The True Bible Church! comic zine project uses the mass-promotional methods of Evangelical Christianity to stage a new kind of global graffiti—a graffiti that isn’t about defacing property but still questions authority and infiltrates public spaces.

From the heart of Bible Belt U-S-A, we’re using Kickstarter as a vehicle for distributing faux religious tracts around the world. These 20-page zines look like the Evangelical cartoons of the old-school Chick publishing empire, yet each satirizes contradictions in Christian thought and behavior. The first three are illustrated and ready for the printer:

No. 1 tackles the epic battle between science and religion!

No. 2 unearths the REAL reason religious leaders believe the Bible to be literally true!

And No. 3 exposes the most secret contradiction within Christian doctrine … the shocking way that Jesus actually failed!

A sample page from tract No. 3!

Our project is different from other artist Kickstarter campaigns!

This is an art project, and Kickstarter is our medium. Just like other artists use oil paint or video to make their work, we see Kickstarter—and the crowdsourcing it facilitates—as a method for art production. Many people launch Kickstarter campaigns to develop future projects. And that’s great! But for us, the Kickstarter campaign IS the project. Kickstarter helps us create a network for distributing these pamphlets around the world. By supporting this project, YOU become part of the artwork.

A sample page from tract No. 2.

The True Bible Church project has two phases!

Phase 1: You support our publishing costs and we mail you copies of all three tracts.



Phase 2: You join the TBC! distribution network.

For our project to work, we need pamphlets in every city, town, and village on the planet. We need them lying around just like regular religious tracts. We want to convert the unsuspecting!

Pledge at the “Missionary” level or higher and you’ll receive a stack of pamphlets. Then let loose your inner prankster and start disseminating! Be creative! Leave them in truck stops and churches, in coffee shops and geocaches. Slip one in a hotel-room Gideon Bible, And then let us know.

A map on our Web site allows you to track where you’ve left the booklets and follow fellow TBC! believers. The most creative placements and postings get special mention on the site.

Wow, you have a lot of rewards! Aren’t you giving away too much stuff?

We’re so glad you noticed! True Bible Church! wants to give you a lot of stuff! Many projects have to keep physical rewards to a minimum, because they need their Kickstarter funds for other uses.

But our rewards ARE the project! We need our pamphlets out in the world! We want people wearing our pins and t-shirts. We want our stickers everywhere! We hope you do, too. So we try to pack as much as we possibly can into each reward level.

Reward Levels:

Want extra pamphlets?: Just add $34 for each additional deluxe distribution pack you’d like to receive. (Maximum of 10 per person.)

Extra t-shirt?: Want two shirt designs or even three? A matching one for your Satanic twin? Add $20 onto any pledge for each additional shirt.

What if I want to support the project but 1) don’t have time or the ability to distribute pamphlets myself or 2) want to help get pamphlets distributed in parts of the world where I don’t live?

Back the project at any level, and we give you the option to have some or all of your pamphlet packs shipped to agents in the field for distribution across the world.

You will be able to choose this option at the end of our Kickstarter when we send out a survey to collect information such as your shipping address, t-shirt size, etc. You can then decide what portion of your pamphlets, if any, you want to contribute to the wider distribution network. (The rest of the rewards at your contribution level will still be shipped to you.)

This also means that if you fund at any level, we also will give you the option to become an agent in the field to distribute packs paid for by anonymous benefactors.

There is no fat on our budget!

We spent weeks getting quotes from printers around the word to get the very best deal for our printing costs. As it turned out, we found our printer right here in Missouri. That means we can pick up the pamphlets ourselves and eliminate those shipping costs. We researched the best way to package the booklets, so we already know exactly how much it will cost to ship each of our rewards. We REALLY want this project to go, and have worked out the leanest, cleanest budget possible.





Booklet printing: $2,293

Shipping supplies (boxes, envelopes, etc.): $230

Shipping: $645

Materials and printing costs for producing other rewards: $287

Kickstarter fees: $345



TOTAL BUDGET: $3,800