Production on Issue #6 is now COMPLETE!! Digital fulfillment to begin in the next two weeks =D
about 6 years ago – Wed, Feb 19, 2020 at 01:09:18 AM

Howdy, folks!

I couldn't be happier to post the below image and announcement:

PRODUCTION ON ISSUE #6 IS DONE!

That's right, we did 44 pages of story alone, it's basically it's own graphic novel and not just another single issue book in a series.

I'm in love with Fabiano's work on this last issue. He's really done it, he outdid himself by a long shot, no question about it and we cannot wait for you all to read the book and share yours thoughts about it.

Our colorist Tiago Barsa will be putting up the finishing touches this week while I review Deyvison's lettering and do another polish on the dialogue. I sincerely hope to get this over to you in digital format in the next two weeks.

I cannot guarantee though it will immediately go to production because of the Coronavirus tragedy in China. It's no secret we've been printing The Few and Cursed in Asia for a few years now, you can't beat their quality and pricing. But rest assured I will be updating you all as I get news from the factory.

Regardless, you all will be able to read The Few and Cursed #6 in two weeks time and that is truly exciting for us as creators that have dedicated so much time and attention to the work.

It's hard for me to post previews while avoiding spoilers at this point but I hope these two pages get you all excited for the conclusion of The Crows of Mana'Olana!!

PAINTING THE WORLD RED - AN ART BOOK CELEBRATING THE REDHEAD

I've already started working on the upcoming art book PAINTING THE WORLD RED which will collect for the very first time in a supersized high-end publication a number of pin-ups, prints, promotional artworks, covers, variants, and more celebrating the character of the Redhead.

Not only that but we’re also taking the opportunity to revisit earlier work, concepts, studies, variations, the process for some of the more iconic pieces, and publishing it all for the very first time as well. Like this super stylized colors over our original cover:

We're aiming to launch the Kickstarter to fund the production and printing of the art book as soon as we digitally fulfill the rewards for this campaign and send The Few and Cursed #6 to print.

Fabiano and I have a lot of exciting plans for The Few and Cursed this year and even though we got so behind on production of issue #6 we sure hope to pick up the pace now that's (almost) behind us.

I would like to take the opportunity again to thank you all for your mighty patience and understanding throughout this whole process, you guys have been just the best and your support overwhelming. Not once did we have to rush the work to satisfy disgruntled backers and that says a lot more about you guys than us creators.

So thank you!

Any questions or comments please leave them below, inbox me or shoot me an e-mail at [email protected]

Best!

Felipe

Kickstarter is picking out the best Kickstarted comics for a very special anthology and you can help get The Few and Cursed in there \o/
about 6 years ago – Thu, Jan 30, 2020 at 02:41:50 AM

Howdy, folks!

I just found out something pretty exciting. Kickstarter is creating an anthology to highlight some of the best Kickstarted comics ever and they are looking for fans and readers to nominate these projects!

Is there any chance I can get a number of you to head over to Twitter and nominate The Few and Cursed? Or if you like you can always nominate the 321: Fast Comics as well =)

It's super easy to do. Just hit the link below to head to their original tweet and reply nominating either one of my books and tagging me (Felipe_Cagno).

https://twitter.com/kickstarter/status/1221849117204283396?s=20

Maybe we can make enough noise that Kickstarter will notice us. It definitely would be a great honor to be a part of such anthology.

In other news just so I don't share an update without any new art in it... we're about 85% done with The Few and Cursed #6 and it's looking absolutely stunning. Here's a full colored preview for your delight:

Thanks so much!

Felipe

LAST REMINDER - BackerKit surveys locking down TODAY! No rewards for incomplete surveys!
about 6 years ago – Thu, Jan 16, 2020 at 01:41:11 AM

Howdy, folks!

I will keep this short and sweet today... the BackerKit Surveys are locking down TODAY at 11:59pm PST!

I'm using a pledge manager (BackerKit) to help me send everyone's rewards and if you don't fulfill your survey you will NOT receive anything - including digital rewards. I still have 94 backers that have yet to get back to me on their surveys.

 REMINDER: BackerKit Surveys locking down TODAY!!!

If you haven't gotten your BackerKit Surveys in the e-mail registered on your Kickstarter account please hit the link below to retrieve them.

----------> https://the-few-and-cursed-6-season-finale.backerkit.com/ <----------

Those that have already filled out please also make sure to make any last-minute edits, add-ons and confirmations by tonight as the system will lock down and finalize your orders tonight. Your credit cards will be charged tomorrow and all purchases final.

A lot of the rewards are produced based on the count BackerKit supplies me (i.e.: the Kickstarter special edition, magnets, bookmarks, prints, etc) meaning if you don't order now you might risk not getting it.

Today also marks the LAST DAY to add on to your order the exclusive Kickstarter edition. It will disappear from the surveys at midnight and the final count for it locked down.

Do not worry about shipping addresses right now. These will be able to be updated until we start shipping out items and I will give everyone plenty of time to make any edits if needed.

If anything - and I mean anything at all - seems out of place on BackerKit please e-mail me immediately at [email protected] or shoot me an inbox message. I did have to manually correct shipping quotes on a couple of orders because the system got them screwy so if you think that's the case just let me know.

Last but not least if you weren't able to retrieve your survey hitting the link above you NEED TO E-MAIL ME so I can forward your case to my project manager at BackerKit. Sometimes the survey invites don't go through and we need to fix that manually. It takes less than 5 minutes...

Thank you all so much for the support and understanding with Few and Cursed #6. We've been having steady progress on production this year and we are on track to wrap it up according to my previous update.

All the best and until next time!

Felipe

Happy 2020, everyone! Please read for upcoming news and page previews of TFAC#6!! Also, Surveys locking down next week!
about 6 years ago – Wed, Jan 08, 2020 at 01:54:52 AM

Hey everyone!

First off, HAPPY NEW YEAR to all of you! May it be filled with joy, health and achievements \o/

I'm absolutely thrilled for 2020 as we have a lot planned for Red and The Few and Cursed universe. Of course it all starts with fulfilling rewards for this Kickstarter before we move on to other challenges. 

Before I get into our monthly Production Update, I do have to remind you all that BackerKit Surveys are locking down next week.

REMINDER: BackerKit surveys locking down JANUARY 15TH!

This is a reminder for the 103 backers that have to yet fill out their BackerKit surveys as I will be locking them down on January 15th at 11:59pm PST.

**** If you don't fill out your Surveys you won't get your rewards - including your name in the "Thank You" section of the comic!! ****

This is also the LAST CHANCE to update any add-ons including grabbing a copy of the Kickstarter Exclusive Edition.

I will get the final count for the Kickstarter Exclusive Edition off BackerKit so once this is locked, it is locked for good, the book in this format (chromium finish and exclusive artwork both on the cover and back) will not be available anywhere else ever again! 

YOU HAVEN'T RECEIVED YOUR BACKERKIT SURVEY YET?

No problem, that's an easy fix! Just hit the link below and enter the e-mail address attached to yuor Kickstarter account:

----------> https://the-few-and-cursed-6-season-finale.backerkit.com/ <----------

E-mail me immediately at [email protected] if you weren't able to retrieve your survey so I can forward your case to my project manager at BackerKit. Sometimes the survey invites don't go through and we need to fix that manually. It takes less than 5 minutes...

BackerKit Surveys are the ONLY way I'll be able to get your shipping  addresses, any add-ons or current e-mail addresses to send the digital rewards to. Hopefully most of you, if not all, will get this and  complete your surveys in time.

I can't stress this enough: no surveys, no digital rewards, no physical rewards, nothing, folks!

PRODUCTION UPDATE

Fabiano has been hard at work on issue #6 and is well past the 2/3 mark. He plans on finishing all the pages by the end of month allowing us to go to print early to mid February. Tiago also advanced production over the holidays and you can check some previews below.

By the way, these are the last previews I will be sharing since we are going into spoiler territory from this point forward and the whole team really want you all surprised and excited when you read the finale =)

All this means we will be sending out the digital copies to everyone roughly in a month and then work with the printer in China to have the books delivered in Florida as soon as humanly possible so I can start fulfillment right away.

Our last calendar has us doing fulfillment on March 4th but I really don't think that's going to happen as printers usually ask for 6 to 8 weeks upon approval of files. 

Fabiano and I apologize for the delay. This one is totally on us and we had no idea what we were getting ourselves into when we decided to extend the story from the usual 26-28 page mark to 44 pages. It seemed a great idea at the time but we never thought it would delay production so much.

We are sorry for any inconvenience this is causing you guys but we really need to - for the last time - ask for a bit more patience as we move into the final leg of our race to finish The Few and Cursed: Crows of Mana'Olana the best way we can.

As always if you have any questions, critiques, thoughts, anything really, you can always leave a comment, shoot me a direct message or e-mail me at [email protected]. I'm always available and usually pretty quick to respond.

All the best!

Felipe

P.S.: For those that might have missed Shadow Nation - LaVerne's awesome comic book debut - we will be offering pre-orders as soon as we wrap up this Kickstarter. I must say though her book is turning out absolutely amazing!!

Last update of 2019! Thanks so much for a fantastic year and let's wrap it up in style enjoying Shadow Nation's LAST DAYS on Kickstarter =D
over 6 years ago – Thu, Dec 12, 2019 at 08:46:49 PM

Howdy fellas!

Just wanted to reach out one last time this year for a quick update on production of issue #6 and another "call-to-arms" for Shadow Nation as we go into our LAST FEW DAYS on Kickstarter. That's right, the Kickstarter ends next week on Thursday Dec. 19th.

We're currently sitting at 690 backers and $26K raised having unlocked half of all the Stretch Goals planned. I'd love to go all the way to $35K and unlock every single extra content. I know we can do this, together we can do anything, so if you haven't come check out Shadow Nation yet, come on over, help us go past 1.000 backers again.

You never know what might happen if we hit 1.000 backers..... ;)

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/felipecagno/the-few-and-cursed-shadow-nation?ref=26gjl2

The artwork by Rui Silveira is simply stunning and I'm sure it will match Fabiano's quality narrative for The Few and Cursed universe. I'm hoping to be able to expand the universe more and more giving different characters their own graphic novel by different artists.

But it all starts with LaVerne.

 THE FEW AND CURSED #6 UPDATE & BACKERKIT SURVEYS

We just had Comic Con Experience this past weekend in São Paulo, Brazil, and Fabiano and I were able to connect personally to discuss the future of the series and how our 2020 is shaping up.

We're confident it's going to be a fantastic year (plus we loved how our totem looked at the show!)

As soon as he wraps up TFAC#6 we will immediately start working on the next arc. 

With the trade and art book coming up on Kickstarter before the next comic book we have a chance to finally get ahead of the campaigns meaning we want to finish a couple of books before actually coming over to Kickstarter and making it available to you all.

That way we will keep delays to a minimum. We feel for you, we know how frustrating and disappointing delays can be so we've been talking how to minimize them during production.

Fabiano just started working on the last third of TFAC#6 and he's really delivering his best work on the series until now. Our goal continues to prioritize quality over time so I haven't been sweating him to finish the book as fast as possible and in turn he's really investing the time to knock you all out.

Seriously, check out a couple of his last pages:

We still have a lot of you that have not answered their Surveys. Almost 200 backers have yet to get back to me through BackerKit.

I cannot stress this enough: without the BackerKit Surveys filled out I will not be able to ship or e-mail you the rewards. It's that simple.

Surveys will be up online and available until January 15th and remember that whatever add-ons you choose on top of your original pledges will not be charged until that same date. Your credit cards will only be charged after the surveys lock.

Never got your Survey? No problem. Hit the link below and input your Kickstarter registered e-mail when prompted:

https://the-few-and-cursed-6-season-finale.backerkit.com/

Don't forget... Shadow Nation is ending its Kickstarter next week on Dec. 19th! Make sure you don't miss the opportunity to grab the Kickstarter exclusive hardcover along with all the unlocked content \o/ 

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/felipecagno/the-few-and-cursed-shadow-nation?ref=26gjl2

Thanks so much for your continued support, understanding and patience with The Few and Cursed. You all have made this year of 2019 quite special and I cannot wait to see what lies ahead for us.

Happy Holidays and talk to you all again next year!

Cheers,

Felipe