Update: Giant-Size Artists' Edition Trading Card
We've received several inquiries about the giant-size trading cards featured in POT8 No. 1. First of all, each of these cards has their own page in the comic with commentary from Dave on why he chose each image. Unlike the faux card featured in this update, each card will be an image from the original art including the blue line and pencil art, revealing ALL the detail from the original art versus this cleaned up, "Too Pretty" version. With that in mind a release of these cards before the Remastered TMNT 8 is not likely. Dave did suggest a "wildly HIGH threshold" to unlock card #1 as a stretch goal. If we get close to that amount there will be an announcement, but the $$$ amount is beyond anyone's expectations for this campaign (but, hey, feel free to prove us wrong). The good news is that there will be full page versions of all six cards in POT8 No. 1 arriving in your mailbox by April.
Thanks to everyone for a great opening weekend. There will be two further updates today about the chance to order Dave's CAN portfolios and the release date/time for the next Printer's Proof. See you later today.
Update: Print-On-Demand CAN Portfolios
Dave Sim's CAN portfolios (Cerebus Archive Numbers 1-9) are still available for sale directly from Dave Sim. Unfortunately, no one thought we would be offering them for sale just yet. The good news is that you will be able to order any 3 Portfolios for $300, each signed and personalized by Dave or any 4 Portfolios for $400, each signed and personalized by Dave.
The reason for this restriction is that the mailers for the portfolios were tinkered with for months to ensure that all portfolios that arrive by mail are undamaged. Each mailer has to be built by hand. What Dave has on hand at the moment is the ability to ship the portfolios in groups of three or four. The plan is to inlude these print on demand portfolios for each Kickstarter campaign Dave launches going forward and we hope to have streamlined the process enough to start selling individual portfolios by the next campaign which should be in late April or May.
If you have no idea what a CAN is you can check out all 9 previous campaigns by typing "Cerebus Archive Portfolio" into the Kickstarter search bar to see some stunning Artist's Edition work reproduced size as. It's the closest you can get to the original art without having to mortgage your home.
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