Zoop Podcast: Recent Episodes
Jordan Plosky
Every week we chat with content creators with current crowdfunding campaigns about their project and how you can support their work.
For publishers and creators, Zoop is an all-in-one pre-order, production, fulfillment, and marketing solution that connects them directly to their fans. In addition to data and analytics reports, social and email integrations, Zoop handles the admin and business side of things, so publishers and creators can focus on creating more of what their fans want.
Glenn Bray is a renowned collector and archivist of underground comix, low and high art, and the creator of the critically acclaimed books LIBRARY and The Blighted Eye. Here he has arranged neuron-firing, free-associative found images as a series of two-page spreads that comment and reflect upon each other. By turns darkly funny, apocalyptic and blissful, SCRAP BOOK is a subconscious flow of words and pictures that no one was supposed to save or revere. You’ll see some famous names in the art and cartooning world here alongside anonymous tabloid clippings, forgotten advertisements and bizarre things that somehow wandered into the mainstream. Previously only available in an extremely limited run, this 532-page 8 1/2” x 12” hardcover collection of found art has now been restored and restructured for this exclusive release, with additional pages, new cover, slick new endpapers, and a limited edition art print!
Charlie McElvy: The head writer and creator of all the characters within the Xion Universe, although this Universe does not exist without his collaborators. Charlie wrote and published the Ogre Award-winning and Ennie Award-nominated RPG supplement The WatchGuard Sourcebook, as well as the follow-on comic book, The WatchGuard #0. He’s the husband of one amazing woman and the father of seven incredible children (yes, really…). He is an athlete that has appeared in Premier Protein commercials, featured in Men’s Health magazine online, and has competed on the TV show American Ninja Warrior. Spider-Squirrel is Charlie, and Charlie is him. Which is very unfortunate for Spider-Squirrel…
Spinning directly out of Spider-Squirrel Volume One comes MILESTONE! Imagine an individual with the cosmic power of the Silver Surfer and the loneliness & guilt of Daredevil, with the universe hanging in the balance of his decisions!
Cole Morgan is the most powerful man in the universe, and it was not an accident. Now, the GodQuest has begun and Cole is caught in the crosshairs of an ancient war that was long-thought over.
For fans of: Ron Marz and Ron Lim's run on Silver Surfer, John Byrne's run on Superman, and/or individuals looking for fresh, superhero content. If you like capes or comics or heroic adventures, this book is for you!
Milestone #2 is live at https://zoop.gg/c/milestone2. Click the link to support, see previews, and more!
The critically acclaimed independently published superhero graphic novel series LA BORINQUEÑA is now available to pre-order in a 300+ page limited-edition hardcover for personal collections, bookstores, and libraries!
This book collects the first three issues plus the recent critically acclaimed La Borinqueña guest starring Rosario Dawson, short stories, pin-ups, and other bonus content. Original cover created by Ariel Jesús Colón (Action Comics, Green Lantern, Dark Crisis) with interior art by Will Rosado (1/6, GI Joe), Christopher Sotomayor (Avengers, Captain America), and more.
Your pre-order will support our continued philanthropic work in Puerto via our La Borinqueña Grant Awards.
La Borinqueña is live at https://zoop.gg/c/laborinquena. Click the link to support, see previews, and more!
Jorge "Zurdo" Molina is an illustrator and concept artist who has been a creative force in the comic book industry (as artist, designer and creator on titles such as Star Wars, Spiderman, Thor, Avengers, X-Men and Batman) and video game industry (as concept designer for Activision, Crystal Dynamics, Zynga, and The Initiative).
This exclusive hardcover art book will feature Jorge's favorite artwork from his 15 years as an artist!
Zurdo is live at https://zoop.gg/c/zurdo. Click the link to support, see previews, and more!
After five years of hard work, passion and sacrifice, the epic indie crime-scifi-noir comic by Jason Copland is FINALLY being collected here for the first time!
FULL TILT is a perfect book for those that love gritty noir tales, dystopian future realities and kinetic black and white art. Think Sin City meets The Godfather in the setting of Blade Runner.
This soon-to-be modern day classic is presented in a slick 320-page oversized 7.8" x 12" hardcover.
Full Tilt is live at https://zoop.gg/c/fulltilt. Click the link to support, see previews, and more!
Shaenon K. Garrity (co-author and artist) has written and/or drawn a lot of webcomics, including Narbonic, Li’l Mell, and Monster of the Week. Her graphic novel The Dire Days of Willowweep Manor, with art by Christopher Baldwin, is available from Simon and Schuster.This campaign is to fund a small print run of the out-of-print and in-demand Skin Horse vols. 7 and 8. As with the previous Zoop campaign, supporters are also be able to get other volumes from the series, sketches, original art, and more!160 pages per volume, each 8.5” x 11"For fans of: science fiction comedy, the shadow government, animals in little hats, long-game plottingThe campaign for Skin Horse Volumes 7&8 (Reprints) is live at https://zoop.gg/c/skinhorse78. Click the link to support, see previews, and more!
Reilly Brown is a comic book artist best known for his work on Deadpool, Spider-Man, and his enormously selling Batman/ Fortnight crossover mini-series. He has drawn just about every superhero you can think of.
On top of being an incredibly nice guy, he is also the co-host of The Hypothetical Island Podcast, with his co-host, comic writer George O’Connor. He’s had some incredible comic book creators on the show, including several who have run campaigns on Zoop!
Check out Hypothetical Island on iTunes or Spotify, and buy whatever Reilly tells you to buy of his work!
Artist and adventurer J.V. Holbrook has traversed and recorded the natural history of an uncharted planet. Thunder Hunters is the unique, culminated cross section of his sketches, journal entries, sequential stories, and portraits of inhabitants and the expansive Vermillion Sands region. It showcases his attention to detail and love of his newly explored alien domain, revealing a never before seen world of myth, culture, landscape and wildlife.Mark A. Nelson is a comic industry veteran who has also held various Professor and Art Director positions throughout his career. He has tackled work for just about every publisher in the industry. He is perhaps best known for his work on Dungeons & Dragons, Aliens and Godzilla, and had influential stints on Action Comics, Green Lantern and more.Thunder Hunters is live at https://zoop.gg/c/thunderhunters. Click the link to support, see previews, and more!
If you read comics, you know Ron Marz. Green Lantern. Silver Surfer. Marvel vs. DC. The man has done it all. And now he’s here for a quick chat about his latest project, Resolution.
A legendary member of an outer-space corps of heroes has withdrawn to a remote world in solitude. But her past catches up to her as former comrades arrive to convince her to come back and bring a former arch-nemesis to justice.
RESOLUTION is an epic new tale by the masters of cosmic storytelling, presented as an oversized hardcover graphic novel. It is written by Ron Marz and Andy Lanning, who’s also handling inking duties for the project. Originally slated for Rick Leonardi on pencils, changes occurred that took him off the project, but not before he provided the main cover artwork, character and world designs and a few interior spreads for the book. Fortunately, Marz and Lanning were able to recruit rising superstar Netho Diaz to take over the remaining art duties, and enlisted Paul Pelletier, Bart Sears and Tom Raney to handle bonus stories and flashbacks.
Also includes pin-ups by Liam Sharp, Phil Jimenez, Greg Broadmore, Wes Craig, Paul Pelletier, Ron Lim, Bart Sears, Luke Ross, Jeff Johnson and others.
Resolution is live at https://zoop.gg/c/resolution. Click the link to support, see previews, and more!
AX-WIELDER JON is created, written, and drawn by Nick Pitarra, the Eisner-nominated and New York Times bestselling co-creator of the Manhattan Projects. Known for his hyper-detailed and dynamic art, he has assembled a top tier team, with colors by frequent collaborator and Image and Marvel Comics colorist Mike Garland, letters by Eisner-nominated Ferran Delgado, book design by Little Bird’s Ben Didier. The production is edited by multiple Eisner Award Winner Chris Stevens and features a cover by legendary Spanish painter Das Pastoras and a back cover by modern master Nick Derington.
Ax Wielder Jon is live at https://zoop.gg/c/axwielderjon. Click the link to support, see previews, and more!
A ruthless killer in a world of monsters and mayhem makes a precious discovery and learns what a man is willing to lose to protect what he loves most. It’s an epic adventure in every sense of the word.
AX-WIELDER JON is created, written, and drawn by Nick Pitarra, the Eisner-nominated and New York Times bestselling co-creator of the Manhattan Projects, who is known for his hyper-detailed and dynamic art.
The COMPLETED full color over-sized NOW 168-PAGE hardcover is finally here, after months of anticipation!
Jessi Sheron is a professional artist and writer living in Maryland. She’s drawn Monster High and Ever After High for Little Brown, Princeless for Action Lab Comics, and her personal mermaid graphic novel The Sea in You which is being published this year with Iron Circus Comics. Sheron loves all things scary and horrible, the weirder the better.
The Other Happy Place is live at https://zoop.gg/c/theotherhappyplacechapter0. Click the link to support, see previews, and more!
This Chapter 0 to the cosmic horror story The Other Happy Place will serve as the project's Art Book.
The Other Happy Place will be an illustrated prose novel, with a picture on just about every page. A hybrid between a comic, a novel, and a picture book.
The story concerns Vinnie, a young woman who travels to another dimension run by bizarre otherworldly beings. Vinnie is exploring and trying to stay alive, while documenting her adventure in the form of a journal.
Matt D. Wilson is an author and podcaster from North Carolina. His most recent comics work is Everything Will Be Okay from Caliber Comics. He is also the author of Supreme Villainy from Talos Press. You can hear him every week on the War Rocket Ajax podcast.Impostor Syndicate is live at https://zoop.gg/c/impostorsyndicate. Click the link to support, see previews, and more!This is the superhero comics story Matt hasn't been able to get out of his head for 20 years. It's the only superhero story he's ever really wanted to tell.So what happens when a supervillain dies on the job, or just gets too old for this $#!+ and retires? Well, somebody's gotta step up and put on the mask. And actors have to work, don't they? Especially if they're slumming around doing kids birthday parties, and there are enough zeroes in the check. This series is literally 20 years in the making, so your help can finally bring it to life!
Eric and Jordan chat about current live campaigns at Zoop, as well as what's coming soon! Check out all current campaigns at https://zoop.gg.
Benjamin Morse is a comics artist/writer and freelance graphic designer based in Hudson Valley, NY. He has published August:Purgatory Underground in 2022 through Red 5 Comics, We Are Scarlet Twilight on Kickstarter, and the upcoming August: Terminus Angels and Scarlet Twilight: Cobalt Crisis.
We Are Scarlet Twilight #4 + Hardcover Edition is live starting February 21st at https://zoop.gg/c/wearescarlettwilight4. Click the link to support, see previews, and more!
The next chapter of the thrilling cyberpulp adventure is offered here, as well as the exclusive collection of all four epic issues into a deluxe hardcover with 20+ pages of extra material!
Get the book, a single issue, or both! This is the ultimate campaign for We Are Scarlet Twilight fans!
If you're a fan of Buck Rogers and Flash Gordon serials, Fleischer Bros Superman cartoons, Golden Age Comics or old school horror and crime stories, We Are Scarlet Twilight is made for you!
Claire Napier is a critic, cartoonist and comics editor based in England. If you have enjoyed her critical writing, you will find more of the same themes inside her comics. Find her at clairenapier.com. Her campaign for her creator owned book, The Magic Necklace is live starting Valentine’s Day, February 14th at https://zoop.gg/c/themagicnecklace. Click the link to support, see previews, and more!
A horror romance comic about getting what you deserve.
Ann-Rita’s acting differently since she bought Morgan Le Fay's necklace. She’s not afraid of men any more. Not her brother, not the fuzz, and not the guy who’s standing right behind her. Whatever he does… it just can’t threaten her.
If you’ve ever wanted a comic about why women let bad boys and bad men in, this is that one. What’s fair in love and war isn’t always black and white… but add some pink, and you’re more than halfway there. Help us take this story all the way!
Steve Horton is the New York Times bestselling writer of BOWIE: STARDUST, RAYGUNS & MOONAGE DAYDREAMS, which won two Eisner Awards, considered comics' highest honor. His campaign for his book Nine Lives with artist Chris Peterson is live starting February 7th at https://zoop.gg/c/ninelives . Click the link to support, see previews, and more!
It is 1923. Nightclub singer and flapper Cleo has held on to her job longer than anyone for one not-so-simple reason: she can turn water into any kind of alcohol you can think of. That's just the beginning of her powers, which are growing at a scary rate and for a good reason: a gangster is out to kill her! She soon learns that she's just one of nine reincarnations of the same woman - and her killer reincarnates too! It will take everything she has to come out alive…
Created by Steve Horton & Chris Peterson
Script & Lettering by Steve Horton
Art & Color & Logo by Chris Peterson
Variant Cover by Lee "Jjollee" Tran
Cam Kerkau is a longtime comic fan, and comic creator. He recently left his post as Managing Editor at Source Point Press and is pursuing his writing career. His campaign is live starting January 31st at https://zoop.gg/c/gilgamesheternal. Click the link to support, see previews, and more!The world’s first story continues in the world's greatest storytelling medium. The Epic of Gilgamesh is the world’s oldest story, dating back almost five millennia. But Gilgamesh’s dilemma is something that remains relevant to us all today, and always will. How can you live peacefully after you've been truly confronted by your own mortality?Gilgamesh: Eternal is a reimagining of The Epic of Gilgamesh as a fantasy-action comic written by Cameron Kerkau with art by Kostas Pantoulas (IRWIN ALLEN’S LOST IN SPACE: THE LOST ADVENTURES, FREAK SNOW: WASHED IN BLOOD) and letters by Mira Mortal (DOLL ISLAND, MADE UP: ZOMBIE CLOWN CIRCUS).For fans of Jack Kirby, Moebius, and anything that blurs the line between Science Fiction and Mythology
Jeff Messer has successfully funded multiple crowdfunding campaigns, and has raised over $70,000 so far. He works with the legendary artist Mike Grell on his crowdfunding campaigns as well.
His project, Sex, Spies & Rock N’ Roll is in it’s 3rd volume, with plenty more planned. It’s an anthology book with plenty of spin offs already out in the world, and more in the works. Jeff is incredibly prolific, and works with artists all around the world to bring his stories to life. His campaign goes live on January 24th at https://zoop.gg/c/sexspiesrocknrollvol3. Click the link to support, see previews, and more!
The 1980s. Music was loud. Fashion was louder. The hottest days of the Cold War were filled with intrigue, danger, and adventure. It was up to the International Security Foundation, and its network of daring secret agents to prevent the spies of the world from triggering a war to end all wars. And the planet.
These are tales of spies across the 1980s and beyond, whose deeds of derring do will save the world with style, and the volume turned up all the way.
Kraig Rasmussen is a longtime indie comic book writer, and artist from the Southern California area. He has been creating comics, exhibiting at conventions, teaching, and studying for more than 15 years.
His project, Odds And Ends, is a collection of his history of work, and is crowdfunding from 1/17-2/17 at https://zoop.gg/c/oddsandends. Click the link to support, see previews, and more!
Paul Allor is a longtime comic book writer, best known for his work on Power Rangers, GI Joe, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, and more. He is currently crowdfunding his very personal story, the first in a line of books called Pink Midnight Presents: The Butterfly House. It is crowdfunding from 1/10-2/10 at zoop.gg/c/thebutterflyhouse. Visit to support, see previews, and more!