By Zack Quaintance — So, if you follow me on Twitter and logged on for even a second today, you probably saw that I’m making a comic, and I’m making it through Kickstarter. And because that process isn’t demanding enough, I’m also keeping a behind-the-scenes blog…with daily updates. The book is called Next Door, and you can learn all about it with the link…and also see the cover below.

So that’s that. This blog, meanwhile, is ostensibly an effort on my part to share in near-real time the Kickstarter comics tips that I’m learning as I go. This is my first Kickstarter, so I’m not a veteran of the platform or anything, but as you’ll see in the months to come, I have spent weeks upon weeks speaking with others who have more experience crowdfunding to assemble my own approach. I’m also earnest as all get out about this, and excited to share all of my missteps, triumphs and embarrassing moments as we go.

How embarrassing? Well, tomorrow’s post, for example, is going to be a deep dive into how my original marketing tact for the thing was going to Death of Salesman meets Noah Baumbach. That was my genius marketing…for a comic book…where a dog urinating kicks off at least part of the action. I promise you, though, my attempts to navigate the world of Kickstarter comics only got better from there.

Anyway! I hope to strike a good mix between actionable advice and fun anecdotes in this space in the days and weeks to come, and I sincerely hope you’ll join me for the ride. As with the other recent daily, month-long-plus projects I’ve done on this site (thinking namely of the two collaborative readings lists we wrapped this year, the Quarantine Reading List and the Extra Eisners), I’ll be keeping master list landing page of each entry below.

Thanks for reading, and I hope you enjoy it!

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Zack Quaintance is a tech reporter by day and freelance writer by night/weekend. He Tweets compulsively about storytelling and comics as Comics Bookcase.