The Adventure Zine

The Adventure Zone fan art zine benefitting Facing Hunger food bank!

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While organizing my office, I came across copies of The Adventure Zine, a TAZ Balance fanart book organized in 2016 that I have a piece in (along with many other artists), and I'm auctioning off both copies to raise funds for the Palestine Children's Relief Fund (PCRF)!

If you're interested in one of them, place your bid!

Copy 1

Copy 2

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Today we're a part of Gumroad's fund raising for hurricane relief efforts for Puerto Rico. If you've considered donating $10 for the zine PDF, today is a great day to go for it! Many thanks! -Megan

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Limited Copies available at SPX 2017

If you’ll be near Washington, D.C. September 16th & 17th, stop by SPX! Click here to learn more about the Expo’s location, tickets, and other details.

The following artists will have a *very limited quantity* of copies available for sale:

Kevin Budnik, W-12

Taylor C, B-11

Blue Delliquanti, W72-73

Hannah Fisher, E-5

Gale Galligan, M-6

Aliza Layne, C-5

Kate Leth, W31-33

Morgan Shadro, F-8

Kevin Stanton, N-7

We hope to see you there!

-Megan

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Net funds raised to date

We want to bring you a brief update on the net funds raised for Facing Hunger Food bank as of early Feb, 2017:

Net from campaign - $109,500

Net from overstock copies - $10,000

Net from ongoing PDF sales (as of early Feb.) - $3,460

Total net raised to date - $122,960

And we’re very happy to say that we can continue to raise funds for the food bank through ongoing PDF sales!

Buy the PDF from Gumroad - all proceeds benefit Facing Hunger!

Thank you all as always for supporting a powerful non-profit through this project. Cheers!

-Megan & Carey

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Sold out of physical copies

The response to the overrun copies was astounding - we sold out in less than 2 hours!

Several artists featured in the book will have copies for sale at conventions in 2017. And of course, the PDF will always be available via Gumroad.

We can’t say it enough - thank you ALL for your support and generosity throughout this campaign.

Please stay tuned for future projects, and have a happy and healthy 2017!

-Megan and Carey

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Overrun copies + PDF now available!

Hi folks!

We’re happy to announce that a very limited number of overrun copies are available to purchase!: Buy the Book

And the PDF is available to download through Gumroad, with all proceeds going directly to Facing Hunger!

We hope you all have a very happy and healthy new year - Cheers!

-Megan

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500 overstock copies will be available 12/31!

We’re VERY excited to say that we’ll have about 500 overstock copies of the physical zine available at theadventurezine.com starting around noon EST on 12/31! Ongoing sales of the PDF will start that same day- so if you didn’t have a chance to support the Generosity campaign, an opportunity to get a copy of the book is coming very soon!

Even better: proceeds from both these overstock copy sales AND ongoing pdf sales will go directly to Facing Hunger, just as they did in the original campaign! We’re very happy to have found a way to offer digital copies of this book and continue to support such a good cause.

Once again, thank you so much for all your support! Stay tuned here and at twitter.com/theadvzine to snag a copy as soon as they go live!

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All books have shipped!

We’re *very* excited to say that all books are en route to donors - yahoo! If you have any questions at all about the status of your shipment, you can email [email protected] for fast customer service. And of course, you can always reach out to us at [email protected]

We will have news soon on the availability of extra copies! Stay tuned!

To celebrate, we’re sharing a sketchbook page that made its way around The Small Press Expo this past September to some of the artists featured in the zine: Taylor C, Hanni Brosh, Kate Leth, Natalie Riess, Abby Howard, Kevin Jay Stanton, Alex Graudins, Blue Delliquanti, Aatmaja Pandya, Megan Brennan, Sara Goetter, Kevin Budnik, Autumn Haynes, Gale Galligan, Caitlin Scannell, Amanda Scurti, Molly Ostertag, Jay Jacques, Carey Pietsch, Aliza Layne

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Update: Total donation, fulfillment timeline, & overstock copies!

Hi all,

Thank you all so much for your generous contributions to this project and book! It’s been really lovely to have the example of your kindness to look to over the past couple weeks, and we’ve been so, so glad to have such a good project to work on. Seeing donor’s happy reactions to the .pdf version that went out yesterday was really, really wonderful and meant a lot to us- thank you!

We’re really excited to be able to share that your net total donation to Facing Hunger is estimated to be over $100,000!

-We’ve seen early copies of the book and they look great! Thank you Marquis for turning these around for us so quickly and being a joy to work with! The books are on their way to the fulfillment warehouse this week, and shipping is scheduled to begin the first week of December.

-We had hoped shipping would happen in November. That timeline was under the assumption that we’d have to handle the funds ourselves before donating the net proceeds to Facing Hunger. Facing Hunger’s financial team was so kind to work with us to cross the Ts and dot the Is to be able to receive the gross donation directly, which meant they received these very much needed funds months sooner than we had originally planned! This also required Facing Hunger to pay for the cost of printing from that gross total. There were a few forms and red tape to work through in order to make that happen, which pushed our timeline back a little bit. We know several of you were planning to give the zine as a holiday gift. In the event the book arrives after the holidays, we’ve whipped up a little something that you can print out to include in a card for the recipient:

We hope that helps! We’re really excited about how the physical books have turned out, and we hope they’ll be worth the wait.

Speaking of physical books: If you missed the campaign, we’re happy to say that we’ll have overrun books available for sale, likely in late December/early January! The proceeds from these books will also all go directly to Facing Hunger. We’ll have a couple hundred copies available, so please watch this space or follow us on twitter to find out when they’re available to purchase!

And one more time: from the bottom of our hearts, thank you all so very much.

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Thank you!

We can hardly believe it, but the campaign closed at nearly $165,000-- that’s 550% of the original goal!! Your donations to Facing Hunger are going to impact thousands of individuals and families in West Virginia, Kentucky, and Ohio. That’s really, truly, wonderful, and we’re so, so glad that this donation is going to such a fundamentally important cause.

This project wouldn’t be possible without several thousand wonderful people, so here goes:

To our 6,000+ donors, and to everyone who applied, supported, promoted, and talked this project up online and in person; to the TAZ fan communities on reddit, facebook, tumblr, & twitter, and to everyone who shares their own thoughts and wonderful TAZ fanworks on all those platforms: thank you all so, so very much. This project couldn’t have happened without you, and it wouldn’t have been nearly as successful without how devoted you’ve all been to pushing it forward-- thank you so, so much! You’re what makes this fandom amazing. You’re an amazing community, and we’re so happy to be a part of it.

To Daniel Solis for your excellent layout and design work, to Justin Gray  for the fantastic campaign graphics, to Dani Barstad for your cover of Deja Vu in our campaign video, and to Stuart Wellington and Dan McCoy for your foreword drawings: thank you! It’s the details like yours that made this campaign (and will make this book!) stand out.

To the MaxFun network, for giving us the green light on this ambitious fan project, and for hosting so many fantastic, fun shows- thank you!

To the Generosity funding platform & staff, for running an amazing no-fee service that allowed us to maximize the amount of the donation to Facing Hunger and get the funds directly into their hands: thank you!

To the team at Facing Hunger, huge thanks for your tireless good work, patience, and logistical know-how! All of us are so, so glad and honored to be able to put this donation into the care of an organization that’s going to do so much good with it.

On that note, the campaign is over, but you can always  donate to Facing Hunger through their website! You can also use Charity Navigator to learn more about similar food bank organizations and other charities in your own area and find out how you can contribute to those! 

All of the artists featured in the book, for your generosity, patience, selfless devotion of time, and willingness to put up with our near-constant email barrage -- thank you! Your work is this book!! We love it all to pieces, and we can’t wait to share it all with everyone who donated to this campaign. So thank you from the bottom of our hearts to all of you:

Alex Graudins - Alison Wilgus - Ani Mackie - Christina Dacanay - E Jackson - Feriowind - Glip - Hannah Holmes - Hanni Brosh - Jenny Calabro - Katie Tiedrich - Michael Rapa - Rosemary Travale - Ross Taylor - Sarah Winifred Searle - Taylor Fourt - Taylor C - Aatmaja Pandya - Abby Howard - Alex Gilbert - Aliza Layne - Amanda Scurti - Andy Hirsch - Autumn Haynes - Blue Delliquanti - Bridget Gibson - Brigitte Woltjen - Caitlin Scannell - Caleb Cleveland - Carey Pietsch - Ceri Giddens - Claire Hummel - Coleman Engle -  E.K. Weaver - Evan Palmer - Gale Galligan - Hannah Fisher - Hannah Kennedy - Jay Jacques - Justin Gray - Kate Leth - Katy Farina - Kevin Budnik - Kevin Jay Stanton - Kiku Hughes - Leon Rozelaar - Liz Parlett - Mari Costa - Matt Cummings - Matt Hansen - Megan Brennan - Molly Ostertag - Morgan Shandro - Natalie Riess - Ned Hugar - Onsta - Rhys Bobo - Rian Sygh - S.M. Vidaurri - Sally Cantirino - Sam Beck - Sander Berg - Sara Goetter - Steven Sugar - T Zysk - Taylor Robin - Val Kung

And finally, to Griffin, Justin, Travis, and Clint McElroy: thank you for your gracious willingness to let us put together a book about your fictional world and all its fantastic inhabitants, for thinking of Facing Hunger and connecting us with that amazing organization, for your kindness, support, and promotion throughout this project despite impossibly busy schedules, and for making the kind, thoughtful, funny, and brilliant show that inspired it all.

Our next step is to complete book layout, which will be done by mid-October- then it’s off to the printers and prep for PDF distribution in November! (Even the vaguest thoughts about a hopeful Volume 2 are gonna have to wait until Volume 1 is for-real completely and totally finished!) We’ll keep you updated here and on twitter, so stay tuned for notes about fulfillment progress. We can’t wait to get these books into your hands!

Until then, one more time:

Thank you, thank you, thank you.

Love,

Megan & Carey

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We’re into the final hours of this campaign!! You’ve all done so, so much to support it already, but every book claimed is another ~65 meals that Facing Hunger can provide, so we’re going to keep pushing right up until the very last minute to make sure everyone who wants one can get one!

There’s still time to claim a commission tier- that’s a full-color digital illustration of your personal tabletop character by one of our amazing contributing artists! Many of these artists don’t often offer commissions, so snag ‘em while you can! Scroll down on the campaign page or ctrl+f your favorite artist to find them.

Artists with open tiers remaining include:

Abby Howard

Alex Gilbert

Alex Graudins

Amanda Scurti

Andy Hirsch

Autumn Haynes

Blue Delliquanti

Bridget Gibson

Brig Woltjen 

Caitlin Scannell

Caleb Cleveland

Carey Pietsch

Ceri Giddens

Coleman Engle

E Jackson

Evan Palmer

Feriowind

Gale Galligan

Hanni Brosh

Jay Jacques

Jenny Calabro 

Justin Gray

Katy Farina

Kevin Budnik

Mari Costa

Matt Cummings

Megan Brennan

Michael Rapa

Molly Ostertag

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Natalie Riess

Rhys Bobo

Rian Sygh

Rosemary Travale 

S.M. Vidaurri

Sally Cantirino

Sander Berg 

Sara Goetter

Sarah Winifred Searle

Taylor C

Taylor Fourt

Taylor Robin

Thank you all for everything you’ve done to support and promote this campaign!! We can’t wait to finish up the layout and get these beautiful books to print. Grab yours before they’re gone!

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Hi! I ordered an international copy and accidentally set my country as iceland, when it should be ireland, can this be fixed? Thanks!

If you need to update your fulfillment details, please use this form! https://goo.gl/forms/v38LjaPXDRIzqaFz1

Thanks so much for your support!

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Preview: S.M. Vidaurri

S.M. Vidaurri

S.M. Vidaurri was born and raised in northern New Jersey. He lives and works in Jersey City. He received a BFA in Illustration from the University of the Arts in Philadelphia. His graphic novels include Iron: Or The War After and Iscariot. His apartment is filled with many animals and a few aloe plants.

Check out all the artist previews so far here!

Donate today to claim your copy of the full book, including Shane-Michael’s piece, at TheAdventureZine.com!

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Preview: Taylor Fourt

Taylor Fourt

Taylor is a painter, illustrator, and extrovert from sweet home Alabama. Right now she's working as an illustrator and collaboratéur, involved with certain projects like this awesome book and Tapped, a magic fandeck. She divides her free time between gardening and finding the chaos emeralds.

Taylor still has campaign commission spots open! Scroll down on the campaign page to donate at that level to get the book + pdf, plus a full color digital illustration of your personal tabletop RPG character!

Check out all the artist previews so far here!

Donate today to claim your copy of the full book, including Taylor’s piece, at TheAdventureZine.com!

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TWO DAYS LEFT to get a copy of @theadventurezone fanbook @theadventurezine and support Facing Hunger! 

We’re just completely floored by how kind and supportive all of you have been throughout this campaign- thank you all so much! All the artists have been so incredibly hardworking and generous, too, and their work looks SO, SO GOOD. We can’t wait to finish putting these books together and get them in your hands!

Once the campaign is over, they’re gone, so grab your copy today!

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Preview: E Jackson

E Jackson

E Jackson is a comics maker, illustrator and colorist currently living in Providence. Their name is E. They're a little boy!

E still has campaign commission spots open! Scroll down on the campaign page to donate at that level to get the book + pdf, plus a full color digital illustration of your personal tabletop RPG character!

Check out all the artist previews so far here!

Donate today to claim your copy of the full book, including E’s piece, at TheAdventureZine.com!

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Preview: Jay Jacques

Jay Jacques

Jay Jacques is a comic artist and illustrator who specializes in telling quiet, queer stories. You can find her work in Dirty Diamonds #7, Bring Down the Sky, and the forthcoming Raw House series. Currently, she works in publishing and lives in Brooklyn with her three pet rats. Her website is jayjacques.com.

Jay still has campaign commission spots open! Scroll down on the campaign page to donate at that level to get the book + pdf, plus a full color digital illustration of your personal tabletop RPG character!

Check out all the artist previews so far here!

Donate today to claim your copy of the full book, including Jay’s piece, at TheAdventureZine.com!