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:
FULFILLMENT UPDATE! DON'T MISS BANJAX!
2 months ago
– Tue, Mar 31, 2026 at 01:49:12 PM
Hey Knievel Fans!
A heads up that we've begun digital fulfillment. We're still putting the finishing touches on the EVEL KNIEVEL #1 issue - that will come later in April - but you will receive most of the rest of your digital rewards this week. Your digital print and ephemera... and any other Half Evil titles you might have added to your order.
ONE BIG THING TO PAY ATTENTION TO:
FAN CLUB MEMBERSHIP CARD/CERTIFICATE SURVEYS ARE COMING TODAY!
We need some info from you to complete your Evel Knievel Brass Balls Society Fan Club packs. You should have already received a survey invitation from Kickstarter. If it's not there, check your SPAM folder.
We just need you to click on that link, fill out the form, and let us know exactly how you'd like your name to appear on your membership card and certificate.
Pay special attention to the spelling cause we will follow it exactly. Anything goes on these, so have fun with it if it suits you.
Fill those out and we'll get the digital files to you ASAP. The printed stuff will obviously come with your books.
Also...
DON'T MISS OUT ON BANJAX!
Our latest/greatest comic book effort - the 4-time Ringo-nominated/comic shop darling series BANJAX: SYDNEY - is available now RIGHT HERE ON KICKSTARTER for just 9 more days.
Don't miss your chance to grab this one. It might be the best book we've ever done.
Rylend Grant's 4-Time Ringo-Nominated BANJAX is LIVE here on KS!
3 months ago
– Thu, Mar 12, 2026 at 05:33:55 PM
Hey Evel Fans!
I just wanted to give you a heads up that my 4-time Ringo-nominated/comic shop darling series BANJAX is BACK after a long layoff. The campaign for the brand new first issue of the stand-alone 2nd series is available now RIGHT HERE ON KICKSTARTER!
The first series - published by Action Lab: Danger Zone in 2019 - made over a dozen critic's ten-best lists was nominated for FOUR Mike Weiringo Comic Book Industry Awards, including BEST SERIES alongside Bitter Root and Something's Killing the Children.
Ten years before the original BANJAX series, a brilliant minor league con woman - SYDNEY - hustles her way into the harem of the Prince of Brunei. Before she can make her intended score, a mysterious major league power player steps from the shadows and makes Syd a pawn in his decidedly wicked political extortion plot. With her life firmly on the line, our anti-heroine must pull the biggest, ugliest, most insane con of her life – outmaneuvering cops, assassins, and rival grifters - to escape a gilded cage on fire. INSPIRED BY TRUE EVENTS.
FROM RYLEND: I’m a screenwriter by trade. For 15+ I’ve made my living writing smart psychological thrillers for directors like JJ Abrams, Ridley Scott, Justin Lin, John Woo, Luc Besson, and F. Gary Gray, so I can’t help but think of things in cinematic terms. BANJAX: SYDNEY is Jackie Brown meets Gone Girl if it were sexy-as-all-get-out and drenched in the palace intrigue of Succession.
Progress Report + BANJAX IS BACK!
3 months ago
– Wed, Mar 04, 2026 at 11:56:19 AM
Hello Knievel Fans!
I wanted to pop in and give you a quick campaign update. Production on the book is continuing at a steady clip. The Issue is looking beautiful/coming together quite nicely and we're having a BLAST doing it.
We are on schedule to have the book finished by the end of March as originally promised. The rub is, we're experiencing some slowdowns on the manufacturing end with our pins, posters, certificates and the like.
It is looking currently as though we will be able to get you all of the digital items by the end of March (including the EVEL KNIEVEL #1 PDF), but that physical items might not ship until sometime in April.
I know this will disappoint some of you, but it is the nature of these things and is very common on Kickstarter. Remember, this is a PREORDER PLATFORM. Nothing is made before if goes up for sale here. We design and market the best products we can and then we are unfortunately then at the mercy of about a dozen printers and factories to deliver us our products int he agreed upon time frame... and that doesn't always work out like we want it to.
In any case, you will have your items soon. They will be of very high quality. And I am always here other than answer any and all questions you might have about how things are going and when they'll be delivered.
So, digital items heading your way soon AND DON'T FORGET...
My hit series BANJAX IS BACK/coming here to Kickstarter on March 9th! Series 1 made over a dozen critics ten best lists and was nominated for FOUR Ringo Awards including BEST SERIES along side BITTER ROOT and SOMETHING'S KILLING THE CHILDREN. Trust me, you DO NOT want to miss this brand-new stand-alone Series 2! CHECK IT OUT HERE!
It would be a HUGE help if you'd head over now and follow our kickstarter pre-launch Kickstarter page. Clicking "Notify me on launch" will help ensure we have the strongest launch possible.
Fulfillment Update
5 months ago
– Fri, Jan 23, 2026 at 05:44:46 PM
Hey all…
I'm getting a lot of questions as everyone gets back to it in this new year, so I thought I'd pop back in here, say hello and let everyone know that books/rewards are still scheduled to ship in March as originally promised.
Just remember that Kickstarter is a preorder engine, so everything is still being manufactured and whatnot. It’s all looking REALLY good though and you’re going to be very happy with what you end up with.
LOOKING AHEAD
There will be two more issues of the Official Evel Knievel Series coming this year. Issue 2 in June and Issue 3 in November. We'll also be releasing a deluxe collected edition of our hit astral projection thriller, THE JUMP, the finale of THE PEACEKEEPERS, and books from my WRITERS BLOCK co-host David Avallone and our Executive Editor R.E. Nelson...
...but something that has us over-the-moon excited is this:
For the uninitiated, BANAJX is a wicked series - from Rylend Grant and the rest of team that brought you EVEL KNIEVEL - that took comic shops by storm a few years back.
BANJAX made over a dozen major ten-best lists and was nominated for FOUR Mike Weiringo Comic Book Industry Awards - including BEST SERIES alongside books like Bitter Root and Something's Killing the Children - and the critics raved:
“This is the most amazingly well done first issue of a series I have ever seen. Point blank. Period… You cannot read this and come out if the same way you went into it… So effin’ good.” (Steven Leitman, Reading with a Flight Ring)
“Holy crap this is good. This book hits all the right notes. It’s marvelously done, such a compelling story. It’s the best comic I’ve read in a long time. Honestly? Bendis could take some notes here.” (ComicCast Podcast)
SURVEYS ARE COMING! One last MEGA-RARE Cover!
6 months ago
– Wed, Dec 03, 2025 at 07:28:51 PM
Hey Evel Fans,
THE BIG DAY IS HERE! Your Backerkit surveys are coming. Some of you will receive them tonight as part of our initial "smoke test" to make sure everything is working properly. Most will receive them tomorrow morning.
The surveys will allow us to gather the info we need from you to eventually deliver all of your goodies. This is how we'll get your mailing addresses. And this is when/how you'll be able to pick the specific variants, pins, and posters you'd like shipped to you.
You'll also be able to add extra EVEL issues and swag if you are so inclined. You can still get art, draw-ins, and photos with Evel. You can still opt-in to have all of your items signed (if you haven't done so yet).
BUT... one of the reasons it took a little longer than usual to send the surveys is because we were drumming up something TRULY EPIC for you. Here's a look at it:
THE EVEL KNIEVEL #1 SNAKE RIVER CANYON TICKET VARIANT
We got together with Krystal Knievel - Evel's wife - and put together the rarest/most collectable Evel comic yet! It's an EDITION OF JUST 25. It is a HOLOGRAPHIC FOIL Evel Knievel #1 Snake River Photo cover with an ACTUAL/ORIGINAL Snake River Canyon Jump CCTV Ticket from 1974 (provided by Krystal/from Evel's personal archives) embedded inside.
These will come signed by me (on the inside cover) if you'd like them to.
They're $100 each. They will first be available exclusively to you/backers of this campaign... We'll open sales to the public after that and then they will be gone. SO GET THEM WHILE YOU CAN!
THE HALF EVIL COMICS LIBRARY
You'll also have the chance to add one of our other wonderful comic book titles to your order during check out....
Rylend's HALF EVIL COMICS has been publishing Award-winning, face-melting actiontainment since 2018, bringing you Kickstarter hits like THE JUMP, THE BREACH, and THE PEACEKEEPERS, and comic shop sensations like ABERRANT, BANJAX, and SUICIDE JOCKEYS.
Half Evil Comics won a Ringo Award. Rylend was nominated for BEST WRITER next to heavyweights like Bendis, Lemire, and Snyder… short and sweet, we make pretty damn good books… give them a look see:
Plese let us know if you have any trouble with the surveys.
