Tony Harris has long been a fan favorite and critically acclaimed artist, having contributed stellar work to James Robinson’s well loved “Starman” run as well as acting as co-creator and artist for the whole of Brian K. Vaughan’s “Ex-Machina.” Now, he’ll be putting out a new creator owned book titled “Roundeye: My Love,” a 96-page OGN that is a love letter to his wife. It also has some ridiculously gorgeous preview pages out there, but for this project to become a reality, Harris will need your help.
Harris is looking to get $60,000 via Kickstarter to get this project all the way from conceptual stage to release. While that seems like a lot (even for Kickstarter), he explains his reasoning:
“So it may initially seems to be too high of a goal to reach , but consider this: Kickstarter takes a percentage of all monies recieved,” he posted on the Kickstarter page. “They also charge for all the credit card processing fees. The money goal set here reflects those things, my page rate for penciling, inking and coloring 96 pages of art, which is a Herculean task to be sure. Then there are administration fees for publishing, and promotional items to be generated and paid for. this project will likely be taken to one of the main publishers in comics such as Dark Horse, Image, IDW, etc…. so they will handle printing, and distribution, and a certain amount of advertising costs ( which can be MASSIVE). These are all big reasons why I decided to post ROUNDEYE: AFor Love here on Kickstarter. To reach as large an audience as possible. And the salary/page rate mentioned will likely be over 1-2 years, which doesn’t amount to a whole lot. But this is the ONLY way to produce an extremely high quality product that will be competitive in the Comics market. I sincerely hope this makes everything I am trying to achieve here totally transparent.”
So there you have it. If you’re interested in helping out a top creator create a labor of love, contribute soon. A $25 contribution gets you your own copy as well as your name printed in the book as a contributor, while those with slightly deeper pockets can get a personalized drawing (not just a sketch) if you contribute $400 (limited to 50 though). Get on it people – we have 58 days to make this happen!
