Rocking a Reprint Launch with Nightmare Theater’s Adams & Schrader

Clay Adams & D.E. Schrader, the maniacs behind the massive horror anthology series Nightmare Theater are back on the ComixLaunch Podcast to talk about what happens when a project is so successful it SELLS OUT and the challenges that brings to indie creators!

Highlights of This Session Include:

How to approach a reprint launch in a way that will rally longtime backers and draw in new ones?
New strategies to deploy secret rewards for anthologies.
Some unexpected lessons learned during the last Nightmare Theater anthology about making 3D comics!
Plus: Another awesome new update to the Kickstarter platform that can help power your pre-launch!

Today’s Session is Brought to You By…

Fang Hunters, the sci-fiction comic about a crew of spacefaring vampire hunters. Issue 2 is live on Kickstarter RIGHT NOW. Check it out at hotdamncomics.com.

Today’s Featured Guests:

D.E. Schrader is a comic creator and writer/filmmaker with deep roots in the LA alternative comedy scene. He has an extensive background in stand-up, sketch, and improv; noted features and shorts include NoHo, Being Ozzy Osbourne, Bloodline, Mercy No Mercy, Come and Knock: The Other Ray Charles, Back to the Bad, and Mary Tyler, Millennial. He is co-creator/writer of the cult comic Baby Badass and co-founder of Hybräu Studios and Bloodline Comics Pictures. Follow him on BlueSky & IG @schraderopolis & @bloodlinecomics

Clay Adams has acted in two feature-length horror movies, BLOODLINE and THE SHADOW WALKERS, both released by LionsGate. When he’s not sitting in the makeup chair getting covered in gore, he co-writes Red Xmas from Scout Comics and is best known as a voice actor, with numerous credits including Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Fast Forward and several seasons of Yu-Gi-Oh.

Links Mentioned in Today’s Show:

Nightmare Theater: Volume 1 Horror Comic Anthology REPRINT https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/schraderopolis/nightmare-theater-volume-1-horror-comic-anthology-reprint

More About Our Sponsor:

Hey, I want to strongly encourage you to check out Fang Hunters, by my pal Nate Streeper.

Fang Hunters is a 7-issue miniseries about a ragtag team of spacefaring vampire hunters who get paid by the fang.

With an eclectic roster that includes a stoic Knights Templar, a feisty cavewoman, a fatherly ape marine, a petite android, an Atlantean mage, a seductive gargoyle, and a cocky space cowboy.

Each issue spotlights a character as they travel from planet to planet garnering fangs and blowing spoils at saloons dotting the galactic frontier.

Fang Hunters explores themes of hope, loss, sex, love, friendship, and found family. More than mere grindhouse action sequences, stories run high with heart, humor, and hijinks while packing an emotional punch.

If you like comics with stunning artwork and unexpected substance, or shows like Firefly or Cowboy Bebop, Fang Hunters is for you… I’ve had a chance to read this book, and issue #1 lays the ground-work, but man, issue two really delivers on the promise of this premise… and any series that gets better and better with each issue is one to pull.

The Kickstarter for issue 2 is LIVE THIS MONTH! Tag along for the ride, and you can even read the first issue for free, by visiting hotdamncomic.com.