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Is Fund my Comic a Crowdfunding alternative for Kickstarter?


The first reviews for the newest Crowdfunder are coming in. Mary boys creator Chubb breaks down the reasons why it exists and the user experience.


As it happens, Kickstarter had banned yet another project for political reasons. In this case The Wise of Heart, a book by Dr Hantz Schantz. This is a graphic novel questioning the culture of censoring challenges to gender ideology.


A few people not interested in questioning censorship complained and Kickstarter...well... censored it hard! This was despite the campaign reaching its funding goal and Kickstarter having previously approved it for funding.


So where does one go from there?


The most obvious alternative would have been to start a new campaign on Indiegogo (No.2 in the Big Two of comic book crowdfunding sites), but this platform has been known to withhold funds at the end of a campaign when they find something to be in contravention of their terms and conditions. Again, this is despite the campaign funding and having been allowed to run its course on the platform. They too have banned projects for similar reasons to Kickstarter.


Crowdfundr, a new crowdfunding campaign specialising in comics, seemed like a third option for a while until they banned Mike Baron's Private American, and their CEO made it clear that they don't host projects by creators who don't share their politics. https://bleedingfool.com/blogs/crowdfunding-platform-admits-to-banning-all-comicsgate-associates/


Lucky for Dr Schantz, a new funding platform called Fund My Comic had just started up which allowed him to run his campaign there and make back more than he had raised on KS (love that Streisand Effect!).


So, we had closed our latest campaign, Mary Boys: Beefheads a couple of months earlier. It was a bit earlier than we normally would have closed out, and this left us looking for another crowdfunding platform to sell our overprint books on. With the hype around FMC, we decided to give it a go ourselves.


So far, the experience has been good. Setting up the campaign has been relatively straightforward, and support is close to hand. Payments are made directly to one's account via Stripe (a payment platform similar to PayPal). The platform fee is only 3% (compare this to 7% for KS, 5% for IGG and 10% for Zoop) and there are no hidden costs. FMC did not require us to introduce exclusive perks into our campaign, so we are free to sell our overprinted stock without having our IGG backers feel that they've missed out on anything. The best part of course is the lack of shadow-banning and censorship. Projects succeed or fail on their own merits and that's all we're really asking for.


I already see projects crossing 5 figures in funding on FMC. Hopefully in the near future some bigger name creators will take their chances there. Who knows, we may be on to something here.


Go have a look!



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