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Happy Monday everyone! So, I crashed into my bed about 3:30AM last night and I surfaced to find that we had leapt over $125,000 in funding! WOO HOO! That means TWO MORE stretch goals have been unlocked!  Your 34th Trading card (which I'll send you... (Read More)

Howdy everyone! Things continue to move at a very fast clip with our Kickstarter project! We've just blasted past $120,000 which means that you've just unlocked the SHOWER SCENE/LOCKER ROOM PRINT FOR THE GUYS! Shower Scene/Locker Room PrintThanks to... (Read More)

Howdy Everyone! So it was another awesome 24 hours for our Kickstarter project! I have voting results for The Annihilator What-If Romance Print, voting results for three more Trading Cards and three more stretch goals have been unlocked, including... (Read More)

Howdy everyone! Boy, it just gets more and more fun! :D I have voting results and you've blasted through two new stretch goals since my last update! Big news, so let's get to it, starting with the VOTING RESULTS! Your 26th Trading CardThe voting... (Read More)

Howdy everyone! Well, heck, yesterday was a wild ride, huh? And we've been cooking at a good pace since then!  First off, if you haven't yet heard, we blasted past $100,000 yesterday evening around  8:00 P.M. PST which means that all backers at... (Read More)

Howdy everyone! Let me just say WOO HOO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! We just crossed $100,000! (I did a total double-take when I saw the numbers jump from 5 to 6 digits! Big difference!) This means that all backers pledging at the YOUNG HERO level or above... (Read More)

Howdy everyone! Gosh, things are beginning to happen fast! I've got voting results for your 25th Trading Card and you've just unlocked another stretch goal! First, let's share those voting results! Your 25th Trading CardThe voting results for your... (Read More)

Howdy everyone! So things have been really cooking for the last 24 hours. A vote finished, a vote still ongoing and now another beautiful physical reward will be sent to all backers getting a physical book! But first, the voting results! Open-Call... (Read More)

Howdy everyone! Big morning so far! I surface from unconsciousness and not only did we get in all your votes for your 24th Trading Card, but I see another stretch goal has been unlocked! Woo hoo! But first, let me get you those voting results! Your... (Read More)

Howdy everyone! So, today was a great day! We leaped on past $90,000 to unlock our thirty-first stretch goal—the OPEN CALL SFW ROMANCE PRINT! The Open Call Safe-for-Work Romance PrintThis 11" x 14" Print option will feature the two The Young... (Read More)

Howdy everyone! Well, today was a crazy day, huh? But all's well that ends well and I've got a bunch of fun announcements! The first of which are today's voting results! Your 23rd Trading CardSo! Voting results for your 23rd Trading Card are in and... (Read More)

Remember folks, gay superheroes don’t sell. Yet somehow a Kickstarter campaign for Young Protectors has just blown past $85,000 in raised revenue, six times its projected amount with a week to go and six figures in sight. (Read More)

All right. Some good news! I just heard that Google has fixed the false malware warnings on all the affected sites. I just confirmed it myself by being able to go to the Questionable Content webcomic using Chrome with no problem and I'm hearing back... (Read More)

So...  I woke up this morning to a bunch of emails from readers letting me know that Google Chrome was throwing up a huge malware warning to folks visiting my site. After having had a bad experience a number of years ago, I keep very close tabs on... (Read More)

Howdy everyone! Your 20th Trading CardSo! Voting results for the 20th Trading Card are in and with 915 ballots cast, you chose the FLYBOY ORIGIN CARD with 244 votes (26.67%). (The COMMANDER ORIGIN CARD was a close second with 219 votes [23.93%].) ... (Read More)

Howdy everyone! We had a really great day today! Not only did you get me in your votes for the Never Seen Before Romance Print, but you also managed to unlock the twenty-eighth stretch goal ($82,500)—your 20th Trading Card! Never Before Seen... (Read More)

Howdy everyone! Voting Results For Your 19th Trading CardAll right-y. I've just gotten the voting results for your 19th Trading Card. This time there were 885 ballots cast and out of those, the overwhelming majority (396 or 44.75%) chose the SPOOKY... (Read More)

Howdy y'all!  Well the last 24 hours have been a lot of fun! Not only did you get me in your votes for the 18th Trading Card but you also managed to unlock TWO stretch goals!  First, let's announce the results of our most recent vote! Your 18th... (Read More)

Howdy y'all! You all are doing such great things! Not only have you gotten your votes in on the last unlocked stretch goal, but you've also unlocked a new one ($72,500)—your 18th Trading Card! Boxers, Briefs or None Of The AboveFirst, let's talk... (Read More)

Howdy everyone! So! We had two votes finish up today, one to determine who would be featured on the 17th Trading Card and the other to decide whether The Annihilator and Kyle would be teaming up or battling each other in the latest action print! ... (Read More)

The creator of popular web comic series The Young Protectors has agreed to draw his characters fully nude in a collection of trading cards, digital art and wall prints following a high demand for cartoon peen in a recent Kickstarter campaign. (Read More)

Good afternoon, y'all! Very early this morning we eased on past the $70,000 mark which means that a very special reward got unlocked—the SEXY HEIGHT CHART FOR THE GUYS! Such great heightsThis is another 11" x 14" BONUS PRINT options for backers at... (Read More)

When The Young Protectors creator Alex Woolfson came up with a $50,000 “Full Monty Reward” stretch goal for his 30-day Kickstarter to raise funds to print his comic, he thought it was unlikely he’d have to deliver. After all, that target was well over 300% of his $14,000 goal. He was wrong. Funding for his gay superhero comic cleared $53,000 in just 11 days. (Read More)

Howdy everyone! All right-y! Lots of news in the update, including two new BACKERS-ONLY voting links I'm going to send out to you today. But before I get to that, it's time to give you the results for the first vote on the ACTION TEAM-UP/BATTLE PRINT... (Read More)

I’m going to tell you how to succeed with Kickstarter. I’m going to tell you this in part because I’m looking to spread the word about my currently-running Kickstarter project: The Young Protectors Volume One, but mainly because I think that crowdfunding is the most effective (and most fun) way for people like you and me to get the large amounts of money we need to make awesome stuff. (Read More)

Woolfson, DeKraker, and Gandini produce a beautifully rendered comic which handles universal themes with a strong sense of humor and commentary on the superhero comic tradition, and it’s not surprising that they’ve engaged a voluble fan community in doing so. Their success as a webcomic led, less than a week ago, to the launch of their Kickstarter campaign to fund a print volume of the first arc of the series, The Young Protectors: Engaging the Enemy. (Read More)

Good morning, y'all! Voting for the 16th Trading Card finished up last night at 2:00 A.M. (while I was already in bed, zzzzz). It was close throughout but in the end there could only be one winner and that winner turned out to be the HUNTER &... (Read More)

Howdy y'all! Boy, today has been an awesome day! Sure, it was gorgeously sunny where I live, but more importantly, we blasted past the $65,000 stretch goal to unlock a crazy-fun reward—the ACTION TEAM-UP/BATTLE PRINT! For this print, I'll send out... (Read More)

Howdy y'all! Voting is now complete for the 15th Trading Card and you chose the FLUKE ROMANCE CARD with 310 votes out of 678 ballots cast! A fine choice, my friends! Rumor has it that, in addition to bringing freakishly good luck to other people,... (Read More)

Howdy y'all! Voting is now complete for the 14th Trading Card and I can now share the winner: you chose the TSUNAMI ROMANCE CARD with 240 votes out of 709 ballots cast! Your choice means that in addition to a physical book and beautiful POWERS... (Read More)

Howdy everyone! So, I've been dying to find out what you would choose for the Supporting Character Romance Print and the results are now in! And the winner is...And the pairing you chose to see kissing (and now a whole lot more) in a beautiful 11" x... (Read More)

Howdy y'all! What a fun day this has been! Early this afternoon, I sent out the 24-hour survey for the SUPPORTING CHARACTER ROMANCE PRINT (569 of you have responded to that so far and the preliminary results look very interesting...). And then this... (Read More)

Good morning, y'all! And what an awesome morning it is! Where last we met our intrepid Kickstarter adventurers (that would be you!), our project was funded at $53,743. A little over 12 hours later and we're now at $57,013! Which means that the... (Read More)

Well, this has been a fun 24 hours! I posted up the new stretch goals I came up with late last night and not only did many of you take the time to let me know you liked them—thank you for doing that!—we also shot up from a little over $48,000... (Read More)

Howdy everyone! So! Things have been pretty awesome for the week or so our little Kickstarter has been running.   What You've Made Happen So FarIn a little over 9 days, we've raised over $48,000 towards creating The Young Protectors goodies... (Read More)

Howdy y'all! The survey results from our ninth 24-hour voting poll are in! And for the 10th trading cards, you've chosen the FLYBOY ROMANCE CARD with 158 votes out of 534 total backers voting! We're looking at a winner, my friend! That means that in... (Read More)

The results from our eighth 24-hour voting poll are also in! And for the pairing in our very 1st ROMANCE PRINT WITH A NSFW OPTION you've again chosen our main characters KYLE and THE ANNIHILATOR with 211 votes out of exactly 500 ballots total! People... (Read More)

Howdy everyone! The survey results from our seventh 24-hour voting poll are in! And for the 8th and 9th trading cards, you've chosen the KYLE ROMANCE CARD with 258 votes and the COMMANDER POWERS CARD with 203 votes (out of 454 total backers voting... (Read More)

Good morning, everyone! Boy, this has been a wild, fun week! :D The NSFW PRINT is UNLOCKEDVery, very early this morning we rocketed past $40,000 which unlocked our eleventh (!!) stretch goal, the 11" x 14" NSFW PRINT!  This print is just like the... (Read More)

All right! PARTY TIME! The votes are now in for the last two stretch goals that were unlocked and because we've officially exceeded the amount raised for my last very successful Kickstarter campaign for Artifice, an extra-special stretch goal was... (Read More)

Howdy everyone! The survey results from our fifth 24-hour voting poll are in! And for the 6th trading card, you've chosen THE ANNIHILATOR ROMANCE CARD with 172 votes out of 493 total!  I guess y'all just like the bad boys, huh? You so bad,... (Read More)

Holy cow! We've just leapt over $35,000 which means that not only will there be a seventh trading card (that happened very late last night at $32,500) but it also means that you've unlocked our first 11" x 14" ROMANCE PRINT! WOO HOO! That means that... (Read More)

We've just blown past the seventh ($30,000) stretch goal which unlocks the 6th TRADING CARD. And that means that as a backer YOU get to choose who will be featured! And this time ROMANCE CARDS have also been unlocked for those characters who already... (Read More)

Howdy everyone! The survey results from our fourth 24-hour voting poll are in! And for the 5th POWERS TRADING CARD you've chosen THE PLATINUM PRIESTESS with 121 votes out of 350 total! WOO HOO! That means that in addition to a physical book and... (Read More)

Howdy everyone! The survey results from our third 24-hour voting poll are in! And for the 1st ACTION PRINT you've chosen KYLE with 73 votes out of 284 total! That means that in addition to a physical book and beautiful POWERS trading cards of Kyle,... (Read More)

Howdy everyone! The survey results from our second 24-hour voting poll are in! And for the 3rd and 4th POWERS CARDS you've chosen Spooky Jones (with 171 votes) and Flyboy (with 115 votes)! WOO HOO! That means that in addition to a physical book and... (Read More)

You all are UNSTOPPABLE! This morning we blew past $25,000 and that means you've unlocked the fifth stretch goal, the BONUS 11" X 14" ACTION PRINT! This will be a fun, full-color, landscape action scene similar to one of our current print options,... (Read More)

Howdy everyone! The survey results from our very first 24-hour voting poll are in! And for the 1st and 2nd POWERS CARDS you've chosen Kyle and The Annihilator! Woot! That means that in addition to a physical book, those of you who are pledging at the... (Read More)

I launched this Kickstarter last night, a short while before I went to bed and now that I'm getting ready to hit the hay again, I see we're at $21,261.66 . Which is incredible. :) I am so grateful to you all. And it's really exciting to think that a... (Read More)

Holy cats! In less than 18 hours, we raised over $14,000 to print the first volume of The Young Protectors: Engaging the Enemy! And not only that we've also just blasted past the first and second stretch goals to unlock the first and second POWERS... (Read More)