Zoop Podcast

Episode 10: Jessi Sheron

Jessi Sheron is a professional artist and writer living in Maryland. She’s drawn Monster High and Ever After High for Little Brown, Princeless for Action Lab Comics, and her personal mermaid graphic novel The Sea in You which is being published this year with Iron Circus Comics. Sheron loves all things scary and horrible, the weirder the better. 
 
The Other Happy Place  is live at https://zoop.gg/c/theotherhappyplacechapter0. Click the link to support, see previews, and more!
This Chapter 0 to the cosmic horror story The Other Happy Place will serve as the project's Art Book.
The Other Happy Place will be an illustrated prose novel, with a picture on just about every page. A hybrid between a comic, a novel, and a picture book.
The story concerns Vinnie, a young woman who travels to another dimension run by bizarre otherworldly beings. Vinnie is exploring and trying to stay alive, while documenting her adventure in the form of a journal.

Episode 9: Matt D. Wilson

Matt D. Wilson is an author and podcaster from North Carolina. His most recent comics work is Everything Will Be Okay from Caliber Comics. He is also the author of Supreme Villainy from Talos Press. You can hear him every week on the War Rocket Ajax podcast.
Impostor Syndicate is live at https://zoop.gg/c/impostorsyndicate. Click the link to support, see previews, and more!
This is the superhero comics story Matt hasn't been able to get out of his head for 20 years. It's the only superhero story he's ever really wanted to tell.
So what happens when a supervillain dies on the job, or just gets too old for this $#!+ and retires? Well, somebody's gotta step up and put on the mask. And actors have to work, don't they? Especially if they're slumming around doing kids birthday parties, and there are enough zeroes in the check. This series is literally 20 years in the making, so your help can finally bring it to life!

Episode 8: Zoop’s Eric & Jordan

Eric and Jordan chat about current live campaigns at Zoop, as well as what's coming soon! Check out all current campaigns at https://zoop.gg.

Episode 7: Ben Morse

Benjamin Morse is a comics artist/writer and freelance graphic designer based in Hudson Valley, NY. He has published August:Purgatory Underground in 2022 through Red 5 Comics, We Are Scarlet Twilight on Kickstarter, and the upcoming August: Terminus Angels and Scarlet Twilight: Cobalt Crisis.
 
We Are Scarlet Twilight #4 + Hardcover Edition  is live starting February 21st  at https://zoop.gg/c/wearescarlettwilight4. Click the link to support, see previews, and more!
 
The next chapter of the thrilling cyberpulp adventure is offered here, as well as the exclusive collection of all four epic issues into a deluxe hardcover with 20+ pages of extra material!
 
Get the book, a single issue, or both! This is the ultimate campaign for We Are Scarlet Twilight fans!
 
If you're a fan of Buck Rogers and Flash Gordon serials, Fleischer Bros Superman cartoons, Golden Age Comics or old school horror and crime stories, We Are Scarlet Twilight is made for you!

Episode 6: Claire Napier

Claire Napier is a critic, cartoonist and comics editor based in England. If you have enjoyed her critical writing, you will find more of the same themes inside her comics. Find her at clairenapier.com.  Her campaign for her creator owned book, The Magic Necklace  is live starting Valentine’s Day, February 14th at https://zoop.gg/c/themagicnecklace. Click the link to support, see previews, and more!
 
A horror romance comic about getting what you deserve.
 
Ann-Rita’s acting differently since she bought Morgan Le Fay's necklace. She’s not afraid of men any more. Not her brother, not the fuzz, and not the guy who’s standing right behind her. Whatever he does… it just can’t threaten her.
 
If you’ve ever wanted a comic about why women let bad boys and bad men in, this is that one. What’s fair in love and war isn’t always black and white… but add some pink, and you’re more than halfway there. Help us take this story all the way!

Episode 5: Steve Horton

Steve Horton is the New York Times bestselling writer of BOWIE: STARDUST, RAYGUNS & MOONAGE DAYDREAMS, which won two Eisner Awards, considered comics' highest honor. His campaign for his book Nine Lives with artist Chris Peterson is live starting February 7th at https://zoop.gg/c/ninelives . Click the link to support, see previews, and more!
 
It is 1923. Nightclub singer and flapper Cleo has held on to her job longer than anyone for one not-so-simple reason: she can turn water into any kind of alcohol you can think of. That's just the beginning of her powers, which are growing at a scary rate and for a good reason: a gangster is out to kill her! She soon learns that she's just one of nine reincarnations of the same woman - and her killer reincarnates too! It will take everything she has to come out alive…
 
Created by Steve Horton & Chris Peterson
 
Script & Lettering by Steve Horton
Art & Color & Logo by Chris Peterson
Variant Cover by Lee "Jjollee" Tran

Episode 4: Cam Kerkau

Cam Kerkau is a longtime comic fan, and comic creator. He recently left his post as Managing Editor at Source Point Press and is pursuing his writing career. His campaign is live starting January 31st at https://zoop.gg/c/gilgamesheternal. Click the link to support, see previews, and more!
The world’s first story continues in the world's greatest storytelling medium. The Epic of Gilgamesh is the world’s oldest story, dating back almost five millennia. But Gilgamesh’s dilemma is something that remains relevant to us all today, and always will. How can you live peacefully after you've been truly confronted by your own mortality?
Gilgamesh: Eternal is a reimagining of The Epic of Gilgamesh as a fantasy-action comic written by Cameron Kerkau with art by Kostas Pantoulas (IRWIN ALLEN’S LOST IN SPACE: THE LOST ADVENTURES, FREAK SNOW: WASHED IN BLOOD) and letters by Mira Mortal (DOLL ISLAND, MADE UP: ZOMBIE CLOWN CIRCUS).
For fans of Jack Kirby, Moebius, and anything that blurs the line between Science Fiction and Mythology

Episode 3: Jeff Douglas Messer

Jeff Messer has successfully funded multiple crowdfunding campaigns, and has raised over $70,000 so far.  He works with the legendary artist Mike Grell on his crowdfunding campaigns as well.  
His project, Sex, Spies & Rock N’ Roll is in it’s 3rd volume, with plenty more planned.  It’s an anthology book with plenty of spin offs already out in the world, and more in the works.  Jeff is incredibly prolific, and works with artists all around the world to bring his stories to life.  His campaign goes live on January 24th at https://zoop.gg/c/sexspiesrocknrollvol3. Click the link to support, see previews, and more!
 
The 1980s. Music was loud. Fashion was louder. The hottest days of the Cold War were filled with intrigue, danger, and adventure. It was up to the International Security Foundation, and its network of daring secret agents to prevent the spies of the world from triggering a war to end all wars. And the planet.
These are tales of spies across the 1980s and beyond, whose deeds of derring do will save the world with style, and the volume turned up all the way.

Episode 2: Kraig Rasmussen

Kraig Rasmussen is a longtime indie comic book writer, and artist from the Southern California area.  He has been creating comics, exhibiting at conventions, teaching, and studying for more than 15 years.
His project, Odds And Ends, is a collection of his history of work, and is crowdfunding from 1/17-2/17 at https://zoop.gg/c/oddsandends. Click the link to support, see previews, and more!

Episode 1: Paul Allor

Paul Allor is a longtime comic book writer, best known for his work on Power Rangers, GI Joe, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, and more. He is currently crowdfunding his very personal story, the first in a line of books called Pink Midnight Presents: The Butterfly House. It is crowdfunding from 1/10-2/10 at zoop.gg/c/thebutterflyhouse. Visit to support, see previews, and more!