November 9th 2023.
Black women horror comic creators have achieved a great success; surpassing their $20,000 Kickstarter goal to fund the follow-up to Shook! A Black Horror Anthology. Titled Shook Volume Two: Songs of the Dark Sirens, the project is being edited by Colleen Douglas and will be on shelves in January 2024.
The Kickstarter campaign received 138 backers, totaling to $20,461 according to the funding site. Douglas, who has worked in the comic industry for nearly a decade, spoke about the project and said it is “paving the way for future possibilities, for storytelling from a Black perspective, Black women telling horror stories.”
In a video on the Kickstarter page, Douglas expressed her excitement to collaborate with fellow creators, saying “I am looking forward to working with sisters who have been very creative and very interesting in their approach to storytelling.” She further mentioned that the comic will explore themes like travel, stories from our childhood, and “unusual and interesting perspectives that have been with us for a very long time.”
The project was made possible with the help of an award-winning team of Black women, which included Micheline Hess, Julie Anderson, Alitha Martinez, Rebecca Wanzo, Raeghan Buchanan, Shake MacAudacious, and Tananarive Due. Marcus H. Roberts, the creator listed under the Kickstarter, thanked everyone who believed in the project, adding that backers helped make history possible.
The highest number of backers, 41, chose the “Print Only” reward, which will get them a physical copy of the second volume of the horror comic. The first volume was successfully funded around the time of the Black Lives Matter protests, and was published and distributed by Second Sight Publishing and Dark Horse Comics.
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