My Dad and I Are Kickstarting a Graphic Novel We Made About Loving America and Dodging the Draft in 1950s Communist Poland

A little bit of self-promotion. I’m

running a Kickstarter to fund a print run of my 81-year-old
dad’s first graphic novel.

A few years ago, my dad, Andre Krayewski, a graphic
artist and painter, wrote his first novel, Skyliner, a
semi-biographical account of trying to dodge the draft in communist
Poland in 1954, no easy task, and his love of jazz, Hollywood
films, and the American dream, which kept him going in the drab
world Communists were constructing in Poland and across Eastern
Europe and also made him a sort of enemy of the
state. 

He wrote the book in Polish, and it was published
there in 2009. Eventually, I translated it into English, and when
my dad, at the age of 78 said he wanted to try his hand at a
comic book, we decided to adapt his novel into a comic book
series. 

We completed the whole adaptation in 11 issues (you can download
the first one here) just shy of his
80th birthday. I started printing them via an on-demand printing
service for comics but they went out of the business a few days
before I was ready to submit the fifth issue. Now we’re trying to
kick start a 250 book run of the complete series as a trade
paperback graphic novel.

Anyway, the link to the Kickstarter is
here (with a video!), and you can check out more about
Skyliner here.

Thanks!