With mainstream animation hitting a bit of a snag at the Box Office and on the television screen, people were craving better animation. Creators such as Vivienne Medrano, Ashley Nichols, Nico Colaleo, Anna Lencioni, and other talented animators have answered the call to help create something that audiences are craving. Our main focus is the success of Iron Circus Animation’s Crowdfunding campaign for Lackadaisy, which exceeded its goal.
Recently the Lackadaisy crowdfunding campaign finished and raised $2 million. The money will be used to create a five-episode season of the property, it was an amazing feat when you think about it. Originally, Iron Circus Animation only set a goal of $125,000 to produce a single episode.
It was certainly one for the history books. When the campaign was launched, commitments surpassed $300,000. In less than a week, it would pass the million-dollar mark, and then finally when it reached over a month, the campaign finished with $2,008,728 from 16,053 backers. Lackadaisy Creator Tracy Butler and Lackadaisy Director Fable Siegel spoke to Cartoon Brew after the campaign finished, their comments can be found on Cartoon Brew’s website.
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The animation style brought together talented artists and animators for something fantastic. It made viewers nostalgic for the works of Don Bluth and Ralph Bakshi. Iron Circus Comics, known by many as Chicago’s Largest Alternative Comics Publisher, is helping bring the Webcomic to life. The Webcomic series has won multiple Web Cartoonists’ Choice Awards, and in 2011, it was nominated for an Eisner Award for Best Digital Comic. This animated short film is the first-ever multimedia endeavor from Spike Trotman’s Iron Circus Comics, the trailblazing comics publisher that has raised nearly $3 million over more than 30 crowdfunding campaigns. The short was originally crowdfunded to the tune of $330,000, thanks to almost 6,000 backers. The pilot has reached 10 Million Views, and it has also caught the attention of the likes of iconic animator and director Ralph Bakshi, illustrator Tyson Hesse, and director Lilly Wachowski, who praised the “Lush and Gorgeous” animation and “super fun” story.
Set in St. Louis, Missouri in the midst of Prohibition, the comics center on the Lackadaisy, a speakeasy tucked away in a cave beneath the Little Daisy Cafe, where flashing the club symbol from a deck of cards grants everyone in-the-know access to to all the moonshine and music they desire. The joint’s packed full of gangsters, flappers, crooked cops, rum-runners, and wide-eyed ingenues. And they are, literally, all jazz cats.
The sepia-toned story features action and adventure, comedy and crime, and a colorful (if somewhat shady) cast of felines, including the Lackadaisy proprietors Atlas and Mitzi May, rumrunner Rocky Rickaby, and the sharp-tongued, fleet-footed con artist in training, Ivy Pepper.
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