Coyote & Roadrunner Inspire Rocket-Powered Kickstarter Success: Designer Shares Crowdfunding advice
On the show today we’re talking with Chicago artist and designer Rob Loukotka who shares his Kickstarter success story with us. Rob happens to be a huge fan of the Wile E. Coyote and Road Runner cartoons as well as an artist. He decided to bring these interests together by illustrating a poster containing every single product from the Acme Corporation!
If you’ve seen the cartoon, you’ll remember that Acme was the fictional company from which The Coyote bought things like dynamite, bombs, a giant magnet and a whole host of other paraphernalia, all of which was supposed to help him catch the Road Runner.
It turned out that Rob wasn’t the only one with fond memories of the cartoon, because more than 3,000 people backed his Kickstarter campaign to create the poster and even though his goal was a modest $3,000, he ended up raising $105,000 in a campaign that ended on Christmas Eve.
We also discuss Cory Feldman’s adventure into crowdfunding in this week’s news. Check out Cory’s campaign page and a past music video here.
Campaign stats
Raised
Links and things mentioned in this show
The ACME Corporation – Kickstarter campaign page
Fringe Focus Art and Posters – Iron Anvil Poster Variant
Fringe Focus Art and Posters – New Releases
Fringe Focus Art and Posters – The Desk of Q (007)
Kickstarter Project – Draft Evidence (guest pick)
Kickstarter Project – Bike·a·Bee (guest pick)
@FringeFocus – Official Twitter
Fringe Focus – Official Facebook
Words to live by
Cause my life is dope, and I do dope shit.
Kayne West
The Crowd Scene theme music is by Kim Boekbinder. Special thanks also to Jim Fowler. Additional music by Scott Holmes.
