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DICE: Durham Indie Comics Expo

DICE is the Durham Indie Comics Expo, a comics art festival in Durham. The show will feature lectures, panels, signings, minicomics and more!

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DICE: Durham Indie Comics Expo

DICE: Durham Indie Comics Expo

DICE: Durham Indie Comics Expo

DICE: Durham Indie Comics Expo

DICE: Durham Indie Comics Expo

DICE is the Durham Indie Comics Expo, a comics art festival in Durham. The show will feature lectures, panels, signings, minicomics and more!

DICE is the Durham Indie Comics Expo, a comics art festival in Durham. The show will feature lectures, panels, signings, minicomics and more!

DICE is the Durham Indie Comics Expo, a comics art festival in Durham. The show will feature lectures, panels, signings, minicomics and more!

DICE is the Durham Indie Comics Expo, a comics art festival in Durham. The show will feature lectures, panels, signings, minicomics and more!

Eric Knisley
Eric Knisley
Eric Knisley
Eric Knisley
1 Campaign |
Raleigh, United States
$1,519 USD 54 backers
50% of $3,000 Flexible Goal Flexible Goal
What We Need & What You Get

What's this about?

DICE (Durham Indie Comics Expo) is a FREE local show in Durham, NC on Nov. 8 (7-9pm gallery show) and Nov 9 (11-7 festival/presentations/panels) meant to support local cartoonists and other independent artists. Our goal is to put on a full day of panels, presentations, merch and fun, plus a full-on gallery show featuring the best of local talent! My name is Eric Knisley. I've been making cartoons and comics my whole life--it's basically all I'm good at.

DICE will be Nov 8 (pm) and 9 (all day) at SUPERGRAPHIC, 601 Ramseur St., Durham, NC (map).

This campaign will allow me and my partners Rob Clough and Bill Fick to realize a long-standing dream: a local indie show. Your contributions will help us realize that dream, but not just for the three of us; we're hoping to provide a forum for the Research Triangle's burgeoning arts community to meet and greet, to network, to learn.

We're asking for funding, because we want to make this show free and open to all.

Here's how we'll use the money we raise

1. Pay for publicity and materials costs. This will include the paper we print our posters on, hardware to hang art for the gallery show, and printing costs.

2. Pay for lodging and travel costs for some of our guests.

3. Pay for all the necessary incidentals that add up--wine for the gallery show, name badges for the festival, rented AV equipment for presentations and so on.

We've got some great perks to reward your for helping us, too! We're offering original art, comics by local art heroes, limited-edition posters and more! We're working on getting tee shirts as a premium reward--watch this space.

If we don't make our full goal, we'll use the funds we do receive to pay for as much of the show as possible, and work on a plan for next year's show. Because this is just the first of many DICE shows, that we're sure of!

We deeply appreciate whatever you can donate, but if you can't, please help us by spreading the word. We want this thing well-attended, so tell your pals about it, and look for us on FaceBook, Twitter and everywhere else we can think of. Thank you very much!

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10.00 Pledge

$10 USD
THANK-YOU POSTCARD featuring an original digital print by Eric Knisley and donor's name on the GREAT SCROLL (oversize banner), which will hand in Supergraphic for the show.
Estimated Shipping
November 2013
11 out of 100 of claimed

$25.00 Pledge

$25 USD
Thank-you postcard, name on scroll plus COMICS GRAB-BAG (Miscellaneous comics by Eric Knisley, Kevin Dixon, Paul Friedrich and many others)
Estimated Shipping
November 2013
Only 3 left

$50.00 Pledge

$50 USD
Thank-you postcard, name on scroll, comics grab-bag, plus LIMITED EDITION DICE POSTER (2-color on good paper, signed and numbered by Eric Knisley
Estimated Shipping
November 2013
6 out of 10 of claimed

Special Mineshaft Prize!

$60 USD
A three-month subscription to the fabulous Mineshaft! Mineshaft is one of the best-kept secrets in the world of publishing, and contains some of the best comics and writing going today. Here's a recommendation you can't ignore: "Long live MINESHAFT!" -R. Crumb Plus you get the thank-you postcard, name on scroll, comics grab-bag, plus LIMITED EDITION DICE POSTER (2-color on good paper, signed and numbered by Eric Knisley
Estimated Shipping
December 2013
1 out of 2 of claimed

$65.00 Pledge

$65 USD
Thank-you postcard, name on scroll, comics grab-bag, limited edition DICE poster plus LIMITED EDITION KNISLEY COLLAGE POSTER (full-color digital print, signed and numbered)
Estimated Shipping
November 2013
0 out of 6 of claimed

$80.00 Pledge

$80 USD
Thank-you postcard, name on scroll, comics grab-bag, limited edition DICE poster plus limited edition collage poster plus LIMITED EDITION SCREENPRINTED PAUL FRIEDRICH POSTER (SIGNED AND NUMBERED). NOTE: This poster is limited to two prints, and will not be offered on other reward tiers.
Estimated Shipping
November 2013
0 out of 2 of claimed

$90.00 Pledge

$90 USD
Thank-you postcard, name on scroll, comics grab-bag, limited edition DICE poster plus limited edition collage poster, PLUS AN ERIC KNISLEY ORIGINAL DRAWING ON THE SUBJECT OF YOUR CHOICE (Original custom art is black and white ink and watercolor on heavy paper, 8 inchex by 10 inches. Donor may supply up to three key words and the artist will create a unique piece of art based on those words.)
Estimated Shipping
December 2013
4 out of 5 of claimed

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