A Gentle Beseechment of the Crowd-Sourcing Variety (off topic but hopefully not against PList rules)

[Mark Thibodeau]

Hi gang!

My friends and collaborators Joe Deagnon and Kirby Stasyna are
crowd-sourcing the printing costs for the 3rd issue of their comic book
series, CHICKEN OUTFIT. There are four days left and 800 dollars to go
before they make their goal. Here's something I wrote in support of their
efforts, on my own blog a couple weeks back, when the effort just got
started...

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I love comic books. Always have, always will. I grew up collecting them,
and I've occasionally tried my hand at creating them. So I feel that I do
bring a certain degree of expertise to the table when it comes to my
opinion on the quality of these four-color funny books.

Which brings us to today's subject, and the video at the top of this
Kickstarter page...

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/chickenoutfit/chicken-outfit-skull-smashing-third-issue

That was a video trailer for a comic book that is currently in the making.
After the first "Hellish" issue, and the second "Nerve-Shattering" issue,
this will be the THIRD "BRAIN-SMASHING" ISSUE of this particular series,
and it will also be the third issue that I, personally, will have helped to
make a reality by kicking in to their crowd-funding campaign. Why do I do
this? Because... well, let me tell you all a bit about how the Chicken
Outfit saga measures up, so far...

In Chicken Outfit, a horror/sci-fi comic series from co-creators Joe
Deagnon and Kirby Stasyna, our heroes Stan Munson and Rusty McDoodle - two
online porn employees at a company known for pushing the limits of
technology and good taste in the name of higher profits - may have
inadvertently set the Apocalypse back into motion. .

Drawing inspiration from 80s horror films, underground comix and first-hand
experience of office culture, Chicken Outfit is a phantasmagoria of horror,
science fiction, dark humour and characters dressed in stupid costumes.
Deagnon and Stasyna deliver a compelling narrative that is utterly unique
in the annals of illustrated comedy. That's because, in the course of
sharing with us their tales of modern workplace woe and misery, they
actually manage to make some surprisingly astute observations on the grim,
existential anomie of Late Capitalist decline... especially for those of us
working in the so-called "creative" industries.

The secret to Chicken Outfit's success is that Deagnon and Stasyna filter
their critiques through a gonzo kaleidoscope of lurid "grindhouse"
exploitation movies and taboo-shattering underground comix, simultaneously
exaggerating them and making them more palatable.

But don’t take my word for it. Check out Chicken Outfit for yourself!
Because if you're the kind of person who gives a damn about highly
entertaining homebrewed comedy, original storytelling well out of the
mainstream, gorgeous illustration that suffers the ineluctable taint of
insanity, with the whole deal being pulled together into a sturdy and
attractive full-color package… then by all means, hop on board the Chicken
Outfit train! For a small kick-in, you could get all THREE issues of
Chicken Outfit, along with a bunch of other goodies in recognition of your
patronage!

Oh, and I haven't been paid to promote this book. The creators are friends
and sometime artistic collaborators of mine. I am helping them purely
because I believe their book deserves promotion.

Thank you for your time and attention! This is both the first and the last
mention I'll be making of this Kickstarter effort in this venue.

Cheers!
Jerky/Tibby/Mark
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