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What is up everybody and welcome to the
United States Department of Nerds where we
are for the people, by the people,
and of the people.
Today we have a returning creator who
doesn't just make comics.
He builds them with intention.
Every panel, every page, every decision.
And now it's go time.
The Kickstarter for the Diary of Sweet Pea
is officially live.
So we brought him back.
to talk about the campaign the story and
why this is the moment to jump in
on the diary of sweet p the council
of nerds is now in session aleem welcome
back to the usdm my friend i appreciate
you man thanks for having me back oh
we knew this was happening months months
ago we were like gotta bring you back
when it goes live so welcome you back
And we'll dive in man.
So the Kickstarter is live.
Yes, sir.
How does it feel for it to finally
be live?
It's overdue.
I'm happy that is here.
Um, I've been, uh,
I kind of dread Kickstarters cause
they're,
they're an emotional rollercoaster,
but this one's pretty good.
Good.
Yeah.
You're off to a great start, man.
I mean, you're what?
Three quarters of the way there almost.
Yup.
Just this past Wednesday at seven PM.
So not even a full two days,
making pretty good progress.
Dude, that's legit, man.
I always look,
I'm always happy to see when, you know,
they start and then they just power
through right through within a couple of,
you know, days they're done.
Now, um,
I mean,
I was going to ask you how the
response has been so far.
But I mean,
if you're looking at the numbers,
that response is pretty good for just a
couple of days in.
Yeah.
Twenty nine backers.
That's been that's been amazing.
You know, like I think, you know,
like I guess like this certainly have
helped the whole lot just out there and
trying to get out in front of the
people and let them know.
And the response is is there.
We'll see what happens over the next
twenty eight some odd days.
And hopefully, you know,
that number gets a zero behind it.
I have no doubts.
I have no doubts that it'll get there,
man.
This is for number three,
but issues one and two are still available
on this campaign as well.
What has been the reactions so far that
you've got?
Have you been getting messages or
know people reaching out and just uh be
like hey i cited the third one is
here yeah it's been a few people come
back happy to see that it's coming i've
been um it's been in promotion for such
a long time now due to me uh
taking a break to work on other projects
and things like that i think people are
happy to finally see it to come to
lunch and we're getting back to our home
base and taking care of the things we
need to take care of for our people
Dude, I like to see it.
And for those who don't know,
he doesn't just do his own comments.
He also works on other people's stuff as
well.
And that's what he's referring to.
For those wondering why he hasn't just
been working on his own thing,
we got families.
We got to feed them too.
So we did bring up the Kickstarter
homepage,
and we just want to kind of present
what a Kickstarter page looks like.
You can see here, I had it saved,
of course,
because I think I saved it as soon
as I got the link.
It gives you that reminder to say, hey,
you have this saved.
And it will remind you,
like when this went live,
I immediately got the notification, hey,
Aleem just kicked off the Diary of a
Sweet Pea.
Cool.
And it literally I think you can get
text alerts and get email alerts.
You can get all kinds of alerts.
However you want your alerts.
You can get them up for email,
of course, because I don't know.
I'm just a glutton or I'm old school
like that.
I like to get my my emails organized
and everything.
It's the best way to keep me organized
is through email.
But yeah,
so if you want to back the project,
you would just hit back the project and
then but you can also you can scroll
through and it tells you the story of
the comic book.
It tells you some of Aleem's work.
And it gives you the overview.
Yeah,
get a brief introduction to the
characters, look at the interior pages.
And of course,
all the different rewards that we have
some exciting stuff down there inside of
the award section,
including Marvel artists,
things like that,
that came on board to be a part
of the project,
whether it be for a cover,
or to make some custom work for
potentially for backers as well.
Which, I mean, this is really cool.
And the stretch goals aren't too bad.
So early on,
so you've already hit the mobile
wallpapers, see?
Yep,
that was in a combination between the
followers and backers.
I combined those two numbers together so
we can get them.
Because the goal is I want to be
able to give people as much as possible.
And these digital rewards are an easy way
to do that.
So it's just a nice little incentive.
The more backers,
even if people are only putting a dollar
in there, it adds to the back account.
And then I'm able to then unlock these
rewards for people along with the things
that they purchase.
And then you have the early bird specials,
which if you were smart,
you would jump in on the early bird
specials and get in on some of these,
you know, five dollars off,
ten dollars off, fifteen dollars off.
I think we went over that last time.
That sketch cover,
that's for the artists that love to put
their own little flair on things.
So there,
if you want to have Imani fighting
Godzilla, you can do that.
You just draw it up and throw it
in.
And this is probably my favorite cover
right here.
Oh, yeah.
Yeah, I love that cover.
And that's the holochrome that you stopped
on now.
So that's going to be like a foil
print.
It's going to sparkle.
It's going to be amazing.
Yeah, the first time I got that cover,
I knew.
I was like,
that's the cover I'm getting right there.
We got some completionists.
Yeah.
So that's like an a la carte,
but at a, at a deep discount.
So it's a limited sale because it's,
it's a, it's very, very,
very little profit inside of there.
Yeah.
The few people that want to get everything
all in one go is there for you.
And it brings, you know, the,
the price overall down significantly.
Yeah.
Some add-ons, some posters,
there's even some trading cards.
Yeah.
The team right here, man.
Yeah,
it's the dream team to make it happen.
Then Mike down there looking like a total
goofball that he is.
Money Mike.
Exactly, dude.
And for anybody who's wondering why we're
not making fun of Mike,
although Mike is really easy to make fun
of,
the dude's mind for comic books is top
tier.
If you go back and watch my episode
with Mike,
like it is a master class of comic
book storytelling, writing Kickstarters,
you name it, we discussed it.
And
It's all there.
It was such a freaking amazing episode.
And that's how I ended up meeting Aleem
here.
That's how we had both Mike and Aleem
on at the same time.
But now Aleem is back soloing it so
we can kick off this Kickstarter the right
way.
And I'm going to take that off the
screen so we can keep on going.
diving through this Kickstarter, man.
So if someone backs today,
what kind of journey are they stepping
into with Imani?
So the benefit of backing today is you
have access to two previous issues.
So that's close to almost ninety pages of
content for you to read through now.
And then we have one more after that
that'll bring us to the completion of that
introductory arc.
So it's a good time to get in
because most of the journey in this
introduction is behind us,
and you only have one more to wait
for.
And as we've gone through from issue to
issue,
we started off good and we've gotten up
to a level of, I wanna say, great.
We're still searching for that perfection.
Yeah.
Well,
we always going to be searching for that.
We've come a long way.
This is definitely a good time to jump
in, I believe.
So at the core of Sweet Pea is
grief, memory, and power.
How does that evolve across these first
three issues with Imani and her
discovering her powers herself and kind of
who she is?
Yeah, so for those that are new,
first time hearing from me or about this
project,
Imani is a young fourteen-year-old girl in
Philadelphia that's trying to survive an
alien invasion.
Now,
these aliens have unlocked this dormant
cosmic energy.
They go from dimension to dimension,
creating this catalyst event that
unleashes this energy that they then
harvest and leave the dimension as a husk
and move on.
But for the first time,
sentient life is absorbing that energy.
And Amani has an extremely high absorption
rate.
She's unaware that she's been empowered,
but she is one of the few humans
that develop these powers.
Her powers work subconsciously,
and they sort of affect reality in a
way where what she thinks becomes a
constructed thing.
Now,
this affects her in ways that she can't
always tell reality from her imagination
after she even becomes aware that this is
a thing that's happening to her.
And this also makes her a person of
interest for multiple other groups inside
of the story that all are trying to
get to the bottom of what's happening or
stop what's happening to our planet.
So.
so yeah you just you just hit the
big point right there is that it is
a story on a large level about the
aliens but the story focuses on amani's
journey during the alien invasion which is
really cool almost like um a quiet place
if people need something to reference it
to which i haven't even seen a quiet
place to be fair to everybody out there
i have never seen a single one of
them
some of them were all right quiet places
was okay yeah i mean i've heard they
were good i just i it's having time
to like sit down and actually watch it
so yeah but let's talk a little bit
more about amani's powers and her
abilities they're not just powerful
they're dangerous how does the escalation
play out as this story progresses
Well,
like I said- Without giving too much away,
of course.
Yeah, like I said, Imani has,
it's a subconscious activation.
She hasn't figured out how to willingly
control her powers yet.
So when she's dealing with things like
regret or high levels of grief or
emotional trauma,
they may manifest in a way that is
a hindrance to her.
But also when she may just need protection
at that time,
they can also manifest in a way that's
going to protect her and keep her safe
as well.
So until she learns to control it,
it's both a help and a hindrance to
her.
So at what point in this story,
or yeah,
so when does this shift from a personal
story to something much bigger in the
grand scheme?
Well,
issue one is strictly character-driven.
Issue two,
we opened up the world a little bit,
introduced new groups and everything like
that.
And as we introduced those groups in issue
three,
I made the decision to take it a
step away from just being a peek into
this young girl's diary of survival into
the different factions so that you can get
a look at what these other people are
doing outside of their interactions with
Imani.
That was the original goal.
to just have it all be you know
just strictly character driven but i but
there's so much else going on inside of
the world that i don't want it to
just be people popping out of the the
woodworks and falling down through the
ceiling into the book and then
disappearing again because we're only
following amadi so now we're starting to
get a glimpse of what's going on with
with uh fido fighters in defense of
humanity as well as the razoas which are
the ancient enemies of the invading force
on planet earth
love it dude so much cool little
backstories there man so much going on i
i love it and i always love both
to have like the primary story and then
like a secondary story and then they got
this tertiary thing going on in the
background and it's one of those where
the writer could easily lose track of what
they're doing if they're not careful.
And I love to see that you have
it on point with all that.
I made that adjustment.
I didn't want to lose track.
I didn't want to lose the reader.
There's some important things that happen
that Imani may not necessarily have any
information on or be aware of,
but it's important because it affects her
and it affects the story.
So we just want to make sure that
we get everything in there, you know,
while not losing our central focus.
But it's so important as you're writing
people to keep a notebook full of notes
about your own story.
So you yourself don't get lost in your
own sauce when it comes to writing
stories.
Because it will happen.
It doesn't matter who the writer is.
It will happen if you're not paying
attention to it.
So that's why you see my man with
all the notebooks in the background.
All kinds of those things.
I got tons of outlines,
character designs and all kinds of stuff
that's out of here.
Oh, dude.
Yeah,
it's one of those like I've seen some
people and they have like
bookshelf just full of like scripts and
just notes on their stuff, stuff they,
they will probably never even like publish
or see the light of day.
And I'm just like, dude,
there's just so much sitting there.
And then you, you,
you think to yourself like,
There's a lot of legendary artists and
writers out there who have that same type
of wall or bots of just notes and
storylines that will never see the light
of day.
They will never be published,
but they could be the next big thing.
Easily, yeah.
But let's talk about some more of the
Kickstarter and...
So you definitely believe or a person who
believes that every panel counts as we had
discussed in your first visit to the USDN.
How does Kickstarter help you protect that
level of creative control?
Well, um, I'm in full control of,
of the campaign.
I was able to,
I was able to build that myself.
I don't have to compromise through, uh,
any kind of partnerships or censorship or
anything like that.
Besides my own morality is the only filter
that I have to deal with,
which is high.
So, you know, um,
I do censor myself a bit, but, yeah,
I mean, it's all me.
It's all my choices.
I don't have an editor besides Mike,
who's a very challenging editor,
by the way, but in a good way.
But I don't have somebody telling me,
you know,
we need to fit this agenda inside of
here or we need to add this target
to this demographic or whatever.
I'm just telling the story the best way
that I know how in hopes that it
resonates with somebody out there.
Oh, a hundred percent.
A hundred percent.
And Mike's probably one of the,
I don't like to toot Mike's horn too
much because the boy's got an ego on
him, but he's a damn good editor.
Like, yeah, absolutely.
If anybody out there needs an editor,
I would highly,
highly recommend Mike to anybody.
And he's just good about keeping people on
the point that they need to be on.
Yep.
He knows this stuff and he's good.
If you listen to him, man,
he has some really good advice for how
to improve your own writing process as
well.
Oh, a hundred percent.
And like I said earlier,
my episode with him,
I consider a master class of writing and
editing and that kind of stuff.
So, but yeah,
What does backing this campaign allow you
to do that a traditional route might
limit,
such as if you were being published by
Dark Horse or Dynamite or Boom or whoever
image?
Well, for me,
it just releases constraints.
Besides the percentage that Kickstarter
takes for the overall campaign,
I determined the pricing based on the
expenses of creating the book and then,
and then going on to print and ship
the book out.
You know,
I determine how much I can print and
things like that.
There's a lot of there's a lot of,
you know,
red tape that you have to go through
when you get one of those guys.
And I get to go move at my
own pace.
I don't want to make a book and
then not have a follow up book the
next month.
If we're talking about dealing with one of
those guys, yeah,
able to do that right now.
So for me,
there's the hardworking guy that's trying
to do this to the best of his
ability.
Kickstarter is perfect because it allows
me to move at my own pace and
engage directly with the public at large.
That's the key right there, isn't it?
Yep.
And it's not just being like, I mean,
y'all seen how well his Kickstarter page
was organized.
I mean,
it's one of the better ones because you
can see some Kickstarter like front pages
that are just a hot, hot mess.
But that way it's very well laid out.
It's very well organized the way it should
be.
It's easy to, to go through and to,
and it's,
it's a very well put together campaign,
which I always, always enjoy seeing.
I don't have to,
you don't have to dig through a mess
to find what you're looking for in there.
Cause when I, when I do back, uh,
individuals and projects on Kickstarter,
It's one of those where I'm looking for
that.
I'm looking for key gains.
I want to see who worked on the
book.
I want to see if it hits certain
goals.
Stretch goals,
I'm not doing it for stretch goals or
for freebies.
I'm doing it because I legitimately
believe in the project.
That's why I'm going to be backing it.
But it's one of those where you have
a curiosity checklist in your head like
everybody else.
And so when you go to go to
a Kickstarter page,
you're expecting it to hit certain check
marks in your own head.
And that's what you're looking for.
Is it clean?
Is it well put together?
Can you see who's working on the book?
Can you see, you know,
the just the interior pages and things?
Yeah.
Just is there a cool little video?
Cause that's a big thing now is you
have to have at least some type of
video that
of the comic book kind of come into
life so to speak right you know and
giving you some some i don't want to
say spoilers because spoilers i don't i
don't believe in spoilers but you know
just a little bit of a taste of
what what you're doing you know and it's
that's one of those where and those things
aren't cheap to make unless you know how
to do it yourself which you know if
you do then hey you'll shoot me a
message in because i want to know how
to do it myself too
But yeah,
and that's a big thing with Kickstarters
is make sure it's organized.
Make sure it tells the story of your
project and you and the project.
So for people watching right now and
listening later,
what do backers actually get when they
support Sweet Pea?
Well, we have a lot going on.
So you can get a digital copy or
all the digital copies of issues one
through three, if that's what you prefer.
We also have physical copies available,
of course.
Um, for the, for the new issue,
we have four covers.
We have our standard cover by our interior
artist, Yusef Shitu.
If you want to count the sketch covered
and we have that available as well.
That's what I mentioned before,
where you get to basically do your own
thing with it and flesh your own artistic
talent or just scribble, tag it up,
which we know what a, uh,
what a perfect marker, if you want,
it's up to you.
Yeah.
And we have J. Travis Smith,
the IDW artist, Second Sight Publishing,
and a long list of others who did
a cover as well.
Mark McKenna did a cover.
He's a long-time Marvel artist since,
I believe, in nineteen eighty five.
He's worked with DC and a couple of
other people.
long,
long list of titles that he's worked on.
And now you can add the Diary of
Sweet Pea to that as well.
Then we also have posters.
We have some trading cards,
which is our first time printing those
out,
just to get the character on front and
then some trivia and information about
that character on the back of the cards.
And then like inside of the stretch goals
is bookmarks and other things like that.
But what I wanted to try to do
was because the cost of shipping, I mean,
that's not shipping, well,
actually that too,
but the cost has gone up significantly.
So we starting off with a very low
goal,
only a thousand dollars and the quality of
the book is pretty standard.
But as we climb in the stretch goals,
the monetary stretch goals,
then the quality of the book also
improves.
so it's not just me taking the money
it's me taking less but i'm getting a
little bit more in return so the cover
goes up to a a thicker cover that's
a little less floppy
The interior pages also get a higher
quality.
Everything's getting like a nice build to
it.
All kinds of stuff.
It's just a thank you for the level
of success that I'm hoping for.
But either way, you know,
as long as I can get the print
the book out, I'm happy.
And I want to be pleased when they
get the book in their hands.
And I don't think people really realize
that or maybe they don't pay attention to
the different.
comic books on their shelf at their local
comic shop there's different card stocks
that are used for the covers there's
different types of like weights of paper
that are used on the interiors and it
determines really the overall quality of
the book and the longevity that that book
will last and so and like he was
saying
the more support he gets the better paper
quality that he can eventually when he
goes to print the book print on yes
so if you want a a better quality
book make sure you give some support if
you're going to be back in the book
because that's really at the end of the
day what is being paid for at the
end of the day is that the paper
quality and then they're going to hit you
with the shipping because that's the two
heaviest, hidden,
most expensive things that any comic book
artist or creator is going to deal with.
Shipping costs, paper.
It's not gotten any cheaper.
yeah i mean it's not like printing on
toilet tissue if i just meet the minimum
funding goal or anything yeah what i mean
but it's just like a more luxurious feel
as we go up in the levels and
everything like that so yeah yeah man
think of it as a difference of a
magazine quality page versus a newspaper
quality page right right exactly so i know
i know um who is it i think
it's mad cave
that does almost like a newspaper stock
paper.
But it's cool.
It feels cool to me.
I dig it because it reminds me of
the old school newspapers from when I was
a kid.
If we ended up doing that,
you're still going to get a quality book.
The page turns are still going to be
nice.
Everything's going to feel good inside of
your hands.
It's not like you've got to
Use tweezers so you don't rip the page
or anything like that.
And you know what I love about it
too?
I love the sound that each different type
of paper makes when you turn it.
Each weight,
each everything just has a different feel
to the page.
The sound it makes when you're turning it
over
Yeah, dude, to me, I don't know.
I'm just I'm a nerd when it comes
to like it's the little things about a
book that make a book like in the
sounds, the paper makes the smell,
the paper has all that stuff.
It is turning the page, man.
I still prefer having a book inside of
my hands over slide.
A hundred percent.
A hundred percent.
A hundred percent.
because you get the full experience,
you know,
when you're holding it and you can smell
the pages and you turn the page and
it makes a special sound.
I might read after this.
So I know we went through the page
earlier.
Is there anything extra or anything like
special that if they jump in early,
I know I showed it earlier,
but let's do that again.
I mean,
I'm not sure when we going to, uh,
are we live now or are we doing
it?
Uh, Oh, we always live.
All right.
Well then, yeah, if you jumped in,
if you jumped in right now and you
got until midnight to take advantage of
the early bird cells,
those are still available right now.
So, uh, the, the,
the PDF digital is five dollars off that
brings that down to five dollars.
the covers are all five dollars off that
brings the standard down to ten and that
brings the variant covers down i believe
to ten and fifteen and that collector's
bundle is the uh sorry not collector
completionist bundle is the one that i
want people to really take a look at
because you get in five books issue one
and two and all the covers for issue
for issue three you're getting three
posters two stickers
and uh the two trading cards early bird
that's only that's down to sixty dollars
now mind you after the early bird special
each book is fifteen dollars by itself so
you can imagine this is going to be
this is a huge sale it's the time
to jump in right now yeah which is
probably what i'm going to do when we
finish up here is jump in and get
in on it
Cause I need to ask you is one
and two.
Oh yeah.
Please take advantage of the early bird.
They're there.
They're there to help drive forward the,
uh, you know, towards that funding goal,
but they're also there for people to take
advantage of and save a couple of dollars
as well.
Yeah.
I'm all about saving some money.
Kids in college, man.
You know what I'm going through?
Yup.
I know it, man.
Yeah.
But so you're building this while also
raising a family.
How does that real life responsibility
show up in not just your work,
but also the amount of work you get
to put out?
Yeah, I mean,
I have to steal time from myself to
be able to follow my passions right now.
You know,
hopefully one day we get a big hit
and it'll allow me to take
at least some of the overtime off of
my plate.
But I steal as much time as possible.
I discovered this during,
this passion during,
The covid twenty twenty.
So I was out on a furlough and
I was able to dedicate all of my
time to it.
And I realized this is genuinely what I
love to do and what I would love
to do with my life.
But for right now, you know,
I have a wife,
five children from a freshman in college
down to a kindergartner.
So there's a lot of responsibility.
Horrible.
Yeah.
Thank you.
So I got some I got some things
outside to take care of.
I ask you to be patient with me.
Hopefully,
you like what I'm doing and you're able
to support it,
which will allow me to be more free
to create more work for you and get
started on some of these other projects as
well.
I love to hear it, dude.
And if y'all haven't seen the video of
him and baby boy kicking off Sweet Pea,
go follow Aleem.
Check that video out because it is
freaking adorable.
I'm just saying.
Yeah, he's great.
I might let him take over as my
marketing lead.
Hey,
you want to hit that thousand dollars?
That's the one.
That's the one right there.
So as this campaign grows,
what are you hoping to unlock next for
Sweet Pea?
Well,
I want to get started immediately on issue
number four.
I also want to get out and see
people again and get back to the
convention scene, that circuit.
Maybe a little bit more local,
start with some small things, but,
you know, shake some hands,
get issue four done so you can have
a complete introduction into this world
that I'm crafting.
And then maybe give you a peek into
some of the other things that I've been
working on.
I'm thinking maybe after issue four,
I drop a graphic novel.
So it's all everything together all at
once.
And I can get back to that again.
And that's a really popular thing to do
right now.
I know a lot of others that do
the same thing.
They'll do four or five books,
maybe even six,
especially if they're on the smaller side.
Like if they're only twenty,
twenty two pages, they'll do like six,
five or six books and then drop a
graphic novel.
Which I enjoy seeing.
I think it's really cool to do that.
Yeah, I would do that.
Only way that I would do that is
if I go in and add some additional
content or something.
So the people that have already purchased
the originals.
And I mean,
like some behind the scenes stuff is cool,
but just a couple of pages here and
there in between issues or in between
moments add to the story.
I like it when they do like when
you get one that has the covers from
the series in it.
Like they're their own individual pages in
the book and then you maybe get some
like character development pages.
I always think those are really cool.
Or just a little bit more description of
certain characters that you may have
caught a glimpse of and you're like, ooh,
I wonder about that character.
He didn't really hit on that too much.
And they give like a character background
on particular characters who...
who may have played a part in the
story,
but may not have gotten a lot of
panel time.
I always think that's really cool to see.
But how big does this story get from
here?
So, I mean, it's a huge world.
It's like I said,
we've got fighters in defense of humanity.
We've got the Bane,
which are the invading alien force.
We have the Rezois,
who are their ancient enemies.
We have the Illuminated,
who are the people who are absorbing that
energy and becoming superpowered.
And then we also have the Sons of
Adam, Last Sons of Adam,
which is like a purist cult that's trying
to maintain power.
their,
what they believe to be humanity and their
human values inside of the world that we
live in.
It's all kinds of stuff going on.
And we've only really focused on the
central figure, who is Imani.
But there's a lot of stories to be
told in here.
And Imani's story is far from done by
the time we get done with this
introduction.
She has a lot of story left.
So there's a lot of ways that we
can go.
Oh, a hundred percent.
I'm here for it, dude.
I mean, you know,
you're always welcome back here to talk
about whatever you want to talk about.
Sure.
So let's talk directly to the audience
right now.
This will be live again on both podcasts
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But if somebody is on the fence right
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The Diary of Sweet Pea is a unique
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It's not really like anything that you've
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I know you've heard that before,
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I'm not the standard of what you've been
used to, a very observant person.
I've made a lot of observations throughout
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a way for people to enjoy.
if you take a chance to win me
i don't think that you'll be disappointed
man it's it's just something that's fun
it's it's exciting and it's surprising i
won't argue it really is i think i've
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