Doomsweepers opens comic pop-up shop after five million first-look views – Flying Bark and Lightfold will open a digital pop-up shop for the first Doomsweepers comic on Black Friday, building on the animated project’s rapidly growing online audience.
The Kickstarter store launches on 27 November 2026. Fans will be able to pre-order the debut comic in standard, exclusive and collectible editions, with additional merchandise and fan exclusives planned.
For the Sydney-based Flying Bark, the response gives Doomsweepers a direct path from an online animated first look into comics, games and a potential series. The official video has now passed five million YouTube views, while further audiences have formed across Instagram, TikTok and Discord.
A Kickstarter store rather than traditional crowdfunding
Flying Bark and Lightfold describe the Kickstarter campaign as a digital storefront, not a conventional crowdfunding drive. A notify-me page is already live so fans can receive an alert when orders open.
The comic expands the candy-coloured action-comedy created and directed by writer, director and showrunner Sarah Harper. Her credits include Monkie Kid, Glitch Techs and Rise of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles.
The wider creative group includes Final Space creator Olan Rogers, Matthew Medney and Lightfold co-founder Forrester Kane. Kevin Roditeli and Roditeli Productions, whose crowdfunding work includes SWAT Kats and POSTAL, are also involved.
Sarah Harper responds to the audience
Harper said the scale of the early response had exceeded expectations and strengthened plans to develop the world across several formats.
“The fan reception to Doomsweepers has been pretty mind blowing. Bringing the Doomsweepers story to games, comics and series is wild. It’s rewarding to see there is a dedicated audience out there, hungry for hand-drawn, human-made, passion-led projects.”
Sarah Harper, creator of Doomsweepers
Kane said the comic allowed the collaborators to expand the project without losing its deliberately unruly tone.
“Doomsweepers is pure Lightfold DNA. Fearless storytelling and worlds that refuse to play by the rules. Sarah Harper and the incredible team at Flying Bark have created something weird, hilarious, and completely unhinged, and this comic lets us expand that universe in the voice of the people who brought it to life.”
Forrester Kane, Lightfold co-founder
Watch the Doomsweepers official first look
Fans can register through the public Doomsweepers Kickstarter page. For more Australian television and screen-industry stories, visit TV Central’s Other News section.
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