I’m extremely excited to announce Boy Cloak Magazine: A Fanzine! Celebrating the world of The Adventure Zone Graduation, this charity zine will feature amazing artists from all corners of this fandom.
Applications are OPEN NOW, just head over to the link (in our bio) for everything you need. Even if you’re not a “creative”, join our banging discord and come along for the ride. We want this to be as collaborative as possible.
If you love TAZ, we hope you choose to join us on this ambitious project. See ya soon!
We can hardly believe it, but the campaign closed at nearly $165,000– that’s 550% of the original goal!! Your donations to Facing Hunger are going to impact thousands of individuals and families in West Virginia, Kentucky, and Ohio. That’s really, truly, wonderful, and we’re so, so glad that this donation is going to such a fundamentally important cause.
This project wouldn’t be possible without several thousand wonderful people, so here goes:
To our 6,000+ donors, and to everyone who applied, supported, promoted, and talked this project up online and in person; to the TAZ fan communities on reddit, facebook, tumblr, & twitter, and to everyone who shares their own thoughts and wonderful TAZ fanworks on all those platforms: thank you all so, so very much. This project couldn’t have happened without you, and it wouldn’t have been nearly as successful without how devoted you’ve all been to pushing it forward– thank you so, so much! You’re what makes this fandom amazing. You’re an amazing community, and we’re so happy to be a part of it.
ToDaniel Solis for your excellent layout and design work, to Justin Gray for the fantastic campaign graphics, to Dani Barstad for your cover of Deja Vu in our campaign video, and to Stuart WellingtonandDan McCoy for your foreword drawings: thank you! It’s the details like yours that made this campaign (and will make this book!) stand out.
Tothe MaxFunnetwork, for giving us the green light on this ambitious fan project, and for hosting so many fantastic, fun shows- thank you!
To the Generosity funding platform & staff, for running an amazing no-fee service that allowed us to maximize the amount of the donation to Facing Hunger and get the funds directly into their hands: thank you!
To the team atFacing Hunger, huge thanks for your tireless good work, patience, and logistical know-how! All of us are so, so glad and honored to be able to put this donation into the care of an organization that’s going to do so much good with it.
On that note, the campaign is over, but you can always donate to Facing Hunger through their website! You can also use Charity Navigator to learn more about similar food bank organizations and other charities in your own area and find out how you can contribute to those!
All of the artists featured in the book, for your generosity, patience, selfless devotion of time, and willingness to put up with our near-constant email barrage – thank you! Your work is this book!! We love it all to pieces, and we can’t wait to share it all with everyone who donated to this campaign. So thank you from the bottom of our hearts to all of you:
And finally, to Griffin,Justin,Travis, and ClintMcElroy: thank you for your gracious willingness to let us put together a book about your fictional world and all its fantastic inhabitants, for thinking of Facing Hunger and connecting us with that amazing organization, for your kindness, support, and promotion throughout this project despite impossibly busy schedules, and for making the kind, thoughtful, funny, and brilliant showthat inspired it all.
Our next step is to complete book layout, which will be done by mid-October- then it’s off to the printers and prep for PDF distribution in November! (Even the vaguest thoughts about a hopeful Volume 2 are gonna have to wait until Volume 1 is for-real completely and totally finished!) We’ll keep you updated here and on twitter, so stay tuned for notes about fulfillment progress. We can’t wait to get these books into your hands!
Ceri Giddens is an illustrator, graphic designer and your new friend from the South Island of New Zealand. She draws pictures for a living while also studying video games (and playing them a bunch too). Her desk job and dependence on the internet led her down the path to that sweet podcast lifestyle. As a D&D sorcerer, her familiar would be a friendly little raccoon.
Ceri still has one campaign commission spot open! Scroll down on the campaign page to donate at that level to get the book + pdf, plus a full color digital illustration by Ceri of your personal tabletop RPG character!
$25 for the PDF+book ($40 for folks outside of the US)
Several artists are offering custom character commissions - this is a rare chance to get a custom digital illustration from some of the best indie comics artists and illustrators! These top donor tier budles are $250 each and include the PDF+book!
Books are estimated to ship beginning in November, and digital character commissions will be ready in December.
The fundraiser runs through Sept 25 - so visit TheAdventureZine.com to donate to Facing Hunger and claim your copy of…THE ADVENTURE ZINE!
it’s happening!!!! Support all these neat artist pals while also contributing to a rad charity, all in the name of D&D!
(also, I’m one of the many cool cats contributing to the custom illustration tier so you should get amongst that part especially)
