A comic about imperfect superhumans (secretly about disability).

Late pledges available for Zip #4

Zip #3 reached our funding goal! Matt Schofield’s cover revealed!

Thanks to all of our backers, last Thursday the 21st of November, we reached our funding goal!

I’ve been busy all week preparing for an event I did a panel for last Friday, and so I didn’t have time to post an update on the day, but I had it on my to-do list from the moment I saw.

Since that day we’ve gone from 100% funding to 103%! I’ll be watching that number closely, as the higher it rises, the more possibilities there will be for the comic. So if you know someone who you’d think would like Zip, send them our campaign so that they can get their own copy!

Matt Schofield’s cover for Zip #3!

Fan favourite cover artist Matt Schofield has returned to the series with an awesome new cover for Zip #3!

Zip’s interior art has previously been compared to the early Mirage Studios Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles comics by Peter Laird and Kevin Eastman (much to my delight). But Matt’s new cover really makes me think of the most iconic 1987 Fred Wolf TMNT cartoon show which most people are familiar with.

Matt’s depiction of this Hive Cyborg is so beautifully detailed, it makes me long for an action figure which I know full well does not exist. Not only that, but he’s definitely played directly into my affinity for miniguns.

The target of those miniguns is of course, Zip, seen running in multiple stages, giving us a great look at the parts of her costume, and the whole thing is set to this retro circuit-board looking background.

A colourful comic book cover. A multiheaded robot with long necks like a hydra is firing several arm-mounted miniguns at a woman in goggles and a superhero costume inspired by a tracksuit. She is running and weaving away from the line of fire at super speed, leaving a line of lightning in her wake. Text reads "Survive The Hive!"

Matt’s cover is one of three available with Zip #3, both in digital and print. You’ll be able to select the cover you’d like after this campaign ends and I send out backer surveys!

Crybaby – Why did no one notice her autism?

A still from an animated film. A young woman is holding an open cardboard box and looking sad. Text reads: "Crybaby".

Crybaby is a short animated film about a woman being diagnosed with autism in adulthood which I’ve been helping with. It’s being animated in MoHo and is by Eleri Edwards, a 28-year-old autistic director from Caerphilly.

Having worked with Kickstarter project creator Tom Stubbs and his studio Biggerhouse Film many times in the past, I can definitely say that this film will resonate with many of our readers.

Gritty black and white comic art of a bald cyborg with a visor rocketing through a city street.

Thanks again for getting Zip to our funding goal everyone!

Watch this space for future updates about what to expect next from the campaign, plus a convention announcement, and more!

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Zip #3 reached our funding goal! Matt Schofield’s cover revealed!

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Zip is published by Markosia in the United Kingdom. © Mike Scrase 2023. ISSN 2976-8721 (print) 2976-8721 (online). No similarity between the names, characters and institutions depicted in Zip with any real life names, persons, or institutions is intended. Any such similarities are purely coincidental. Zip’s Kickstarter rewards are printed in the UK by Stuart Lloyd Gould. You can find our press kit here.