean. They met because my father was exiled from Chile during the dictatorship. My mother was (and is) really interested in South American culture, our language, history, etc. My father was giving a talk at her university about Chile’s political status at the moment. They then started talking more and more about those kind of topics and after many many difficult situations they ended up marrying and moving back to Chile where I grew up and study right now.
What are some of your influences/inspirations?
At the moment my influences are the beautiful sketches by Daniela Strijleva and Chris Chua. South American artists that I like are Illustrators like Catabu, Hugustrador, Liniers and painters like Maliki and Decur, which I take reference from, among many others. What I look in their art is their message, the storytelling, that every piece of art that these people create has a strong meaning and such passion. I learn from them every day, and I keep looking for more growing artists that give such feelings.
Can you tell us about your piece for La Raza?
My piece for LA RAZA is called “Mito y Tradición” its a mixed media illustration that uses the description showed by the internet of those two characters when in reality they are bigger and more than that.
What inspired you to draw these legendary figures?
When I choose to draw “El diablo” from “La diablada” celebrated on the north of Chile and of course countries like Perú and Bolivia I wanted to portrait a character that is very well known around here but maybe unknown most of the people who know very little about South America. “La diablada” is a really colorful and fun celebration that unites families and preserves traditions in a very powerful way, using loud music and delicious food. On the other hand, there is “La Pincoya” a local and very popular myth of the south of Chile, a beautiful woman that helps lost fishermen return to land.
With this design in particular I wanted to fight the usual representation that artists give her. She is usually seen as a stereotypically “perfect” woman, showing that most of the times people wont go for a different character design, a more interesting and unique than the usual that already exists, specially on women. And again, with the design I present I’d like to welcome those artists or anyone who starts to design something from a story to go further than the popular representation and to love our characters more to give them a unique life.
Do you have any projects coming up?
Right now i’m working as a visual developer on a animated shortfilm called “El Último” set in a futuristic Chile. Some personal projects that i’m working on the scripts of two webcomics called “Confetti” and “Amigo” that I hope to start sharing at the end of this year or at the beggining of the next one.
Be on the lookout for “Mito y Tradición” in our bookLa Raza Anthology: Unidos y Fuertes. Check out Ale’s blog for more of their awesome work!
We’re happy to announce that we’re up to $5,000!!! Because we reached our first reward goal, we’re adding the Matador design by Carmen Pizarro to our Postcard Pack!!!
In addition to paying contributors, a portion of our book sales goes directly to several non-profit organizations helping undocumented Latino families receive legal help and obtain skills that would help ease their transition into the States.
From experience we know how difficult life can be for immigrants iour n the U.S. due to language barriers, lack of financial resources, lack of information, not knowing our rights and even fear of deportation.
We want to give back to our community as much as we can. And you can help too!
By backing our Kickstarter, we’ll be able to make books that will help benefit few great non-profit organizations:
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Because we’re part of a marginalized group of creators in the comics industry, we hope you can help us in spreading the word about our project while helping shape lives <3
TWICE UPON A TIME, animated short - Animated film about split personality and split time! It’s about dual nature of kings and things and how playing cards came to be! - http://kck.st/1JHrKBb
There’s a new Andromeda story in the Dagger Dagger anthology, now funding on kickstarter (link in my bio). Here’s the pencils for page two. Where already fully funded (in just 5 hours ) but every extra dollar raised will be used to pay all the artists involved a decent page rate so please keep supporting us. We’d really appreciate it!
The Gates of Misery is a brand new, anthology-based horror comic coming soon! The first issue features short tales of terror by Brandon Cronenberg (Antiviral), Steven Kostanski (Manborg), and Jon Knautz (Jack Brooks: Monster Slayer).
KICKSTARTER LIVE NOW [link in bio] Our campaign is still chugging along, so it’s time for another FULL COMIC PREVIEW from Issue 10: DEATH. This week’s comic comes from the spicy hot soul of Jen Chan ( @jchanart ) and her love of all things picante! Don’t forget, all Kickstarter backers get TWO additional full comic previews every week, so pledge your support and help our contributors get PAID!
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