A Horror Comic book anthology series featuring terrifying stories involving a mysterious cursed box.
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Hope everyone enjoyed their holiday season and has a great New Year celebration!
We wanted to update you all with some new artwork and a production status.
Technically, we are still on track for a physical delivery of March 2023 (this is pushed back from February 23 as per the last update).
Unfortunately, one of our artists who was SO CLOSE to being done with pages came down with COVID in late November/Early DEC. Their entire work schedule got pushed back, but they're now plugging away at their final pages. The good news is the artist is doing both line art and tone/color work, so we don't have to get these pages to another artist to complete the coloring.
In addition to that delay, one of our colorists got a huge opportunity with a major publisher and their work has compounded. As a result, their Haunted Box page production has slowed. We are against the clock but it's still possible we'll make delivery in March!
In the meantime, we have regular communication with our printer who is excited to cut the folio for our die-cut slipcase!
Lastly, we regret to have to address several failed credit card payments from some of our backers. It's a totally understandable part of life and we hope those backers can support future projects! The only reason we have to address it here is because the failed payments totaled over $1500 of a loss to our project. We are in danger of not being able to pay for the foil cover stretch goal for all physical backers. Here's our plan to keep the foil cover alive:
1) We'll be reaching out one more time to our failed payment backers to see if they would like to renew their pledge using our Backerkit survey update (coming soon).
2) We are currently building an Indigogo campaign to attempt to recoup the lost funds and grow our fan base further! We'll share that with you all when it's ready so you can pass along to friends who missed out on the Kickstarter.
Thanks again so much for having faith in our project and we can't wait to put this book in your hands!
I can't begin to express how excited we are at Iron Age Comics to release this book - it's truly filled with gorgeous, horrifying, disturbing and beautiful images. Here's a peek at some of the work you'll get to enjoy in the nearly-complete Haunted Box #1!
Ok time for my first not-the-best news update: when we launched the Haunted Box and planned for a fair delivery date of the physical product to the backers in February '23, we did NOT consider what adding the "black and white and blood" stretch goal would do to the production timeline. Turns out - toning in grayscale (and adding reds for blood) takes just as long as full colors for our colorists! I made a stupid assumption it would be quick and easy - and learned a hard lesson. We are hoping the delay brings us to a physical reward delivery date in March '23! I will keep you updated as best as I can, but I can tell you our colorists are working hard now to deliver the goods! Thanks to colorists extraoirdinaire BUNNY PASIG and OMI REMALANTE for coming through in the clutch!
New pages are coming in every day from Jomar Bulda and I can't express how excited I am for you to see them! Above and below are a couple of peeks into the creepiest work I've seen coming from this incredibly talented artist! Check it out. - Jon Santana
The Haunted Box creators A.C. Medina, Mina Elwell and Jon Santana welcome horror comic veteran Richard Clark to the Haunted Box team! Richard will be fulfilling art chores for the much-anticipated Haunted Box tale from A.C. Medina called The Host! Check out some of Richard's work below!
Thanks again to all of you for your support in our campaign!
Here's some great news to kick off the next phase of production of The Haunted Box #1:
