Kickstarter Spotlight - Hairy Tales and Bald Truths

Freaktown Comics heads to crowdfunding for Hairy Tales and Bald Truths… 

Following on from last year’s successful campaign for Hairy Tales, Russell Hillman (script) and Sergio Calvet (everything else) have reunited for a sequel which launched on Kickstarter on 12th March. 

In case you missed it, Hairy Tales is an autobiographical comic that tells stories from Russell Hillman’s teenage years, illustrated by Sergio Calvet. The campaign made enough of a splash to suggest to the creative team that a follow-up may be in order. This sequel, Hairy Tales and Bald Truths: 22 Short Stories About Russell Hillman goes through Russell’s life, answering 22 common questions –from What’s Your Earliest Memory? to What’s The Strangest Place You’ve Ever Had Sex?, and beyond.

Designed to be a user’s guide to Russell Hillman, should you ever find yourself in need of one, Hairy Tales and Bald Truths aims to be a fun and funny look at the life of a fairly average person.  Don’t worry if you didn’t read Hairy Tales – while the books complement one another, it’s not necessary to read the first title to follow the second, though a twin-pack of both issues is available as a pledge tier. As an added bonus, you can also find the entire Freaktown Comics back catalogue in physical or digital formats with all physical tiers also include a digital copy too.

At just £3 for physical copies or £2 for digital, Hairy Tales and Bald Truths is priced to be affordable and accessible. 24 pages, full colour throughout. The campaign will run for 30 days and is aiming for a total of just £650.

With the crowdfunding campaign still running for the next 20 days via Kickstarter, there’s still plenty of time to grab yourself a copy of this one of a kind biography. You can check out the full campaign by clicking here. 

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