From a self-produced online animated series to a worldwide global phenomenon, Glitch Productions’ MURDER DRONES is now smashing records on Kickstarter! Pioneering independent animation powerhouse Glitch Productions and groundbreaking comics and graphic novel publisher Oni Press have brought their hugely successful Kickstarter campaign for MURDER DRONES: THE OFFICIAL GRAPHIC NOVEL to a close, raising $1.7 million from over 20,000 backers … and entering the annals of Kickstarter history as the fourth highest grossing and second most backed comic book campaign of all time on the platform.
Funded in under five minutes, this campaign offered up premium, limited-edition items, including slipcased hardcovers—from artists Austin Baechle (Nacelleverse), Andy Duggan (Star Wars: Hyperspace Stories), Moss Lawton (Star Trek: Prodigy), and more—apparel, highly exclusive variant covers, resin-cast prop replicas, and other new rewards for this six-issue comic book series. While the campaign has ended, late pledges are still available for Murder Drones and comic book fans. Fulfillment for the rewards will kick off in November 2026, and digital copies (which are free to everyone who backed a physical reward) will be available once the series is released to comic shops beginning in February 2026.
Adapted from series Liam Vickers’ haunting and hilarious adult animated series, comics writer Wyatt Kennedy (Nights, Marvel United) and illustrator Jo Mi-Gyeong(Eve, Dark Crystal: Age of Resistance) are bringing those visionary eight episodes to the page for Glitch’s first-ever English-language comics collaboration in the form of an all-new, can’t-miss 136-page hardcover graphic novel from Oni Press.
In the far future, a natural disaster has flash-frozen humanity’s remote mining exoplanet, Copper 9. Only now, the “worker drones”—built by humanity and eventually outlived by them—have to rebuild society from the frozen ashes . . . an endeavor complicated by the appearance of “disassembly drones,” vampiric robot counterparts hell-bent on wiping mechanical life from the planet and the unexpected emergence of an unsettling entity known as the “Absolute Solver.”
MURDER DRONES: THE OFFICIAL GRAPHIC NOVEL is just the latest successful Kickstarter campaigns from Oni Press, following CARBON BASED: THE ART OF LEWIS LaROSA, RICK AND MORTY 10th ANNIVERSARY DELUXE OMNIBUS LIBRARY, CULT OF THE LAMB: THE FIRST VERSE, and many more.
ABOUT GLITCH PRODUCTIONS:
Founded in 2017 by brothers Kevin and Luke Lerdwichagul in their Sydney, Australia, garage, Glitch Productions was started with a singular goal: Change the way the West creates teen and young adult animation. The company has grown massively since that beginning, now with six shows under its belt with more coming, and hundreds of millions of global fans. Now, as one of the largest web animation studios in the world, Glitch lives and breathes online content and its shows are expertly crafted to attract large audiences in the online landscape.
ABOUT ONI PRESS:
THE LOUDEST THING IN COLOR SINCE ’97. For nearly 30 years, Oni Press has carved a distinctive path as one of the world’s most respected and acclaimed publishers of award-winning comic books and graphic novels, including Bryan Lee O’Malley’s Scott Pilgrim, Maia Kobabe’s Gender Queer, Cullen Bunn & Brian Hurtt’s The Sixth Gun, Brenna Thummler’s Sheets trilogy, Jay Stephens’ Dwellings, Ezra Clayton Daniels’ Upgrade Soul, LySandra Vuong’s Covenant, and many hundreds more. In 2019, Oni Press merged with Lion Forge Comics – the Eisner Award-winning independent comic book publisher founded by Academy Award-winning producer and entrepreneur David Steward II – to create one of the largest, independent libraries of comics content anywhere in media. The Oni-Lion Forge Publishing Group now exists as a publishing subsidiary of Steward’s diversified global media company, Polarity.
The Oni-Lion Forge Publishing Group publishes more than 60 original and licensed graphic novels annually, in addition to an extensive roster of periodical comics for globally recognized properties including Adventure Time, Biker Mice from Mars, Choose Your Own Adventure, Cult of the Lamb, EC Comics, Murder Drones, Rick and Morty, and more.