Pre-orders are live now for A1 DEADLINE SPECIAL if you missed the Kickstarter! The heart of UK comic book counterculture returns in a 104-page special issue, bold, rebellious, and packed with the spirit that defined a generation. Featuring award-winning icons and new talent not to be missed!
Pre-order today and get your copy of the magazine delivered to your door.
Latest Updates from Our Project:
Production is Done!
6 months ago
– Fri, Dec 19, 2025 at 05:43:21 AM
H-E-L-L-O W-O-R-L-D, WE'RE STILL ALIVE!!
Happy Festive season to all!
Good news!
We’ve received the last of the four replacement pages from the artists we dared not leave behind. These creators will be prominently featured in this issue, unfettered, as they should!
Here's a peek at Zero Stars, by Fraser and Lucy, highlighting the horrifying world that AI is delivering as part of the Great Capitalism Collapse. It's a banger! And so is the story!
A new one-pager by Fraser Campbell and Lucy Sullivan
On the subject of delivery, we were looking to send out backer surveys now, but with the holidays crashing down upon us, we’ll be sending them out the first week of January instead. Note, this won’t affect delivery estimates. The book will have started printing and binding by then. It simply ensures the maximum number of you can respond and lock in your addresses without distractions or emails getting buried.
So, as we queue up orders from our vendors for stickers, prints, posters, and books, and the artists put pencil to paper on sketches and cards, we’ll be enjoying a very happy, very creative holiday season indeed, knowing the future is bright.
-A1 Deadline Team
ps. We're already deep into the next issue! Teases soon!
*POST-CAMPAIGN INFO! A quick note about the post campaign process:*
7 months ago
– Fri, Nov 21, 2025 at 02:37:40 AM
Thank you for a great week at Thought Bubble!
Happy Friday, everyone!
Kickstarter is processing the pledges. Once that wraps, we will send out our Backer Survey (we're currently building that!) The backer survey is where you will provide your mailing address and calculate shipping. You'll also have the chance to pick up a few select add-ons you may have missed... or that we are offering as something special.
On the production side, we’re eagerly anticipating the new pages being produced by our artists as a result of the stretch goal unlocks. We will be sharing some behind-the-scenes glimpses in real time as the creators work on these extra pages that are now being rolled into the magazine.
Thank you again for all your support, and we will stay in regular communication here as we move through production to print. You can also follow along on our socials for more updates, previews, and behind-the-scenes looks:
Here are a couple of photos of our weekend at Thought Bubble in Harrogate. I'm took pictures during the setup of the booth representing A1 DEADLINE. I'm also a bit crap at taking pictures, but I had a great time!
Table set up!
Booth view.
Special thanks to all of you who backed us and came by to say some lovely things, as well as express your anticipation for the A1 DEADLINE SPECIAL!
SLACK ~ Dave!
YOU DID IT!!!
7 months ago
– Wed, Nov 12, 2025 at 05:04:45 AM
Looks like we made it!
7 months ago
– Tue, Nov 11, 2025 at 09:53:33 AM
We’re almost at ONE THOUSAND BACKERS!!
Jeezus effin’ Chris!
That’s Chris Northrop, our man in Portland! Da’ man of the hour who made this campaign a reality for us!!!
San Diego Comic Con 2025 to the Hawthorne Asylum Food Carts in Portland, Oregon.
Take a bow, my talented mother fekkin’ brother!
Back to you peeps!!
This is what crowdfunding is all about! We have a magazine and you’re our audience. We’ve found each other! We’re going to build a community. A community where creators can find support and encouragement, while keeping 100% ownership in their work!
We’ve got some ambitious plans for what this could all be. A platform for communicating and sharing ideas and art across the globe with no Meta or Google standing between us. Not just the magazine, but everything and everyone connected with it.
Ever wanted to commission art from a creator and didn’t know how? Want tutorials or advice on creating art? We want to bring that here! And more!
Lots of ideas, but we’re also going to be relying on you, 'orrible lot, to give us input and your ideas. What do YOU want to see and read? We can’t exist if you’re not digging what we’re presenting.
Creatively, we’re going to be pulling talent in from all over the globe, both new and established creators, and stirring it all up in a big melting pot.
Start by coming to see us at Thought Bubble! We’re in the 2000AD Hall, tables D12 & D13.
We’ll have t-shirts and a few prints, some buttons and stickers, and our time!
Support Comics!
~ Dave
40 HOURS TO GO + MORE MILK AND CHEESE!
7 months ago
– Mon, Nov 10, 2025 at 01:01:09 PM
Here we go, everyone!
Almost at the end of our first Kickstarter!
We know there’s a bunch of yer sitting on the fence, waiting to see where this goes. And, of course, ya know we’re saving a couple of tasty treats for the end to pull you off that fence!
We got to £25K! That gets ya four pages in A1 Deadline Special of MILK & CHEESE by EVAN DORKIN!
One of my favourite comics, from one of my favourite people, is back on Kickstarter: the steampunk supernatural mystery, Boston Metaphysical Society. The overall story is about an ex-Pinkerton detective, a spirit photographer, and a genius scientist who battle supernatural forces in late 1800s Boston. With supporting characters like Tesla, Edison, Bell, and Houdini, you've got a winner.
Cover by Gwynn Tavares. @Madeleine Holly-Rosing
Madeleine Holly-Rosing is one of the best people out there! A fantastic writer, yet always finds the time to support so many people on this platform!
Madeleline's current campaign finishes off the latest story, Mystery at Pikes Peak, which takes the team to Tesla's Experimental Station in Colorado Springs. There, they meet Tesla’s most unlikely partner, Meihui Zhou, a scientist from the Great House Zhou in California. Life gets more complicated when an attempt is made on Tesla’s life, and Caitlin’s psychic abilities take a dangerous turn. Now, they must figure out who is trying to kill Tesla and what Caitlin’s visions are trying to tell her before anyone else dies.
Vol. 1 and 2 will be available, plus some pretty cool add-ons as well.
Less than three days left in the campaign, jump on it while you can.
Last, but not least, I'm on live now on a podcast with The Beat's Heidi McDonald and Comic Crusaders' Al Mega! The fourth in our sort of monthly series that we call COMIC WILL KILL YOU. If you're in time, we'll probably still be gassing away here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CzX-5hjFGzg
