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To visit the Kickstarter page for any of the projects below, simply click on its title.

Yesterday’s News

The past few days delivered a surge in NSFW comics launches that actually increased proportionately yesterday, when 4 out of the 5 Thursday drops were either primarily sexual in theme or action-adventure comics with heavy sexual aspects to story and marketing. One of these, The Art of Sun Khamunaki - Artbook Vol 3, is an art book/porn cover mill, so not a comic in any sense. The Flawless Five #2 is also a porn cover mill but makes at least a sorta-kinda effort to be a comic, with a paragraph of story synopsis and a page of sequential art that’s far less attractive than the scrolling, progressively nude cover options by Flower XL.

OG sexy cover producers, Zenescope Comics, get into the NSFW mix with the White Tiger: Claws, Paws & Outlaws One-Shot. While technically not a porn cover mill, they do offer prints that are nude variants of their covers. They showcase some really nice interior art for this anthropomorphic action-adventure, as does the manga-inspired Good Blood Money #1 - NSFW action/thriller, which unabashedly leans into porn cover mill territory.

All four of these NSFW campaigns are funded within their first day on Kickstarter, totaling more than $41,000 between them as of this morning. There’s definitely no shortage of demand for these types of projects, and that’s more than I can say for the fifth launch of the day, HELLBOUND ISSUE 2 COMIC BOOK, a gothic horror that clearly uses digitally manipulated photos for the artwork rather than traditional art drawn by, y’know, an artist. 2 backers and $46 so far.

By the Numbers

Total # Live Comics Projects on Kickstarter: 167

Total # Comics Launches for This Date: 5

# Live Projects by Comics Sub-Category:

* Anthologies:

* Graphic Novels:

* Comic Books: 5

* Webcomics:

* No Sub-Category:

# Comics Launches by Genre:

* Action-Adventure: 2

* Comedy:

* Fantasy:

* Horror: 1

* NSFW/Porn Cover Mill: 2

* Sci-Fi:

* Slice of Life:

* Superhero:

* Supernatural:

* Thriller:

* Various:

* Western:

Comics I Like

While there’s some great, sexy art on the cornucopia of NSFW covers scattered across Kickstarter yesterday, there’s really nothing compelling or fun on the story side of the equation, at least nothing to warrant the ‘Comic I Like’ treatment.

Have a great weekend!

* Kevin

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