I’m going to take a break from complaining about Spider-Man
to talk about something much more important to me. I may have linked to the
tumblr blog for my project, Campaigners, already. If not, there it is. Please
check it out.
Campaigners is a graphic novel I’ll be running a Kickstarter
for this summer. It’s a project I very much believe in, and I’m incredibly
excited to share it with everyone.
I had an idea a couple years back, probably not a new idea.
What if candidates won the Presidency by fighting? What if you had to beat the
crap out of your opponent? I mean, everyone knows that politicians are full of
shit, and everyone not only acknowledges that elections are just a big mess of
smoke and mirrors, but actually actively participate in it.
So why bother with the elections at all? Why not just have
them beat the shit out of each other?
As the story evolved in my head, it became clear that it
needed a focal point, a point-of-view character from which we could watch this
chaos unfold. I came up with the idea of a kid whose turning 18 on Election Day,
and as an act of protest has decided not to vote.
Because have you ever told anyone you don’t vote? Have you
ever been in a room when someone said that out loud? It’s like they said they
like to use pieces of the American flag for toilet paper. It’s crazy.
Over time, the story started to revolve around this kid, and
this little rebellion began to grow in scope.
And then I realized that I really wanted to make this story
happen. And it occurred to me that an election year would be the best time to
put a book like this out. An election year like the one coming up in 2016. But
there was no way I could come up with the money to make this happen by then.
So I decided to turn to Kickstarter, and the rest will
(hopefully) be history. I found MJ Barros online, she’s an incredible artist
who has already done an amazing job of bringing the characters to life. She’s
already provided a ton of art and it’s all awesome.
This is going to be a very ambitious project for me, and I
really hope to make it happen. I hope you’ll all check out the tumblr, and I
especially hope you’ll share it with others. There’s so much great stuff coming
down the line for this.
Anyway, thanks for listening.
