The double-sized conclusion to the critically acclaimed saga of Daybreak! Plus, new backers can acquire the complete series.
Good morning, Daymakers.
A brief note to alert you all that the smoke test was successful and surveys have been officially sent out this morning. If you could please return your survey by April 14th, we are anxious to move into the fulfillment phase for this project.
Thank you!
Kelsey (the New Pain intern)
Daymakers!
A quick update for you all this morning.
Daybreak! #4 is FINISHED! We put the final touches on Daybreak's swan song last week. Early word from our proofreader and a couple of readers in the inner circle indicates that we've put together a satisfying conclusion, phew! We're excited to get the book into your hands.
To that end, the first batch of surveys, the so-called "SMOKE TEST" were sent out this morning to 5% of you. As long as no unexpected technical issues crop up with the surveys, the rest will be released into the wild tomorrow morning.
As previously mentioned, we're asking that surveys are returned by April 14th, thanks in advance. We need to finalize our print numbers and get the files to our printer the week before my daytrip to Tennessee to sign everyone's copy of Daybreak! #4. So...crackerjack timing and all that.
The various digital rewards will be released around the 16th of this month. You'll all receive a download through Backerkit but don't worry, we'll remind you so you don't miss out.
And finally, I was lucky to see the almost-complete motion comic adaptation of Daybreak! #1 last week. Our buttered, biscuity friends at Bewildered Biscuit Productions have hit a homerun with this thing. I love it, I think you're going to love it too, and we'll send it out once Team Biscuit feels it's finished to their satisfaction. They've got pretty high standards.
So to recap: a lot of fun stuff coming down the pike this month, guys. Thanks for all your help and support as we reach the home stretch with this project.
Don't forget to return your surveys!
Your bestie,
Keith Champagne
Daymakers!
Because of a death in the immediate family and the resulting time away from my office the last two weeks, Daybreak! #4 will be slightly delayed.
Sorry. Sincerely. But sometimes life kicks you in the no-no square.
The good news is we're still on track to fulfill the campaign in April, as intended. Just later in April than originally planned.
Stefan and I have 4 pages left of Daybreak! #4 to complete, plus the handbook-style page for The Custodian. I had a lot of fun writing it and my Daybreak! partner in crime will put it together once the full art on this issue is complete. We're in good shape to finish the book with time to spare.
You can now expect surveys to be sent through Backerkit on April 1st, with a deadline of April 14 to complete and return your information to New Pain HQ.
I'm now flying to Tennessee on April 24th to sign all the physical copies of #4. All told, I'll be on the ground in the Knoxville area for about 4 hours before I'm back on a plane and headed home. It's going to be a grueling day but also fun in a weird way.
I'll be delivering the add-ons like foil covers and metallic prints, which were sourced to a different print house, to our usual printer while I'm there and expect everything to be packaged and mailed to you guys that final week of April. I'm going to bag and board copies while I'm there. We have several backers that live in the surrounding area and it may be possible to arrange to hand you your packages while I'm in town. As mentioned, time will be tight on this end but if it seems logistically possible, you'll be contacted the week before to try to work out details on your end. I always, always enjoy meeting our backers and talking comics and I hope time and your also-busy schedules will allow for that on this quick trip.
If anything else changes, you guys will be the first to know but we plan on sticking to this revised schedule.
Thanks for the extra little bit of patience.
Your bestie,
Keith Champagne
Daymakers!
Looks like all you backers are getting their copies of Daybreak! #4 signed--and digital backers will be getting their exclusive DEFENSE #1 ashcan.
After a whirlwind stretch of pledges and cancels this morning that saw us unlock our final stretch goal, fall back under, unlock it again, fall back under AGAIN and finally hit it permanently during the last 24 minutes of the campaign...wait. I've got so much whiplash I don't know how to finish this sentence.
But the good news is the flight to the print/fulfill center in Tennessee I booked yesterday won't go to waste now.
Thank you, guys. Not just for making #4 a reality but for believing in this entire series from start to finish. It's difficult not to feel a real sense of accomplishment after the last two years of work. Even Tom Nguyen smiled ever so slightly and that almost NEVER happens, he's inscrutable.
Expect another update in a couple of weeks, after the funds clear Kickstarter. The surveys should arrive about a week later, our plucky intern will start cracking on those next week. In the meantime, Stefan and I will be putting the final touches on the last 10 pages of #4, I'll write up the "Handbook" pages (Stefan has already drawn The Machine entry) and we'll slap this puppy together, get it printed, signed and into your hands. along with all the other rewards.
I'd be remiss in not mentioning that Michael Katz' campaign for HORROR SHOW is funded and has a couple of days left. If you haven't checked it out yet, don't miss out.
I'm also overdue in plugging Rylend Grant's project, THE PEACEKEEPERS, which has two days left and is in the stretch goal phase.
Here's the pitch, directly from the campaign page:
"All hell breaks loose in a quaint northern Michigan community when a team of in-over-their-heads bank robbers kills a beloved Sheriff’s Deputy. In a small town with BIG secrets, local detective Richard Holton races to peel back the layers of a depraved down home conspiracy before the bungling Federal Agents assigned to the case send everyone involved to ground."
I'm new to the world of The Peacekeepers myself but I'm excited to check it out, Rylend is a pretty solid writer. He even has a book called The Jump so clearly we are simpatico creative spirits!
Gotta run, guys. Crazy day. But thanks again for everything. More info soon.
Your bestie,
Keith
Daymakers! A hearty welcome to our new backers over the last couple of days, we're glad to have you join us.
Currently, we are less than 24 hours away from the end of our campaign and $850 and some spare change away from unlocking the final stretch goal which, because of the crackerjack timing that will be involved in finishing, printing and fulfilling the books, will entail my flying to our print/fulfill center in Tennessee in time to sign everyone's physical copy, then fly home that evening. I'm already gone two weekends in April for comicons so believe me, my family isn't happy with this new development in my travel schedule.
But if you happen to think I'm bluffing?
Call me crazy, call me confident, call me practical but I already booked the flight. As we all know, the closer to the date of travel we get, the more expensive the flight so I pulled the trigger.
So hey...locked in on my end. If you guys want to help us get there by telling a friend, I definitely won't complain. We'll be banging the drums on this end so let's all meet up tomorrow afternoon and see where this mad plan ends up.
LFG, as the kids say!
Your bestie,
Keith Champagne