$10,000!!!
THANK YOU, EVERYBODY!
$10,000!!!
THANK YOU, EVERYBODY!
This comic is short (>100 pgs) so the paperback only costs $12!!
The good news is that’s a STEAL for an OGN!!
The downside is that it’ll take more backers for every creator involved in this project to be paid what they’re worth 🙏
If you haven’t already, please consider supporting this project!
We've just hit the $10,000 mark on SLEEPING WIZARDS with over 480 backers! You can help us push that number to 500 and beyond for just $6! And for just $5 more get your hands on a tabletop oneshot in this setting! 🎲📝 www.kickstarter.com/projects/iro...
05.03.2026 05:38 — 👍 8 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0
UPDATE: Rigsby WI chapter 4 page 228
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We are LESS THAN $20 AWAY from hitting TEN THOUSAND on Sleeping Wizards?!
Anybody wanna be the guy!?!?!?
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Eliza readies her sword against the starry-fleshed beasts bursting from the shrine. You or a spry squire of yours may find this just the fun you're looking for!
A character sheet of Eliza from Sleeping Wizards. She is a fighter and has 0 known magic ability. If you back Sleeping Wizards and give just $5 extra you can get a blank of this character sheet AND a oneshot campaign to try out with any general tabletop rpg you enjoy like d&d or pathfinder.
Randall cannot believe that he is getting written up in a character sheet. He already left the shrine more than once! Don't be fooled by his build, he is a ranger and he will get moving if he has to.
Xander, a thief from Sleeping Wizards. Despite being a thief, he has a debuff to his speed, but he's still dexterous in his hands.
Meet your party members!
No Magic? No Worries! Eliza, Randell, and Xander are this team's Mind and Muscle!🧠🦾
With over 450 backers, SLEEPING WIZARDS is 50% funded!! Thank you all who've backed so far! Just catching your eye?There's still time to join the party!⚔️ www.kickstarter.com/projects/iro...
Iron circus comics presents sleeping wizards a graphic novel by rusty marcum and johanna taylor
We’re halfway through the campaign for SLEEPING WIZARDS, and still not quite 50% funded yet! If you haven’t already, please back our unhinged dungeon-crawler comic, it’s made by a team of scrappy indie comic creators and the story’s a ton of fun! 🙏
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I'm gonna be selling stuff at Emerald City Booth 11120 with @korybing.bsky.social @iniquitousfish.bsky.social and @mkreed.bsky.social
Wish us luck!
Eliza readies her sword against the starry-fleshed beasts bursting from the shrine. You or a spry squire of yours may find this just the fun you're looking for!
A character sheet of Eliza from Sleeping Wizards. She is a fighter and has 0 known magic ability. If you back Sleeping Wizards and give just $5 extra you can get a blank of this character sheet AND a oneshot campaign to try out with any general tabletop rpg you enjoy like d&d or pathfinder.
Randall cannot believe that he is getting written up in a character sheet. He already left the shrine more than once! Don't be fooled by his build, he is a ranger and he will get moving if he has to.
Xander, a thief from Sleeping Wizards. Despite being a thief, he has a debuff to his speed, but he's still dexterous in his hands.
Meet your party members!
No Magic? No Worries! Eliza, Randell, and Xander are this team's Mind and Muscle!🧠🦾
With over 450 backers, SLEEPING WIZARDS is 50% funded!! Thank you all who've backed so far! Just catching your eye?There's still time to join the party!⚔️ www.kickstarter.com/projects/iro...
I’m sorry to keep doin the “back our kickstarter” dance in Times Such As These™️, but I’m truly so proud of the work Rusty & Jodie & Atla & the folks at Iron Circus & I put into this comic, it’s been an act of joyful creation in a sea of despair. Please support our work if you can, and thank you 🙏
03.03.2026 17:33 — 👍 64 🔁 39 💬 2 📌 2
Good morning, gang! Could Sleeping Wizards hit 50% Funded at the exact halfway point of its crowdfund? We're only about $100 away!
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4 versions of the sleeping wizards comic cover
The final Sleeping Wizards cover
My preliminary sketches for the cover of the SLEEPING WIZARDS comic, vs the final cover!
Only 16 days left to back this!! 🙏 www.kickstarter.com/projects/iro...
I just backed Sleeping Wizards on @kickstarter.com!
I love when cool people do cool things together.
Can't WAIT to hold my copy, @rustymarcum.bsky.social & @johannamation.bsky.social!
We're less than 8 backers away from 450!
You there! Do you hear the call to adventure? No? Well, do you like to do crimes?🔦
Enter the ever-shifting shrine of the SLEEPING WIZARDS: www.kickstarter.com/projects/iro...
POV: someone called her “Lizzy”
(SLEEPING WIZARDS is SO CLOSE TO 50% FUNDED!! 👉
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SLEEPING WIZARDS HAS A NEW ADD-ON!
For just $5.00, you can add a ebook TTRPG adventure set in the Sleeping Wizards world, written by @rustymarcum.bsky.social and illustrated by @johannamation.bsky.social! It's great fun!
Check out the crowdfund here!
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Find me at ECCC artist alley, booth I-23, March 5-8 2026 Seattle WA @Johannamation
Book signing! Brick and Mortar Books, Friday March 6, 6-7pm Seattle WA
See you soon, Seattle!!
I'm selling books, prints, merch and things at ECCC!
ALSO, BOOK SIGNING 📚
Brick and Mortar Books Seattle
Friday, March 6th - 6-7pm
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The Korner: @wearezoop.bsky.social @goatsflyingpress.com @imagecomics.bsky.social @ironcircuscomics.bsky.social @humanoids.com @boom-studios.com @jamesaquilone.bsky.social @jaauerbach.bsky.social @mindywheelerart.bsky.social @jeffdouglasmesser.bsky.social
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This comic has Everything:
✅ Magic battles,
✅ Old-school dungeon crawls,
✅ Catboys,
✅ Mages with anxiety,
✅ Giant crabs with sharks for arms,
Want a rare hand-drawn(!) ink commission by me of your very own??
You can get one as an add-on when you back the physical copy of the new comic I’m drawing, SLEEPING WIZARDS!
It’s the very last option on the add-ons list! (Only 5 slots though so hurry!!)
🧙 www.kickstarter.com/projects/iro...
REMINDER that this comic comes with a TTRPG one-shot if you add it to your pledge!! 🗺️
How many comics have their own tabletop adventure set in the world of the book?? 👀
Back SLEEPING WIZARDS and go have yourself a game night! ⚔️
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Knowing her- you don’t have long
28.02.2026 16:48 — 👍 3 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0This page got me - pledged!
28.02.2026 16:05 — 👍 5 🔁 1 💬 2 📌 0Thank you! You won't be disappointed! 😊
28.02.2026 16:07 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Eliza saying “crimes”
Doodled a smol Eliza during storycon ⚔️
(From Sleeping Wizards, now funding on ks: www.kickstarter.com/projects/iro... )
One of my favorite things about these panels is the star that changes position. Johanna could’ve just shown the passage of time with seasons and Eliza getting older, but the star moving just nails it.
28.02.2026 03:15 — 👍 29 🔁 5 💬 0 📌 0
Somewhere the band Slayer feels satisfied with that number…
Its a great number, but man letz double that baby so Johanna doesn’t sell my kidneys.
A quadrupedal dreamcreature with a cosmic hide and a tentacled head lumbers through the protectorate town surrounding the somnotorium. The runes on the doors are what keeps it from considering entering interesting. However anything not protected by runes is subject to be the playing grounds of the monsters, and the tired citizens are left to patch up the scratches and pick up the rubble the next day.
Being that is it a labyrinth of dream-cast monsters, anything can appear from the depths. Sometimes terrifying and otherworldly-- sometimes ridiculous. An octopus merged with a kelpie and a massive crab with sharks for claws bursts from the giant golden doors. But silly as some might be, they are all one thing: incredibly DANGEROUS.
Locked in the shrine, the wizards sleep, as their dreams plague the waking world. 💤
Parents! Looking to get your budding adventurer into tabletop games? SLEEPING WIZARDS has a fantastic YA story to get them into as a good intro setting everyone will also enjoy! ⚔️
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400! BACKERS!!
Thanks so much, everybody!
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7777! We can't even begin to say how lucky we are to have you all in the dungeon-crawling party!
We're so so close to 50% of backing! Want to help us bump our backer number closer to 500? ⚔️
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