Big Trouble in Little Canton (Art Novel + audio-visual)
A project in Canton, OH by Jason Daniel Myers000days
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A 400-page full-length novel full-sized full-color photo+art-book hybrid horror urban fantasy monsterpiece set in Northeast Ohio.
Backers: 42
Average Pledge Per Backer: $79
Funded: $3,334 of $1,666
Dates: Sep 15th -> Oct 22nd (38 days)
Project By: Jason Daniel Myers
Backers: 42
Average Pledge Per Backer: $79
Funded: $3,334 of $1,666
Dates: Sep 15th -> Oct 22nd (38 days)
Project By: Jason Daniel Myers
$3,334
current pledge level
Last Updated: October 22 @ 22:12 -0400 GMT
200%
of goal
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Latest News
A SINCERE (AND REPETITIVE) THANK YOU FOR MAKING THIS ALL POSSIBLE 
October 22nd - via: kickstarter.com
I am exhausted, and eternally grateful, and so to celebrate, I would like to repost, in part, something I recently posted as an update to the original (part 1 - digital) Big Trouble in Little Canton campaign just as I embarked on the journey of... (Read More)
What?!? Just reached another stretch goal!
October 21st - via: kickstarter.com
For anyone who might not be so keen on these last-48-hours play-by-play horse-race updates, you are well within your rights to tell me to shut up, but I'm just so excited that we reached yet another stretch goal... UNLOCKED! $1999 - PDF of the Big... (Read More)
Final Day, Updated Art Count and Stretch Goals
October 21st - via: kickstarter.com
Headed toward 24 hours, and thanks to a dashing, discerning, debonair, and devilishly handsome Postmaster General, the Total Art Count is now 133, and we're just $89 from hitting the next stretch goal. UNLOCKED! $1999 - PDF of the Big Trouble in... (Read More)
Postcard Stretch Goal Unlocked!
October 21st - via: kickstarter.com
Less than 48 hours to go, and you've just unlocked yet another stretch goal, which means that everyone whose pledge reward includes Postcards from the Heart of Darkness will get one additional postcard. As we're in the home stretch, I figure it's a... (Read More)
Some other Kickstarter projects I'd like to draw your attention to...
October 19th - via: kickstarter.com
As I ponder the way the terrain of Kickstarter has changed in the years since I first planted my own flag here, I realized that it only seemed right to use my own platform, however modest, to spotlight a few projects that are springing up in the... (Read More)
Spotlight on Lester Smith's Popcorn Press
October 18th - via: kickstarter.com
I was at Con on the Cob or Oddmall (I'm pretty sure it was Oddmall), and there was this guy demoing a fun card game he had created. We played the game, and I talked about the projects I was working on, and he talked about the projects he was working... (Read More)
Jared Myers, Artist, is in Big Trouble in Little Canton
October 16th - via: kickstarter.com
Jared is my brother, and he also happens to be the most talented guy I know. He makes scarecrow masks, he disassembles things into art, he bakes cookies, he made the shelving units in my basement. He made this mallet: He took this picture: And... (Read More)
Jason Nichols, Storyteller, is in Big Trouble in Little Canton
October 15th - via: kickstarter.com
"In a lonely place, in the open air. Sitting, scribbling in a notebook, his surroundings forgotten, transported completely. Perhaps forty, the things which sprang fully-formed from his close-shaved skull could have come from the mind of a child, or... (Read More)
Scott Myers, Photographer, is in Big Trouble in Little Canton
October 14th - via: kickstarter.com
First off, thanks to another generous Art Patron, the Total Art Count is now 132. Now, onto someone who has lent his voice, his likeness, his eyes, and his talent to Big Trouble in Little Canton, my cousin and dear friend, Scott Myers. "What was... (Read More)
Ben Turover, Photographer, is in Big Trouble in Little Canton
October 10th - via: kickstarter.com
I met Ben Turover at The George Washington University when I joined the Brotherhood for British Comedy. I believe that he was the Vice-President of the BBC. The President and Big Cheese of the BBC was Floyd T. Box, a cardboard box who contained the... (Read More)
Megan Mars, Artist, is in Big Trouble in Little Canton
October 9th - via: kickstarter.com
Megan Mars is one of my favorite artists, period, full stop. I have a pipe-dream of writing a sequel to Big Trouble in Little Canton entirely illustrated by Megan Mars works. The title would be Big Trouble in Little Canton: Life on Mars. In addition... (Read More)
Andrew Kozma, Storyteller, is in Big Trouble in Little Canton
October 8th - via: kickstarter.com
First, quick updates: 1) We just hit a stretch goal to create another Postcard from the Heart of Darkness for the book, which brings the Current Art Count to 131! 2) We're roughly $300 away from the stretch goal which will add one new physical... (Read More)
Ken Watson, Storyteller, is in Big Trouble in Little Canton
October 7th - via: kickstarter.com
In Big Trouble in Little Canton, Ken Watson appears as himself, voices himself, and writes Postcards from the Heart of Darkness as himself. The gentleman on the right... "We're just kidnapping him for his bachelor party, Mr. Watson." "A little... (Read More)
Daniel Hale, Storyteller, is in Big Trouble in Little Canton
October 6th - via: kickstarter.com
Once upon a time, during the first Big Trouble Kickstarter campaign, I was contacted by a guy who had seen me wandering Canton with a sandwich board sign. "You must ask yourself, what will you do? Will you stand against the coming darkness that... (Read More)
Sarah Lutz, Big Trouble's Layout&Design Master, is My Hero.
October 2nd - via: kickstarter.com
Quick note first: we are just $30 away from unlocking the next stretch goal, which will bump the art count up to 130. Also, I have realized that, even if I do a spotlight update every day for the rest of the campaign, there's still no way I'm going... (Read More)
Rainer Myers, Commission Artist, is in Big Trouble in Little Canton
October 1st - via: kickstarter.com
First off, I wanted to point out that we are just $100 dollars away from the next stretch goal, which would bring the art count up to 130. That is to say, there are other ways besides commissioning art that you can help add more art to the book, by... (Read More)
Arnaud Thevenet, Storyteller, is in Big Trouble in Little Canton
September 30th - via: kickstarter.com
Arnaud Thevenet and I have somehow managed to maintain a transatlantic friendship, and for that I largely credity Arnaud's willingness to 1) occasionally cross the pond to hang out AND 2) to brave long-distance phone charges back in the day when... (Read More)
Mandy Altimus, photographer, is in Big Trouble in Little Canton
September 29th - via: kickstarter.com
First, real quick, the dates I posted in the previous update for Andy Hopp's Con off the Cob were based on vestigial appendixes left on the internet that had not gotten a digital appendectomy. The correct dates are November 13-15. Now, about Mandy... (Read More)
Andy Hopp, artist, is in Big Trouble in Little Canton
September 28th - via: kickstarter.com
Gonna take a break from spotlighting commission artists for a bit here, so... Meet Andy Hopp, who provided art that will appear in the final print version of Big Trouble in Little Canton. Unstable as the guy looks, he's actually a pillar of the art... (Read More)
Tina Myers, Commission Artist, is in Big Trouble in Little Canton
September 27th - via: kickstarter.com
Yet another update specificially for those of you have backed (or are thinking about backing) at the YOU'RE IN BIG TROUBLE or ART DIRECTOR PATRON levels (or for those of you who just like learning more about the artists and getting a look at more... (Read More)
Sarena Myers, Commission Artist, is in Big Trouble in Little Canton
September 26th - via: kickstarter.com
We are now at the mid-point of updates specificially for those of you have backed (or are thinking about backing) at the YOU'RE IN BIG TROUBLE or ART DIRECTOR PATRON levels (or for those of you who just like learning more about the artists and... (Read More)
John Branham, Commission Artist, is in Big Trouble in Little Canton
September 25th - via: kickstarter.com
For those of you have backed (or are thinking about backing) at the YOU'RE IN BIG TROUBLE or ART DIRECTOR PATRON levels, I will be spotlighting each of the artists you'll be able to chose from for your art piece. Each art patron will have a choice... (Read More)
THANK YOU! 125% FUNDED! ON TO STRETCH GOALS!
September 24th - via: kickstarter.com
First off, most importantly, thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you, and thank you (yes, you). Along with hitting the initial goal today, we've also got to thank another generous art patron for driving the book's total art total up to 129 works... (Read More)
Lenka Simeckova, Commission Artist, is in Big Trouble in Little Canton
September 23rd - via: kickstarter.com
Hello all, and thank you so much for your generous support. I will breath a lot easier when the project has reached about 110% of its goal, but 75% ain't too shabby, and already art-loving patrons like you have raised the art count from 125 to 128. ... (Read More)
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