Girl Genius Graphic Novel and Kickstarter Extras for 2022!
Created by Studio Foglio
Adventure, Romance, MAD SCIENCE! The next volume of Phil & Kaja Foglio's acclaimed graphic novel series!
Latest Updates from Our Project:
The Campaign Wallpaper, Some PDF info, and Our Thanks!
over 2 years ago
– Tue, May 17, 2022 at 12:01:56 AM
Download links for the Thank You wallpaper are below!
Thank you, everyone!
This was an amazing campaign, and I'm very happy that everything has gone so well. Thank you so much to everyone who has backed the campaign, and helped us spread the word! We had a few surprises toward the end, the PDF Pile went crazy, it now contains Volume 20 along with Volumes 1-14! I'm already working on the next stage of the campaign: getting the books printed and figuring out the quickest way to ship them to you. I'm currently embroiled in the exciting adventure that is changing the page numbers at the bottom of the older volumes to match the nice ones in the later volumes. Whee! It'll be worth it though. Easy to read page numbers are a very good thing.
At the bottom of the update you'll find download links to our latest "Thank You" wallpaper. I hope it amuses. But first, some information about BackerKit and the PDF Pile:
BackerKit
Shortly after the campaign ends, our backers will get a personalized email with a link to our Very Necessary Pledge Manager at BackerKit. Please be patient, it will take a couple of weeks for us to get everything finalized. We will post a new update here when our BackerKit page is live.
The BackerKit pledge manager is where you'll finalize your mailing address and shipping. This is also where you can order add-ons like extra books or Envelopes of Madness. If you aren't getting any physical rewards, you can ignore the pledge manager.
The PDF Pile
PDF links will be sent to the email address you backed with on the evening of Tuesday, May 24, 2022.
The PDFs will be provided via a personalized download link to DriveThruComics, which will be sent to the email address used in the campaign. You'll need to follow the link, make an account if you don't already have one, and finish the checkout process. The PDFs will be free, you won't be charged.
If you would like the complimentary PDFs to go to a different account than the one you backed the Kickstarter with, please fill out this form with the proper email address BEFORE THE END OF MONDAY, MAY 23, 2022.
I'll go into my spreadsheet and change the recipient email by hand before I send the comps on Tuesday evening. Please be advised that this is a BUNDLE I'm sending out, and this is an experiment! I'm already expecting to get a bit hairy, so PLEASE be patient with me, and please don't ask me to send the comps out in bits and pieces.
NOTA BENE: This will not change the email address associated with your Kickstarter account, it will only affect where the PDFs go.
Here are the links to the Exorcism Engines wallpaper:
Once again, thank you for your support! I'll be back soon with more updates and information.
—Kaja
Small Update with Dowloadable Wallpapers--by request
over 2 years ago
– Wed, May 11, 2022 at 03:59:30 AM
I've had a request for the artwork from the last update as a wallpaper. Nothing simpler, since it was the special "Thank You" wallpaper from Kings and Wizards! Rather than send everyone back to the old update from that campaign, I've just replicated it here. I hope you enjoy it! --Kaja
It's the Final Week of the Girl Genius: Exorcism Engines Kickstarter Campaign!
over 2 years ago
– Tue, May 10, 2022 at 06:40:16 PM
Greetings!
It’s the final week, and we’ve hit all the important stretch goals! Thank you, everyone!
Here’s a recap, because I think things have got a bit wild and I don’t want to be too confusing:
ADD-ONS, EXTRA BOOKS, AND BACKERKIT
Everything we’re offering this time will be available to add on in our BackerKit pledge manager. If you want extra books, Envelopes of Madness, or the new hardcovers, they’ll all be available to add to your pile of rewards in BackerKit. There is no need to guess and add extra funds here, you can do it later in the pledge manager. Don’t worry about our final Kickstarter number, we are already very pleased with it! If you want to help boost the Kickstarter total, tell your friends about what a great deal this particular campaign is, with all the bookplates and PDFs and whatnot!
When the campaign ends, there will be a week or so where we are setting things up behind the scenes. Then, our BackerKit pledge manager will open. You’ll get a personalized invitation via email, and you’ll follow that link to BackerKit, confirm your rewards, add more if you want to, and pay the difference. This is where shipping will be calculated and charged.
WHAT WE’RE PRINTING THIS TIME
We’re printing our latest comic collection Girl Genius Volume 20, The Exorcism Engines, in two editions: the regular softcover and our special first-printing “puffy” padded hardcover.
We’re also reprinting all the books we’re currently out of. That’s books 1, 2 and 5. In addition to the regular softcovers, we’ll also be making these books in a new standard hardcover edition. Unlike the “puffy” covers, which we only print a small run of when the book is new, we hope to keep these standard hardcovers in print for a long time to come.
We plan to begin releasing standard hardcovers of all the Girl Genius collections as the need to reprint the softcover books arises. Looking at the inventory, our next Kickstarter (for Volume 21) will most likely have stretch goals to reprint Volumes 3, 12 and 14. It depends on what we’ve run out of by then!
REWARDS: THE PDF PILE AND THE ENVELOPE OF MADNESS
THE PDF PILE!
We have a lot of great rewards this time! To start with, the reward for our “Photons Only” level has morphed from a single PDF of Vol. 20 into the mighty PDF PILE! And the PDF PILE reward has been extended to cover everyone at the higher levels! That means that everyone at the $10 and up levels will get not only their regular rewards but also the PILE which currently includes Volumes 1-6 and Volume 20.
THE ENVELOPE OF MADNESS!
The EoM, included with every level that contains a book, is really is mad this time, with FOUR signed bookplates, an art card, Student ID and a lovely set of bookmarks to match the books we’re printing. We’ve also hit the stretch goal for the Arch Nemesis cards, which means that every EoM will contain your arch-nemesis, randomly selected from a brand-new batch of 13 cards we’ve created for just this occasion! (I’ll have the full set of the Sparks and Monsters Arch-Nemeses up on DriveThruCards.com soon, this is a new group!)
I'm off to set up a few more stretch goals!
Thanks again--
--Kaja
Ahoy! It's Phil's birthday, so here's another PDF for the PDF Pile!
over 2 years ago
– Mon, May 02, 2022 at 04:34:48 AM
Happy Birthday to my darling husband! Today I'll be making him a big garlic-y lasagne, but before I wander into the kitchen, possibly never to return, I'm adding the PDF of volume 3 to what I've decided to call the PDF Pile. That's what everyone above the $10 level is getting, per our ongoing stretch goals.
This is the secret "Happy Birthday" achievement stretch goal! Ding!
So just to be clear, Backers above the $10 level are now getting, in addition to whatever other physical rewards they've signed on for, an email with a link from Drivethrucomics.com that will allow them to download complimentary PDFs of Volumes 1, 2, 3, 5, and 20. It will be necessary to create a DriveThru account to download the files, but you won't need to hand over any money unless you want to buy something else.
All our PDFs on DriveThru are half off until a couple of days after the campaign ends, but you might want to wait on that to see what stretch goals we meet. I might add more.
The Envelope of Madness, which ships with every backer level containing a book, now contains:
One Thank You art card from the Mechanicsburg Guild of Monsters
One signed bookplate for Volume 20
One signed bookplate for Volume 1
One signed bookplate for Volume 2
One signed bookplate for Volume 5
One Transylvania Polygnostic Student ID / handy checklist of all our books
One campaign bookmark for Volume 20
One bookmark for Volume 1
One bookmark for Volume 2
(The EoM is one per level but you can buy more as add-ons in BackerKit after the campaign.)
And now, I need to get to work. Have a lovely May Day, everyone!
--Kaja
Add-Ons, Stretch Goals, and BackerKit
over 2 years ago
– Thu, Apr 28, 2022 at 08:06:09 PM
Hello again!
Well, we’ve hit a few more stretch goals! We'll be reprinting Volumes One and Two, the Envelope of Madness is getting nicely full, and we’re roaring up on the “Reprint Volume Five” goal. Not bad! Warm thanks to all who have helped make this a great campaign!
ADD-ON INFORMATION:
I’ve had a few questions about add-ons, I’ll try to answer them here, and then I’ll go do the same in the FAQs.
EVERYTHING WILL BE AVAILABLE AS ADD-ONS AFTER THE CAMPAIGN IN BACKERKIT
It’s true that there is no one perfect backer level for those of you who want some combination of Volumes Twenty, One, Two, and possibly Five if we hit that goal (we’re very close.) Fortunately, everything will be available as add-ons in BackerKit, so there’s no need to stress. You’ll be able to customize your order at the same time you’re finalizing shipping information and payment. You’ll be able to order extra Envelopes of Madness at that time as well.
EXTRA FUNDS ADDED IN KICKSTARTER WILL TRANSFER TO BACKERKIT OR I’LL KNOW THE REASON WHY
I’ve been told that some backers have added extra funds in anticipation of add-ons, which is absolutely lovely of them! Those funds will of course be transferred to BackerKit to use for add-ons. (If that doesn’t happen then we have a big problem and we will sort it out, but it’s never gone wrong before.) Adding extra for add-ons in Kickstarter isn’t necessary though, you’ll be able to add any number of things in BackerKit and pay for the balance there.
WE MIGHT ADD OTHER IN-PRINT BOOKS AS ADD-ONS IN BACKERKIT? MAYBE? IF NOT, THEY’RE AVAILABLE AT REGULAR BOOK STORES.
Some have asked if I’ll be adding other volumes of the book to the add-ons in BackerKit. I’m not yet sure about that! Everything we aren’t reprinting is available on the TopatoCo store and various other online book shops, but I know it would be convenient, so I have to figure out how much fuss it would be for our fulfillment people. I’ll let you know!
HERE’S WHAT’S IN THE ENVELOPE OF MADNESS AT THE MOMENT:
• One "Thank You!" art card
• One Vol. 20 Bookplate signed by Phil & Kaja
• One Vol. 01 Bookplate signed by Phil & Kaja
• One Vol. 02 Bookplate signed by Phil & Kaja
• One Vol. 20 Bookmark
• One Vol. 01 Bookmark
• One TPU Student ID/checklist
HERE'S WHAT I'D LIKE TO ADD TO THE EoM IF WE UNLOCK THE STRETCH GOALS:
A signed bookplate for Volume 5, Bookmarks for Volumes 2 & 5, new random Arch-Nemesis cards. I love the Arch-Nemesis cards and want to continue to make them with every campaign, but this campaign needed a lot of book-related stretch goals first so we'll see if we get there.
SPARKS AND MONSTERS BACKERKIT STORE CLOSING JUNE 01
Because I don't want to be running two of them at once, I'm planning to close down the Sparks and Monstersstore on BackerKit on June 01, so if there's anything you're wanting, including campaign exclusives, head over there before that date.
A SHORT NOTE FOR OUR SPARKS AND MONSTERS BACKERS
I'll be posting a short update to the Sparks and Monsters campaign after I'm finished here, but in case you miss it, all the Backer rewards for Sparks and Monsters have shipped.
The second shipment of brassy SCIENCE fobs has now arrived, so I'll be sending out the pre-orders that were waiting on those this week. The SCIENCE fobs were...very popular.
We are now sweeping up the inevitable problems with wandering packages and (I'm sorry! It's very rare, I promise!) packing mistakes. As always, if you have a problem, contact us with our handy form or write to us at [email protected].
If you haven't completed your BackerKit pledge manager, you can do that here using the email address you backed with. Please do it soon, I'll be closing the Sparks and Monsters pledge manager on June 01, 2022. After that, you'll have to contact us directly and it's a lot more fuss.
And that's everything I have to tell you at the moment, I believe. I'll be back soon with more information if and when we hit the "Reprint Volume Five" goal. Thanks again, everyone!
