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Hey, emptycoffers: We're actually not a publisher, but an agency. Our main job is to act as a traditional agent and find the work we take on a home with a publisher and/or producer (in the case of ancillary rights like movies, TV, animation, etc.). The Crowdsourcing we discuss is to produce a professionally polished limited edition of the work to hand to publishers and producers as a representation of the work. Many independent creators have found great success with this approach, such as Kevin Cannon's FAR ARDEN - he printed out a few hundred copies to raise publisher awareness and landed at Fantagraphics. Barry Deutsch did the same with his HEREVILLE which is now with Abrams Books.
A polished representation of a GN, even if incomplete, is one of the best ways to approach publishers and producers as the final product is much more easily imagined from this than from a digital PDF or a concept pitch with a few finished pages. A secondary result of the fundraising, though, is the need to engage a potential audience to make the funding a success, which gives an added bonus of gathering an initial fan base to the work. In the near future we plan to engage through forums, Wikis, live online events, DeviantART groups, the aforementioned fundraising, collaborative partnerships with news and digitial distribution channels, and more as new opportunities arise.
That all said, your question may be referring to our upcoming "Zuda Alternative" production platform, which is actually a distinct service from the KTG agency. We're partnering with two other companies to bring the new production platform to life, and that will be available for everyone to submit to and will be entirely separate from KTG as an agency (in other words, submitting to the production platform is not the same as submitting to us, the agency. We'll be announcing the details of this shortly after SDCC. Hope this was helpful. -
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Killing the Grizzly’s Bio
Engaging potential audiences on a much deeper level than "traditional marketing" - or, as we like to call it , "manipulation" - by bringing together communities as part of the process of creating, producing, and promoting new creative works.
