Crowdpuncher | ‘Outlaw’s Apprentice,’ ‘Heartbreak Manor’ + more comic crowdfunding projects

Check out crowdfunding campaigns featuring the work of Chris Schweizer, Steve Niles, Damien Worm, Joan Boix and more.

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Cartoonist Chris Schweizer has been serializing Outlaw’s Apprentice weekly on Webtoon and Patreon, and now he’s bringing the first collected arc to print. The 208-page Appalachian-inspired swashbuckling fantasy follows Otis, a teenage artist-in-training, and Erska, the former mercenary who took him on as an apprentice, as an injustice sends them both on the run.

Schweizer, who has earned three Eisner Award nominations for his previous work on books like the Crogan Adventures series, is publishing the book in mass market paperback format.

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Three Count | Outlaw’s Apprentice, Forgotten Five, Fireborn theme song

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To read: Chris Schweizer’s Outlaw‘s Apprentice

You may know Chris Schweizer from his work on everything from 6 Sidekicks of Trigger Keaton to The Creeps series, and he’s back with a tale of swashbucklers and swords. Outlaw’s Apprentice debuted a few weeks back on Webtoon, and it’s as fun as it sounds:

Otis is a teenaged artist-in-training, but when he and the former mercenary to whom he is apprenticed find themselves on the wrong side of the law, they have to make their escape across the country with the law, bounty hunters, and old enemies dogging their heels.

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