Dead Air #1-3 90s College Radio Sci-Fi With A Soundtrack
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What if one day every year you could talk to the dead?
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Dates: Apr 28th -> May 28th (30 days)
Project By: Benjamin Hunting
Backers: 323
Average Pledge Per Backer: $41 CAD
Funded: $13,397 CAD of $13,000 CAD
Dates: Apr 28th -> May 28th (30 days)
Project By: Benjamin Hunting
$13,397 CAD
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Last Updated: May 28 @ 08:03 -0400 GMT
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Wrapping Up The Dead Air Podcast Tour With Comix 4 All and Keeping It Geekly 
May 26th - via: kickstarter.com
Last night, Joe and I were on the Keeping it Geekly podcast. Joe spoke in depth about his origins in the comic book industry, from his start at Dreamwave all the way up to his work with Udon, and how that pushed him into his own creator-owned books... (Read More)
Exploring The D-TALq Resistance In Dead Air Issue 3
May 25th - via: kickstarter.com
When I was first structuring Dead Air’s alternate reality, I knew right away that there would be a substantial resistance to D-TALq technology in society. After all, what could be more destabilizing than the ability to talk to the dead, especially... (Read More)
It's Our Final Full-Page Friday!
May 22nd - via: kickstarter.com
Today is the final Friday in the Dead Air campaign, and so here's one last Full Page Friday showing off one of Joe and Maja's incredible pages from Dead Air #3. What do I love about this page? The setting is a pitch-perfect rendering of the science... (Read More)
Training My Brain To Better Visualize Comic Book Lettering in Dead Air Issue #3
May 21st - via: kickstarter.com
I worry way too much about lettering. Specifically, I am almost always concerned that the dialogue I’ve put into a comic book script is simply not going to fit on the page, whether it’s because I’ve misjudged the size of the panel, or because... (Read More)
Talkin' Dead Air with AJ Reimann and World At War Comics on Podcasts!
May 20th - via: kickstarter.com
Did someone say PODCASTS?!? Joe and I have been talking to some great people about Dead Air over the past week, and I wanted to post those here so you can check out the conversations about the comic book, and how the Dead Air concept came to life. I... (Read More)
Designing D-TALq, the Tech at the Center of the Dead Air Comic Book
May 19th - via: kickstarter.com
When it came time to design the details of the D-TALq technology that’s used to communicate with the departed in Dead Air, we had almost free reign in terms of how we wanted it to function, and how we could represent it on the page. As it turns... (Read More)
New Stretch Goal, With A Twist: Page-by-Page Commentary from Joe and Benjamin! Plus More Podcast Fun!
May 18th - via: kickstarter.com
Good morning from Studio Alpaca HQ! We've got 9 days left in this campaign, and we've been sitting at 75% funded for a while. It's a bit of a nail-biter for us, so we're asking you to please tell your friends who love comics to come check out out... (Read More)
The Anatomy and Evolution of a Dead Air Comic Panel
May 15th - via: kickstarter.com
The process of creating a comic book is like having a constant conversation between multiple brains, the boundaries of the page, and the written word, all at the same time. As a result, it often transpires that the original idea for a specific page... (Read More)
Long Lost Songs I’ll Never Hear Again
May 13th - via: kickstarter.com
I’ve mentioned how growing up in a rural area limited my options when it came to being exposed to new music, or anything outside the mainstream, and how my local university radio station played a big role in expanding my cultural horizons.... (Read More)
Podcast Fun Plus A New Rewards Tier!
May 12th - via: kickstarter.com
Last night, Joe and I appeared on the Critical Affection podcast to talk all things Dead Air, as well as discuss how the '90s music movie Empire Records helped inspire the tone and themes of the book. We had a lot of laughs about how ridiculous that... (Read More)
Dead Air Comic Gets Personal About My 90s College Radio Days
May 11th - via: kickstarter.com
Dead Air is one of the most personal books I’ve written in terms of it touching on a very important period of my own life: my late-90s college radio experience. I was 16 years old the first time I sat behind a microphone in a radio broadcast booth,... (Read More)
It's Tune-Up Friday with a Pair of Dead Air Radio Playlists!
May 8th - via: kickstarter.com
We're heading into the second weekend of the Dead Air campaign, and we're celebrating with a pair of CJNK 89.9 radio playlists! First up is Issue #3 cover star Ferry with a solid hour of '90s metal. You'll find everything from thrash to NWOBHM to... (Read More)
Who Would You Talk To If You Could Talk To The Dead?
May 7th - via: kickstarter.com
One of the first questions that naturally follows the central theme of Dead Air—”What if one day a year, you could talk to the dead?”—is of course “Who would you talk to?” The answer, for most people, would be a deeply personal one. Most... (Read More)
The Last Gasp of Music Video Culture Helped Shape My 90s Music Tastes (And The Dead Air Comic)
May 6th - via: kickstarter.com
Music videos were fairly exotic for me as a kid growing up in small town Quebec. Even though I was a child of the 80s, I was insulated from the concept of MTV, something that we would have needed cable to access (which didn’t arrive in my hometown... (Read More)
It's Been One Week - Time For A Six Panel Art Blast!
May 5th - via: kickstarter.com
Dead Air is 57 percent funded - THANK YOU! To celebrate our first week on Kickstarter, we've put together this 6-panel Art Blast put together from Issue #3's pages. We hope you enjoy this sneak peek inside the pages of Dead Air #3! (Read More)
CanCon: The Most Canadian Radio Rule You’ve Never Heard Of
May 4th - via: kickstarter.com
One of the odd details about Canadian media in general—and radio in particular—is the requirement from the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission (CRTC) that a certain percentage of whatever is being broadcast be sourced from... (Read More)
50 Percent Funded - Time For A Full Page Friday!
May 1st - via: kickstarter.com
We are sitting at 50 percent funded. Thank you so much for getting us to this point! To celebrate, here's a full page from Dead Air Issue 3. There are a bunch of things I love about how artist Joe Ng designed this page. First, you'll notice how in... (Read More)
University Radio Was The Music-Loving Older Sibling I Never Had
April 30th - via: kickstarter.com
If there’s one cliché that emerges time and time again when talking to music obsessives about their formative years, it’s the older sibling who routinely passed down pieces and parts of their own record collection. These audio breadcrumbs often... (Read More)
Thank you for an amazing first day!
April 29th - via: kickstarter.com
Everyone here at Studio Alpaca HQ wants to say a big THANK YOU to everyone who showed up with fantastic support on the very first day of our campaign.At the time I write this, we're sitting at 42% funded in 24 hours, which is amazing! It really means... (Read More)
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