Hi, I'm Devin Kraft, a comic artist and art director who has worked on projects at IDW and Lion Forge, as well as a variety of independent self published projects.

I’ve had my nose to the grindstone on the next action packed issue of Neverender. By the very nature of the game, independent comics require creators to wear a lot of different hats and fill a lot of different roles, and with the exception of the talented Vinh Luan Luu with flatwork, and a core group of amazing Kickstarter backers, Neverender has been a primarily solo endeavor.

Each page gets written, concepted, thumbed, penciled, inked, flatted, toned, lettered, and finished out, causing each double sized issue to take a significant time investment to create, and even longer before I can run a crowdfunding campaign, get the books produced, shipped and delivered. As a creator who loves to show things as I finish them, this drives me absolutely crazy.

I’ve eyeballed starting a Patreon for years, I’ve just always hesitated because I want to make sure I provide backers with such an excess of value that backing it is an unquestionable value proposition for the average backer. I start to get in my own head about things - what if I fail, what if no one backs, what if this is just another thing to invest my time in, and most horrifyingly, what if I’m creating art that no one is asking for.

But I overthink, constantly, and to solve that, I’m going to keep it simple: one tier, one dollar, one kick ass comic in progress about two duelists fighting to survive. And to sweeten the deal, I’m including Neverender Issue One (50+ pages), Silence: Wall of Sound Edition (150+ pages), and Dragon Slayer (140+ pages) as a thank you for your support.

In between posting process shots of pages, I’ll also kick up in process pin designs, answer any questions about the comic creation process I can, and work with backers on future content. I’d love to create future tiers with physical rewards, such as postcards, prints, stickers and pins with the collaboration of my Patreon community.

So that’s the nuts and bolts of it. Thanks in advance for joining me on this experiment.

-Devin