Rylend Grant's 4-Time Ringo-Nominated BANJAX is BACK!
24 days ago
– Mon, Mar 09, 2026 at 02:54:54 PM
Hey Jumpers!
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!
CHECK IT OUT HERE: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/rylendgrant/banjax-sydney-1-by-screenwriter-rylend-grant
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.
GRAB YOUR COPY OF BANJAX: SYDNEY #1 HERE: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/rylendgrant/banjax-sydney-1-by-screenwriter-rylend-grant
Rylend Grant's BANJAX coming to Kickstarter in 1 week!
about 1 month ago
– Mon, Feb 23, 2026 at 02:26:24 PM
Hey all,
Rylend Grant here, creator of great books like Evel Knievel and The Jump. The PRELAUNCH PAGE for my latest and greatest Kickstarter comic is LIVE! My four time Ringo-nominated series BANJAX is back with a vengeance on March 3rd! It would be a HUGE help if you would sign up to be notified when the campaign goes live HERE.
BANJAX: SYDNEY is Jackie Brown meets Gone Girl if it were sexy-as-all-get-out and drenched in the palace intrigue of Succession. Now tell me that doesn't sound cool!
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.
The first BANJAX 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.
This is your chance to pick up the collected edition of that entire Award-winning first run of BANJAX AND the BRAND NEW deluxe FIRST ISSUE of this new stand-alone series, SYDNEY.
Creator Rylend Grant has worked for 15+ years in Hollywood, writing film and television projects for folks like JJ Abrams, Ridley Scott, John Woo, Luc Beson, and Justin Lin. His film STATE OF CONSCIOUSNESS was the #2 movie on Peacock last summer. And his latest film - a collaboration with Matt Dillon and Academy Award-winning Director Fernando Trueba titled HAUNTED HEART - is on streamers now.
Rylend's HALF EVIL COMICS has been publishing Award-winning, face-melting actiontainment since 2018, bringing you Kickstarter hits like THE BREACH, THE JUMP, and EVEL KNIEVEL and comic shop sensations like ABERRANT and SUICIDE JOCKEYS.
We make pretty damn good books at Half Evil comics… and honestly, BANJAX: SYDNEY might be the best of the bunch!
Sign up HERE to be notified when the campaign goes live!
Thanks! I hope all is well with you and yours.
Rylend Grant
48 HRS LEFT to grab Rylend Grant's EVEL KNIEVEL on Kickstarter!
6 months ago
– Tue, Oct 14, 2025 at 05:07:35 PM
Hey friends,
HAPPY LANDINGS!
The Half Evil Comics Team
EVEL KNIEVEL has launched into comics!
7 months ago
– Tue, Sep 16, 2025 at 04:03:16 PM
Hey Everyone!
Our bonkers official EVEL KNIEVELcomics series has launched and funded in 16 hours! If you want to get in on the action of some incredible exclusives make check out the campaign.
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/rylendgrant/evel-knievel-1-from-ringo-award-winner-rylend-grant/
EVEL KNIEVEL is coming to you - comin' in HOT - from Ringo Award-winner Rylend Grant and ELVIRA artist Dave Acosta. It's edited by R.E. Nelson. With covers by Ray-Anthony Height, Flops, Jon Pinto, & Fabio Alves.
YOU'RE NOT GOING TO WANT TO MISS IT! CHECK IT OUT HERE: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/rylendgrant/evel-knievel-1-from-ringo-award-winner-rylend-grant/
Thanks!
The Half Evil Comics Gang
REMINDER: Rylend Grant's EVEL KNIEVEL Launches on MONDAY (9/16)!
7 months ago
– Thu, Sep 11, 2025 at 12:33:05 PM
Hey all,
Just a friendly reminder that the campaign for Issue 1 of our bonkers official EVEL KNIEVEL comics series launches THIS COING MONDAY (9/16) right here on Kickstarter!
It'd be a HUGE help if you'd sign up for launch notifications here: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/rylendgrant/evel-knievel-1-from-ringo-award-winner-rylend-grant/
EVEL KNIEVEL is coming to you - comin' in HOT - from Ringo Award-winner Rylend Grant and ELVIRA artist Dave Acosta. It's edited by R.E. Nelson. With covers by Ray-Anthony Height, Flops, Jon Pinto, & Fabio Alves.
YOU'RE NOT GOING OT WANT TO MISS IT! CHECK IT OUT HERE: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/rylendgrant/evel-knievel-1-from-ringo-award-winner-rylend-grant/
Thanks!
Rylend
