{"id":21203,"date":"2013-09-26T01:51:54","date_gmt":"2013-09-26T06:51:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/?p=21203"},"modified":"2013-09-26T01:51:54","modified_gmt":"2013-09-26T06:51:54","slug":"chimera-kickstarter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/?p=21203","title":{"rendered":"Chimera Kickstarter"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Jeff Palumbo was one of my contacts at the Escapist a while back. He&#8217;s moved on and is now trying to launch his own comic. Well, more like his own label, but also this book. He was nice enough to send me a signed copy of issue #1.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s got a good first-issue hook: We jump back and forth between our modern-day protagonist and (in this issue) someone linked to him in the old west. (As I understand it, the protagonist will connect with (?) other people in other times, so it&#8217;s really the set-up for a supernatural story, not a western story.) <\/p>\n<p>Anyway. I was sad when I got to the end.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.spinwhizcomics.com.\/publisher\/spinwhiz-comics\/chimera\">You can read issue #1 online for free<\/a>. Now they&#8217;re doing <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kickstarter.com\/projects\/876432608\/chimera-issue-2-fundraiser-by-spinwhiz-comics\">a Kickstarter<\/a> for ish #2. (The idea being that #1 will build the interest, the interest will drive the Kickstarter, the Kickstarter will fund #2, the sales of #2 will pay for #3, etc.) I don&#8217;t know enough about comics to know how feasible this is, but as a fellow dream-chasing indie-type person I&#8217;m really hoping he makes it. <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.spinwhizcomics.com.\/publisher\/spinwhiz-comics\/chimera\">Give issue #1 a look<\/a>.  Even if it&#8217;s not your thing, maybe pass it along to your comics-reading friends? <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jeff Palumbo was one of my contacts at the Escapist a while back. He&#8217;s moved on and is now trying to launch his own comic. Well, more like his own label, but also this book. He was nice enough to send me a signed copy of issue #1. It&#8217;s got a good first-issue hook: We [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[111],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21203","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-notices"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21203","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=21203"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21203\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=21203"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=21203"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=21203"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}