Last Two Days, but It Might Be a Four Book Project

The Schlock Mercenary Kickstarter for volumes 14 and 15 of the long-running comic space opera has funded to a level where it will include a short fiction collection of non-Schlock Mercenary stuff.

I said that last week.

Last night it funded to the point that we can design and print some new challenge coins, and that particular stretch goal is just $5k short of the one which follows, the Howard Tayler Retrospective Sketchbook. We'll put that together (PDF only, at least for now) if we hit the $110k mark, but we need to reach that goal by 6pm Eastern Time on Friday.

As of this writing we're less than $4k away.

The book would include some of the art of which Howard is proudest, the work where he feels he really leveled up, and was on his game. It will also include some of his very worst work, because the point of the book is to show eighteen years of progress^1. And obviously we'll be including lots of insightful, amusing, and self-deprecatory commentary^2.

You have two days to get in on this project, and it won't take very many of you getting in on it to ensure that you're all getting four books instead of just the original two.

^1 As I've said before, my progress over eighteen years isn't that amazing. In eighteen years you could make a new human from scratch and then teach them to draw better than me.
^2 You want self-deprecatory? Here goes: The best reason to NOT back the project right now is to ensure that a generation of artists doesn't get this PDF and learn to draw like Howard does, a catastrophe which would set the entire art form back about two hundred years.