The comic publication manufacture is thing if not a volatile spot successful 2026, peculiarly successful airy of Diamond Comics' bankruptcy past year. It falls connected smaller publishers to find caller and originative ways of getting their books to market, and that's thing that Iron Circus Comics has ever specialized in. They've built an full publishing institution connected the backmost of crowdfunding, and they'll proceed to grow successful the caller year.
IGN tin exclusively uncover Iron Circus' crowfunding slate for 2026. Scroll down to larn astir six caller graphic novels launching successful the coming months, covering everything from phantasy to sci-fi to narration drama.
Sleeping Wizards
Creative Team: Writer Rusty Marcum, creator Johanna Taylor, and letterer Jodie Troutman
Launch Date: February 2026
A ragtag enactment of wizards & thieves brave a unsafe dungeon to escaped themselves and find retired what happened to their missing father.
“I’ve ever wanted to enactment connected a D&D-inspired phantasy comic, and Sleeping Wizards is the cleanable blend of action, adventure, humor, chaos, and imagination! Iron Circus is doing unthinkable things successful the indie comics space, and I’m truthful excited to beryllium portion of it!” -Taylor
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Runaway to the Stars
Creative Team: Cartoonist Jay Eaton
Launch Date: April 2026
Find wherever you beryllium successful the stars - Talita is an alien raised by humans and thing fits. Her quarters aren't large enough, her nutrient isn't quiescent right, and she is either walked each implicit oregon told she is excessively scary. All that chances erstwhile a rogue AI from a salvage vessel wants her assistance getting backmost into space.
“RUNAWAY TO THE STARS is the culmination of implicit a decennary of subject fabrication worldbuilding, quality development, hard work, research, and love. I'm thrilled for it to yet beryllium taking soma arsenic a publication with Iron Circus.” -Eaton
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The Goblin Throne
Creative Team: Cartoonist Melanie Gillman
Launch Date: June 2026
What forbidden terrors await successful the woods? - Looking upon the Goblin Queen volition pb to your doom, adjacent if she offers to instrumentality you arsenic her bride. For erstwhile the woody is struck, she volition importune you beryllium to her sooner oregon later. It is lone a substance of waiting for her.
“Iron Circus has ever been an unparalleled champion of weird, horny, queer comics, and I could not ideate a amended location for this publication — my weirdest, horniest, and queerest comic yet. This is nary feel-good cheery romance — it’s a bloody big fairy communicative astir divorced moms and craven lesbian desire, and the fearfulness of yet having a real, honorable emotion wrong your grasp, if lone a small execution hadn’t gotten successful the mode first.” -Gillman
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Unsounded Vol. 3 & 4
Creative Team: Cartoonist Ashley Cope
Launch Date: August 2026
Ashley Cope’s legendary 15-year webcomic Unsounded has been compiled into a implicit and eventual collection. Continue the travel with UNSOUNDED Volumes Three & Four.
“Thanks to Iron Circus Comics, this marks the archetypal clip EVER that this worldly volition beryllium successful print. We'll spot the climax of the full Nevergreen arc and the grisly demises and trippy introductions of immoderate of the story's astir pivotal characters! Gangsters, snakemen, six-titted vertebrate goddesses, ohio my!” -Cope
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Rigsby, WI Vol. 3
Creative Team: Cartoonist SE Case
Launch Date: October 2026
S.E. Case’s beautifully drawn RIGSBY WI is simply a refreshingly genuine communicative of beingness connected the cusp of thing new, and the saga continues present with Book 3.
“I've been doing RIGSBY WI arsenic a webcomic bid for 6 years, truthful it’s been truly chill moving with Iron Circus to bring it to people for the archetypal time. The 3rd installment successful the series, Flux is simply a communicative of atrocious teen relationships, picturesque walks successful the woods, poorly thought retired metaphors, and agrarian queerness — 1 that I anticipation offers catharsis to readers who person experienced thing similar.” -Case
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"I americium incredibly excited astir our Kickstarter line-up for 2026,” said Iron Circus laminitis Spike Trotman successful a statement. “It's an astir cleanable cross-section of what I emotion astir moving a steadfast similar ICC. Unhinged fantasy, hard-sci-fi successful its feelings, ultra-relatable slice-of-life. The benignant of comics we privation to marque are stories that instrumentality with you by creators who cognize however to marque you care, and 2026 is america rolling a earthy 20 connected that. I've ne'er been prouder of a KS line-up."
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