The Diary of the Stray Dogs: The Wounded
My name is Nigel Lynch.
I’m here to launch my first Indiegogo campaign. Comic books have always been one of my true loves. The ability to bring a world of endless possibilities to life and have fun with it.
I’ve been an indie comic writer for over 10 years, and I've been an artist in some form my entire life. Some of you may know my past projects, like my work on Hardears and Life & Death in Paradise.
It's been my dream for as long as I can remember to bring a story from one of my favorite genres, science fiction to life. So, I'm beyond excited to contribute to the genre with a new series of comics called The Diary Of The Stray Dogs with the first book ‘The Wounded’.
Set in the year 2135 in a cyberpunk-esque world in the vein of ‘Altered Carbon’, and ‘Ghost in the Shell’ meets ‘Extraction’.
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Who will love the Diary of the Stray Dogs: The Wounded?
If you like movies and science fiction/action films like District 9, Elysium, Altered Carbon, John Wick, Blade Runner, and Dredd with a bit of Pulp Fiction and Kill Bill thrown in for good measure.
If you like Cyberpunk inspired work like Killtopia.
Fans of series like Ghost in the Shell.
Fans of stories with Black female protagonists.
Fans of Caribbean characters in science fiction settings.
If you like comic books with bloody violence, gorgeous artwork, and a great story, then you will love THE WOUNDED.
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The world of THE DIARY OF THE STRAY DOGS
The series is set in the early 2100s and is about a ragtag group of mercenaries hired by various clients. From members of a secret society to various multinational corporations.
The world of the Stray Dogs is one where the major governments of the world have joined together to create a world of peace, but the countries outside of these developed nations were given the designation of the pirate nations.
The stories dive into these pirate nations and their interactions with the other world.
The Diary of the Stray Dogs has been a passion project of mine that I have longed to see the light of day and hopefully, with your help, we can make it happen.
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Interior art by Juan Carlos Francisco . All art shown during the campaign is not final and subject to change. Final product may differ slightly from what is shown.
The Story: THE WOUNDED
This is the diary of Shani Belcourt, set in the 22nd Century.
A world where many things have changed yet some things stay the same. The pursuit of wealth, health, spirituality, and long life is still the main goal of humanity. Despite its many technological advancements, the world is still plagued with greed, corruption, and a disregard for basic human life.
In these pages, Shani recounts the events that start her on the path to becoming the individual she is today.
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Who is Shani Belcourt?
Shani, the main character in this story, is a black female with a mixed Caribbean heritage who is a long way from home. But she has a dream of settling back down in her homeland in the West Indies.
Shani is an adventurous individual. When we meet her in the story, she's on the tail end of her contract with a private security firm. Trained as a pilot, she has gotten her team out of many a hairy situation but now it is time for some good old R&R. She and Alex head into the city for a wild night where they meet up with a bike courier Rossa, an individual who is always down for some sex, drugs and fun times.
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Meet Rossa
WHO IS ROSSA?
Rossa is the other female main character in the story. She is a feisty redhead, with a no holds barred attitude and whose philosophy in life is “why work hard, when you can play hard?” Her job as a bike courier is convenient, as Rossa loves life and intends to live it to the fullest. Her love for the narcotic Purple Ice, only rivaled by her unwavering religious belief in the one true savior of the time Edward Noch the lost astronaut.
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Interior art by Juan Carlos Francisco . All art shown during the campaign is not final and subject to change. Final product may differ slightly from what is shown.
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Cover A By Juan Carlos Francisco
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Cover B By Juan Carlos Francisco
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Above and BEYOND
Beyond Publishing Caribbean, is a relatively new force in the international indie comics world. Rising up the ranks from its humble beginning over 10 years ago. Making a name for themselves on both the regional and international stage. Winners of such awards as ADDY awards, ANGEL awards, Glyph Comics Awards, and a number of local National awards in the field of comics.
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The Team
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Writer/Creator: Nigel Lynch
I'm the creator of the Diary of the Stray Dogs: The Wounded comic book.
I'm an avid comic book reader and started writing comics over 10 years ago. I have had some major success with some of my previous titles and I'm always looking to improve my craft. I hope you like what you see and back the project, it would be much appreciated.
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Artist: Juan Carlos Francisco
Juan Carlos is an illustrator who lives and works in Castellón, Spain. He’s been a big fan of Comic Art since childhood and really enjoys breathing life into stories and characters. He has a realistic style inspired by European comic masters and loves to draw sci-fi worlds, doing his best on every project.
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Colorist: Edward King Bola
King Bola, a self-taught artist is from the Philippines and has been coloring for 15 years. He was taught the basics of comic coloring by a friend who is also a comic colorist and with this, has improved his skills over the years.
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Writer: Kamaria Connell
Also lending her writing talents to the project is Kamaria Connell, a Barbadian national. Although her background is in screenwriting, Kamaria has translated the fundamentals of story and character development to comics. In addition to her writing contributions, she also assists as an editor. Look out for her solo project coming soon.
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Artist/Graphic Designer: Matthew Clarke
Matthew is an amazing artist/writer in his own right and has illustrated a number of comic books and graphic novels such as Hardears Graphic Novel (published by Abrams/MEGASCOPE) Life & Death in Paradise and his original horror series Heart Man. Matthew lends his talent to project by designing the logos and doing the layouts to this amazing comic. Matthew will be debuting his own chapter to THE DIARY OF THE STRAY DOGS series soon with a book which he will be fully illustrating.
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The B-T-S Ninja: Marc Gibson
Marc is a creative entrepreneur with a passion for comic books, animation, and games; and most importantly the Indiegogo Campaign manager/team coordinator for this amazing project. Marc is also the brains and driving force behind the Alluhwi Comics digital platform.
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The Wounded #1 is a full color, 32-page comic in standard American comic size, printed on high-quality paper. The type of quality you've come to expect from Indiegogo campaigns.
The Wounded comic includes 30 glorious sequential pages of guns, guts, and sexy motorcycles. In this campaign, we are offering TWO different covers by Juan Carlos Francisco.
All $10+ backers will also receive additional bonus content including the original script for THE WOUNDED #1, design process pages and more!
The book is 100% complete, fully colored and lettered. We just need to get it out to you!
Your contributions will help fund the project by helping to pay the artist and get the book to the printers. This chapter of the D.O.T.S.D is a 32-page full-color comic with mature themes. Help us get The Wounded out to you.
Thank you!
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STRETCH GOALS
Let's talk about STRETCH GOALS. What exactly are stretch goals? Glad you asked.
Let's say we hit our $1,000 funding goal, STRETCH GOALS are new rewards given to ALL physical backers, ABSOLUTELY FREE, for every new funding goal we reach.
The stretch goals will be hidden until the campaign goal is reached, and we'll start revealing them as the campaign progresses. You can help us unlock additional goals by sharing a link from our Indiegogo page to your website, blog, or social media page. Sharing this pre-order campaign with others will ensure that more people have an opportunity to pre-order, and everyone will benefit from new rewards. We hope to unlock all of the goals by the end of the campaign so we can make all of our wild ideas happen!
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