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CHICAGO, IL - “We know we've let you all down.” So reads the May 5 Kickstarter update from a Chicago-based company called Central Standard Timing. Aiming to create the world's thinnest watch, its founders launched a crowdfunding campaign in early 2013. CST collected $1,026,292—more than five times its goal—from 7,658 backers. The company promised each would be delivered a watch in September 2013. (Read More)

This is why Kickstarter is stupid, and why people pledging money in Kickstarter projects are at best misguided, (I use a polite word there as I myself fell into this trap when I pledged money for the Pathfinder Online project – incedently did any of you see their last video? Looking really shit guys, really shit.) (Read More)

Supporting art is an investment that doesn’t always pay off, unfortunately. Chicago artist John Campbell, who’s achieved a significant following for his humorously sympathetic comics about ”anxieties, fears and bad feelings,” set a goal of $8,000 for a Kickstarter campaign to print his comic book, Pictures for Sad Children. (Read More)

A comic artist in Chicago who raised over $50,000 on Kickstarter to publish and ship hardback books has decided to torch the product for which donors paid. (Read More)

It started innocently enough. In May, 2012 Comic artist John Campbell took to the crowdsourcing platform Kickstarter to fund a book based on his internet comic. It was to be called sad pictures of children. (Read More)

Cartoonist John Campbell of “Sad Pictures for Children” webcomic fame made an announcement on the Kickstarter page of his successful Kickstarter project. The project, which was done to fund a printing of a book of his comics and which had made over 600% its original goal, had reached an emotional breaking point — if you had not yet received a copy of your book from this Kickstarter, you never would. And to make it more obvious, a video was attached showing piles of the book being lit on fire. (Read More)

After a tremendously successful Kickstarter, a webcomic is reportedly burning copies of the comic books backers bought but never received. (Read More)

People who use crowdfunding sites such as Kickstarter and Indiegogo to publish comic books have become commonplace of late. Many creator owned series that might take a battering in the direct market and found funding and a financial sense of independence that they might have otherwise failed to get and it has led to greater diversity, choice and business plans available. (Read More)

In the latest Kickstarter drama, John Campbell (whom you may know from picturesforsadchildren.com, which is now just a blank page) updated his Kickstarter to say he wouldn’t be sending out any more books from his successfully funded venture in 2012. This article highlights the important bits, if you don’t want to read through a giant rambling mess of someone in need of help. Just a note, this is the same campaign where he faked depression way back in Update #2. All that being said, let’s look at some fun projects (because this is making me sad)! (Read More)