EVEL KNIEVEL #1 from Ringo Award-Winner Rylend Grant
Created by Rylend Grant
The legendary daredevil makes the death-defying leap into comics. From Half Evil Comics, publisher of THE JUMP and THE BREACH.
Latest Updates from Our Project:
$12K Stretch Goal! WORD BALLOON and WHITE ASH!
5 months ago
– Tue, Sep 23, 2025 at 08:51:05 PM
Hey all,
GREAT NEWS! We blasted past the $12K stretch goal yesterday! I now owe you TWO ephemera pack reveals... the CAESARS PALACE JUMP TICKET and the 1967 CAESARS PALACE POST CARD. Those will be coming later this week. WATCH THIS SPACE! Trust me... THEY ARE FUN and THEY ARE SPECTACULAR!
I was on the WORD BALLOON Podcast with Hall of Fame broadcaster John Siuntres yesterday, talking all things EVEL KNIEVEL. I always have delightful conversations with John and you do not want to miss this one:
One of our very best friends in comics - and one of the very best people in comics - Charlie Stickney - has a campaign going for his hit fantasy romance epic WHITE ASH. It's one of the very best books on this platform and we are extremely excited to recommend it to you:
Welcome to White Ash, a small smudge of a mining town in Western Pennsylvania, where the secrets are buried even deeper than the coal under the mountain. First launched on Kickstarter in 2017 by Charlie Stickney, Conor Hughes and Fin Cramb, White Ash is an ongoing, urban fantasy comic book series that's one of the longest-running and most popular on the platform. If you’re a fan of Supernatural, Twin Peaks or Lord of the Rings, you’re going to love getting to know our mysterious town. With over 700 pages of story and counting, this campaign for the remastered Vol 1 Hardcover and an all-new Lillian story is the perfect time to join us.
I'll check back in ASAP with those Emphemera Pack reveals.
TALK SOON!
Rylend
FUNDED! ONTO STRETCH GOALS!
5 months ago
– Thu, Sep 18, 2025 at 05:00:14 PM
Hey all,
This update is a few days late and I apologize for that... things have just been a little crazy over here at Half Evil/Evel HQ... crazy in a good way, though... that mostly just means we've been busy cooking up more fun for you guys.
Here's some news:
1. WE FUNDED!
Actually... we funded in under 16 hours!
YEA for us! But YEA for YOU too because...
2. WE'RE ONTO STRETCH GOALS!
That means we've started building out our CAESARS PALACE EPHEMERA PACK for you guys!
THE PITCH: You unfortunately can't go back in time and be at Caesars Palace on December 31, 1967 for Evel's historic jump, BUT YOU CAN HAVE ALL THE SWAG!
Artist/designer R.E. Nelson will create this AMAZING ephemera pack - full of tickets, fliers, advertisements and the like - that will spiritually transport you back to 1967. With everything suitable for framing, it's a must have for any real collector/Evel fan.
So, because we hit $7,000, every backer now receives a CAESARS PALACE EVENT TICKET! Reveal coming soon. I'll drop that in an update here once we have a basic design.
At $12,000 - not long... we're at about $10K now - we'll bring every backer something from the 1967 Caesars Palace gift shop... this incredible CAESARS PALACE Postcard (Circa 1967)
Anyway, stay tuned for all of the wicked reveals to come. We'd love to give ou a BIG pile of extras on this campaign.
3. BEARDED COMIC BRO
Editor R.E. Nelson and I were on the BEARDED COMIC BRO YouTube Show earlier this week talking all things Evel! Greg and I have had INCREDIBLE conversations for years and this one doesn't disappoint! Be sure to check it out:
4. A EVEL-SIZED GIVEAWAY?
Jason Bennet from COMICS BODEGA - the finest pop culture site in all the land - is running an AWESOME Rylend Grant/Half Evil Comics/Evel Knievel giveaway that you are absolutely going to want to check out!
And DO NOT sleep on the fact that Jason and his readers recently named me the DMiC (DEADLIEST MAN IN COMICS)???
What and honor! Speaking of honor...
5. RAY-ANTHONY HIEGHT LOVE!!!
One of our absolute best friends in comics is a man named Ray-Anthony Height... Ray has drawn extensively for Marvel and DC and a million other outlets. He also drew that SMOOTH Evel Knievel #1 variant cover so many of you got excited about:
Anyway, Ray has his own Kickstarter campaign going on right now for a book called:
It's one of the very best reads/real deal art bombs on Kickstarter. It's big. It's bad. It's bold. But it's also got heart. It's got soul. It's ABOUT SOMETHING. And you're not going want to miss it:
THANK YOU FOR A GREAT FIRST DAY! Grab additional covers via the ADD-ONS menu!
5 months ago
– Mon, Sep 15, 2025 at 09:31:35 PM
Hey all,
We here at Evel central just wanted to stop in and thank you very sincerely for a wonderful first day!
We are damn near funded a mere 12 hours in and we should be digging into stretch goals and building out our wicked CAESARS PALACE EPHEMERA PACK by morning. Watch this space for more news on that front.
SHOPPING UPDATE
So, more than a few of you messaged us and asked us to do this and we listened! YOU CAN NOW PURCHASE ADDITIONAL COPIES OF EVEL KNIEVEL - ISSUE 1 VIA THE ADD-ONS MENU!
STANDARD COVERS ARE $15
VARIANTS ARE $20
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