Fabrice Sapolsky is Chief Creative Officer at Grand Design Communications, heading up our magazine packaging services for great clients like Panini and 2B2M. But Sapolsky also wears another hat in the comics game – that of a powerhouse freelance writer! Sapolsky is the co-creator (with David Hine) of Marvel’s Spider-Man Noir character and wrote last year’s Image Comics series One Hit Wonder (foreign rights available from GDC). And today, February 2nd, Sapolsky launched a Kickstarter fundraiser for his latest comics series, Intertwined, which he co-created with artist Fred Pham Chuong. They aim to raise $9000 and on their very first day they’ve already raised more than a quarter of that amount! The official Kickstarter page is at https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/530822722/intertwined-by-fabrice-sapolsky-and-fred-pham-chuo. Check out their promotional video below! https://ksr-video.imgix.net/projects/2193541/video-628661-h264_high.mp4 From the Kickstarter page:
THE PITCH It’s 1971. The world is in a very strange place. The Woodstock generation is still making waves. Feminism is ascendant, while the Black Power movement has fractured, and war still rages in Vietnam. But, above all, New York City is still a very violent place. The city is in economic decline, and it’s hard for anyone to maintain a decent life, especially immigrants. InterTwined is a story about legacies. About what it feels to be an immigrant in general, and an Asian one in particular, in the 1970s New York area. Following the Immigration and Nationality Act of 1965, many people from Asia came to the United States. The series borrows elements from the Spider-Man and Daredevil mythology, only to build its own. What if the urban hero was an immigrant?
So what are you waiting for? Go on over to Kickstarter and support this great project!