Two comics Kickstarters are off to strong starts, beating their pledge goals in the first few days after launch.

In what seems to be a trend, neither Kickstarter has a specific retailer tier but both publishers, BOOM! and Oni, offer to work directly with retailers who want to carry the books and other exclusives.

BOOM! Studios’ campaign for The Expanse: A Little Death, has over $500,000 in pledges from almost 5,000 backers as of this writing, reaching its $50,000 goal just 11 minutes after launch. BOOM!’s 2023 Kickstarter for The Expanse: Dragon Tooth pulled in a total of $1.4 million in pledges, making it the top-drawing comics Kickstarter of the first half of that year (see “Kickstarter Campaigns Are Up in the First Half of 2023”). First-day pledges in the new campaign came to $394,590, higher than the first-day total for the previous one, which had set a record for BOOM!

The Oni Press Kickstarter to fund the Rick and Morty 10th Anniversary Deluxe Omnibus Library has over $175,000 in pledges from 601 backers just a day after launch. The initial goal was $10,000. The Kickstarter will fund a five-volume omnibus boxed set that will collect 100 issues in chronological order.