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Tripwire Print Magazine Spring 2020

Tripwire is funding to help publish a 144 page full colour glossy magazine on comics and genre

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Tripwire Print Magazine Spring 2020

Tripwire Print Magazine Spring 2020

Tripwire Print Magazine Spring 2020

Tripwire Print Magazine Spring 2020

Tripwire Print Magazine Spring 2020

Tripwire is funding to help publish a 144 page full colour glossy magazine on comics and genre

Tripwire is funding to help publish a 144 page full colour glossy magazine on comics and genre

Tripwire is funding to help publish a 144 page full colour glossy magazine on comics and genre

Tripwire is funding to help publish a 144 page full colour glossy magazine on comics and genre

Joel Meadows
Joel Meadows
Joel Meadows
Joel Meadows
4 Campaigns |
North West London, United Kingdom
$2,754 USD $2,754 USD 48 backers
16% of $16,483 Flexible Goal Flexible Goal
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Tripwire Print Magazine Campaign

Welcome to the Tripwire Print Magazine Campaign. In terms of my background, I am an experienced journalist and editor, who has worked for the world’s best-known magazines, websites and newspapers, covering comics and genre for places like The Times, Variety, Time Magazine, Evening Standard, SFX, Total Film, Digital Spy and many others.

From 1992 to 2013, we published Tripwire as a print magazine. Publishing more than 55 issues in print including annuals in the summer, plus two anniversary books (Tripwirex10 in 2002 and Tripwire at 21 in 2013), Tripwire covered every major comics and genre writer, producer, artist and mover and shaker. From Guillermo del Toro to Frank Miller, Joss Whedon to Matt Groening, Mike Mignola to Alan Moore, Tripwire was there to cover their work and their career.

It started life as a black and white fanzine but became a full colour magazine in 2003. We were the first people to cover DC’s influential Vertigo imprint, interviewing seminal creators like Grant Morrison, Peter Milligan, Frank Quitely, Jamie Delano and many more. We dropped music which we introduced back in 1992 and replaced it with film and TV in 1999.

We built it up into arguably the UK’s premiere magazine that covered comics and its related media with a sizeable international following. Then the market changed in 2013 and we made the decision to switch to the web.

 

The website launched in 2015 and since then our traffic has increased an amazing 4000%.

We are very proud of what we have achieved in five years on the site, becoming the UK’s pre-eminent comics, film and TV site but we have missed producing a print magazine. So over the past year, we have begun to look at doing something new in print with the help of crowdfunding. Indiegogo is the perfect place to help us achieve our goals and so you are reading this now.

Tripwire Magazine Spring Special will be a glossy 144 page A4 squarebound magazine chock full of all manner of great, unique material:

Under two covers (A Flash 80th anniversary cover exclusively created by illustrator David Michael Beck for the direct market and a Kieron Gillen Once and Future cover for those who support us here on indiegogo) the Spring Special contains the kind of material people familiar with Tripwire’s history would expect:

 

• A Flash 80th anniversary feature looking at the history of DC’s Scarlet Speedster
• A Neil Gaiman feature, taking a look at the writer’s long and renowned career including The Sandman, Good Omens and American Gods

•An exclusive Kieron Gillen interview with the writer talking about hit series like Once & Future, Die and The Wicked + The Divine


•A look at 80 years of Batman’s deadliest and most iconic foe, The Joker, star of comics, film and TV


• It will offer a preview of the eagerly awaited second Wonder Woman film, Wonder Woman 1984 in the year that Wonder Woman commemorates its 80th anniversary
• a look at the genesis of horror comics beginning with EC in 1950 right up to the present day with more modern takes like The Sandman and Hellblazer
•Louise Simonson talks about her long career as a writer and as an editor
•The return of Stripwire, Tripwire’s acclaimed strip section which will include work from the likes of Roger Langridge and Andy Bennett, who has drawn a Sherlock Holmes alternate world short created with Tripwire’s editor-in-chief Joel Meadows.
•An exclusive chat with writer Ram V on his work for companies like DC, Vault and Marvel.
•A look at how comic artists like Frank Quitely, Jock, PJ Holden and others create their work using Wacom and Cintique tablets.
•Company profiles of Vault Comics and SelfMade Hero

•A career retrospective on director Richard Stanley (Color Out Of Space)
•A look at New York’s historic Society of llustrators and a chat with its executive director.
•A Lost Tale featuring Gene Ha on a DC series that never was.
•An interview with renowned British illustrator Alistair Little
•An archive section reprinting interviews with the likes of Alan Moore, Frank Miller and Mike Mignola

In fact there is far too much in the issue to list it all here.

This campaign is important to us because it will allow us to return to the format that garnered us our international reputation. Creating for the web is amazing because it offers immediacy and the opportunity to share content instantly but there is something unique about having a physical, tangible object you can hold in your hand. So those who support us here will allow us to achieve this goal and help us to create new quality print journalism. We intend to return to the production values that we achieved with our Annuals from 2007 to 2011, creating an object that is accessible but that people want to have in their possession.

What We Need & What You Get

Break it down for folks in more detail:

We have worked out that we require £13,000 from this campaign. We have broken down our expenses that we require to make this work:

We need £4500 to print the magazine. This will allow us to print 144 pages in full colour at the sort of quality we need to offer the full impact of the issue, printing 2000 copies with 1000 copies featuring the Dan Mora Once & Future cover that only people who support us here will get.

We require £2000 to pay an editor and a designer for the project. Editing, commissioning and designing 144 pages is a huge undertaking and the person who does this will need to be paid properly.

We need £1500 to create the unique perks we are offering in this campaign like badges, T-shirts, unique prints featuring Tripwire covers past and present featuring work from the likes of Walter Simonson, Frank Miller, Mike Mignola, a print with our current cover by David Michael Beck and others and other really cool stuff.

We need a further £1000 to pay a number of journalists who will write some of the articles contained in the issue. These writers are all professionals and this is their career and so we feel it is essential they get paid properly for their work.

We also need a further £4000 to get the various perks out to all of our supporters through a professional fulfilment company.

If we don’t hit our entire target, then we would send out the perks ourselves rather than using a fulfilment company and look at scaling back how many we would print. Plus we would also look at saving money by paying the editor and designer a little less.

The Impact

The return of Tripwire to print would see quality print journalism back in an industry where this is harder to find than it used to be. Tripwire has always been proud of creating magazines in print and it would allow us to do this again. It would also hopefully act as a springboard to allow us to return to publishing the magazine on a regular basis again. It would also act as a showcase for creative people’s unique work in print rather than online, offering a glimpse behind the creation process.

We published 55 issues and we garnered a lot of notable fans in the world of comics and genre. Oscar winning director and writer Guillermo Del Toro (The Shape Of Water) said this about Tripwire:”Tripwire has been for nearly three decades the touchstone of comic book culture in the U.K and one of the leading periodicals dedicated to this narrative art form. Incisive, smart and always relevant.”

Best selling author Ian Rankin (Rebus) was equally effusive: “ Still the coolest magazine on the planet, and helping young and old alike fritter away their lives with the best coverage of comics, film and TV.”

Legendary TV writer and producer Mark Verheiden (Ash vs The Evil Dead, Daredevil) was also one of our biggest fans: “TRIPWIRE is essential reading - one of the best on the market”

Finally fantasy grandmaster Michael Moorcock (Elric) had this to say about us: “TRIPWIRE really is a breath of fresh air. Its layouts are superb, with great well-written features perfectly set off by the pictures, adding clarity and intelligence to every page. And it keeps on doing it. Amazing, gratifying. A pleasure to look at, a pleasure to read.”

Our decades in publishing, both print and online, and our involvement over the past three years with the successful Portsmouth Comic Con, means that we feel confident we can deliver a great project. We are also keen to reestablish Tripwire as an advocate and champion of all aspects of pop culture artforms. We do what no other magazine does and we shall continue to do that here.

Risks & Challenges
We know life is tough at the moment and print faces a lot of different challenges. However, we feel that our enthusiasm and love for comics and genre and our almost thirty years experience will allow us to deliver what we have promised here. We know every key figure and mover and shaker in the worlds of comics and genre and feel that this will help us to succeed here. We also know people who run websites and magazines who cover the worlds of comics and genre so they will help us get the word out. So they will help us either to share this campaign online or even in some cases they will kindly contribute to the campaign. So we feel more than up for the challenges as we produced a magazine for many years in the past and these are skills which we continue to hone. The team at Tripwire including writers who have worked for places like NME, The Guardian and more, are prepared for whatever hurdles we have to overcome. We have also solicited a direct market edition so we can get income from those copies sold and also done a deal to offer a digital edition through Comixology which will help our revenue for the magazine.

Other Ways You Can Help

Even if people can’t contribute financially to our campaign, they can still help us. They can share it online via Twitter, Facebook or other forms of social media. They can plug it on their blog or their website if they have one. Thanks for reading and watching our video and thanks for your time.

 

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Choose your Perk

Tripwire Print Helper

Currency Conversion $5 USD $6 USD (20% off)
£4 GBP
For this amount you get a thanks from us and a pdf of the magazine.
Included Items
  • Thank you
Estimated Shipping
July 2020
8 claimed

Tripwire Print Mag Supporter

Currency Conversion $11 USD $13 USD (10% off)
£9 GBP
If you support us at this level, then you will get a copy of the lovely print magazine with a Once & Future Dan Mora cover.
Included Items
  • Tripwire Print Mag Mora Cover
Estimated Shipping
July 2020
22 out of 500 of claimed
Ships worldwide.

Tripwire Print and Digital

Currency Conversion $29 USD $32 USD (8% off)
£23 GBP
At this level, you get the Tripwire print magazine, a pdf of the Tripwire print magazine, a unique T-shirt and a unique art print
Included Items
  • Tripwire print magazine
  • Tripwire digital print mag
  • Tripwire T shirt
  • 1 Tripwire limited art print
Estimated Shipping
July 2020
6 out of 100 of claimed
Ships worldwide.

Tripwire Next Level Supporter

Currency Conversion $57 USD $63 USD (10% off)
£45 GBP
Get yourself even more swag here. Get the print magazine, the PDF, 4 limited art prints and a cool Tripwire T shirt.
Included Items
  • Tripwire digital print mag
  • Tripwire T shirt
  • Tripwire print magazine
  • 4 Tripwire art prints
Estimated Shipping
July 2020
3 out of 50 of claimed
Ships worldwide.

Tripwire Studio Supporter

Currency Conversion $114 USD $127 USD (10% off)
£90 GBP
If you support us at this level, you get the magazine in print and digital plus a T-shirt, 10 cool art prints, a set of Tripwire postcards and the now out of print Studio Space book in hardcover which features artists like Frank Miller, Joe Kubert and Mike Mignola
Included Items
  • Tripwire Print Mag Mora Cover
  • Tripwire digital print mag
  • Tripwire T shirt
  • 10 Tripwire art prints
  • Studio space hardcover
  • Tripwire postcards
Estimated Shipping
July 2020
6 out of 25 of claimed
Ships worldwide.

Tripwire Super Supporter

Currency Conversion $292 USD $317 USD (8% off)
£230 GBP
If you support us at this higher level, you get the print mag, the digital mag, 3 cool T-shirts, 2 sets of postcards, 10 art prints, a Flash cover print signed by the artist, the Tripwire 22 hardcover and mentioned as a friend of Tripwire in the print magazine
Included Items
  • Tripwire Print Mag Mora Cover
  • Tripwire digital print mag
  • 10 Tripwire art prints
  • 3 Tripwire T shirts
  • 2 sets of Tripwire postcards
  • Flash cover print signed
  • Friend of Tripwire in mag
  • Tripwire 21 hardcover
Estimated Shipping
July 2020
0 out of 25 of claimed
Ships worldwide.

Tripwire Gold Supporter

Currency Conversion $583 USD $634 USD (8% off)
£460 GBP
The top level of all of our perks. You get a magazine, a digital mag, 5 T-shirts, 3 sets of postcards, 20 art prints and Insight book Masters of comics signed by artists like Walter Simonson and Bill Sienkiewicz.
Included Items
  • Tripwire Print Mag Mora Cover
  • Tripwire digital print mag
  • Tripwire 21 paperback
  • 3 sets of Tripwire postcards
  • 20 Tripwire art prints
  • Masters of Comics signed
  • 5 T-shirts
Estimated Shipping
July 2020
1 out of 10 of claimed
Ships worldwide.

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