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Why, hello there good looking. The Boundless books are printed! They really do EXIST!Â
WE DID IT!
We are funded! With the help of 827 amazing backers, we've raised $18,523. Thank you so much for supporting our project and believing in us! Keep an eye out for more updates as we start putting this book together. Production is imminent!
THEREâS ONLY 24 HOURS TO GO! We've raised over $17,000 with the help of nearly 800 amazing backers. If you want your own copy, order one now! See here:Â http://kck.st/24Iq1Ei
With the help of 700+ backers, we are over 200% funded! Less than 48 hours to go! Back Boundless today: http://kck.st/24Iq1Ei
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Celebrating the countdown, hereâs more sample pages and behind the scene images from the comic âStories from Bird Bandingâ which I made for this projectâŠ
For the cardinal sequence, the early working draft looked like this:
By the final draft of the comic, I was rendering the birds in a more realistic style, and the early style didnât quite fit. So I re-doodled the punchline in a few different styles, before drawing the final draft.
A few people have asked me if Iâm working at Wellfleet Bay Wildlife Sanctuary and doing bird banding again this year. Iâm not; currently, Iâm working in water sampling. (I did visit Wellfleet Sanctuary a few times this spring and volunteer a bit with bird banding.)
So during the last month of finishing my comics pages for âStories from Bird Bandingâ, my life looked a little like this:
And that wraps it up for this post!
(You can read my previous post about this comics project here.)
Check out this behind the scenes peek at contributor Aya Rothwellâs piece for Boundless!
With the help of 700+ backers, we are over 200% funded! Less than 48 hours to go! Back Boundless today: http://kck.st/24Iq1Ei
IT'S THE FINAL COUNTDOWN: We're so close to $16,000 and reaching 200% funded AND we're very close to reaching 700 backers! If you've been waiting to back our anthology, now is the time. Only 67 hours to go! http://kck.st/24Iq1Ei
Boundless is our love letter to science: a comics anthology that celebrates and explores stories about science.
We are in the final four days of our campaign and for our next stretch goal, if we reach $20,000, the contributors will receive $35 per page, we'll be able to print more copies of our book, and we will release a hilarious and semi-embarrassing blooper reel of our Kickstarter video (for backers only)!
With the help of over 600 truly incredible backers, we've reached our 4th stretch goal! We'll now be able to pay our contributors $30 per page. Thank you so, so, so much to everyone who has supported our anthology. Your support means the world to us. <3
Meet Our Contributors: E. J. Barnes and LB Lee
E. J. Barnes and LB Lee collaborated to make Bring Me the Head of Phineas Gage!, a story about a man who survived a devastating brain injury. (See our Kickstarter here.) Read on for a few words with the creators behind the Phineas Gage comic.
Jordan Stillman: Why did you choose this topic?
E. J. Barnes: I chose this topic because Iâd been thinking of doing a story about Gageâpossibly a mini-comicâfor some time. Several years ago on my birthday I asked my boyfriend to take me to the Countway Library at Harvard Medical School, specifically to see Gageâs skull, hole and all. Gage has been on my mind for some time.
LB Lee: In my case, E. J. came up with the idea and approached me later. I knew a bit about Phineas Gage, and it was an interesting case, plus [it] meshed nicely with my earlier work in mental health comics. I really respect E. J.âs professionalism and her work, so I was excited to work with her.
 JS: Why is it important?
EB: The case of Gage is widely considered an anomalyâthe news reports at the time werenât especially florid, more like one-paragraph âodds & endsâ like in News of the Weird. But the way Gageâs case, and the alleged changes in his behavior, have historically been used in basic medical and neurology textbooks is instructive about the things âeverybody knowsâ that ainât soâincluding the things that authorities pass on to newbies without closely examining what little evidence there is.
LL: I didnât realize the extent to which the Phineas Gage narrative has been embellished and elaborated on over the years, without really the facts to back it up. And of course, I have personal reasons for being interested in other folks who have had to adapt to severe trauma.
JS: Why and how is it interesting?
EB: One of the most interesting parts of the story, to me, is how Gageâs case became a political football in the debate between phrenologists and anti-phrenologists. The phrenologists were wrong-headed about a number of things, including being able to judge a personâs natural personality by measuring bumps on their skull. But their more absurd theories only made it harder for standard medical scientists to accept localization of at least some brain functions.
LL: Who doesnât want to know about people who survive gruesome injuries? Even now, surviving an impalement through the head is impressive, and this was before the advent of antibiotics. That Phineas Gage lived as long as he did, and carried on despite a medical system and a society with no clue how to deal with him, is fascinating to read about. So little is known about the man except for his injury; thereâs so much to imagine!
JS: How did you put the comic together? How did you draw it? What is your technique?
EB: I approached LB to do the story because they are interested in the science and history of neurology. I started my research by reading An Odd Kind of Fame and other materials listed in the bibliography of the Wikipedia article on Phineas Gage. I also went online looking for contemporary photographs of some of the major figures in the story as well as reference illustrations of scenery, 19th-century technology and fashion, and other pictures that LB would find useful.
LL: I did the initial layouts in pencil in a spiral, and then I drew the pages entirely digitally, which Iâve only done once before. I recently got a gift of MangaStudio from an anonymous benefactor, which helped make digital comics suddenly much easier for me.
 JS: Why is science awesome? How do you feel about science?
EB: I majored in Chemistry, and while I worked instead as a software engineer after receiving my Bachelorâs degree, I still enjoy scienceâand history of scienceâvery much. These things help us understand not only how our world works, but how our thoughts about them have evolved over time. One of the comics Iâve written, illustrated, and self-published on my own is Carolineâs Catalog, the true story of a female astronomer who discovered eight comets, corrected the standard star catalog of her era, had her new catalog published by the Royal Society of London (the leading society of scientists in the 18th century), and received awards and medals in her lifetime for her work. http://www.drownedtownpress.com/caroline.html
LL: I really love science; I feel it brings wonder to the world even as it explains it. I also find the psychology AROUND science interesting... How people will distort or misrepresent it to further their own goals, as has happened with Gage. Heâs been used to âscientifically proveâ all sorts of nonsense, including phrenology! I find that kind of human error interesting.
JS: Why should people support Boundless?
EB: Boundless is a book that not only aims to demonstrate that science is entertaining, but that comicsâthe combination of words and picturesâis specially positioned to convey complex ideas in ways that are easy to follow.
LL:Â Because science is awesome, comics are awesome, so both of them together are MAJOR awesome! :D
With the help of over 500 incredible backers, we've surpassed $12,000 and will be able to pay our contributors $25 per page! Thank you so, so, SO much to everyone who has supported our project. You amaze us! Our next goal is $14,500 and $30 per page for our contributors:Â http://kck.st/24Iq1Ei
If you love all things science, youâll probably be delighted by Boundless, the latest anthology conceived by the folks at Boston Comics Roundtable, a non-profit community of independent comic creators.
Huge thanks to Gizmodo for this very kind and awesome article about Boundless! Check it out!
AMAZING NEWS! We've surpassed our second stretch goal! We'll now be paying contributors $20 per page. Our next goal is for $12,000! See more here: http://kck.st/24Iq1Ei
With the help of 400 absolutely extraordinary backers, we have reached our first stretch goal! We will be able to pay our contributors $15 per page! Our next goal will increase that to $20! Consider supporting:Â http://kck.st/24Iq1Ei
Meet Our Contributors! Ben Rutberg
Our next couple of stretch goals are all about our contributors. The more we raise, the more our artists and writers can be paid. Ben Rutberg is one of the contributors to the Boundless anthology. His piece, âNot Tonight, Deer,â is on the research behind deer contraception. Read on for a few words from Ben about his work and process.
Jordan Stillman: Why did you choose this topic?
Ben Rutberg: Deer contraception has been the subject of my dadâs research for my entire life so the idea of contracepting deer is just a natural part of my worldview, but whenever I mention to one of my friends or whoever that my dad studies deer contraception, it always seems to blow their minds that anybody would actually would ever want to use birth control on deer. I think that when most people think of deer population control, their mind just goes to âhuntingâ and they leave it at that, whereas in fact the question about what to do about deer population is very large and controversial, and hunting is only one of several alternatives.
 JS: Why is deer contraception important?
 BR: Deer contraception is obviously an extremely niche area of science, but there are towns (such as the one Iâm writing about) that suffer from massive deer overpopulation, and the deer really cause a lot of damage and disruption, and there is often no clear solution to bring populations down. Hiring a professional hunter to cull deer populations is expensive (up to around $1,000/deer if I'm remembering correctly), and depending on the level of human development it might not be safely practicable at all. Deer contraception is still in the experimental stage, but if it can be gotten to work and relatively cheaply, then it could be another important tool that towns could use to manage deer populations.
JS: Why do you find this topic to be interesting?
BR: One thing that surprised me about deer contraception is that, when I interviewed my dad, he told me that the history behind this research is surprisingly political. Hunting as a culture has been very ingrained in a lot of parts of the U.S., and a result of this is that deer contraception research is seen as a challenge of that culture. It is suspected that deer contraception research has been stalled by pro-hunting interests. I touch a little bit on the politics behind the research in my story; it's stranger than fiction, I swear. But to me, the politics and the story behind the science is almost as interesting as the science itself.
My dad has been setting up several multi-year experiments since the 1990s where his team goes to a certain site and tries to reduce the deer population there over time with the contraceptive vaccine. Past experiments have taken place on Fire Island, NY; Fripp Island, NC; and the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), MD. They have found that the contraceptive vaccine works on individual deer and can somewhat reduce isolated populations over time. Questions remain about how effectively the contraceptive would perform in less isolated populations, etc., but the current experiment in Hastings-on-Hudson, NY, is looking promising as far as I know.
JS: How did you put the comic together? How did you draw it? What is your technique?
BR: I like to begin by writing a full script and then drawing layout thumbnails for each individual page (this is my favorite part; it's all downhill from here). When I draw, I use a non-photo blue colored pencil to get in the skeletons of every person/object in each panel, and then a #2 mechanical pencil for the finer details. I ink using a paintbrush and India ink because I love the quality of the lines you can get with a paintbrush, and letter by hand. The hand-lettering is very important to me.
JS: Why is science awesome?
BR: Science works, yâknow? Science makes so many peopleâs lives so much better in such concrete waysâgenetically modified crops that feed more people/are more resilient against bugs, drought, etc.; modern medicine; what have you. Science helps people solve problems.
JS: Why should people consider supporting Boundless?
BR: Boundless is such an awesome project because itâs working to expand what comics is and can be. As far as I can tell, non-fiction comics seem to be still relatively uncharted territory, so thereâs a lot of room for exploration and experimentation here. I know that I loved the process of figuring out and writing my story, and there are so many really incredible artists working on their own, and Boundless is just gonna have a great mixture of styles and approaches to the non-fiction comic. Iâm excited beyond belief to read it.
Please consider supporting Boundless! Check out our Kickstarter here:Â http://kck.st/24Iq1Ei
WE DID IT! We've surpassed $8,000 with the help of 355 truly amazing backers! Thank you all so much for believing in our project. Your support means so much! Please check out the site for a look a new page from our cover artist Victoria Robado! On to stretch goals! http://kck.st/24Iq1Ei
WE ARE SO CLOSE! Weâre $200 away from reaching our funding goal! Consider joining our Kickstarter anthology party today! http://kck.st/24Iq1Ei
Boundless is our love letter to science: a comics anthology that celebrates and explores stories about science.
With the help over 300 amazing backers, weâve raised over $7,000! Our funding goal is in sight! Do check out the Kickstarter page for a look at two more pages from the book.