A comic about imperfect superhumans (secretly about disability).

Late pledges available for Zip #4

Zip 1-4: Now the Campaign’s over: what next? Expect your surveys, and Late pledges

Black and white comic book art cropped into an article banner. The art depicts a crowd of superheroes in a bar, of varying ages, whose sense of style and dress depends on their generation and the era of comics it corresponds to. From the military chic of the 1990s, to the classic spandex and capes of the 60s.

Thanks to everyone who made Zip 1-4 a success!

There will be a period where Kickstarter processes payment (around two weeks), and after that I’ll start sending out reward surveys.

Late pledges are also already available right now, so if you missed our campaign while it was live, you can still pick up a copy of Zip 4 (or any of our other rewards)!

I also have an important question to ask you all about our ‘Your Name in the Comic’ reward item. I’m going to be putting this question in our rewards survey too, but I wanted to invite people to leave a comment here with any expanded thoughts they had about it.

Have your Say on our ‘Your name in The Comic’ Reward Item

As long time backers will know, whenever we do a Zip campaign I always offer a ‘Your Name in the Comic’ tier which allows you to get your name in a special credits section of Zip as a thank you for supporting us.

I’ve always personally really liked offering this reward item as it has a nice, personal touch to it.

Photo of an open page in the back of a comic book, showing the heading 'The Backers of Zip' followed by text: 'this book was only possible thanks to the support of', which is then followed by a list of backer names.
How ‘Your Name in the Comic’ looked in the print version of Zip, issue 1.

The problem is it means that lettering can’t be completed until the campaign’s over.

Awaiting the completion of everyone’s backer surveys adds time to this (which is understandable because we all have a lot on our plate).

Also, time between campaign funding and completion of the current issue is further extended because our letterer Ferran can’t guarantee that he’ll have availability in his schedule right away.

This is something which can’t be helped, and is not Ferran’s fault, as a professional freelancer’s livelihood is based upon being able to consistently schedule new work.

However, the end result is that these combined factors can slow down fulfilment quite a bit.

Black and white comic book art of a woman sat diligently writing at a desk, surrounded by books.

We’ll definitely be honouring the ‘A c Name in the Comic’ reward item for this campaign, as it was advertised, but I’d really like to know people’s opinion on how we should handle things moving forward.

Is the wait worth it to get your name (and potentially your company name/website/social media handle) into the pages of Zip?

Or would you prefer we scrap this aspect of our rewards, in favour of us being able to complete the lettering on new issues before a campaign, leaving only printing to be finished off once the campaign’s over? This would make fulfilment quicker, probably by a significant margin.

Reward Surveys

Reward surveys will be coming your way soon! You’ll want to think about:

Your Name in The Comic: how would you like to be credited (do you have a nickname you want to use, for example)? If you have a company name, a website, or a social media handle you want included, what is that?

Covers: you’ll want to pick a cover for each issue your rewards include. If your pledge included print and digital comics, you can pick a different cover for each version if you want. Refresh your memory on our covers here, or just look towards the end of this article.

A product mock-up of a black t-shirt. On the t-shirt is a print: it is comic cover with the logo "Zip" at the top. The art is of a woman in goggles and a tracksuit inspired superhero costume running at super speed, with buildings blurring behind her. Below the cover is a URL: zip comic dot co dot uk.
Our new t-shirt. With art by Francesco Tomaseli.

T-shirts: this will be mostly pretty easy because you’ll just want to pick your t-shirt size. I’ll try to give as much precise guidance on the measurements as possible when we publish the surveys.

Autograph and personalised message: who am I addressing my signature to? Any special message (like ‘happy birthday’ or something?) Recently at conventions, I’ve been defaulting to ‘Zip on!’ if that helps.

Exemption to the above: back issues

Due to the fact that work on our previous issues is already complete, we can basically send out digital copies of these as soon as payment is processed.

That means that I can send those of you whose pledges exclusively include digital back issues within the span of roughly two-three weeks from today (allow a margin of some time for banks to validate payments etc).

A a reminder: digital comics are sent as PDF Google Drive links via Kickstarter DMs.

In the past when a pledge included a new issue and a back issue, I’ve always waited until all issues included in pledges were ready.

A photo composite of tablets displaying different Zip covers. There is one cover per tablet. Cover details are listed in the image caption.
Issues 1-4 on tablets. Covers by (left to right) Vanessa Cardinali, Francesco Tomaseli, Giulio Centrella, and Matt Schofield.

This is because I wanted to reduce the number of messages sent to backers to the absolute minimum necessary in order to avoid spamming people.

But I appreciate that long fulfilment times are a drag.

So in the interest of giving you, the backer, the best experience possible, and maintaining trust: I am updating this policy.

I will be sending digital back issues ASAP, and following up with issue 4 as soon as it’s ready.

Comic art, 10 smartphone wallpapers. 1: a woman clutching her fist intensely, as it glows. 2: a martial artist wielding a bo staff in a pink sunset. 3: Extreme close up of a screaming face being electrocuted. 4: colourful cover art, a woman in a tracksuit superhero costume sprinting at super speed. 5: a caped, silhouetted superhero standing in mist. 6: a gaunt, bare chested man looking grimly straight at the viewer. 7: a menacing skeletal robot with a mass of cables and strange machine parts protruding from it. 8: the speedster heroine running a giant living shadow which is wearing a suit. 9: speedster heroine fighting bare-chested martial artist, their swipes at each other swirling around like a tornado. 10: speedster heroine brooding on a rooftop.
Smartphone wallpapers will be sent at the same time as back issues, if your pledge includes them.

If the wait for issue 4 is very excessive, I will send it in story-only form, with the full comic PDF to follow ASAP.

All print comics and other physical rewards included in one pledge will be sent together in one parcel, as always. This is necessary for reducing postal costs.

Thank you for your understanding, and please don’t forget to let me know what you think about the future of the ‘Your Name in The Comic’ reward in the comments below.

Available covers (or go back to info on reward surveys):

Comic book cover. A speedster superheroine wearing goggles runs. In the background a face being penetrated by cables is screaming in pain. Two bewildered blue collar types stand amid the chaos, and a skeletal figure looms behind them all. Text on the cover reads: Spectacular debut issue of a very unusual speeder! By Mike Scrase, San Espina and Ferran Delgado. The Zip logo is blurred, as if moving very quickly itself.
Comic book cover. A woman in goggles and a tracksuit inspired superhero costume runs from a hulking monster dressed in a suit. The monster is a giant compared to her, and is essentially a living shadow with glowing yellow eyes. Text on the cover reads: Markosia (publisher), by Mike Scrase, San Espina and Ferran Delgado. The Zip logo is blurred, as if moving very quickly itself.
Comic cover art of a shirtless martial artist with a shuriken shaped tattoo on his chest and an animal tooth necklace is wielding a bo staff in a pink sunset. He has messy hair and appears gaunt in some places yet strangely, muscular and lean in others. He is facing someone in a stand-off, although only their leg and sporty trainer can be seen in the background: crackling with electricity. Text on the cover reads: Markosia (publisher), by Mike Scrase, San Espina and Ferran Delgado. The Zip logo is blurred, as if moving very quickly itself.
Comic book cover art depicting a woman in googles and a superhero costume modelled on a tracksuit, clutching her fist as it glows. There is a moonlit city street and x-rays hanging in the sky in the background. The art is black and white with heavy linework. Text on the cover reads: by Mike Scrase, San Espina and Ferran Delgado. The Zip logo is blurred, as if moving very quickly itself.
Comic book cover art. A monochrome purple colour pallet depicting the Bristol Clifton Suspension Bridge, and in the sky above it the woman from the first cover is looking off into the distance, as if she is a giant above the city. Text on the cover reads: by Mike Scrase, San Espina and Ferran Delgado. The Zip logo is blurred, as if moving very quickly itself.
A comic book cover with a vibrant colour pallet where a woman is running in the foreground. She is wearing a costume modelled after a tracksuit, and her hair is blowing in the slipstream she has created by her speed. The energy she is creating is causing electricity to spark around her. She is almost entirely lit in an amber tint, all except for her googles, which are bright purple in contrast: a hue which matches the blurred buildings that she is whizzing past. The comic's title 'Zip' is stylised as if it too, is blurred by moving at great speeds, and is distorted in places by the bursts of electricity.
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. Top text reads: "Zip." Bottom text: "Survive The Hive!"
Black and white comic art with heavy inks. A woman in a tracksuit themed superhero costume and goggles, screaming in horror as she is transformed into a robot.
Comic book cover art. The cover depicts a woman superhero and a hooded figure wielding a knife. They are stood in front of a huge clock face.
A comic book cover depicting a superhero bar. The patrons in the background are outlandish types, some are living flowers, some have tentacles, and some have fins or tails. At the front, the title character of the comic a speedster named Zip, is speaking to another superhero named Planemo, who is dressed in a tank top. There is a pigeon eating crumbs on the bar top.
Comic book cover art. A blonde superheroine in a tracksuit inspired costume and wearing goggles running at super speed down a city street. Tall buildings and neon lights blur in the background behind her.
Pixel art comic cover. A superheroine wearing googles and a tracksuit inspired costume runs across a rooftop, towards a hooded person clutching a knife, and an elderly man whose white beard flows in the wind. Behind the two people she is rushing to, there are ripples in the air emanating from behind them.

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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.