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Gateways to Beyond

We are seeking help to fund our 3rd comic anthology project. Funds are for printing and distribution costs as well as copies for contributors.

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Gateways to Beyond

Gateways to Beyond

Gateways to Beyond

Gateways to Beyond

Gateways to Beyond

We are seeking help to fund our 3rd comic anthology project. Funds are for printing and distribution costs as well as copies for contributors.

We are seeking help to fund our 3rd comic anthology project. Funds are for printing and distribution costs as well as copies for contributors.

We are seeking help to fund our 3rd comic anthology project. Funds are for printing and distribution costs as well as copies for contributors.

We are seeking help to fund our 3rd comic anthology project. Funds are for printing and distribution costs as well as copies for contributors.

Gurukitty Studios
Gurukitty Studios
Gurukitty Studios
Gurukitty Studios
4 Campaigns |
New Westminster, Canada
$346 USD $346 USD 14 backers
44% of $776 Flexible Goal Flexible Goal
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Mountain Filled 4 Projects Mountain Filled 4 Projects


Gurukitty Studios is a small but determined comic duo that creates and self publishes our own stories as well as anthologies.



Our Anthologies were originally started when talking to other artists who were troubled by the fact that they didn’t have enough work to make a full book and wanted ways to promote themselves and have things to sell on their convention tables while they worked on bigger projects. Gurukitty Studios also had a similar issue, having lots of projects on the go, but producing nothing in the meantime, we wanted some nice looking books and we wanted to help out the other creators who were also looking for an outlet.


The answer was anthology projects and how they work is, anyone can contributes a completed story, we jury them and  select some awesome ones. We then collect them in a book where the Gurukitty duo also add a story each to keep our skills sharp!

Finally, we hold a cover contest to have another (or one of the contributors) artist (perhaps an aspiring cover illustrator) have an opportunity to get their work out there.

Artists are compensated with comp copies of the book as well as the ability to buy additional copies at wholesale to sell at their convention tables for profit.

It costs us a lot of money to produce these anthologies, and we are not well off by any means, we are hard working, self published comic artists just doing our best to get out there like everyone else and we work full time jobs on the side as well.  We need funds to buy the compensation copies for artists, mail them out to artists all over the world, additional copies for promotional giveaways, as well as stock to sell at local conventions. We also have to do a lot of marketing and promotional things to help get the book noticed which also costs money.

The anthologies are also a lot of work to put together, coordinating all the files and people, editing the files to fit to the specifications (we’re talking 100’s of files), making the covers, adding tables of contents, credits and additional pages, registering ISBN and getting barcodes…

the list goes on.

The end goal is that the contributors (including us!) now have some published work to use for portfolios, promotion and to sell for profit.



Cover Illustration by Jason Hart.

Our newest anthology, Gateways to Beyond, is what we are currently raising money for to publish, is Science Fiction themed.

This book contains 23 Black and white stories by artists all over the world, during the course of this campaign we will be showing samples from each story to show the variety of art styles and stories that will be contained within. You can already see many samples on our Facebook page!

If you have followed our other anthologies you'll know that each time we want to take It up a notch and go a little farther. With Gateways to Beyond we were more selective with the artwork and lettering but we are also going to take the distribution and marketing to the next level as well.

Below is a detailed breakdown of our plans for the funds:



$535 Studio stock of books for conventions

$165 Comp copies for artists and contributors

$400 shipping (could be more)


So the minimum we need to raise is  $1100.00 to just print the book and fulfill the artist copies.

Once that’s done, any additional funds would be funneled into marketing/distribution.


$250-500 Project wonderful AD campaign


We want to launch an ad campaign for Gateways to Beyond on relevant sites through project wonderful, that will also increase the traffic to our website to generate revenue from our ad space as well. The Idea is that we will have this bank of project wonderful money to start off with and,  hopefully, we can sell ad space on our own site to continue the cycle of money without the need to refill it.  That will take a large chunk of money at first to get the traffic we need right away.


after that we’d like to look further into other venues for sales:

Amazon listing

Diamond (or other) distribution


Any and all extra funds gained after the project wonderful stretch goals would go into distribution of any kind. Amazon would be one of the ones we'd like to do, and we would like to try and get Gateways to Beyond as well as the other anthologies into some bookstore and comic shops. We've looked into some distributors as well, but they are super expensive, so that would be something we would look more into if we had the funds to make it possible. 


So that's it in a nutshell!


We will be posting sample comic pages and other content during the course of the campaign! If you have any questions please feel free to ask away!




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Thanks a bunch

Currency Conversion $4 USD
$5 CAD
Thanks for your support!
2 claimed

Digital Ghost Tales

Currency Conversion $7 USD
$10 CAD
Digital Copy of Ghost tales, our first Anthology with a spooky theme.
3 claimed

Digital Once Upon a Time

Currency Conversion $11 USD
$15 CAD
Digital copy of Once Upon a Time, Our second Anthology which is Fairy/Folk Tale themed
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Digital Gateways to Beyond

Currency Conversion $14 USD
$20 CAD
Digital Copy of Gateways to Beyond. Will be available shortly after the print version is sent to print.
3 claimed

Physical Gateways to beyond

Currency Conversion $21 USD
$30 CAD
Get a physical copy of Gateways to Beyond when it's printed.
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Digital Anthology Trio

Currency Conversion $28 USD
$40 CAD
You'll get a digital copy of Ghost Tales, Once Upon a Time and Gateways to Beyond (when available)
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Physical Trio

Currency Conversion $56 USD
$80 CAD
You will get a physical copy of Ghost Tales, Once Upon a Time and Gateways to Beyond. All sent together when available.
1 claimed

GK Anthology

Currency Conversion $71 USD
$100 CAD
Special final hours perk: We are planning to put together an anthology of just our (Guru and Kitty) works from various publications, collected in one place. This perk is the first mention of this anthology and if you donate and select this perk you will get the first copy! Expected to contain 10+ stories from different publications from different collections by Jeri and Jayleen Weaver
Estimated Shipping
January 2015
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Printed Thank you's

Currency Conversion $212 USD
$300 CAD
You will get a thank you in Gateways to Beyond's thank you page as well as a copy of the anthology.
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