Here’s the big news I’ve been waiting all week to spill. The first ever Modest Medusa paperback collection is on the way! Modest Medusa Season 1 contains the first 100 strips from the series, including colored versions of the first 15 strips! The book also contains a bunch of bonus material, including a new 10 page story, an illustrated interview with myself, Marah and the rest of the cast and a photo gallery recreating some of our favorite scenes from the comic, with a special guest star playing the Medusa!
To finance this project I’m doing a Kickstarter. For those of you who don’t know, Kickstarter.com is a site where artists can post projects and seek funding. Each backer is given a reward based on how much they contributed. Rewards include stuff like signed and sketched copies of the finished book, walk on appearnaces in Season 2, Chocodiles and hand crafted Modest Medusa hats! You can see the full list of rewards here at the Modest Medusa Kickstarter page!
You guys have been really supportive this last year, and I’d like to call on that support again. Printing a book isn’t cheap. I need about $2100 to do the initial print run, and if we can raise more than that… well, that’s even better. The great thing about Kickstarter is that you can help fund this project and still get something out of it (besides the warm feeling of knowing that you supported Modest Medusa)! Contributing $22 will get you a copy of the book, signed by myself and Marah. I’ll also do a sketch on the title page. By contributing that $22 you’re financing the cost of printing 3-4 books! Now of course you can wait till after the book is printed and buy it then. Hopefully we’ll raise enough money without you (and that isn’t meant as a guilt trip). But buying now, pre-ordering through this Kickstarter, will really, really help me out. The Kickstarter lasts until September 16th, but don’t wait till the last minute to contribute. Typically, the more people who contribute early, the better a Kickstarter does!
The Kickstarter is live now, so you can go on over and contribute. For those of you who want to know more about how Kickstarter works, this is what you’ll want to read. I’d also appreciate it if you’d pass the news along via twitter, facebook, digg, google + and whatnot. Thanks!
Oh, special incentive! While our goal is to raise $2100 to print the book, more money is certainly better (and means more books). for every $400 over the goal we go I’ll do a special 3 page strip featuring the Mermaids, Charles, the Chainsaw Unicorn or one of the other supporting characters. I think it would be really awesome if the book had an extra 6, 9 or 12 pages of bonus stories!
Thanks guys. I really appreciate your support. please let me know if you have any questions!
OMG I’M SO EXCITED! But why did you have to wait so long to reveal this? 😮
I had planned to announce this on Monday morning, but the bank/Amazon Payments stuff took longer to work out than I anticipated. It’s all sorted now though.
cant wait must buy
Please do!
22 bucks….. ::looks long and hard rubs chin slowly with a thinking expression hand slowly stretching out thumb extended pointed sideways like an undecided roman arena watcher. then it flicks upwards:: Good thing it lasts till the 16th since those of us living on a budget wont get money till the third.
I totally understand that. Also… while I appreciate any support, I do want people to remember that the book will also be available after the kickstarter (that’s the whole point), and of course you can read it for free right here. Times are tough, and while I like to think they’re not so tough that most people can’t buy a comic, I don’t want anyone putting any extra strain on their budget.
Donated! I wish I could have donated enough for garner a guest spot, but I have a Medusa of my own on the way (baby metaphor)! I hope you get more than enough to get the book printed!!!
Thanks! And congratulations!
congratulations in advance to whoever purchases a walk on role. Jake your giving out chocodiles are you going to mod the box? im not sure how you would do that. Also jake you should create an special tshirt for Medusa. Not about her Eating Chocodiles but with the Chocodile Logo. then since their sponsoring you they could use her likeness for a special mascot collection of chocodiles . You’d have to tiptoe softly to avoid losing complete control of her to the company but imagine getting a box of chocodiles with Medusa in the corner maybe on the back could be like a standard issue wordsearch/maze.
That would be awesome. Just to be clear, our sponsor is FreshChocodiles.com and not Hostess. I have no idea what their connection is to Hostess )If any). I would like to do a t-shirt though. I’ll ask them about it.
even when our budgets are strapped alot of us want to help you raise up. When you join the Penny Arcade Collective. like pvponline youll be in the money and well taken care of. But until then it’s up to the fans.
The Penny Arcade collective… maybe then I could have my own booth at PAX!
Drinking bubbly ,adoring fans lavishing over you ,cutting edge of electronics etc. Penny Arcade is like the Mob and it’s every young aspiring Webcomic Artists dream to one day be part of “the family” and live the high life. I’m not entirely sure if theirs another mob out there or if Something Positive/Questionable Content are part of the Penny Arcade Collective. But you’ll find your place in onee of them. I’d also like everyone to be reminded right under the post comment section where it says like,twee,reddit,+1 and what not. the votey number seems to get lower when i remember to vote 2 x a day. so if it seems to go down for me when i vote imagine how low we all can get it together, Make Modest Medusa number 1
Will try my best
Thanks!
Holy Crap! (TM) A Modest Medusa book? With a sketch and signatures and everything?!
My pledge is in, guy, along with an extra $10 for insurance against future scanner mishaps. ;-P
Thanks! The new scanner is pretty nice, by the way!
Oh, I am SOO hoping for you to make it to $2900! I want a 3-pager all about me.
Do you want to write it?
No, I want you to write it.
I’m not funny.
By the way, are you home yet? I’m on train in washington somewhere.
Nope, I’m flying home through a hurricane tomorrow. Okay, along side a hurricane. If my flight doesn’t get cancelled.
Good luck with that.
I don’t think I’ve ever commented before, but I’m really enjoying this comic. Anywhoo, I’m happy to support your book!
grrr.. chainsaw unicorn shirt just got pushed back. I will scrounge up some money for kickstart. Lemmesee how work goes, but you can count on me to take a stab at da fish (scientista) for walk on. I think I have some cans to recycle 🙂
Awesome! Thanks.
Oh and…
Once again the snakes steal the show. I like how they seem to be either an extension of her personality, friends, or independent entities as the situation fits. They are too cute. I can’t decide whether panel 3 or panel 4 is “the best one.”
Me want book like now! Or I will not High five you yesterday!
Hellz yeah!