©Chris Williams and MIchael Docherty

Recently I received a message from an animator friend of mine via Facebook about a graphic novel he is working on. It’s not really breaking news that an animation artist is working on a graphic novel with hopes for a film adaptation. It’s more of a cliché in Los Angeles for artists to have a day job in the industry and work on their own art projects in their free time. Cliché or not, there is still a lot of inspiring work coming out of the independent scene. The really interesting thing about William’s email was the mechanism he was using to raise funds to see the project through to its fruition.