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Horror Classics by Georges Bess: DRACULA and FRANKENSTEIN

Created by Magnetic Press LLC

Bram Stoker's DRACULA and Mary Shelley's FRANKENSTEIN are faithfully adapted into spectacularly illustrated premium graphic novels by internationally renowned artist GEORGES BESS. NOTE: Pledge shipping has commenced! New Pre-orders will be processed as soon as initial pledge fulfillment is complete and may not arrive until after the holidays.

Latest Updates from Our Project:

Advance copies have arrived! Orders locking on Friday!
9 months ago – Wed, Aug 16, 2023 at 05:06:18 PM

Hi everyone!

A shadowy stranger left a box in our package room last night, and it was full of AMAZING BOOKS! Specifically, advance copies of DRACULA and FRANKENSTEIN from our printer!

Take a look at this flood of pix we took today!

WE ARE SO HAPPY WITH HOW EVERYTHING HAS TURNED OUT!!! We can't wait to get them in your hands this Fall!

As of now, they are all traveling across the ocean (on a vessel NOT named Demeter), and are expected to reach our warehouse by the end of September. Assuming we can get everything organized by that time, we sincerely hope to have everything shipped out by the end of October. We will of course keep you posted should any delays occur, but until then we're staying optimistic. 😊

REMINDER: WE ARE LOCKING BACKERKIT ORDERS ON FRIDAY!

If you haven't completed your survey, PLEASE DO SO BEFORE 5pm PST on Friday! We need to finalize item counts and get order data locked down to start getting our fulfillment plans in place. You will receive an email when we hit the "lock" button on Friday that gives you 48 hours to make any final changes. Once that period has passed, we will press the "charge cards" button on Monday morning. If Backerkit has trouble running your cards, they will continue to try, but until any issues are solved, your order won't be considered complete.

If you haven't filled out your survey because you can't find your link, please email us at [email protected]. You should be able to simply log into https://horror-classics-by-georges-bess.backerkit.com/ but if you have any trouble, let us know and we'll be happy to help.

Friday is going to be a busy day for us... not only are we locking DRACULA/FRANKENSTEIN on Backerkit, but our current campaign for TEZUCOMI is also ending on Friday! If you haven't checked it out yet, give it some consideration! We've unlocked a bunch of stretch goals with a few more still in reach! (It's a great set of books, regardless!)


Thanks, everyone! We'll have more to report soon!


The Books have left the factory!
9 months ago – Fri, Aug 11, 2023 at 10:23:03 AM

Hi everyone!

 
Hope you are all having a nice late summer and handling the heat as comfortably as possible. This past month has been INSANE for us -- so much going on... After the last update, we had San Diego Comic-Con (and the concurrent "Magnetic-Con'23" virtual booth campaign, then GenCon immediately after that, plus a new and exciting Kickstarter launch last week... I'm not entirely sure how we've done it without going crazy, but so far so good. Seven hours of sleep a night, a peaceful walk by the lake before dinner, and a supportive wife and cat to curl up with is just enough tonic to keep the pressure in check. 😊

All of that is concurrent with getting DRACULA/FRANKENSTEIN properly manufactured and delivered from the printer. In fact, the books and slipcases are done! We were hoping to have advance copies in hand so that we could share some photos in this update, but they may not arrive until next week. The bulk print run is complete, however, and the finished products have been transferred to the shipping company this past week. The current delivery estimate at our warehouse is the last week of September, so barring any unforeseen events in transit, we should still be on track to ship orders in October! 😃 

To that end, we will be locking the Backerkit orders NEXT FRIDAY, August 18th!

If you haven't completed your surveys yet (looking at roughly 60 of you), please do so before next Friday! At that point, we will press the "lock orders" button which will initiate a final notification from Backerkit and a 48-hour countdown for you to make any final changes to your order or payment method. Credit cards will be charged that following Monday, August 21st. If you need to make any changes after orders have been locked, we can certainly help you, but those changes will need to be made manually on our side.
 
Please note that you will still be able to update your address until we lock those down on the last Friday of September. This should allow you time to confirm your delivery address in case you anticipate relocating in October. We will, of course, remind you of this in an update when that time comes.

Also, as some of you have asked: Digital rewards are scheduled to be sent out the first week of September. 😎

We will share some advance photos of the books and slipcases as soon as those arrive (hopefully next week), but in the meantime, we wanted to share a link to our current project campaign currently running on Kickstarter (in case you haven't already seen it):


TEZUCOMI is a deluxe, two-volume tribute to Osamu Tezuka, widely considered the “Father of Manga and Anime” and described as "the Walt Disney of Japan." It is a premium set of new manga tales by some of Europe's top comic talent - 600 pages of extraordinary content paying tribute to Tezuka’s enormous body of influential work. The stories feature characters from Tezuka’s history, such as Astro Boy, Unico, Black Jack, Big X, Dororo, Songoku, Kimba, and many more. 18 stories by 20 amazing creators celebrating the broad dramatic spectrum of Tezuka's amazing oeuvre!

Contributing artists include Ken Niimura (I Kill Giants), Joe Kelly (Deadpool, X-Men), Juan Diaz Canales (Blacksad), Kenny Ruiz (Team Phoenix), Belen Ortega (The Millennium Saga), Victor Santos (Polar), Mathieu Bablet (Shangri-La), JD Morvan (Naja), Mig (Wakfu), David Lafuente (Ultimate Spider-man), Bertrand Gatignol (The Ogre Gods Saga), LuisNCT (Killadelphia), Elsa Brants (Save me, Pythia), Reno Lemaire (Dreamland), Brice Cossu (FRNCK), Sourya (Talli), and more.


This impressive collection is available in traditional manga-sized paperback (5.25x7.75") and premium gallery-sized hardcover (7.75x11"). We also have limited-edition slipcase sets of both formats and even an ultimate "Super-Fan Set" limited to only 250 copies!



The campaign has already unlocked SIX STRETCH GOALS, with a beautiful collectible enamel pin coming up at the next stretch goal level!


This is a very special project created in full cooperation with Tezuka Productions and we're excited to bring them to the fans this November!

ONLY ONE WEEK LEFT! The Kickstarter campaign ends NEXT FRIDAY, so if you are interested in this title or any of the campaign-exclusive items being offered, visit the campaign today at www.tezucomi.com!


Summer update: What's going on (and what's coming up THIS WEEK!)
10 months ago – Sun, Jul 16, 2023 at 12:32:32 PM

Hi everyone!

Yow -- how has it already been 2 months since our last update?? We are usually MUCH more communicative with our campaigns, but we've had SO MUCH going on this summer, we admit we have gotten woefully distracted. That doesn't mean things have not been going on! The books are nearly finished, estimated to be boxed up and on the water by August 14, and we expect to receive advance copies from the printer before that. We cannot wait to share photos when they arrive!

We will be locking the Pledge Manager around that same date, and digital rewards will be prepared to distribute in September. If everything goes as anticipated, we should hopefully be able to start shipping before Halloween. 😊

There's not much to show or share while we wait for the printer to finish the job, so we apologize if that means few updates in the meantime. We're still getting a bit used to Backerkit's comments and discussion forums here, specifically getting notifications of new messages/comments to respond to, so we apologize if we haven't responded to any comments in the past few weeks.  If you have any questions, please feel free to ask in the comments below and we'll do our best to stay vigilant!

Despite that learning curve, we really have been excited by Backerkit's (relatively) new Crowdfunding platform, and the community here really is fantastic... and significantly different from our Kickstarter community. We were surprised to see that only a small portion of DRACULA/FRANKENSTEIN's backers here have backed any of our previous campaigns on Kickstarter... That means that the vast majority of you kind folks here are new to our brand and product, and that is GREAT. That means we're growing!

That also means we have an opportunity to introduce a lot of new people to our AMAZING LIBRARY of critically acclaimed books and creators! So we're getting ready to launch our second annual MAGNETIC-CON VIRTUAL CON BOOTH here on Backerkit THIS WEEK, launching WEDNESDAY!



What is MAGNETIC-CON?

Conceptually, MAGNETIC-CON is a celebration of the best graphic novels and art books published by Magnetic Press, featuring past, present, and future titles that showcase some of the most creatively inspiring talent and projects from around the world. In actuality, MAGNETIC-CON is simply our way of hosting an annual event for fans regardless of location, with exclusive content and swag to complete the "attendee experience!" This includes the second volume of our annual Con Book, new branded attendee badges and lanyards, fashionable event Tees, and a limited-edition VIP Loot Box filled with awesome collectible items that will only be available through this online campaign event! PLUS, like a good, well-stocked convention booth, you'll have access to a slew of over 200 ADD-ONS from our celebrated back catalog at HUGE DISCOUNTS (up to 60% OFF!)

Headlining the MAGNETIC-CON offerings is the MAGNETIC-CON 2023 BOOK, a "Convention Art and Activity Book" featuring 64 pages of new comics, tabletop gaming resources, artwork galleries by some of Magnetic’s most popular creators, as well as a sneak peek at some of the exciting projects currently in the works!  




Featuring a cover by the legendary ZACH HOWARD (Hellboy, Wild Blue Yonder) and back cover by TORU TERADA (Small World, Black Box Chronicles), this 64-page, perfect-bound softcover is more than your usual convention program book – it’s more like a premium Magnetic Press Annual filled with artist spotlights, galleries, and new original CREATIVE CONTENT. And each book includes a limited edition Convention exclusive lanyard and badge!


SIGN UP TODAY TO RECEIVE A BONUS LIMTED-EDITION TWO-SIDED MINI-POSTER BY ZACH HOWARD AND TORU TERADA FREE WITH YOUR PLEDGE!





This will be a very short 6-day campaign with a quick turnaround -- WEDS JULY 19 - MON JULY 24! 

Orders will ship in late August. You won't want to miss this once-a-year bargain fest! And if you are new to Magnetic Press's catalog, this is the perfect time to check out some of the hot titles you may have missed!


We understand if you are just getting to know us and are waiting for your DRACULA/FRANKENSTEIN pledge before deciding whether to support us again -- that's fair and logical. But we've been doing this for several years, with nearly 25 successfully fulfilled campaigns under our belt, so we hope you can find enough confidence in that experience to support us on this short (and admittedly unique) campaign. It is without a doubt our biggest sale of the year, kind of like an annual pledge drive as your support will help us continue to bring even more awesome books to the party.

Please give it visit when it launches Wednesday morning here on Backerkit! You can click on any of the images above or go to https://bit.ly/3PVdkq9 to Register!


THANKS EVERYONE!


Pre-registration and Day-1 prints now in your Pledge Manager carts. :)
12 months ago – Tue, May 30, 2023 at 08:10:56 AM

Hi everyone!
Just a quick note to address two questions that have come up about the surveys and pledge manager:

1) The bonus print for pre-registering or pledging in the first 24 hrs had to be manually added to qualifying carts, and that process is now complete. If you were expecting to see it and did not, please check your carts again. It should be there now. 😊 If you were expecting to see it and still do not, please message us and we'll look into it for you. If you would like the print but did not pre-register or pledge in the first 24 hours, a very limited number of copies are available as paid add-ons.

2) I'm told by Backerkit that you may need to re-add any add-ons that you selected during the campaign pledge process. Your fund balance is correct and will cover the cost of those re-added add-ons, but their system currently doesn't import them automatically. So if you added something to your cart during the campaign but don't see it when you begin your survey, simply re-add it during the process. The balance will calculate correctly. 😊

Thanks everyone!

Surveys sent! Watch your email inboxes!
12 months ago – Mon, May 29, 2023 at 07:52:39 AM

Hi, everyone!
Sorry for the delay in launching the remainder of the surveys - the smoke test went without a hitch but we have been on the road visiting family for the holiday weekend and hadn’t been able to send the rest until now.

Please watch your inbox for an invitation from Backerkit with your unique login link. (I’m not certain, but I think if you are reading this update on the site, you may already be logged in and your survey might just be a click away…? That’s a nice perk to having the campaign on the same platform as the pledge manager…)

If you have any problems or questions, let us know and we’ll try to sort things for you as best we can!

Thanks, everyone!