JUST ADDED: SKETCH OPTION
If you've already ordered please email me with your request and I can add it on and send you a checkout link. If you haven't ordered then 10 days after your InDemand order you will receive a checkout from BackerKit to make all your options. Adding a sketch to the book will be one of the options. See UPDATES for the full list of options!
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To the Exceptional People who continue to support NEXUS
How many of you miss the simple excitement from these bygone years, and wished it would return? As two creators that entered the comic field in 1981, publisher and artist Steve Rude, along with partner and Nexus creator Mike Baron, wanted to move our industry forward by returning to something that made the popularity of comics what it was. It was time for someone to revive the excitement of the Adventure strips, and we’d begin by adapting it to our longtime creation Nexus.
Five years ago, Rude Dude Productions reintroduced something that the world of publishing had thought virtually extinct; the full-page Sunday newspaper adventure strip. For a while, I’ve been asking, “What happened to the American comic strip?” Reduced almost microscopically by the 1970’s, I’ve wondered the same. So, with no one limiting us but ourselves, in 2015, we began adapting the award-winning Nexus comic book into a Sunday newspaper strip. we’re happy to finally announce that the entirety of these Nexus strips will now be published in one massive collection.
Anyone who has ever ordered from us knows we care about the quality. This is not a "kinkos" handmade book. All our books (and everything we do) is top quality, professionally printed, thick stock, archival safe, and we spend thousands on sturdy shipping containers, mailers, tubes, and packaging to get those items to you safely. If something is damaged we will replace it on request. Back us and support quality and high standards.
Collections offered in 3 Formats:
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Limited Edition is signed by Mike Baron and Steve Rude, numbered, and comes with a slipcase and is shrinkwrapped
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Certificate included in levels with extras
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NOTE: Both the Trade Paperback and the Hardcover Editions had different designers and pages had to be formatted differently so each book is a unique experience.
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This book is going to print regardless of funds raised in IndieGoGo. We already ran this on Kickstarter and it was successful, this is an extremely limited printing so we are offering it here as a last chance to get in on these amazing deals before the book sells out.
The TPB is at the printer and expected to arrive in May. The hardcover is being reformatted to the larger size and we expect it to ship in June or July. If you order the set your order will ship together once the hardcover arrives.
The Impact
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This is something more than just an exciting read; it is the return to something that people haven’t seen since the 1950’s. For 60 years, everyone from Wall-Streeters to Dust-Bowlers looked forward to the Sunday comics section, and every newspaper stand in America and around the world carried it.
Far Side creator, Gary Larson, when asked about the enjoyment people got from reading his zany strip, once told us, "Well, it's not like the people who draw comic strips are curing cancer or anything."
For a long time, I thought about what Larson had said. Here’s my conclusion:
While everyone goes through their daily paces, dealing with everything life throws at us, there are still things, often during the briefest passing moments, that might still considered miraculous. Anything that might temporarily lift our spirits, help us forget life’s trials, and give us a chance to dream again. Along with that might be having something to look forward to.
The weekly comic strip adventures of Nexus is our humble offering to that belief. For those subscribers who wanted to know how the story finally ends, or to the many who have been reading it online at Patreon.com/steverude, these strips are now available.
Into the light and forward to the future,
Steve Rude
Risks & Challenges
We have been self publishing books since 2003 with our first "Steve Rude Sketchbook". We pride ourselves on quality and communication. Things don't always go as planned, especially with COVID shipping delays and other factors. If errors are caught before printing Steve has been known to stop the presses to get it fixed.
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