Goat Swarm is creating
Black Hole Wizard
Black Hole Wizard is a comic book series that explores the weirder recesses of science fiction and fantasy, the droning soundscapes of doom metal, and the new aesthetics of 21st Century occultism.
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Milestone Goals
Industry standard!
This is roughly the cost for us to write, pencil, ink, and letter a single comics page by industry standards. At this point, thanks to your support, we're producing this comic without taking a loss in our time and precious remaining sanity.
Tainted Pamphlets
At this amount we can begin producing short runs of single issues for sale! Out of gratitude, every patron at the time we hit this milestone will receive a newly designed sticker free of charge.
The Bog Witch survives on Wizardry
This is the amount it takes for artist Eliza Gauger to work on Black Hole Wizard as a full time monthly project without starving to death.
About
Simon Berman is the Marketing Coordinator at Privateer Press. He was a writer and primary contributor to the Iron Kingdoms Full Metal Fantasy Core Rules, winner of 4 ENnies awards, including Best Game (Gold) 2013, he has also done significant work as a former staff writer at Privateer, writing for the award winning miniatures war-games, WARMACHINE and HORDES. As well, he has contributed as a writer to the ENnies nominated role playing game, Unhallowed Metropolis. Berman is also the business manager of Gauger's ongoing Problem Glyphs project.
Eliza Gauger is an established freelance artist who has produced illustrations and flavor text for magazines, books, and role playing games. Gauger is the creator of Problem Glyphs, an ongoing project funded via Patreon. She has collaborated as an illustrator with Jhonen Vasquez and writer Warren Ellis, and has written for Wired, Kotaku, and Destructoid. She has taken part in solo and collaborative fine art shows in Berlin and Munich, including STROKE festival, and her work is in the permanent collection of the Hatch Gallery Berlin.
Eliza Gauger is an established freelance artist who has produced illustrations and flavor text for magazines, books, and role playing games. Gauger is the creator of Problem Glyphs, an ongoing project funded via Patreon. She has collaborated as an illustrator with Jhonen Vasquez and writer Warren Ellis, and has written for Wired, Kotaku, and Destructoid. She has taken part in solo and collaborative fine art shows in Berlin and Munich, including STROKE festival, and her work is in the permanent collection of the Hatch Gallery Berlin.
Location
Seattle, WA, USA
Oakland, CA, USA
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Together, Simon Berman and Eliza Gauger are Goat Swarm; a collaborative disorganization devoted to the consumption of doom, appreciation of the Void, and the creation of a soon-to-be ongoing comic book series, Black Hole Wizard.
We've been working on Black Hole Wizard for over two years; scripting the first issues, drawing concept art, sketching, and illustrating the first few pages. With your help, we intend to bring our dubious intentions screaming into the world, covered with blood, and howling for souls in a cloud of pungent smoke.
Why do we need your help?
When you have a full time job like Simon, or are a full-time artist like Eliza, your schedule is seriously limited. While we've been scrimping desperately for free time to work on BHW for the past two years, projects like this can prevent artists from paying rent, unless they are funded. That's where Patreon—and a supportive army of patrons like you—comes in. With your help, we will be able to write and draw our outer space wizards, demons, and blood-fueled rocket ships without starving to death. We're also committed to producing a polished final product and that means paying graphic designers and an editor. They don't want to starve to death, either. We're going to churn out pages no matter how much we receive, but every dollar helps.
What do you get out of this?
Assured damnation and our eternal gratitude. Also, we promise our patrons early access to pages as they're finished, digital art with which you may profane your personal computing devices, live-streams of Eliza drawing the comic itself and probably crude fart jokes, access to Simon's scripts as they're published, and god knows what else we think up as we go.