She’s not just Hollywood’s 306th Best Actress, she might be America’s #1 comic book. “Starring Sonya Devereaux” has been nominated for Best Comic of 2020 by respected pop culture site CriticalBlast. The title, published by American Mythology Productions, follows the hilarious exploits of a beautiful actress and the outrageous, ultra low-budget movies she’s in. Movies so bad they’re good like SpiderShark vs SnakeBear and Naked Are the Damned 2 – the comic skewers every genre trope in Hollywood and the often ridiculous characters who live in that world. Voting is open until February 1st, 2021 at criticalblast.com
Crowd Funding for the new Issue is live on IndieGoGo!
The independent publisher had remarkable success in their first crowdfunding effort for the trade paperback collection of Starring Sonya Devereaux. The IndieGogo campaign reached its funding goal in 24 hours and AMP extended the effort to reach its stretch goal, resulting in additional exclusive rewards for backers. Now the publisher hopes to have a similar experience for the title’s new issue, Starring Sonya Devereaux: Warrior Woman Death Team 5, an action-packed sword and sorcery movie about a heroic barbarian queen forced out of retirement to search for a kidnapped princess and re-assembles the mighty, all-female Death Team to combat an evil Lord.
Remarkably, creators/writers Todd Livingston & Nick Capetankis, and twin brother illustrators Brendon & Brian Fraim, who are nominated for Best Artists of 2020 by CriticalBlast, fit an entire movie into each 30-page issue. Part of what makes this already unusual book more unique is that real-life actors including Meredith Salenger, Damion Poitier, Magda Apanowicz, WWE’s Katarina Waters, and adult star Caroline Pierce add their likenesses to co-star in the movies with the fictitious Sonya; the new issue features gorgeous Carlee Baker (Robot Chicken) and Troy Fromin (Ox from Saved By the Bell).
The new IndieGogo campaign for Starring Sonya Devereaux: Warrior Woman Death Team 5 launched Friday, January 15, 2021 and funded within hours, with the title slated for release in April 2021. The creators again promise great IGG rewards like an exclusive variant cover, an original all-new Sonya story for backers only, and the opportunity to be written & drawn into an issue. Warrior Woman Death Team 5 features the latter reward with a backer appearing at the real pop culture convention WonderFest with Sonya. Livingston says, “this is not like other campaigns where the backer appears in a panel or two – our backer appears in a full 3 or 4-page scene with Sonya. We showed him the pages and he loves them!” View the campaign at Starring Sonya Devereaux IGG – The Sequel https://igg.me/at/
Back issues and the trade paperback are still available through your favorite comics retailer or at americanmythology.net/shop.
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