PETE VON SHOLLY'S HISTORY OF MONSTERS
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An illustrated guide to the history of monsters. Over 1100 monsters, with a key to identify each one. AMAZINGLY thorough! 48 pp color!
Backers: 148
Average Pledge Per Backer: $55
Funded: $8,185 of $5,000
Dates: Jun 26th -> Jul 26th (31 days)
Project By: Pete Von Sholly
Backers: 148
Average Pledge Per Backer: $55
Funded: $8,185 of $5,000
Dates: Jun 26th -> Jul 26th (31 days)
Project By: Pete Von Sholly
$8,185
current pledge level
Last Updated: July 26 @ 22:30 -0400 GMT
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of goal
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The End is Near! Get them last minute pledges in quick! 
July 26th - via: kickstarter.com
More monsters await you! Yours truly. Holy moly! Just $215 short of $8000! About 12 hours to go! Anybody out there on the fence? Need anything? Want to upgrade to the Hardoover maybe? Now is your chance! Regardless THANK YOU to everyone who... (Read More)
LET ME DRAW A MONSTER FOR YOU! You pick the monster- I draw the monster.
July 25th - via: kickstarter.com
We have a reward which I haven't really promoted much in the madness to sell books- for a mere 200 bucks plus some shipping and packing costs ($230 total) I'll do you a monster drawing of any monster you choose! SO if this is something you fancy,... (Read More)
LAST DAY! Less than 24 hours to go! Get some stuff quick!
July 25th - via: kickstarter.com
OVER 1100 Monsters! LAST DAY to grab yourself a HISTORY OF MONSTERS (soft or limited hardcover!) or a titanic pack of 23 HUGE (mini) COMICS with the UGH! PACK! (OR some hollywood history with the Freddy storyboard originals etc etc!). I can't tell... (Read More)
REDUCED PRICE ON ORIGINAL NIGHTMARE ON ELM ST 3 DREAM WARRIORS storyboards!
July 24th - via: kickstarter.com
Get all three boards for just $1000 during this LAST TWO DAY sale. Own a piece of Freddy Movie History! It's the Freddy Snake scene, my favorite in that film. This was my first big storyboard job and it was a thrill! After I storyboarded THE BLOB and... (Read More)
SOLD-OUT UGH COLLECTION DISCOVERED - GEThttps://ksr-ugc.imgix.net/assets/017/633/605/f8b744ab5ce2e6f147a959478a1dc68f_original.jpg?w=700&fit=max&v=1500911637&auto=format&q=92&s=b5b28ac34873ee4cdc1457b4e6a80555 ONE QUICK!
July 24th - via: kickstarter.com
I found five copies of my original Kickstarter offering, the UGH! ANNUAL! Over 100 pages of delightfully ugh-y comics and stories! If you missed it, here's your chance. They are $110 each (which includes packing and shipping!) Time's getting very... (Read More)
Three Days of the Monsters! $7000 goal incentive plan!
July 23rd - via: kickstarter.com
Hello out there in Monster Land! I hate to just sit still and let three days go to waste so here's an idea- If we (and when I say "we" I mean "you"!) can get the total sales up to $7000 I will throw in free copies of the latest two UGH! comics on ALL... (Read More)
HISTORY OF MONSTERS- ONE WEEK LEFT- Get it before it's history!
July 19th - via: kickstarter.com
Special NON commerical moment- a cartoon! And now back to our regularly scheduled crass commercialism: cover The special limited hardcover! 23 UGH salute! ugh stuff 1 The campaign is going great! I am as always super grateful to all... (Read More)
GET SOME MOVIE HISTORY? NOES DREAM WARRIORS STORYBOARDS with a book!
July 17th - via: kickstarter.com
Me and Freddy looking at the 'boards. page 1 page 2 page 3 Three pages of Nightmare on Elm Street 3 Dream Warriors (long enough title??) are being offered for $1500 for the set. Plus a nice pic of me and Freddy on the set. I know it's a... (Read More)
TWO-PACK of BRAND NEW UGHS! A cheap thing to buy at last! Lovecraft and Ackerman... what?
July 13th - via: kickstarter.com
The latest issues of UGH! (22 and 23) feature Lovecraft and a Famous Monsters satire respectively. With not much respect when it comes to the monster mag and their products! These are mini-comics, 8 cheesy pages @ but what pages they are! Enjoy! UGH!... (Read More)
A bit more info on the new UGH PACK! TWENTY ONE mini-comics stuffed with Von Sholly weirdness. What else? Monsters, dinosaurs, zombies, Lovecraft, space monsters, ghosts, mad scientists and MORE! Get the whole set NOW.
July 11th - via: kickstarter.com
Lost Island with girls and monsters and dinosaurs. Come on, what's not to like? Whole Lotta UGH! Faces of UGH! UGH! page showcase! (Read More)
WANNA WHOLE LOTTA UGH!
July 11th - via: kickstarter.com
Going to put up a new reward soon! ALL 21 INDIVIDUAL ISSUES OF UGH MINI-COMICS in one package for just $120 with FREE SHIPPING in the USA. These include the eleven stories from the UGH ANNUAL (with some extras inside) and TEN BRAND NEW STORIES. Stay... (Read More)
15 DAYS DOWN, 15 TO GO! We are doing great! Thanks to all!
July 10th - via: kickstarter.com
Sprouting on Yuggoth! Monolithic on Jupiter! Big on Skull Island! We are doing so great I (almost) can't believe it. The History of Monsters took YEARS to make and really does represent a lifetime of research and nerdiness where MONSTERS are... (Read More)
PRINTS FROM HISTORY OF MONSTERS Parts 10-13 (1930s---1950s)
July 9th - via: kickstarter.com
Some day your prints will come. Nice color prints on heavy paper! 13" x 19" SIGNED and in FULL COLOR $35@ with FREE SHIPPING! See REWARDS section on Kickstarter (Read More)
YOU put the FUN in FUNDED! THANKS THANKS THANKS one and all!
July 6th - via: kickstarter.com
Bombastic... but TRUE! My book (which you may be sick of hearing about by now!) HAS FUNDED! So feel free to keep ordering that and the various rewards but I am going to ease up on the relentless sales pitching- which wears ya out I swear! THANKS to... (Read More)
Quickie Post to say that as July 4 ends I'm 95% funded! Feeling excited, pleased and grateful!
July 5th - via: kickstarter.com
Mythological Monsters of the World People all over the world have always invented monsters! Take the mysteries of nature and life itself, add fossil skeletons of prehistoric giants and the darkness beyond the safety of the fire at night and swirl... (Read More)
MONSTER ALPHABET POSTER
July 4th - via: kickstarter.com
So, if you like monsters, and I am guessing you aren't reading this if you don't, my MONSTER ALPHABET poster may appeal to you! Offering it as an additional reward now- at nice poster size! Which is two by three feet. Please see the reward section... (Read More)
Me and Freddy! We go waaaaay back.
July 3rd - via: kickstarter.com
Me and Robert Englund from NOES 3 Dream Warriors Storyboardiing with Freddy I am SO excited to see we have topped 80% funding after the first week! Amazing and wonderful and THANK YOU all who have helped make this book available. I was looking... (Read More)
ENDORSEMENT FROM PETE CROWTHER OF PS PUBLISHING
June 30th - via: kickstarter.com
Our Lovecraft Library from PS "There are some things that simply deserve MAXIMUM promotion and it's my experience that most of 'em originate at the desk and in the cluttered trashcan brain of Pete Von Sholly. Put simply, there is no possible... (Read More)
HARDCOVER UPDATE-- Each custom-made book will include an ORIGINAL Von Sholly monster sketch inside!
June 29th - via: kickstarter.com
The Freddy Snake from NOES 3 Freddy looking at my storyboards- NOES 3 Let Pete draw a monster for you too! Get one of these special books now! (Read More)
SPECIAL HARDCOVER VERSION NOW AVAILABLE
June 29th - via: kickstarter.com
HARDCOVER version with different cover SPECIAL HARDOVER edition of Pete Von Sholly’s HISTORY OF MONSTERS now available! Comes with a different cover and a nice DUST JACKET with a clear Brodart (mylar sleeve) to keep the DJ from getting scuffed... (Read More)
GOING GOOD! THANK YOU ONE AND ALL!
June 29th - via: kickstarter.com
So far so good! THANKS so much to everyone for helping make this happen. People still tell me (at conventions) how they remember this art from the first few Monsterpalooza shows when it was displayed in its mural down a long hallway. The book is a... (Read More)
SPECIAL SIGNED POSTER VERSION of HISTORY OF MONSTERS now available!
June 27th - via: kickstarter.com
SPECIAL PETE VON SHOLLY'S HISTORY OF MONSTERS POSTER By popular demand, the poster version of the mural is now available- SIGNED- 13" x 19" color. Rolled and sent in a sturdy tube for safety. $100 per poster includes free shipping in US. (Read More)
VON SHOLLY FEATURED IN ART DIRECTOR'S GUILD MAGAZINE- COMIC CON ISSUE!
June 27th - via: kickstarter.com
PVS in ADG mag 01 PVS in ADG mag 02 I was recently honored by a feature in the Art Director's Guild magazine, PERSPECTIVE! Each year they do a Comic Con issue and I got two very exciting spreads in the latest issue. (Read More)
Here's a taste of just how much stuff is in the HISTORY OF MONSTERS book. The thing is a mural and tells a story.
June 27th - via: kickstarter.com
HISTORY OF MONSTERS overview. (Read More)
Eldritch Update- LOVECRAFT section
June 26th - via: kickstarter.com
I concentrated a lot on the MOVIE parts of the book but also want to stress it’s a real sprawling history which includes MUCH more stuff. Here’s a piece of the Lovecraft part as a further example! Lovecraft represented well in History of Monsters... (Read More)
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