SILVER VOLUME 4 IS LIVE!
almost 8 years ago
– Tue, May 29, 2018 at 02:11:08 PM
Dear backers,
4 years, 460 pages and 4 volumes in the making, theSILVER VOLUME 4 KICKSTARTER is NOW LIVE!
With this fourth Kickstarter, SILVER's original arc comes to a close, and not only does it do it with a BANG and a super satisfying ending, but it also blows the SILVER universe wide open into what comes next!
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Find out if Finn, Sledge, Tao and the rest of the gang will manage to escape with the Silver Dragon and live to tell the tale?
- Turn your Silver trade collection into a awesome BOXSET, thanks to out super hot SLIPCASE!
- Check out these amazing COLLABS between Stephan Franck, and superstar artist Takeshi Miyazawa, Rodolphe Guenoden and Mel Milton!
- And more!!!
CLICK HERE TO GET TO THE CAMPAIGN!
Love and appreciation,
Stephan
THE SILVER UNIVERSE EXPANDS WITH "ROSALYND"
over 8 years ago
– Tue, Aug 01, 2017 at 11:49:29 PM
At this point in the campaign, we thought we would surprise everyone by unveiling a companion book to Silver Vol. 3: ‘Rosalynd’.
As in Rosalynd “Sledge” Van Helsing…
WATCH THE VIDEO:
WAIT… WHAT IS ROSALYND?!
Rosalynd is a one-shot 244-page Hard cover which dives deeper into the Silver Universe, and explores the mysterious past of one of Silver’s most beloved characters: Rosalynd “Sledge” Van Helsing as a child. Secrets about her family will be revealed, as well as young Rosalynd’s first-person account of the events that put her on the road to becoming the acerbic vampire-hunter from Silver that we know and love. This earnestly moving—and Pulp to the max!—story is great whether you are already fan of Silver, or new to Rosalynd as a character.
DEEPER INTO THE SILVER UNIVERSE
Sometimes, a story just wants to be told. It doesn’t care if you have other plans or an already busy schedule. It burns its way through your psyche until you have no choice but to just let it out into the world. That’s what happened to me with ROSALYND. One of my favorite sequences in Silver Vol. 3 is a flashback. Sledge gets into a trance and is taken back to her childhood’s defining moment—the moment that changed her life forever. Because I wanted to immerse the reader in her surreal experience, I treated those pages in a style different from the rest of the book—a more deconstructed, stream of consciousness approach. By the time the sequence was completed, a door had been opened into the past, and into this character. And I wanted more. After months of mental build-up, it all came out as a fever dream. Most of ROSALYND was created during one single business trip, during which I ended up steealing every possible moment, not leaving my hotel room for entire days of non-stop writing and drawing. I came back from that trip with almost a hundred pages of text and art. It was as if I—just like Sledge herself—had gone into a trance. And something really unexpected happened. Rosalynd became even more personal to me than I thought was ever possible.
My maternal family were “wandering Jews” from Bessarabia--the East just beyond the East that Bram Stoker writes about—who fled across Europe throughout the end of the 19th century and the first half of the 20th, and who practiced the dark arts of vodka-making, professional gambling, and dentistry. Theirs was a life perpetually lived as strangers, never knowing when the community they had just settled into would eventually turn on them. And it always did. Yet, they managed to find happiness in family life, during the brief moments that History would allow. And like Van Helsing, my grandfather’s name was Abraham—Abram, actually in the original spelling. He was a badass in his own right too, who escaped from Auschwitz TWICE.
And so just like that, the Van Helsings became a family like mine--only with one extra dark art of vampire hunting. And maybe, over time, the hunter would have become the hunted, and they would have found themselves a family on the run, hoping that if they didn’t attract attention from the living, maybe the dead would forget about them too.
Following my grandparents’ deportation (from which Abram returned but Sara never did), my mother (then 9) and her siblings became “hidden children,” and, often left to their own devices, lived many adventures in which the evils of the world were processed through the eyes of children. My mother’s childhood accounts of her family being torn apart, a testimony to the whimsical yet unsentimental resilience of children, also somehow became the story of Rosalynd Van Helsing.
Lastly, on an even closer note, Rosalynd is about the special magic of sisterhood. I have three wonderful children, and two of them are daughters. Not only are they incredibly powerful young women, but they are SISTERS. So of course, Rosalynd and her sister Bernice are them. I mean, of course, they are not them. But they are THEM. You know what I mean. They’re them.
ROSALYND’S IN HER OWN VOICE
At the end of the day, however, Rosalynd IS Rosalynd. She is the character we know and love, and from SILVER to ROSALYND, unraveling her mystery has been an incredible journey, one I hope you'll now join.
SILVER VOLUME 3 IS HERE!
over 8 years ago
– Mon, Jul 10, 2017 at 08:54:08 PM
Hi Silver Backers!
If you are receiving this, it means that you are one of the awesome backers who helped bring Silver Volume 1 and 2 into existence, and lay the first stones to a new fictional universe! Way to awesomely shape your inter-subjective reality, my friends!
This morning, I am very excited to share the news that Silver Volume 3 is finally here, and in order to help us keep bringing you these cool comics in complete independence, we need your help once again.
Here are the two things you can do:
Stephan Franck and his Dark Planeteers!
Two amazing things...
over 10 years ago
– Sun, Dec 13, 2015 at 08:15:55 PM
Dear backers,
TWO AMAZING THINGS are happening this week! First, the new STAR WARS is coming, and by all accounts, it is awesome! However, I'm going to focus on the second thing: This Wednesday 12/16, SILVER VOLUME 2 is coming to comic shops everywhere, ComiXology, and Amazon. And that second things, my friends, is directly thanks to you!
So while the rest of the world gets to have their SILVER soon, I want to make sure that my beloved backers have been taken care of. I'm happy to report that so far, there has been very few glitches, however, some things will always fall through the cracks. SO... ( not counting the original art commissions, which are coming later, and not counting the few backers who haven't answered their survey yet--help me help you, people!) I want to make sure that all following items have been received:
- Digital rewards
- physical books
- art prints
- apparels
If you ordered and are missing any of those items, please write us, and we will track it down and see to it that you do!
Thank you again!
Stephan
Thanksgiving
over 10 years ago
– Thu, Nov 26, 2015 at 09:00:39 PM
Hi All,
On behalf of myself and of the small but potent group working behind the scene at Dark Planet, I would like to give a very heartfelt thank you to all who supported this kickstarter! To be sure, supporting a kickstarter is not the cheapest way to get something, but it is a commitment. A commitment to artistic independence. It is a community building act. It is making a difference. So thank you.
As of yesterday, all the books ordered domestically have shipped (unless you haven't answered your survey yet), and many have been received. The prints and shirts will ship next week, as well as all international orders. Lastly, I have started on the commissions, and I think they will put a smile on your face :)
Thank you again for being part of this SILVER and Dark Planet adventure. The journey continues next year, with many exciting things in store!
Be safe, be kind, and be awesome,
Stephan
