Kickstart Sprint for Girl Genius

[kevin_standlee]

Studio Foglio is running a Kickstarter campaign to raise enough money to print the next paper edition of Girl Genius. I'm in at a relatively low level myself. (I do wish I had the money to drop on the pair of $10K one-of-a-kind support levels; we'd have Phil and Kaja & The Experiments as GoHs of FernleyCon.) Somewhat to I think everyone's surprise, the main goal funded in about one day, and here on Day 3 they're already edging up to stretch goal 3. But if you haven't yet pledged, don't let that stop you: don't we all want to see "Phil in his 'Mr. Hyde' personality, demonstrating the use of [their] astonishing new orange peeler"?

Comments

[melchar.livejournal.com]

LOL - yeah, I got a link for this from a friend aaaaand, there goes $55

[kevin-standlee.livejournal.com]

Me, too, same level.

[a-cubed.livejournal.com]

No, they've reached their goal and people should stop funding them. Find a good project that still hasn't reached it's initial goal yet and put your money to better use!
Sorry, but I have some real problems with the Kickstarter model for crowdfunding. I really must get round to writing the academic paper showing where it's all gone wrong from the original ideas and what we really need in a crowdfunding system (one aspect of which is that once a project is funded, it's funded, none of this stupid nonsense of stretch goals - if you want funding for a further thing, then set up a separate project, damnit).
BTW, I've nothing against Phil and Kaja, but they've got the money they need already, and the fact that their fame boosts the funding well beyond their real needs is one thing holding crowdfunding back from killing the parasitic middlemen in these areas of commerce and preventing crowd-funding from really taking off for lots of new and up-and-coming talent as well as the well-known ones.