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Check it out! I did an interview and talked The Miracles and The Pride Omnibus!
Source: comicsxf.com
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In The Pride, FabMan is sick of being seen as a joke. Tired of the LGBTQ+ community being seen as inferior to straight heroes, he thinks it’s about damn time he did something about it. Bringing together some of the world’s greatest LGBTQ+ superheroes, the Pride is born to protect the world and fight prejudice, misrepresentation and injustice-not to mention a pesky supervillain or two. The Pride Adventures brings a whole host of extra, self-contained stories and adventures starring the heroes of the Pride! See the team members face down crazed shooters, invasions, and even a sixty-foot-tall drag queen! Featuring a slew of incredible artistic talent, plus stories from writers Mike Garley, Sina Grace and PJ Montgomery too! Collects the original digital series The Pride and The Pride Adventures in print for the first time.
The Pride is available to preorder now! Just head to your local comic shop and ask them to order a copy for you, and even better give them this order code so they can find it immediately on Diamond = FEB210312
The Pride is my baby, and something I have poured my heart and soul into for ten years now. We’ve gone from small press, self-published to picked up by a digital publisher to now being available at comic shops around the world!
I’m really hoping to get the order numbers for the book as big as possible, so if you want to help, please tell your local comic shop about the book and why it’s a great choice for them to stock this Pride Month
Final Order Cutoff is just 8th March, so not long now! Please get all orders in as soon as you can!
I want this to do great so that we can continue to make the series bigger and better than ever before. Help me get there!
In The Pride, FabMan is sick of being seen as a joke. Tired of the LGBTQ+ community being seen as inferior to straight heroes, he thinks it's about damn time he did something about it. Bringing together some of the world's greatest LGBTQ+ superheroes, the Pride is born to protect the world and fight prejudice, misrepresentation and injustice-not to mention a pesky supervillain or two. The Pride Adventures brings a whole host of extra, self-contained stories and adventures starring the heroes of the Pride! See the team members face down crazed shooters, invasions, and even a sixty-foot-tall drag queen! Featuring a slew of incredible artistic talent, plus stories from writers Mike Garley, Sina Grace and PJ Montgomery too! Collects the original digital series The Pride and The Pride Adventures in print for the first time.
The Pride is available to preorder now! Just head to your local comic shop and ask them to order a copy for you, and even better give them this order code so they can find it immediately on Diamond = FEB210312
Source: previewsworld.com
So people who have known me for making The Pride all these years might be asking ‘why is he doing something so different now?’
The simplest answer would be ‘because I want to’ (and yes, now I have that Billie song stuck in my head too), but there is of course more to it than that.
As much as I love The Pride and poured my heart and soul into it, and there is SO much more to come, there are other things I want to do, other stories I want to tell too.
Not to sound too pretentious, but I contain multitudes: there is more than just one tale in me, and I am interested in exploring so much more.
Acceptable Losses is an exploration of darker, more ‘mature’ superhero narratives. The idea, which was especially popularised in the last few decades, of grounding superheroes in reality.
The Pride is about heroes being fantastical and iconic. Acceptable Losses is about heroes that are as mired in the dust and dirt as we are.
It’s also about exploring topics outside of the general ‘representation matters’ notion, while not forgetting that. Which is why the lead characters are gay in this. However, the main point of this story is not about their sexuality and how it is dealt with in their world, but about the War on Terror, being a soldier and where notions like ‘an eye for an eye’ lead us.
Acceptable Losses is at times thought provoking (I hope), shocking (I expect) and entertaining. It’s brought to reality by Danny Flores, an artist whose gritty, solid stylings I enjoy; Moose Baumann, a wonderful creator who I’ve bonded with over our mutual victimhood from certain regions (I’m sure you can imagine) and to yet again work with Michael Stock, my long-time Master of Letters who puts up with my waffling nature.
It also, personally, is a good next step in my career. There’s already some pretty exciting things on the horizon for me in 2019, but I don’t want to rest on my laurels and I need to be able to show that I am so much more than just one kind of story. This book, in many ways, is the next important step for me after The Pride.
And I need your help to make it happen. I raise funds on Kickstarter not to get some huge personal pay-out like those that abuse crowdfunding platforms do, but to cover printing, posting and to pay my incredible creative team a good wage/page rate in a timely fashion. These people take time out of their lives to help me make my fantasies a reality to share with you all, it is imperative to me that they get recompensed for that to the best that can be offered.
So please. If you have followed me, if you have enjoyed my work in The Pride, if you’ve liked what I say, but wanted to see what else I could bring out, please support Acceptable Losses on Kickstarter now.
Help me make something new. Something different. Something that has just as important a message to share.
LAST NINE HOURS TO SUPPORT!
Get the ENTIRE FIRST VOLUME collected in paperback for the first time at an INCREDIBLY LOW PRICE! Plus extras now like the Swimsuit Special Ashcan and new Pride logo pin as soon as they are ready!
Support on Kickstarter now before it’s too late!
JUST 28 HOURS LEFT!
The campaign has gone leaps and bounds beyond anything I could have ever imagined! We’ve sailed passed three Stretch Goals to help make an additional Pride Swimsuit Special and now a new Pride enamel pin! And there’s still time!
If you want in on The Pride now is the time to back! Free UK shipping! Group Tier for Local Comic Shops and libraries and book shops! Help us try and get even more in the print run!
(Bear Swimsuit Special art by Carlos Pedro!)
We’re almost fully funded!
It’s now time to get us over the line, and well, there might just be some special ideas for Stretch Goals now too.
So come on, support the series with an incredible diverse and inclusive cast of superheroes facing injustice, romance, media perceptions and oh yeah, big damn supervillains NOW!
The Pride is now LIVE on Kickstarter, this time to raise funds for the printing of a new paperback edition of the first volume.
This contains 280 pages/10 comics worth of content, and behind-the-scenes sketches and designs, all for just £15 a copy! Making it the cheapest way to get the whole volume of The Pride ever!
After initially getting an alt-right trolling attempt to try and intimidate us off of Kickstarter, The Pride campaign has gone from strength to strength and we are already over halfway funded!
So if you’ve been craving some LGBTQ+ superhero action that avoids nasty tropes and fights for a world of compassion, understanding and respect, then check out The Pride now!
I get interviewed by Newsarama along with Sina Grace and Jon Cairns about The Pride Adventures #5, which is now in it’s final hours on Kickstarter! We’re within spitting distance of the goal so come on and help us make it a reality now!
Source: newsarama.com
We’re down to the last 4 days of The Pride Adventures campaign now!
The Pride Adventures #5 is the first new content in The Pride since the volume one collection in November 2016! With loads of fabulous artists like Jon Cairns, Elizabeth Beals, Jon Scrivens, Rhys Wootton and Cem Iroz, plus a special story by guest writer Sina Grace! Yes, THAT Sina Grace! How fab is that!
There’s tons of rewards, including super limited and special commission slots by Cem Iroz and Elizabeth Beals, and this is also one of the last chances to get the Volume One hardcover, as it’s almost out of print!
The Kickstarter is still going strong, and we’re fast approaching the mid-point of the campaign.
The Pride Adventures issue 5 is the very first issue of brand new content since November 2016! Featuring stories by myself, Jon Cairns, Cem Iroz, Elizabeth Beals, Jon Scrivens, Rhys Wootton, Michael Stock, Ben Wilsonham and special guest, the fabulous Sina Grace!
There are tons of rewards options, including ways to get everything that has been released so far from The Pride, and now limited commission slots for both Cem Iroz and Elizabeth Beals!
Some rewards are super limited, and some even all gone already, so you really should get in now while you can!
This issue is an important bridging point between the first volume of stories and the next volume, so if you are a fan of The Pride and it’s stories of LGBTQ+ superheroes fighting for representation, equality and justice, then please help us make this issue a reality! And please reblog and share!
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The latest campaign is now LIVE!
This campaign is to make the first brand new issues of The Pride stories since the collection of Volume One!
We have a ton of incredible creators involved, including @sinagrace, @joncairns, @elizabethbeals, @oxboxer, @rhyswootton,Cem Iroz, Jon Scrivens, Ben Wilsonham, and Michael Stock!
Loads of rewards available, including brand new comic and brand new pins, so check it out and support and share now!
There’s still a ways to go. If you’re someone who has cared a lot of queer representation in comics, and would like to see more of it in the world, then please do consider helping us keep making that happen by jumping in on our campaign now.
Thank you!
Sina Grace and I got interviewed by Comicosity to discuss The Pride Adventures #5 (currently on Kickstarter), queer representation in comics and more!
Check it out, and don’t forget to support us making more awesome Pride comics for all!
You can help make the next issue of LGBTQ+ superhero adventures a reality, with Kickstarter now! Please support, reblog and share! Thanks everyone!