Author Ian Samuels and illustrator Bill Robinson hope to raise $8,000 for their “epic” children’s book project, Gwendolyn and the Underworld. These two childhood friends spent four years working on this book and aim to have printed copies available in time for Comic-Con International: San Diego 2012. Above, we’ve embedded a video about the project–what do you think?
Here’s more about the project: “Gwendolyn and the Underworld is an illustrated storybook about a young Pet Reaper (think Grim Reaper + dead pets) who ventures to solve the mystery behind her Overworld roots. She uncovers a rotten conspiracy with her corpulent corpse aunt, a sidekick Peacodgehog, an army of Skellies, and slew of part-this and part-that creatures.”
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