CENSORSHIP HEADACHES CONTINUE.
We launched our most recent Kickstarter campaign and were told point blank from KS - "we must inform you, even though your campaign was approved - STRIPE, the payment processor, may choose to end funding since your campaign contains NSFW imagery."
We are looking into alternatives if this continues to escalate. Since Kickstarter is essentially a big "pre-order" marketplace with perks, one option would be for us to just launch my own website where we post the next project and use a payment processor that doesn't have an issue with NSFW content.
Things would work exactly the same, we'd post the project, you'd have 30 days to choose whatever pledge you like and then after 30 days, we collect the funds and order the comics and then ship them to you.
One bonus to doing this is we wouldn't have funding minimums to do the books. Secondly, once the books were printed you could go back to the store and order campaigns you might have missed.
Like Kickstarter, we'd have "launch" exclusives which are covers that are available only for that initial 30 days and after that they're gone. Late backers or people who buy the books at stores or comic cons can only get the standard cover.
Would like to hear your thoughts on the idea :)