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Be Part of The #AskExcellence AMA on Monday + Stretch Goal #2 Is Funded!
almost 4 years ago – Sat, Feb 27, 2021 at 10:10:42 PM

Thanks to all your support, we just smashed through the $50,000 mark and we’ve locked in the red foil logo and accents on EXCELLENCE BOOK ONE DELUXE HARDCOVER! Now we’re on our way to unlocking the next stretch goal...and maybe revealing a few more too!

But we’ve got something else awesome coming up on Monday – the very first #AskExcellence AMA on Twitter.

Submit your questions on Twitter with the hashtag #AskExcellence by 1pm PT on Monday, March 1 and the EXCELLENCE creative team will select their favorite ones to answer at the deadline. Got questions about EXCELLENCE? This Kickstarter? Breaking into comics? The TV shows you gotta watch? Well, these guys have got the answers!

So go post those questions and we’ll see you again on Monday with more updates and our #AskExcellence AMA at 1pm PT!

BEHIND THE MAGIC Part 1: Excellence #1
almost 4 years ago – Fri, Feb 26, 2021 at 04:41:48 PM

We're closing out the first week of the EXCELLENCE DELUXE HARDCOVER with $47,799 raised from 658 backers wouldwide, and the first stretch goals unlocked with more on the way!

To celebrate each week of the campaign, we’re going to take you BEHIND THE MAGIC of this incredible graphic novel and show you how some of the most iconic scenes came together. Today we’re focusing on one of the most powerful scenes from Excellence #1, and writer/co-creator Brandon Thomas exclusively shared a few words with us to explain what it meant to him.

“Wanted to start this feature off with one of the most mentioned, referenced, and celebrated scenes that we've ever done. The character of GG is the most direct portrayal of any character in the entire book, she IS my late grandmother on every level--she talks like her, she thinks like her, and she cut my hair like her. There is a version of her in every creator-owned comic I've ever done, who lovingly referred to my comics as ‘funny books’. I think she'd get a real kick outta this scene, and that she gets to float in it, and appears much, much taller than she was in real life.”

And artist/co-creator Khary Randolph explained that this is a very personal scene for him, too.

“GG is an amalgamation of my two grandmothers--one of whom owned a hair salon, and the other that spent her last few years in a nursing home due to a combination of a stroke and Alzheimer's. They are both two of the toughest, bravest, most amazing women I've ever known. Because of all this, she means quite a bit to me and every scene featuring her is bittersweet.”

New Stretch Goals + More Visions of EXCELLENCE
almost 4 years ago – Thu, Feb 25, 2021 at 10:09:29 PM

It’s Day Three, and now that we’re fully funded we’re on the road to unlocking even more stretch goals, so we wanted to reveal what’s going to happen when we hit $70,000 in pledges.

While we’re powering towards those awesome perks, let’s do a #TBT and check out some of the amazing variant covers for Excellence #5-9 from the awesome guest cover artists like Davi Go, Ashley Woods, Chris Brunner & Rico Renzi, and Alitha Martinez who joined us for the single issue releases.

And yes, all these covers are all collected in the EXCELLENCE BOOK ONE DELUXE HARDCOVER!

We’ll keep you updated as we continue unlocking EXCELLENCE like you’ve never seen it before!

Don’t forget to tag your tweets with #ExcellenceIsReal so the creators behind EXCELLENCE can answer your questions on Monday, March 1 at 1pm during our first AMA!

Visions of EXCELLENCE
almost 4 years ago – Thu, Feb 25, 2021 at 12:33:07 PM

Everyone came through big yesterday, with $37,824 raised from 518 backers, and we are about to unlock some incredible stretch goals. But this is only the beginning of the awesome EXCELLENCE updates we’ll have for you over the next month.

Today we’re bringing you a look at all the awesome variant covers for the first four issues of EXCELLENCE, all collected in this deluxe hardcover that you’ve backed – and if you haven’t done it yet, you don’t wanna miss out on those super rare tiers that are disappearing!

We’ve got artists like series co-creator Khary Randolph, Sanford Greene and Juni Ba who’ve brought a whole new vision of EXCELLENCE to life over the past two years. This is a comic book that has touched lives in profound ways and we’re excited so many of you have secured your copies already.

Now let’s countdown to hitting that fully funded mark and unlocking stretch goals that put us all on the path to the ultimate edition of EXCELLENCE.

Plus, beginning March 1 we will have weekly AMAs on Twitter with the talent behind EXCELLENCE who will answer your questions at 1pm as long as you include #ExcellenceIsReal in your tweets – ask about anything on your mind and they’ll try to answer!

And now... the covers!

FUNDED! EXCELLENCE BOOK ONE DELUXE HARDCOVER beats its goal!
almost 4 years ago – Thu, Feb 25, 2021 at 07:10:13 AM

We did it! Thank you so much to everyone who has backed the project so far. Because of your support, we were able to fully fund this project in less than 36 hours! That’s an incredible achievement, and it’s all because of you!

But we’re not done yet! We said we want to make this book the coolest, most deluxe hardcover it can be, so we’re not stopping here. With this $40,000 of initial funding, we’re adding an embossed logo and upgrading to a more tactile-friendly logo to grace the cover of every book!

Our next stretch goal is at $50,000, adding a metallic logo and metallic accents on the cover and spine for a shiny, magical look.

Pleasure continue to share and support this Kickstarter, and help us make EXCELLENCE the book it was always meant to be. Because, don’t forget – Excellence is Real.