When I got a backer through Kickstarter, I would receive an email that looks like this:

John Doe is your new backer!

Amount pledged: $10.00 to “MADMAN OF MAGIC: The Beginning of the End”
Reward: You will receive a physical copy of “MADMAN OF MAGIC: The Beginning of the End” signed by Leah and me mailed to your door + an EXCLUSIVE downloadable PDF copy + a hearty “Thank You!” on the inside back cover of the finished comic.
Estimated delivery: Dec 2012

$1,088.03 is currently pledged toward the $500.00 goal.

Visit your project’s dashboard:
http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/madmanofmagic/madman-of-magic-the-beginning-of-the-end/

Tip! Keep your backers engaged by posting updates. Every time you post an update, your backers get notified by email.

During the first 2 weeks of the campaign, every time I got one of these emails I would go to my social media and thank the backer by first name.  I didn’t use their last name in case people would use that information to try and spam the person for their own project.  I stopped doing this towards the end only because I was busy trying to promote the project more.  Also, I lost track of who I had and hadn’t thanked.
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October 10, 2012 by Jason Love

I got this email from Kickstarter on completion of my successful Kickstarter campaign

Your project has been successfully funded! What now?

Congratulations! You have raised $1,088.03. Nicely done!

So, what now?

ACCESSING FUNDS

Amazon is now processing the transactions for your project; your funds will be available 14 days after the transactions are charged. At that point, you can request to withdraw the funds from your Amazon Payments account:

https://payments.amazon.com

FULFILLING REWARDS

Need info from your backers to fulfill rewards? No problem! When you’re ready to deliver rewards, you can easily request and track whatever info you need using Backer Reports. Select the reward tier you want to query, specify the info you need (address, T-shirt size,

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October 9, 2012 by Jason Love

I want to thank everyone for their support in backing this project, sharing it on social media, and getting the word out.  We made our extended goal of $1080 which means we have reached Kickstarter Success!

EXTENDED PROJECT:

Leah and Jason Love

click image for larger version

After we finish the comic book we will create a 15 page mini comic.  This mini comic book will be available through the Madman of Magic Website (www.madmanofmagic.com) for all to read.  You will receive an email through Kickstarter when this is available.  We are hoping to have it done before the end of the year.

EXTENDED REWARDS (MORE COOL STUFF!)

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October 3, 2012 by Jason Love

Image of Madman of Magic Video from KickstarterWe reveal what the Madman of Magic Comic Book project means to us, our Kickstarter funding Statistics, and how you can help spread the word about our project in this post.  If you have any questions while reading, please leave them in the comment section below and we will answer it for you.

And now, to the post!

Today is September 14, 2012 and we have less than 17 days before the Madman of Magic Kickstarter campaign ends. This is very exciting as Leah and I will be getting back to producing the

I got an interesting comment on the 1 or 3 rough draft video and my other motion comics (Video Below) and it talked about how they felt the music overpowered the images. This is a very interesting idea as I felt that animation on its own would feel dull with no sound. With the music, however, it complements the animation while creating an opportunity where no sound effects or voiceovers are needed since the music works as the audio track.

If you want to post your comic book on YouTube my recommendation is to go ahead and use video editing software to show each panel in sequence and have background music to enhance the experience (making motion comics).  If you have the skill or can afford to hire someone voice overs are always nice, but need to be top quality or else they distract more than improve the video.  I feel

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July 10, 2012 by Jason Love

This was in my inbox from Kickstarter:

Dear Jason Love,

Unfortunately, your project, MADMAN OF MAGIC: Chapter 1 Comic Book, was not successfully funded. Because funding on Kickstarter is all or nothing, all pledges have been automatically canceled.

We understand the hard work that goes into running a project, and we hope it helped to build connections with your community.

Best,
Kickstarter Staff

http://kck.st/HD7Wjs

Our cat is judging us.

Yada says I need to fix it now!

We have hit 8% funded, which is awesome! There is a long way to go, but we are on our way with a great start! Thanks everyone for sharing links and telling friends the past few days!

By order of Yada, our producer, I posted the updated version of the trailer yesterday. It needs some music added and a few touch ups but I felt people would enjoy it more than the shorter version, but it still didn’t upload 100% correctly. I hope to get at least some of the problems fixed by tomorrow, but the music is going to take a few days.

The shorter trailer seems to be getting a good response. I have been responding to YouTube comments, most of the morning in fact. The current stats are 463 views, 38 “Likes”, 6 “dislikes, and 140 comments (with about 70 of them being my responses to other people’s comments) in 2 weeks. Now figuring out how to get those viewers to the Kickstarter page is the trick.

Since I said there would be an update today I did add a few photos I put together this morning. Thanks for following along and enjoy the updated video and the images.