Odds & Ends, Books I & II
by Kraig Rasmussen
Collected science fiction & humor comics plus so much more, Odds & Ends is a massive two volume Comics Anthology of “lost & found tales” by Kraig Rasmussen.
This campaign is much more than just fundraising for two anthologies, but actually a way for readers to get in on the ground floor of the full launch of Kraig's personal publishing label Monkeygong!
For fans of science fiction and European, classical and indie creators such as Moebius, Richard Corben, Al Williamson, & Wally Wood!
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The Books
The Odds & Ends 2 Volume Anthology is an overstuffed collection of nearly 20 short stories, compiled from over a decade of experimental science fiction stories, film & TV pitch comics, and unseen personal works. It is designed & edited as a record of artistic growth, but newly remastered with matte covers, fresh inks, new colors and even redrawn pages, meant to unify past and present work for a robust and visually explosive short story reading experience. Stories range from, but are not limited to: short adaptations such as “Vundaland”, a sci-fi take on Alice in Wonderland, or “Tomorrow, Govinda”, from Herman Hesse’s Siddhartha, to the wrestling comic “The Secret Origin of Dylan Drake”, (paired with a collection of other short webcomics), or the King David TV pitch comic “Kingdom of David” (soon to be a 2024 historical epic graphic novel), to original sci-fi “the Adventures of Dr. Cotton Hickox”, or original horror like “Deer Crossing” written by novelist Jeff Chon.
Here's a complete table of contents. Everything is written by Kraig Rasmussen unless noted otherwise:
Volume 1:
Blacklight
The Great Cycle - from a script by Ronin Studios
Goldilocks: the True Story
Magic Grandma
Robot Friend
Killbot
Tomorrow, Govinda - adapted from Siddhartha by Herman Hesse
Missed Connection
Failball
The Mysterious Tower
Rabbit Quest
Vundaland - adapted from Alice in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll
Mad Rabbit
Cinemassassins
Hotel Sin Nombre
The Secret Origin of Dylan Drake
Monkey Mansion 1
Zen Patriot
Quit Hitting Yourself - a Cotton Hickox short
Duet
Wayfinder - a Sojourners prequel tale
Volume 2:
The Adventures of Dr. Cotton Hickox - full first issue
Kingdom of David - written by Scott Rickels
Grinders - written by Scott Rickels
Monkey Mansion 2
Digits - written by Jason McNamara
Deer Crossing - written by Jeff Chon
*There might be one or two additions, but for now this is the set of contents with all permissions in place.
*There are less stories in the second book because each story is much longer, and there is only one single page story, versus the 10-12 single pages and various shorter stories in book 1.
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(1) Afloat / (2) Cyber Lady
(3) Moon Drift / (4) Sam-Elf
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(1) Asteroid / (2) Levitate
(3) MktStApocalypse / (4) StarTree
(5) Moonset
(6) Sleigh Chasers
(7) SpaceRead
Bio
Kraig Rasmussen, a lifelong devotee to the sci-fi genre, is the writer/artist of “Sojourners”, “Technopolis”, “Furthest Reaches”, and “Epoch”, self-published under his label Monkeygong. He recently contributed to the “Rise of the Kung Fu Dragon Master” from White Cat Entertainment, “Ghost Band” from writer/ publisher Jason McNamara, and is a “house artist” for the upcoming revival of Gold Key Comics and their title “the Boris Karloff Gold Key Mysteries”, along with being a devoted comics art & story coach.
Previous credits include hosting & producing 200+ episodes of the “Storycraft” & “Repeat Viewing” podcasts, overall visual design for the upcoming film “The Dead Remember”, layout art on sci-fi comic “the Crossing” for the Stela Comics App, and storyboard art for several independent films. He was an early member of the San Francisco Cartoonist Conspiracy, and is a regular contributor to the annual Cartoon Art Museum sketch-a-thon. You can find him in Artists’ Alley at SDCC, LACC, and may other Southland & NorCal Comic Book Conventions.
Stretch Goals
Timeline
Odds & Ends is currently 90% compete in ink & color, with a handful of inking left to finish (the original version featured pencil art, but the new editions will be entirely inked, and one short story has yet to be drawn, but only because I really wanted to spice up the second book with a brand new story by novelist Jeff Chon that recently landed on my desk.
The timeline for Odds & Ends is a June (earliest) or August (latest) 2023 delivery— all changes and additions are currently underway.
Technopolis book 1 is fully drawn and currently 50% inked, and should be completed in time for the June delivery.
Sojourners is more than 50% complete, with a handful of pages left to draw and ink, which is also in the current project flow. Could be ready for August 2023 but may require an extra 30 days.
Note: as a rule I’m always “simultaneously” working on multiple stories in various states of completion, both to keep me flexible and to manage (read: corral) my slightly adhd brain. Bouncing between them all has been a very productive method for me, resulting in more than 4 new graphic novel length stories nearing the finish line for early to mid 2023.
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