Hairy Steve
Posted: 22 Jul 2011, 13:59
Hello good Comics UK folk!
My name is Jamie Smart. I draw Desperate Dan, as well as My Own Genie, PSPM, Fish-Head Steve, even Doctor Who these days.
A few years ago, I collaborated on a comic with one of my comic heroes, who forum-ers probably know already, Steve Bright (Bananaman among many, but biggest for me - Prambo). I wrote it, and he started drawing it.
It was called Hairy Steve, a tooth-and-fur grown-up comic about a hairy antihero, fighting evil (note - containing swearing and violence). We had a huge amount of fun but it kinda fell by the wayside, both me and Steve had to get on with rent-paying work and leave Hairy Steve as a whim, a couple of pages complete, just a nice idea we’d one day like to return to.
This year, the idea of internet funding occurred. Comic artists asking for contributions to help them finish their comic, in return offering incentives to everyone who contributes, seems to me like a really organic way of producing art (and, more than that, free art). Being someone who puts most of his work online for free (and by god there’s a lot of it on here now), I find this idea intriguing and want to see if it works.
So far it has, in the first half an hour we had a flurry of very generous contributions. All the money earned will go towards printing a limited-run of this comic (only available to contributors), the rest going to pay Steve a wage to work on the art. I take no profits. In return for contributing, you can get everything from signed comics to original sketches, even a zombie drawing of yourself.
And even if you can’t contribute, we would appreciate any help in promoting this, to help spread the word. Because when we hit a quarter of our total, Hairy Steve will come online as a webcomic. So you get to read it anyway! EVERYONE WINS!
If you're interested in our story, or seeing how funding works, please click here http://www.hairysteve.com, to visit our website front page and indiegogo campaign telling you all about the story, how to contribute, and over the coming weeks we’ll be posting up previews and sketches!
Thank you.
My name is Jamie Smart. I draw Desperate Dan, as well as My Own Genie, PSPM, Fish-Head Steve, even Doctor Who these days.
A few years ago, I collaborated on a comic with one of my comic heroes, who forum-ers probably know already, Steve Bright (Bananaman among many, but biggest for me - Prambo). I wrote it, and he started drawing it.
It was called Hairy Steve, a tooth-and-fur grown-up comic about a hairy antihero, fighting evil (note - containing swearing and violence). We had a huge amount of fun but it kinda fell by the wayside, both me and Steve had to get on with rent-paying work and leave Hairy Steve as a whim, a couple of pages complete, just a nice idea we’d one day like to return to.
This year, the idea of internet funding occurred. Comic artists asking for contributions to help them finish their comic, in return offering incentives to everyone who contributes, seems to me like a really organic way of producing art (and, more than that, free art). Being someone who puts most of his work online for free (and by god there’s a lot of it on here now), I find this idea intriguing and want to see if it works.
So far it has, in the first half an hour we had a flurry of very generous contributions. All the money earned will go towards printing a limited-run of this comic (only available to contributors), the rest going to pay Steve a wage to work on the art. I take no profits. In return for contributing, you can get everything from signed comics to original sketches, even a zombie drawing of yourself.
And even if you can’t contribute, we would appreciate any help in promoting this, to help spread the word. Because when we hit a quarter of our total, Hairy Steve will come online as a webcomic. So you get to read it anyway! EVERYONE WINS!
If you're interested in our story, or seeing how funding works, please click here http://www.hairysteve.com, to visit our website front page and indiegogo campaign telling you all about the story, how to contribute, and over the coming weeks we’ll be posting up previews and sketches!
Thank you.
