As reported 7 weeks ago (here) Pete Nash, the creator of the Striker newspaper comic strip, was looking at ways to be able to launch a brand new weekly football comic.
And now he's found a way, all the details are on the Kickstarter campaign here. If the project gets funding, and it needs a lot of cash, then the plan is as follows...
...Launching in September 2018, the comic will be A4 size with
a minimum 32 pages, all in colour. The first section will be devoted to
the main serialised storyline, and we also plan to do at least one secondary strip focusing on the young wannabe footballers at the academy. At the back of the comic will
be four or five pages of classic football strips from the seventies and eighties. In between will be news,
interviews and features on the characters, plus stats on the world league clubs
and players.
Pete has already printed 4 volumes of the Striker archive, these are great collections, and very reasonably priced for the amount of content you get (hundreds of full colour pages in the latest volume). Volume 5 is coming really soon.
The campaign closes at 2:32pm on Saturday afternoon - so it's got about 2.5 days to go - and Pete's really close to his target but it's going to go down to the wire.
Don't forget that Pete's looking to raise a whopping £35,000 - but that's not to print one comic - this is to print a dozen comics, so if (like me) you'll probably back the first dozen issues in print format that'll cost you £30 - so that's £2.50 a comic, the price of a cup of coffee. That's great value for money.
Striker was a comic once before of course, and it lasted a very respectable 87 issues. It ran from August 20th 2003 - May 12th 2005 and also featured Billy's Boots reprinted strips as well as reprints of early Striker strips.
So, a big target but Pete's 90% of the way but there's not long to go for this ambitious comics project...
