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im raising money to print a graphic novel

check out detailed info on my gofundme campaign

I’m Stephen Michael McDowell a.k.a. Buttercup and I’m working on a graphic novel titled “UM”!

The comic will be about a group of superheroes called “midwives” who perform the equivalent of exorcisms on people who embody some of today’s most rampant social and ethical ills.

The Midwives also slowly uncover a global conspiracy, the success of which depends on the perpetuation of these behaviors in order to maintain malevolent power structures.

I’m focusing all my attention and energy on this project with the hopes of getting a version of it online and available by January.

Now, I’m aware a lot of webcomics are available for free, but I literally can’t afford to produce this without it also being my primary source of income.

So I’ve developed a plan to not only publish the comic online but also print each volume of the comic as completed, making physical versions of the entire comic available to the public as early as the end of next year.

Story development, thumbnailing, sketching, inking, coloring, lettering, arranging, & printing are all extremely tedious and technically difficult, which is why this job would usually be split between a team of up to twenty people, but I’m doing it all by myself.

In addition to all this, I’m moving into an apartment in September, meaning I will need to have $1000 rent plus $500 deposit by the end of August!

Now the way I’ve arranged this fundraiser is fairly straightforward:

If you would like to make a one-time donation/investment ensuring you get access to the webcomic, check out my gofundme.

If you would like to continuously follow the development of the comic and make monthly contributions to my rent and food money, check out my patreon.

I really want to put together a project that directly addresses a lot of today’s systemic social and ethical problems and gives representation to a plethora of minority groups here in the USA, so by contributing to this project you’ll be directly empowering a transgressive retelling of many of the whitewashed canonical myths that abound in today’s entertainment industry.

Thanks to everyone who has helped so far, updates coming soon!