BOOM! Studios turns to Kickstarter to fund 'Tanpopo' collection

BOOM! Studios has turned to Kickstarter to generate the funding required to release a collected edition of Camilla d'Errico's Tanpopo.

The publisher is seeking to raise $10,000 (£6,500) from investors on the fundraising website, $3,023 (£1,955) of which has already been donated by 47 backers.

Tanpopo was originally self-published by d'Errico. The comic is currently being serialised in digital as a free-to-read title via MTV Geek.

A synopsis reads: "The story follows a young girl named Tanpopo who is attached to a strange machine which gives her the entire knowledge of the world. However, she is unable to feel human emotions.

"Crying out for the chance to feel love, the devilish shape-shifting Kuro hears Tanpopo's plea, and agrees to free her from the machine, and to show her real love, in exchange for her soul."

Womanthology, an all-female comics collection, found funding after launching a Kickstarter appeal. IDW Publishing later picked up the rights to the book.

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