Unlockable interactive stretch goal rewards: 3 Dream Sketches!
So, yeah, in the last leg of the successful Kickstarter to print my next graphic novel, If you can manage to time your pledges to hit the mark that puts my kickstarter over one of three stretch goals, I’ll draw your deepest darkest dreams for you. Or alternately bright and silly ones are an option.
These “dream sketches” will be reproduced as one of a set of postcards included with physical rewards, so everyone wins! And if your winning pledge includes a copy of Dream Life, I’ll send the original sketch to the lucky backer with their book! Alternately if they go all digital they only need cover the postage to get it.
“Dream Life | a late coming of age” book one is my first long form solo work. An unconventional narrative–what i’ve been calling neorealist comics. It tells the story of five childhood friends, loosely based off peanuts archetypes, as they confront derailed expectations, reality checks, ethical & physical traumas, and loss. It showcases some richly drawn and hopefully narratively subtle pages, designed to lead you through and show the story in a lyrical fashion.
A labour of love since I finished “Therefore, Repent!” with Jim Munroe in 2007, the project was delayed by the usual grab bag of artists’ banes. Health and economics, etc. I’ve been chipping away at it committedly if not slowly at times, and posted the work as a webcomic for a while. Earning me two nominations for it in the Joe Shuster Awards [2013 & 2011]. Completed now, “Dream Life” will be officially Launched at TCAF 2014 in Toronto this coming May, and toured across Canada after–exactly how far depending in part on the success of the Kickstarter!
The Kickstarter campaign ends March 31st.
Some notable responses to the work so far that i’ve been lucky to get in the last few weeks. This first is from a friend, and one I know my original collaborator at the early conception of Dream Life, Jonathan Sugerman will be happy about as he’s a fan of Joe’s!
“Salgood Sam is a gifted draftsman. In Dream Life you can see he’s enjoying himself immensely drawing every page of this sprawling story. Beautiful stuff.” – Joe Ollmann
“Those of us not blessed (or cursed) with an active sleep imagination can fill the gap with Salgood Sam’s pitch-perfect simulacrum of the oneiric state, “Dream Life”.”
“Those of us who love and cherish our involuntary interior rambles can enjoy more of a good thing, by diving into Salgood’s universal trance adapter “Dream Life”.”
“Those of us who like to stretch out on the couch and become immersed in a compelling story terrifically told and beautifully drawn can scratch that particular itch as well, via Salgood Sam’s powerful virtuosic graphic novel “Dream Life”.”
“The rest of us will just have to get along as best we can.” – Jim Woodring
“I recently read Salgood Sam’s new graphic novel, “Dream Life”, and it is sensational.
The story is thrilling, heartfelt and heartbreaking. And the way Sam presents his narrative (a long-overdue-coming-of-age story), weaving events, past and present with a large cast of characters is evocative of a dream and a tour de force of comics storytelling.” - Batton Lash
Links
The Kickstarter - 61 page preview – The trailer on youtube - pitch clip on youtube - Details of the unlockable stretch goals!
Galleries of art people can get as rewards, 1 2 & 3
Press
bleedingcool.com: Dream Life: A Late Coming Of Age – Salgood Sam’s Labour Of Love
My recent appearance on 24 panels a second talking Dream Life and
Crowdfunding
The Two Page Spread Tumblr post
Art from Dream Life showcased on the kickstarter tumblr
My last general status update and call to action post on youtube
