The campaign may be funded but it’s not over till the fat worm sings— the stretch goals for Almost Real: A Speculative Biology Zine have been announced! And thanks to the help of over 650 backers, we’ve already hit the first one!

The money for these goals goes directly to artist paychecks, additional goodies, and book upgrades; such as thumb tabs for each volume on Book 1’s pageblock! You know, those fancy little dents on encylopedias and dictionaries?

If you’re interested in reading hundreds of pages of gorgeous fully illustrated speculative zoology, botany, mycology, phycology, and more, check out the campaign now! You’ve got five days left to get in!

Hi all! Almost Real: A Speculative Biology Zine is back from its hibernation with TWO new books: a brand spanking new issue all about pop culture— non-human popular media, critters from video game tropes, pulp fiction monsters, engineered GMO pets, you name it— as well as a big thick book compiling the first five volumes of the magazine in one! This includes the first two magazines that have gone out of print due to reprinting costs. It also has new material in it, I drew an entry for each of the five cover critters!

I’m so glad we could finally bring Almost Real back, and I’m delighted to see we already have over 130 backers! Our goal is fairly high because we are printing multiple books and want to be able to pay all our contributors and manufacturers well, but I think we can do it!

That all for now. As a closer here’s some glamor shots of interior mockups:

We got to our final stretch goal, the fountain pen zine add-on!

While the RttS book will be available online and in stores after the campaign, the two add-on zines are exclusive to the Kickstarter. The AMA zine compiles all three (1, 2, 3) of the old character ask sessions into a single fancy book, and the fountain pen zine compiles a bunch of drawings that I’ve mostly only published on my Patreon (or not at all) featuring worldbuilding, character art, and some cute comics and interactions. (Also, fear not, the Reader Questions that have been posting on this site in between book chapters will be included in the main graphic novel!)

For information on how to add these zines to your pledge, check out this campaign update.

Thank you again for overfunding the book by an order of magnitude! I am blown away by the support, and very excited to tell more stories in this universe!