Hello everyone. I know, you want more comics from me. Well then. It is time for Sons of Comtec.
Sons of Comtec is an extremely silly graphic novel1 about businessmen — even some female businessmen, for you ladies with modern ideas. If you subscribe to my YouTube channel, you’ll have already learned about it from the video below, which features voice-acted excerpts, an introduction to the main characters, and the front cover illustration being painted from start to finish!
My co-author and fellow genius, Ben Hutchings, is a legend of Australian comics, whom you might know from… well, anything from his long-running comedy zine You Stink and I Don’t, to his celebrated children’s comic Mini Mel and Timid Tom, to his award-winning educational works like The Invisible War and Follow Your Gut.
He and I have been collaborating on the slab of comedy nonsense called Sons of Comtec for over ten years, and at last it is time to trap its soul in book form and sell it to YOU.
…And that’s where you come in.
Ya see, to make this book happen, we’re crowdfunding it! On Kickstarter! This will begin in mere days, and what you can do right now is check out the pre-launch page and click the big button that says, “Notify me on launch”. That way, on launch, you’ll be notified!
And should you desire to be actually in the book — you, yourself, immortalised in its very pages — such opportunities will be available but limited, as soon as the crowdfund kicks off. Hence, the handy notification.
I’ll be real with you though, because I hate FOMO marketing: you probably won’t miss out. You are part of a dedicated but small audience. But, you never know, right? Maybe Sons of Comtec will be favoured by the algorithm and attract thousands of cashed-up new fans three minutes after it launches. It can happen.
Actually, that’s the other reason you might like to click that “Notify me on launch” button: it makes us look popular and helps the project to succeed. So if you do that, thank you!
Apparently mid-week is the best time to launch a crowdfunding campaign, so expect something to happen around Tuesday, August 5th, depending on your time zone, how tired I am after work that day, and so on.
The campaign will run for 30 days and 30 nights, which as you may recall is how long it took Almighty God to pout mightily and destroy the Earth by flood. In my mercy, I intend to merely ‘flood’ your RSS feed with non-stop reminders to back the campaign! Ho ho!
Indeed, now that Sons of Comtec is your new favourite book, you probably want to learn more about it. Well, there’ll be more to come in that regard, to keep us all ‘big energy’ and slavering during the crowdfund! Say it with me: I am FOCUSED, I am LOCKED IN, I am a WINNER with HOT WINNER STINK. Now say it to your wife! Now say it to your young children! Say it to them daily! Schedule a time and stick to it!
Congratulations, you are now on the road to business success! A road that leads where? That’s right: to Comtec.
- A graphic novel is a comic that you have to take seriously if you want to be taken seriously. ↩︎
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