Jonathan Coulton

Preview: Princess Vs. Giant Bee 'Princess Who Saved Herself'
Preview: Princess Vs. Giant Bee 'Princess Who Saved Herself'
Preview: Princess Vs. Giant Bee 'Princess Who Saved Herself'
Last week, we interviewed Greg Pak and Jonathan Coulton about their new Kickstarter with artist Takeshi Miyazawa. A spin-off of sorts of their 2013 campaign for Code Monkey Save World, this one was meant to bring a children's book adaptation of Coulton's The Princess Who Saved Herself into print. If you remember how that original campaign ended with them reaching almost ten times their original goal --- or if you remember that Coulton is one of the most successful independent musicians around thanks to his extremely loyal fan-base --- it won't surprise you to learn that the campaign already soared $45,000 past its initial goal in its first week; but there's another reason that people are jumping on. The book is already done, and as the eight-page preview we've got below shows, it looks awesome.
Interview: Pak and Coulton on 'The Princess Who Saved Herself'
Interview: Pak and Coulton on 'The Princess Who Saved Herself'
Interview: Pak and Coulton on 'The Princess Who Saved Herself'
Back in 2013, comic book writer Greg Pak, musician Jonathan Coulton and artist Takeshi Miyazawa launched a Kickstarter campaign to fund a comic book adaptation of Coulton's songs called Code Monkey Save World. If you're familiar with Coulton, it probably won't surprise you to learn that the campaign blew through its $39,000 goal in less than twelve hours, and went on to blow through a bunch of stretch goals --- one of which included Pak and Miyazawa producing a children's book based on Coulton's "The Princess Who Saved Herself." If you were a backer (and I was), then you got that children's book today in a digital format, but the team isn't quite done with it yet. They've launched a new Kickstarter with a goal of producing a physical copy of the book, and to find out why, I spoke to Pak and Coulton about the response to their initial campaign, the origin of the project, and what they hope to get out of it.
Greg Pak Talks ‘Code Monkey Save World,’ His New Kickstarter Funded Project With Jonathan Coulton and Takeshi Miyazawa
Greg Pak Talks ‘Code Monkey Save World,’ His New Kickstarter Funded Project With Jonathan Coulton and Takeshi Miyazawa
Greg Pak Talks ‘Code Monkey Save World,’ His New Kickstarter Funded Project With Jonathan Coulton and Takeshi Miyazawa
Yesterday, Greg Pak launched a new comics project called Code Monkey Save World with musician Jonathan Coulton, in which Pak and artist Takeshi Miyazawa take characters from Coulton's songs and put them into a grand supervillain team-up adventure...