SINK: City of Killers - Crime Horror Graphic Novel & Plush

Creator Stream Replay! Backer Bonus Prize Winners! Indie Bonus Bundle Coming!
about 1 year ago – Thu, Mar 06, 2025 at 05:54:06 AM

Hey, friends! In case you missed the livestream hang with John Lees, Alex Cormack and Tyler James, you're in luck we've got the replay for you here: 

As always, it was a great time hanging with the SINK boys, we discussed the new book, future SINK stories, comics and creativity and more. 

We also revealed the answer to the "CAN YOU SPOT A FAKE" Contest... 

The overwhelming majority of you thought there was no way in hell John Lees would have created a character named "Queef LaBouef" (it's pronounced LaBeef, BTW) for his respected, award-winning serialization. 

Well, the majority is wrong in this case! 

Queef will actually be exploding into the pages of SINK in the double-issue story called "PINEAPPLE" which is a follow up to the now infamous SINK #10. This story will see our awkward and kinky couple Kieran and Louise head to Queef LaBouef's notorious pleasure dungeon for a murder mystery tale set in a sex club, as only SINK can deliver. 

Tattie-Bogle and Big Chonk are also characters who will be gracing the pages of SINK in the next volume, making "Skeeves McGonkle" the false character.  John Lees told me, "Any Scottish person would be able to identify Skeeves as the false character immediately as a name a non-Scottish person might come up with." And that's exactly what it was as I, Tyler James, will take credit (or culpability) for coming up with Skeeves to try to fool you all! 

But I didn't fool a few of you, and during the Livestream, we pulled longtime SINK backer Gerald Campbell's name in the wheel of names, so Gerald will be getting an extra $25.00 in Backerkit Credit after the campaign is wrapped. Congrats, Gerald! 

And congrats also goes to backer Fred Chaney, who also wins a $25.00 bonus credit as his name was pulled from our pool of backers who submitted questions from the Livestream. Congrats Fred, and thanks for engaging! 

TOMORROW: YOUR PLEDGE REWARDS GET EVEN BETTER!

We've been hard at work putting together an indie comics bonus bundle of books that we think you'll love. These comic downloads will be a bonus for all SINK: City of Killers backers at no extra charge... and is just our way of sharing the gift of comics and thank you for rolling with us! 

-The ComixTribe Crew

P.S. Hey, here's a project that's ending today that we want to recommend. Our pal George O'Connor, who has composed a number of themes and instrumentals for SINK and other ComixTribe books over the years is back with his latest installment of VAMPIRES ON MARS!

Vampires on Mars is a wild and irreverent tale about an erratic tech billionaire who dreams of going to mars and the 300 year old vampire who helps him do it! 

Consulting with actual astrophysics experts on the unique advantages vampires might have on getting to the red planet, George and artist Fernando Pinto have crafted a gem here. 

CHECK IT OUT ON KICKSTARTER NOW 

BACKER BONUS GAME: WHICH IS A REAL SINK CHARACTER NAME?
about 1 year ago – Mon, Mar 03, 2025 at 06:01:30 AM

How was your weekend, friends? 

As we roll into the back half of the SINK campaign, we thought we'd invited y'all to play a little game... 

BACKER BONUS GAME: WHICH IS A REAL SINK CHARACTER NAME?

Let's have some fun! 

If you've been reading SINK for some time now, you know that John Lees has a real talent for creating and naming awesome characters. In fact, Alex Cormack has already worked up some amazing characters designs for the new batch of characters showing up in SINK: Vol 4.

Let's see if you can tell an actual SINK character's name versus a made up name!

Let's Play... 

In the comments below, leave your best guess for which of the following is NOT an actual character name who will appear in a future issue of SINK. 

Three of these are actual new character names set to debut in volume four and one is not:

So, which SINK Character name do you think is fake? 

👇Submit your best guess in the comments BELOW THIS POST... 

...and as a bonus, we'll pick one of the backers who commented with the right guess and hook them up with $25.00 worth of credit in our pledge manager that they can apply towards add-ons (variants, the Dig Plush, etc.) or if international, apply to shipping costs.

NOTE: YOU HAVE 36 HOURS TO SUMIT YOUR GUESS IN THE COMMENTS TO BE ENTERED TO WIN... We'll announce the winner, and share more about Volume 4 in tomorrow night's SINK Creator Livestream scheduled for March 4, 2025 from 7-8 PM EDT!  

-Team SINK

P.S. Remember to join us LIVE tomorrow night! 

You can watch the stream on:

On YouTube

On Facebook

300 Strong! New City of Killers T-Shirt Added! Creator Livestream Next Week!
about 1 year ago – Fri, Feb 28, 2025 at 07:44:53 AM

TGIF, friends! And here at the SINK campaign, we have a lot to be excited about! We just passed the $25K funding mark...

👕New SINK: City of Killers Add-On available! 👕

As promised, our $25K stretch goal has unlocked a new add-on to this campaign for a SINK: T-shirt featuring Alex Cormack's stunning art for Volume 3! 

Note: Our t-shirts are a flat +$35 and that includes FREE WORLDWIDE SHIPPING. We'll also ship these out shortly after surveys are sent and in advance of the rest of your rewards so you can look good as soon as possible! 

NOTE: If you are a DIGITAL BACKER and want to add a T-shirt, Kickstarter doesn't currently allow physical add-ons for Digital Backers.... So all you have to do is just manually add +$35 to your pledge, and you'll be able to use that credit in the Pledge Manager on your T-Shirt. THANKS! 

We're already marching towards the next upgrade, which will add a vinyl sticker to the Signed Bundle! 

🎦NEXT WEEK: SINK CREATOR LIVESTREAM SET FOR MARCH 4

More good news! We've scheduled a SINK Creator Livestream event for Tuesday, March 4 from 7-8 PM EDT. 

You'll be able to join creators John Lees & Alex Cormack for a discussion about SINK: City of Killers, all things SINK to date, and get some teases as to what's to come in the pages of your favorite crime horror series!

We always like to make these streams interactive and valuable for backers, but for that we need your input! 

1: Submit a Question or Topic for discussion in the comments below. 

2: All backers who submit something will be entered to win a BONUS PRIZE during the livestream. 

That's it! 

We'll build our stream around some of the questions and topics submitted, and some participating backers will get hooked up with extra value! 

Let's keep building this thing! 

4 More Pages Added to the SINK Vol 3 Collection! Here's the T-Shirt Design We'll Unlock at 25K!
about 1 year ago – Mon, Feb 24, 2025 at 10:41:30 AM

Hey, friends, hope you're doing well. Another strong weekend for the SINK Campaign as we unlocked another stretch goal! 

Total page count for SINK: Vol 3 will be bumped to 212 pages of crime-horror content! 

GOOD TO HAVE YOU BACK! 

This campaign is largely powered by longtime, returning SINK fans, some of whom have been along for the ride since the very beginning. 

Every time we launch one of these campaign, it's like a surge of enthusiasm that fires up the team as we dive right back into the world of SINK for the next book. 

NEXT STRETCH GOAL... T-SHIRT! 

With the $23K stretch goal smashed our sights are set on the next milestone, which is $25K.  At $25K, we'll unlock this awesome Vol 3 t-shirt as an add-on! 

Keep beating the drum and spreading the good news about SINK! 

SINK Cameos Going Fast! First Stretch Goal Unlocked! Livestream Coming Up!
about 1 year ago – Fri, Feb 21, 2025 at 05:57:40 AM

Hey, friends! Tyler James, ComixTribe publisher here, dropping an update on the campaign and some cool developments before we head into the weekend. 

First, we're thrilled to announce that we have a new SINK "Citizen Supreme" for Volume 4! 

Congrats to longtime ComixTribe supporter GC, who snagged our top-tier reward, which will get him drawn into all five issues of SINK Vol 4 as a background character, get mentioned as an issue sponsor of each title, get a composition print of the appearance signed by Alex Cormack, and will get 10 copies of each of those books AND will score the fully loaded CITY OF KILLERS Collector's Box! 

He'll be picking up the reigns from Darin, Volume 3's Citizen Supreme, who pledged during the DIG campaign and secured the top tier Citizen Supreme treatment. 

How We Handle These Cameos

One of the benefits of John writing so far ahead in the SINK series is that we have complete scripts for Volume 4 already written. So, the team combs through those scripts and identifies spots where we have character moments called for... but no particular character design in place and some flexibility as who we could cast in the roll.  

For example, in issue #4, we had a TEACHER role open and a PHOTOGRAPHER role open... these were not characters that had appeared in SINK before, so made for a perfect place to insert our CAMEO SPONSORS, with Darin being the Photographer and Lucas stepping in as the Teacher. 

 All we need from our Cameo backers is a few pictures for Alex to reference and we're able to work them into the SINK narrative. 

We STILL have CAMEO SPONSOR slots available for SINK #17, #18 & #20! 

If you're mulling a CAMEO REWARD, I wanted to jump in here and give you a little more context about each of these issues and WHY 

• SINK #17 Cameo Bundle - Dungeon Dweller (2 Cameos Available) - Soooo, SINK #17-18 is going to be WILD. This is the follow-up to SINK #10 and sees the return of our awkward, kinky couple Louise and Kieran, going to Dungeon Fun, Glasgow's wildest S&M Club!
• SINK #18 Cameo Bundle - Street Tough (1 Cameo Available) - Here we have a role for you to be a tough-guy (or gal) on the mean streets of Sinkhill. Can't go wrong there! 
• SINK #20 Cameo Bundle - Dickhead (3 Cameos Available) - SINK #20 is by far, the most consequential issue of the entire series and will feature the biggest action set-piece yet.  I liken this issue to the Hardhome episode of Game of Thrones... the stakes get raised and there's a "no going back" "holy Sh*t!!!" moment that we'd love to have a few backers be a part of.  

Thanks once again for the interest, enthusiasm and support of this series. The fact that fans want to be a part of the narrative is humbling and super motivating for the entire creative team. 

We've Unlocked Our First STRETCH GOAL! As a result of smashing $21K, we're going to schedule a fan-favorite SINK livestream with John and Alex discussing the stories in this volume, the future of SINK, other projects the boys have in the works, and we'll give away prizes during the stream! We're currently scheduling this stream, and will let you know when it will be! 

We're also close to unlocking our first BOOK UPGRADE, adding 4 more pages of content to ALL VERSIONS Of the SINK: City of Killers Book! 

So let's keep the good times rolling into the weekend!