Remarkable: Crowd Funding Website Raises $1 Million for Self-Published Web Comic Book

The author of a self-published webcomic about a band of heroes in a fantasy role-playing world has raised more than $1m (£600,000) from fans on "crowdfunding" website Kickstarter to bring his stories back into print, making The Order of the Stick the richest creative work in the crowdfunding site's history.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2012/feb/22/author-raises-1m-self-publish-webcomic?newsfeed=true