Kickstarter just announced a bunch of big new features to the platform. You can read their press release about it here.

I don’t want to get too specific because it’s early days and I honestly don’t know anything besides what Kickstarter have made public anyway, so I don’t know all of the details. But if you haven’t already heard the news, basically to sum up:

• They’re introducing a new feature where creators can offer rewards after a successful campaign has ended
• They’re making creating reward surveys easier to manage for creators (and any backers of my campaigns who’ve noticed the little blunders I’ve made in certain questions will know that’s going to be massively helpful!) as well as making the types of questions creators are able to include in their surveys more comprehensive
• They’re improving the general backer experience with a tonne of stuff like allowing you to only pay postage costs when physical rewards are fulfilled, streamline the pledge management menu, and to tell you the truth: what sounds like quite a lot more.

I’m quite foggy on all of the details so I’d really recommend reading that article I linked above. It’s early days so I’m hesitant to comment on exactly what this means for our campaigns, but I’m cautiously optimistic about it and I’m going to be looking into what I can offer you are as soon as Kickstarter reveals more and I can start making more concrete plans.

Someone who works at my local comic shop has a live campaign going!

Mike Ranahan, who was kind enough to give me some retailer insight into how to price your indie comic, has a live Kickstarter campaign going!

It’s for the second issue of his comic Neverlast: a romance story which just happens to take place during a zombie apocalypse.

He describes it as “a tale on the endearing defiance of fledgling love falling face first into the festering undead! It’s ‘500 Days of Summer’ meets ‘28 Days Later’!”

Check out the campaign for that here.