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@vertebraepress
Hello All,
Artists please check your emails for an email I recently sent out from my personal email concerning book shipments and addresses. If you no longer have access to your old email address, please message me so we can exchange contact information.
Best, Ash.
Hey All! Just a quick update so everyone knows where we're at in the shipping process. In past updates we explained how the costs of production and shipping rates increased during the project's hiatus, impacting the budget. Our available budget already differed from our goal by $730 due to dropped backers, and Amazon Payment and Kickstarter fees. The post-fee funds combined with the cost overrun left us further over budget. Kate and I have been covering the leftover shipping costs of backer rewards and artist books with our own income. Several large shipments have been sent, and more are packed pending. We're currently saving up funds to continue. We're aiming to ship the remaining incentives by the end of November, allowing us to focus on contributor book shipments. Progress has been slow, but steady--Thank you all for patience! Virtually all of the bonus portrait sketches have been mailed out. You can find them all on Ash's blog (ash-assault).
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Until next time, Ash & Kate.
For the Vertebrae Kickstarter I sketched portraits for the first 100 backers to to back $45+ as a bonus reward. Only 61 backers responded to the survey to receive their sketches with their requests (everyone else received bookmarks, stickers, or prints as replacements depending on their reward tier). Virtually all of them are gore, or body horror themed sketches of the backers though a few made different requests.
They were supposed to be basic bust portraits done with sharpie, but I got pretty into a few of them and so they’re more elaborate. I had a blast experimenting on different creepy-factors and expression. As a side note, if you haven’t checked out the project the artists, work in the book, and updates for online sales can be found at @vertebraepress!
I’ll be including a note of portraits posted on this and upcoming posts.
Portraits: 1 & 2 of 61
hypnophilic replied to your photoset “doxolove: Vertebrae Anthology...”
Mine only has the front graphic?
This was a mockup for the designs, the final shirts didn’t include the logos or anything, just the art on the front of the tee.
These pages were done way back in the armpit between 2013 & 2014 for the Vertebrae Anthology, and today I opened the (shiny, sexy) book expecting to cringe so hard my collarbones became hair accessories.
You know what’s sad? I actually still like these a lot. I’d much rather they existed than not, y’know? I like how many plot points I shoveled into the 10-page limit. I like that it inspires me to do more, better comics.
This story is indeed mostly true. I totally went on a bus trip with my grandma, I totally had to listen to a dude who wears sunglasses indoors, and things were totally done with an angel figurine. Maybe not those specific things, but they were equally unpleasant.
Guess what I remembered I never posted? My Vertebrae comic! I was told that it’s fine to share this after the kickstarter had been successfully funded and then promptly forgot all about it. But god knows my tumblr needs more violence on it, so here we are. With cartoon child entrails all over the place.
I was tempted to save this until the book is published, so I could pimp it out some more, but I have no idea when that’s actually gonna happen (December/January-ish?). I would still highly recommend clicking the above link and following the tumblr, since there is some insanely good stuff in the anthology, and even if you missed out on the kickstarter there’ll be chances to pick up a book once it’s published.
This is what these doodles were for, in case anyone remembers. The dog character doesn’t show up here, but who knows, I may do more with this concept later.
One of my submissions for Vertebrae anthology! :“-) Was really fun to do. Kinda wanted to do a simple sticker looking style?? Dunno!!
Vertebrae Anthology (http://vertebraeanthology.tumblr.com/) shirt for anthology backers! Will be screen printed by hand by yours truly.
Not shown is an extra graphic on the sleeve and a logo on the back!
Hey All!
Another shipment of rewards has been sent out and the incentives section displaying shipping progress has been updated. There are a couple tiers labeled as shipped and completed despite having a couple unsent rewards. In these cases we’ve made repeat attempts to contact backers without response. If you’re one of these backers, please update your email address to receive further updates, and get in touch–your rewards are set aside to ship pending survey completion, and/or address confirmation. To answer or update your survey, you’ll find directions with screenshot examples here: https://www.kickstarter.com/help/faq/backer+questions?ref=faq_nav#GettRewa
If you’re among the backers who’ve received your incentives, we’d love to see and share the book and other rewards being enjoyed! Feel free to send us pictures of donned charms, buttons, and shirts, sticker-decked laptops, spooky story-time, or what have you to post online. Already posted something to your blog? Tag us and we’ll reblog you! In between our hiatus, and troubleshooting financial hurdles to continue shipping we didn’t get a chance to post examples of the 8x10 inch prints (by Kate McElroy and Ashley Almeida), which you will find below! Along with some photographs of the limited, bonus portrait sketches some backers received (by Ashley Almeida)!
“Thank you” copies of Vertebrae are also in the middle of being shipped to participating artists as our resources allow–we’re doing our best with shipping costs, but for now we’ll be maintaining our current, gradual pace.
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Until next time, Ash & Kate.
Howdy! I heard that books began shipping a few weeks ago, and wanted to ask if artist copies had been sent out yet!
Hi! Yes, I’ve been sending them out. Just haven’t gotten through all of them yet! I’ll send you a private message to let you know what’s up!- Kate
Hey!! I just received my copy of the book and it looks amazing!! I haven't been online much lately so didn't see the update saying you guys were sending 'em out, so it was a great surprise in my mailbox :D
Thanks for telling us you got it and we’re so glad you enjoyed it! Everyone worked hard to bring it to fruition! :D
here’s my comic about a goblin shark hard voreing an octopusmermaid i made in 2013 for the @vertebraepress anthology! i still do like this :D
Yum! Pastel gore. One of the great comics featured in the anthology!
Artists–remember to tag us on your art in the anthology so we can reblog you!
Shipping & General Progress
Hello all! It has been a while since our last update, so I’m swinging in here to let you know that we have been shipping your books and incentives! Several of you should have received yours already, but if you have not, you are both welcome and encouraged to message our account here, on Kickstarter, or at [email protected] to check on its status! Updating us with a current email of yours will also allow us to give you a tracking number to ensure that your package stays on track when we do ship it.
We also want to say thank you for bearing with us in the process and hope to hear from you as you receive your books. We want to make sure that you are satisfied with the quality of the project. I’ve included here a preview of my print, with a couple comic pages and, well, a pile of books. We’ll work on keeping the window between updates shorter in the future.
- Kate & Ash
Morning reblog
Shipping & General Progress
Hello all! It has been a while since our last update, so I’m swinging in here to let you know that we have been shipping your books and incentives! Several of you should have received yours already, but if you have not, you are both welcome and encouraged to message our account here, on Kickstarter, or at [email protected] to check on its status! Updating us with a current email of yours will also allow us to give you a tracking number to ensure that your package stays on track when we do ship it.
We also want to say thank you for bearing with us in the process and hope to hear from you as you receive your books. We want to make sure that you are satisfied with the quality of the project. I’ve included here a preview of my print, with a couple comic pages and, well, a pile of books. We’ll work on keeping the window between updates shorter in the future.
- Kate & Ash
Hey guys! KS backer here. Trying to check in, it's been a while since the last update as far as I can find. How are things going? Will there be another update soon regarding books being sent out? I'm sure that's on everyone's minds. Anyway, hope you're doing well in the meantime!
Hello! We are actually in the process of mailing out books starting last week and will have an update soon. Thank you for checking in!
The books have been printed, plus we just received a sample book from our production run. The printers were nice enough to take and share a few photos of the book before sending it over to us. We waited until the book had arrived to post them so we could get more pictures to share. The full run of books is on its way and should be arriving in a few weeks.
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Reblogging for those of you who aren’t awake during unreasonable hours of the night.
The books have been printed, plus we just received a sample book from our production run. The printers were nice enough to take and share a few photos of the book before sending it over to us. We waited until the book had arrived to post them so we could get more pictures to share. The full run of books is on its way and should be arriving in a few weeks.
Kickstarter | Twitter | Facebook Until next time, Ash & Kate.
