25 Years of Tomorrow Kickstarter Campaign has been funded! :) Lots of signed Ed & Pearl Jam goodies!

demetrios

Just $450 till it reached it's goal. SWEET!!!

demetrios

It's goal has been reached. Ah yeah baby!!

elwayvedder

KS reached!!

cp3iverson

Do u get charged when the goal is reached or when the kickstarter date ends?

leach7

$500 for the album signed by the band and you know 100% it's legit. STEAL. Now how do we get BOOM on there. Lol

elwayvedder

Looks like some more PJ/EV goodies available soon:
From TT's Twitter:
also gonna have some new rewards up in a couple days
WE'RE NOT DONE HERE PEOPLE

scurtis

cp3iverson said:

yeah its almost impossible to get an item (let alone vinyl) signed by all of the guys and know that its authentic. Charity stuff and the rare 10club contests really.

This quote above is what makes the $500 a steal in my opinion.

lexicondevil

on2legs said:

disilluzion said:

I was at the page when they had 10 left, but couldn't pull the trigger on a signed vinyl for $500.

That seems crazy high to me, but maybe that's just me.

I was hesitant on buying Megadeth's new album signed for $75, until I saw how fast they were selling out. Remembering that, this was a definite no for me.

You PJ people are crazy!!!

I don't think $500 is crazy high especially when you have the guarantee of it being genuine since it is coming right from the band. You would pay almost that much on eBay where 90% of autographs are fakes. If I was intent on getting an album autographed this would be the route to go even if you have to pay a little bit more. A genuine album that cost $500 is much better than a fake that costs $400.

This is exactly the conclusion that I came to. There is a small possibility that I might someday get an album autographed in person through a friend of mine who has an in, but that will be a whole other cool thing. The fact that this record has all the signatures and comes with provenance is a huge deal. I will have something that is genuine and will require a frame. It will be a treasured piece of art that I will enjoy. PLUS you get the book. Can't wait to read it.

demetrios

Kickstarter of the Day: ‘This Modern World’ book campaign hits $100K within hours [Q&A]
http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/comic-riffs/wp/2015/07/06/kickstarter-of-the-day-this-modern-world-book-campaign-hits-100k-within-hours-qa/

jweyers

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lexicondevil

I wonder what other PJ possibilities there are? Maybe some Fixer singles signed?

Sarah

All this stuff is super cool and the book seems really interesting. Raise that money!

demetrios

Greetings from the world of Tomorrow
Posted by Tom Tomorrow

Hey all,

Well that was quite the launch.

The first glimmerings of this project came to me in Quebec City, Canada in 2013. I had been invited to be part of the Nation magazine's yearly fundraising cruise, which that year went up the East Coast on a fall leaf-season expedition. I was wandering around QC with my family and stopped in a bookstore, where I saw Taschen's huge two volume Midcentury Advertising set. It was too big to carry with me then, but I ordered it as soon as I got home.

Sometime around Feburary 2014, I realized that 2015 was going to constitute the 25th anniversary of This Modern World. The Taschen book was sitting out in my studio and as I was looking at it one day, something clicked and I suddenly knew exactly what I wanted to do.

But I was going to need help. I've been working for a few years with a company called Topatoco, who mostly specialize in helping webcartoonists merchandise their stuff. They're fantastic people, and they have a spinoff company called Make That Thing, which helps usher incompetent people like myself through the Kickstarter process, start to finish. Now, I've had some good t-shirt sales with Topatoco, but I don't think the last compilation we put out together, WORLD OF TOMORROW, did especially well. Nonetheless, when I pitched the idea of a two volume, thousand page hardcover compilation of every TMW cartoon, they shrugged and said, "Sure."

And so last summer we got to work.

A lot of this was on me, obviously—it took me most of last summer just to get all the work organized. All my digital weekly strips are neatly filed and named, so that was easy enough, but I've done a lot of one-offs for people over the years that had weird names and were stuck in some random sub-sub-sub folder on an old backup drive somewhere—you can imagine how much fun I had sorting all of that out! And my work from 1990 through 2000 was pre-digital (a mixture of xerox, pen and ink, and zip-a-tone, these are the originals some of you have pledged to receive), and a significant number of these didn't even have dates on them. So I had to sort them out, make my best guess as to when they ran, mostly by cross-checking with my old books—but I had this dumb habit of trying to sequence the cartoons in those books to emphasize readability rather than chronology, so those were all out of order as well. And then there's the further complication that I would do work for someplace like The Nation in a format to fit their page, and then re-format the cartoon and use it as vacation backup for my weekly syndicated strip, meaning that the same cartoon might have appeared in different places years apart—and there were at least a dozen of these duplicates scattered throughout the book as it began to come together, that I had to track down! I'm still not 100% certain that I got them all.

Anyway it's been a long road with absolutely no certainty that it was ever going to pay off. I spent a lot of time going back and forth with the MTT team on the initial goal to shoot for, because I wanted to cut this thing as close as possible, did not want to risk a failed Kickstarter. The great thing about blowing so far past the initial goal so quickly is that now we've got wiggle room, for unanticipated expenses or cost overruns, which otherwise were simply going to have come out of my pocket. Yep—at $87K, there was still a significant chance this thing was going to cost me money. That's how badly I wanted to make this real.

So this has been a pretty amazing day and a half since we launched, and I thank you all sincerely for embracing this crazy idea I have been working so hard on for so long.

More soon….

Dan

PP193448

Another guitar, or drum head signed by the band, or something else... I want something cool.

elwayvedder

PP193448 said:

Another guitar, or drum head signed by the band, or something else... I want something cool.

Hang in there...

Washed

elwayvedder said:

PP193448 said:

Another guitar, or drum head signed by the band, or something else... I want something cool.

Hang in there...

Time to F5!

PP193448

Ok, Dave. Just release the guitar you backed and I'll jump on it...then you can just back a copy of the book. Your wife can thank me.

elwayvedder

PP193448 said:

Ok, Dave. Just release the guitar you backed and I'll jump on it...then you can just back a copy of the book. Your wife can thank me.

haha, F5ing today won't help so take the day off boys!
Unfortunately it's not my guitar as i'm not that crazy but how much would you contribute for a used and signed microphone by this EV (me)? (not the real EV)? HAHA...I can throw that in there!

Washed

elwayvedder said:

PP193448 said:

Ok, Dave. Just release the guitar you backed and I'll jump on it...then you can just back a copy of the book. Your wife can thank me.

haha, F5ing today won't help so take the day off boys!
Unfortunately it's not my guitar as i'm not that crazy but how much would you contribute for a used and signed microphone by this EV (me)? (not the real EV)? HAHA...I can throw that in there!

For that...how about a hug and a Coke with your name on it?!?

elwayvedder

Washed said:

elwayvedder said:

PP193448 said:

Ok, Dave. Just release the guitar you backed and I'll jump on it...then you can just back a copy of the book. Your wife can thank me.

haha, F5ing today won't help so take the day off boys!
Unfortunately it's not my guitar as i'm not that crazy but how much would you contribute for a used and signed microphone by this EV (me)? (not the real EV)? HAHA...I can throw that in there!

For that...how about a hug and a Coke with your name on it?!?

I will take the hug. I don't drink soda if possible!