I am excited to announce that I have teamed up with Canadian artists Kara Brauen and Jono Doiron to bring my first comic book, Wild Rose, to life. We are crowd funding issue one on Kickstarter and we hit 39% funded in the first 48 hours!
Statistically, this means we stand a very good chance of being fully funded, but I need your help to keep the momentum going. If you are interested in any of the cool rewards we’re offering, please check out the Kickstarter page and consider supporting the campaign. If you’re not able to contribute financially, it’s still a huge, huge help if you share the campaign with your friends/family/social media following.
The Story
Set against the backdrop of London and rural Ireland in 1790, Wild Rose reimagines a haunting Irish folktale. The story of Eliza Day is a tale of love and revenge, but also of class conflict, religious intolerance, and the secret societies that became common in eighteenth century Ireland.
When Eliza is seduced and betrayed by a wealthy English lover, she vows to seek revenge and enlists the help of a witch. But as she soon finds out, the restrictive society in which she lives has no place for defiant, damaged women who break with convention. With the help of Adam Stone, a free Black man, Eliza has a chance to make a new life for herself after the loss of her innocence – but to do so, she will have to be braver than she could ever have imagined.
Wild Rose is a six-issue mini-series with potential for an ongoing storyline. This is a socially conscious project which depicts the realities of life in 18th century Europe, including people of color and LGBTQ+ orientation.
Crowd Funding
Funds raised on Kickstarter will be used to pay for cover design, coloring, and lettering for the 22 story pages of issue #1. Money raised above our goal will be used for marketing, self publishing (if we don’t sign with a publisher), a limited first print run, and production of the next issue.
Visit our Kickstarter page to read sample pages and support Wild Rose!
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