Love Dark Horse’s Aliens comics from the 90’s, Seven and Jurassic Park are on your favourite movie list - then ARKS is for you.
Catch up on the series with the full colour comic, containing stunning artwork, a brand new world building story inspired and based on real science, wrapped around a diamond hard sci-fi police procedural set in the Garden of Eden. Adam and Eve meets Alien!
Plus there's a behind the scenes look into the art and science of ARKS, with every issue in the Arks Appendix and our brand new spin off story Proximan - to take you deeper into the ARKS universe!
Latest Updates from Our Project:
SHIPPEDY SHIPPED SHIP SHIPPY!
12 months ago
– Tue, Apr 15, 2025 at 08:36:35 AM
ARKS ISSUE FIVE HAS SHIPPED!
UK readers should receive their books this week with EU, America and the rest of the world later the following.
CSW fulfilment HQ
Heres a bit of Cmd-C & Cmd-V from the last update for people that missed it:
I think this is the best book we've put out to date. It's a 60 page, high finish, full colour, science of Adam and Eve whopper! Praise be to Andrew Morris, James Daly, Jeremiah Lambert and Holly Cameron for all their hard work :)
As we've said in previous updates, we're not returning immediately to Kickstarter with our next book. We sincerely hope to be back later this year with Arks Issue 6 / Proximan #2. In the meantime if you enjoy Arks Issue Five, please let us know. Tell your pals, sign up to our newsletter, follow us on socials and generally be a bore about a cranky sci-fi GFX novel being made above a radiator cabinet showroom in Kings Cross London.
Name in Comic
For the deca-million to the power legends that put 'your name in the comic', you'll find your names 4 pages into the story on the 1st panel.
Your name in the Comic panel
And finally...
We couldn't do this without you
Thank you so much for backing us! When you receive this book you'll realise that Arks Issue Five is a chunky boi. It's more a small graphic novel than a single issue comic. In the future I promise to get better at capitalism and start producing smaller books in a timelier fashion. But until that day- salute :)
Back in a few
Rory
Download Arks Issue Five NOW!
about 1 year ago
– Sat, Apr 05, 2025 at 05:51:43 AM
ARKS ISSUE FIVE DIGITAL REWARDS ARE HERE!
By now all digital backers of Arks Issue Five should have received your backerkit link (please check your junk etc if you can't see it)
I know I always say this but I think it is the best book we've put out to date. It's a 60 page, high finish, full colour, science of Adam and Eve whopper! Praise be to Andrew Morris, James Daly, Jeremiah Lambert and Holly Cameron for all their hard work :)
I'm going to go sit in the sun now until shipping starts on physical copies later next week.
As we've said in previous updates, we're not returning immediately to Kickstarter with our next book. We sincerely hope to be back later this year with Arks Issue 6 / Proximan #2. In the meantime if you enjoy Issue Five, please let us know. Tell your pals, sign up to our newsletter, follow us on socials and generally be a bore about a cranky sci-fi GFX novel being made above a radiator cabinet showroom in Kings Cross London.
Digital Polyptych Panel 7 & 8
Don't forget to download Panel 7 & 8 of the Arks Polyptych + the 1st instalment of the screensaver too!
If some of you receive two download links for the screensavers it's because I am in charge of Backerkit whilst Holly is away. The files are the same in each link ;3
We're booked to do two brilliant events in the UK this year! The absolutely huge London MCM on the weekend of May 23-25 and the absolutely brilliant Thought Bubble on the 15-16th in Harrogate Yorkshire. It doesn't matter how you're wired these are two great events and I strongly advise you to toke it ;)
Arks Volume One & Proximan #1 where also reviewed in the amazing Fortean Timesa few months back. Very chuffed to get a good review by such a big monthly magazine.
I'm going to get sun burnt in Regents Park now.
More soon
Rory
Just look at...
about 1 year ago
– Tue, Mar 25, 2025 at 03:24:46 PM
... your massive pile of comics!
We are nearly ready to ship for the Arks Issue Five Kickstarter. We are very close but...
... MURPHY'S LAW STRIKES!
Frustratingly though Murphys Law has struck as its does when your book is already delayed. We've had a few little hiccups + missed deadlines which has set us back a bit... I am hoping this will only delay us by a few weeks though so people should still start to receive their books both physical and digital in April.
HO-HUM SISYPHUS
Sometimes I feel like i'm a ho-hum sisyphus making their disaster-piece in a dying medium. Other times I feel like i'm connected to the secret truth of the universe and i'm telling a story like no other.
In 2024 I wrote all 8 issues of Arks Proximan with Natalie Malla. This was a personal best for me in the writing department and I never thought I would top it. But in the past 8 weeks whilst finalising the book I have been feeling something. I don't know what it is, it could be the Ley Lines that run underneath old London town or a good old fashioned brain tumour, but I have written a 100 page treatment for the following five Arks Volumes after this storyline is complete.
They existed before as notes and research in a doc. Now they exist as:
Arks Ex Corpi ( 3 issue miniseries)
Arks Trypto ( 8 issue series)
Arks Scry( 8 issue series)
Arks Titaness ( 8 issue series)
ArksAd Corpi ( 3 issue miniseries)
Like future Arks Proximans, each issue will aim to be between 20 and 25 pages long. We'll be making books that are easily produceable in a year, that open up the incredible new planes of existence that our terrifying, time traveling, genre bending network of sci-fi bio-punk horror allows.
Telling you all this now when we are 3 months overdue on our latest book is probably a huge/tiny mistake but I wanted to share it anyway. At our current rate of production it would take 20 years to produce all these books (the rest of my productive life) so we'll need more artists, more publishers, more of everything. More more more. But anyway, it's good to have a goal.
Zeo Niu is an absolute sweet heart and her latest Kickstarter is incredible! And when Allen Ginsberg likes it you know it must be fire!
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Holy S**T
about 1 year ago
– Thu, Feb 20, 2025 at 06:51:07 AM
Holy S**t it's nearly done!
Artwork on issue 5 is complete (just a bit of snagging to do)!
Pages sent to our letterer
Appendix pages are complete
Polyptychs off to the printers
Reprints of Volume One, Issue 4 & Proximan all at the printers
Pre-order store is open for anyone that missed the campaign here
And with a fair wind the digital rewards will be with you late March with the comics dropping through your letterbox in April (printing snafus aside :)
IT'S CHARGING!
Which means, a little heads up, we will be charging cards for shipping this week. As the book is bigger than we'd planned, we're expecting that the postage calculations we made pre print will be out, but that's just the way that cookie crumbles for us on this occasion and we'll take that hit. We'd rather you all had a bumper comic than not!
Circumnavigate
We're also going to be sending out a bi monthly newsletter, which will draw on some news included in our updates, as well as other topics. It'll also allow us to continue conversations with fans that aren't on Kickstarter and try and circumnavigate the algorithms on social platforms which are tricky spaces to get any cut through.
Which will be particularly important for us as we try and increase the noise around Arks amongst, sci-fi fans, syn bio, science and all things future fans. More on that to follow!
Arks Appendix sneaky peeky
And as a little reward for getting to the bottom of the update here is page 2 of 5 for the Arks Issue Five Appendix!
Thanks so much everyone, more soon!
Holly & Rory
Can't stop what's coming*
about 1 year ago
– Sat, Jan 25, 2025 at 10:56:51 AM
To borrow a line from one of my favourite movies;
'Can't stop what's coming'*
We're 9 pages away from art complete on Arks Issue Five. It's later than we intended but it's also bigger and better than intended, coming in at a whooping 60 pages ( 3 x the the size of a conventional comic book) with a huge 5 page appendix as a little thank you / sweetener for our later than planned delivery.
Arks Issue Five Completed pages
We hope to begin shipping in March so Arks Issue Five should be dropping through letterboxes this April.
We won't be immediately returning with a Kickstarter for Arks Issue Six / Proximan #2 but we will be beginning production on them this year. When we return with these books they will be closer to completion to help avoid delays.
5 page Arks Appendix added!
As mentioned above Arks Issue Five will have a five page Arks Appendix. I wrote an insane amount of lore for the Shitty Grandchildren and the War of Light stretch goal and it occurred to me that as the book would land in the no-mans land between 52 / 56 inside pages, that this was a perfect opportunity to include all the lore with out having to do any pesky editing. Giving you maximal sci-fi lore goodness for your Kickstarter buck.
The appendix has gone from 1 page to 5!
10 BACKERKIT SURVEYS TO GO!
And to round us out, a little housekeeping - we just have 10 people who haven't let us know where to send their comics. We will be locking orders in the next two weeks and shortly after charging cards for shipping. So to make any last minute changes/or check if you're one of the 10 click - YOUR SURVEY
And that's it for now guys. Thanks so much
Rory & Holly
*This line is from what movie? Answer in comments :)
