It’s almost over, for now. While the Kickstarter is winding down, were getting to work on printing posters, postcards and stickers for book promotions, backer rewards and our installation show at the Weisman… Read More
I’m a little late on the update today. Long story short, we’re going nonstop. Likewise, the end of our Kickstarter will wait for no one. Less than 48 hours and it’ll be over.… Read More
Less than 3 days to go and we’ve just broken the $3,000 mark! That means we officially have less than $500 to make until we’ve made our goal. Which means that we’re… Read More
Erik and I will be speaking on our first comics journalism panel this summer. Thanks to the Association of Alternative Newsmedia for inviting us. We’re bringing our bikes out, so that means a weekend… Read More
The uptick has begun! In a classic Kickstarter sort of way, this final stretch toward our goal has more contributors coming in than at any other point during the campaign. Which is awesome!… Read More
We did a radio interview with the infamous Nes Morton for WCRX-Columbia College Chicago last month: We’re also currently at around 60 percent on our Kickstarter (which is an average of about $233… Read More
Now that we’ve learned more of what the Kickstarter contribution pattern has been like over the last three weeks, we can start giving more things away. For example, anyone who contributes $20+ in… Read More
We tend to post sketches and rough illustrations of stories as we storyboard/draw them, but the writing side of it goes through a rough draft/editing process also. Here are a couple scans of… Read More
We finished a story today! It’s been in the works for a few months now, but we’ve made final changes to “Night Watch.” The story follows Catholic Sisters Pat Murphy and JoAnn Persch… Read More
This is the first of a 10-day blogathon for the final stretch of our Kickstarter campaign. Erik and I will be posting one update a day on our progress (including original artwork and… Read More
This is an 8-page storyboard we worked out last night for an upcoming story about my great uncle and the Chicago neighborhood he’s lived in for the last four decades (click on the… Read More
We had the pleasure of talking with Alysia Santo, of the CJR’s Kickstarter Chronicles, about our project, its Kickstarter and future plans for comics journalism. You can check it out here, in “The… Read More
Comjourn.com is dead! Long live IllusPress.com! Also, our Kickstarter campaign is on. But only for the month of April…then it’ll be too late for you to help fund our book… Kickstarter for President!
