Agents of the Realm Volumes 1 and 2 are live on Kickstarter until August 15th. If youâre new to the comic, continue below!
Agents of the Realm is a magical girl inspired webcomic series follows five young women who have just started college only to find out that theyâre tasked with the job to protect both their realm and a sister dimension as well.
Itâs not just a story about friendship, but finding the hidden power and strength that lies within.
Thereâs a carefully crafted world with rich mythology that explores the idea of corruption and the greed that comes with it.
And the kind of sincere awkwardness and strength that comes with forging bonds with people looking to travel a new road with you.
Also here are some very shameless showcasing of some of my favorite panels that Iâve done in the comic so far.
Aside from the two books, thereâs still plenty of stretch goals to unlock, including two short stories centered around one of my favorite side characters – Mackenzie
And also the opportunity to provie not only a digital artbook but a physical one as well.
Please help me bring these stories to life. Iâm incredibly excited to share more of the world with you and canât wait to continue the adventure for you all to explore.
We’ll help resolve payment-card disputes.
If a backer of your project disputes the charge with their card issuer,
we’ll handle re-presenting the charge to settle the dispute with the
card issuer. Youâll be notified that a dispute has been filed, and
youâll be able to provide evidence to help us resolve it in your favor.
If the cardholderâs dispute is found valid, you authorize us to charge
the credit card number you provided when you started your project for
the amount of the chargeback.
Nearly six years later, Iâm browsing Kickstarterâs TOU on a leisurely Saturday night as one does, and Iâm happy to see this policy in place. When I (and others) got kicktrolled, there wasnât a word for it yet, and there was nothing in place at Kickstarter to deal with this sort of thing. It was a very insecure time for me, yikes.
I donât know what I would have done if that guy hadnât reached out to me. Wonder what all those folks have been up to?
âRiven Seal is a historical fantasy set in a world where magic has always existed and an onset of demon summoning has brought upon major changes throughout the world. While the story interweaves several plot lines and a diverse cast, a young man named Janus lies at the center of web of fate that connects them all. His encounter with a unbound demon is the catalyst for a series of intrigues and magic that has not been seen in centuries.âÂ
Hey, a fellow Reverie & Spiderforest comic, Riven Seal, is doing a kickstarter!! They used to go by Ianua, but changed their name recently (and their website layout, which looks fucking fantastic, btw) ⊠Same people tho! Check em out, signal boost, and/or support em!
Hi, folks. Â Early this morning, Eric and I woke up to find that our Kickstarter had jumped from around $1,500 pledged to over $10,000 overnight. Â While that may look like great news, 90% of this funding is coming from a single account, who pledged $9,000. Â This is from a new account who has not so far successfully backed/given money to any other projects, and their history of backing does not in the least show that this could possibly be a real and generous miracle pledge.
Despite the sucky situation weâre currently in, we are genuinely happy that we have legitimately reached $1,875 funding. Â Thank you for everyone who has supported us early in the campaign. Â Your help is irreplaceable!
People who post fake pledges to indie cartoonistsâ kickstarters are actual pond scum, and stuff like this can have serious negative financial consequences for the victims. If youâd like to help, please signal boost and consider sending this project some *real* pledges. Youâll get some rad queer comics out of it, AND the satisfaction of pissing off the jerkface whoâs trying to sabotage them!
OH MY DING DANG, screw fake pledgers!!!! Â This project is amazing, go back it with some legit funds (I was the first pledger to it, hi yes Iâm very proud!) Â I hope this gets resolved!
UGHHHHHHHH I will do everything in my power to make sure this doesnât happen to other folks! Signal boost and spread the word, get this project some backers!
This stack of index cards represents my book. To help me figure out what spot artwork I’m going to need to get done for my book designer. #makecomics #thehues #kickstarter #bookdesign
I get a couple of these every time I run a Kickstarter. This is the latest.
I genuinely feel for folks trying to figure out crowdfunding. It can be so discouraging when you donât get any backers for something you really believe in. But I only have one answer for questions like this.
1) Labor in suffocating obscurity for years and years
2) Slowly, painfully build an audience, person by person
3) Make a thing to sell them
4) Does your audience buy the thing from you? If no, repeat 1) – 3). If yes, continue to 5).Â
5) You now have people you know will buy a thing from you. Launch a Kickstarter for a new thing! If you want. Or donât? Itâs cool, whatever.Â
Kickstarter, Indiegogo and other crowdfunding platforms arenât where you go to find fans. Theyâre where you take your fans once youâve already earned them.
Telling someone âGo put in your ten yearsâ sounds and feels shitty, but honestly⊠thatâs what I did.
I donât have a trick. I just worked.
Most people only see you on step 5, completely unaware of how hard you worked at steps 1-4, and they think youâve got a secret trick for instant success but the success was never instant. Nobody can say it isnât fair that your kickstarter succeeded while theirs didnât. You donât deserve it just for showing up. You earn it, and the earning is hard.
I’m still drowning in reblog notifications. Thank you everyone who helped spread my story, especially those who left outrageously angry comments lambasting Mr. Farhan. Those were hilarious. <3
Yesterday afternoon, his profile was deleted from Kickstarter. I’m going to assume that it was Kickstarter doing the deleting, since they forwarded my message to their Trust and Safety team, and hopefully they just outright banned his IP address, so that he can’t make a new account and do the same thing again.
While it’s a start, Kickstarter and Amazon ultimately need to develop a policy and measures to combat this sort of practice that doesn’t leave project creators with the short end of the stick. As Megan put it so well yesterday, it’s not like we can prevent a backer from pledging even if we know that they’re going to do something like this.
A lot of kind folks asked what they could do to help me out if I end up losing the money, and I just want to say thanks. As I said in the interview above, I’m extremely privileged to have a wonderful support system of family and friends who will be able to help me out, so I’m not in a dire situation. But if you really want to do me a favor, go checkout mycomics, and if you like them, share with others.
In the meantime, I hope Amazon does the right thing and my appeal turns out in my favor. I will let you guys know how it turns out. Thank you again!
Encik Farhan is a scammer. He backs projects, pledging hundreds or thousands of dollars at the highest tier, and then disputes the credit card charges 1-3 months later, often after his rewards have been shipped.
He pledged $1000 to my campaign, and a few days after I posted an update that backer rewards were being shipped, he filed a charge dispute with his credit card company. I’m still waiting for the outcome of my appeal, but if I lose $1000, it will ruin me.
Another project creator got in touch with me this week, asking about Encik Farhan, and dozens of creators have been affected by this asshole, but there is no built-in way to report individual backers or profiles on Kickstarter.
His email address registered with Kickstarter is akusukaiphone@gmail.com, and the contact email he gave me in his survey response is wadepakf@gmail.com.
If you are starting a project, WATCH OUT FOR THIS GUY. If he backs your project, assume that those funds will be disputed after your campaign is over. He’s screwing over creators, and meanwhile, he still gets to look good with all these “backed” projects showing up on his profile.
Kickstarter has deleted Farhan’s account and banned him from the site. They issued an official statement regarding the incident, as well as a personal response to me letting me know the above, and that they will be working with all the project creators and Amazon Payments to get this resolved.
I’m happy with Kickstarter’s response so far, and I’m hopeful that we’ll see a positive outcome not only for me, but for all the creators that were affected.
