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Echoes - A One Shot Horror Comic

Created by Wells Thompson

In the early morning hours after the witch is burned, a sole mourner comes to pay their respects to the smoldering stake, only to find that something is lurking in the nearby woods. Think The VVitch meets Annihilation. A 28 page self contained folk horror comic from Wells Thompson, Olga Wieszczyk, and Konnor Knudsen.

Latest Updates from Our Project:

3/4 finished!
3 months ago – Thu, Dec 04, 2025 at 12:10:54 PM

Hello Everyone!


Just a quick update, we're up to 20 fully inked and lettered pages with 8 left until we finish out the book and get ready for design and printing. The book is coming together better than I could have hoped and I'm really excited to share more.



Still on schedule, likely we'll be looking at an early January digital release with printing to follow, but I'll keep you updated as we push onward!

Wells Thompson

Progress Continues!
4 months ago – Wed, Nov 12, 2025 at 11:49:45 AM

Hello Everyone!

Just wanted to drop in with a quick update! Olga has settled into her new apartment and is excited to focus up on getting these pages drawn! She recently sent over five new pages of pencils and I am SO amped for how this story is turning out.


We're going to continue turning out pages and I'll send out another update toward the beginning of December. I know Olga is keen on having everything done before Christmas, but I'm not going to promise anything as of right now!

Hope everyone's doing well and enjoys their Thanksgiving (if in America).

Wells Thompson

Making Comics and Winning Awards
4 months ago – Tue, Oct 21, 2025 at 07:57:50 AM

Hello Everyone!


I wanted to give a brief update, but there's a fair amount to say, so we may be here for a second. Bear with me!

It's been a couple of weeks since the campaign and most of you have filled out your surveys (thank you), but if you haven't, please take the time to do that now! We'll be locking orders this week so we can start distributing digital add-ons, so keep an eye out for that notification and make sure that you have everything you want reward and add-on wise.

As far as Echoes itself goes, Olga has been finding time (somehow) between moving to draw some pages. We're up to page 10 and are cleaning up the lettering on those pages!



Part of the reason I haven't updated the project yet is because I was travelling to Baltimore Comic Con last weekend after getting an unexpected nomination for Best Humor Comic for Smut #1. I debated even going because there was no way in hell a self published comic from a no name creative team would win, but they were gracious enough to give me a free meal and some hours at the signing booth, so I went for it. And then, through a glitch in the matrix I guess, we won?!

The whole experience has been incredibly overwhelming and humbling and we're incredibly grateful that this happened! If you're at all interested in the Smut now that it's an award winner, you can still pick it up as an add on before your pledge gets locked.

Finally, we're in the middle of our next comic campaign for Evelyn the Unconquered, a Bride of Frankenstein one shot over on Kickstarter, and we'd love to have you over there as well! We're tantalizingly 95% funded and just need one adopted page to get us to our funding goal. You can check it out here!



That's all for today, we'll be in touch!
Wells Thompson

Surveys Sent!
5 months ago – Fri, Oct 10, 2025 at 12:35:28 PM

Hello Everyone!

Your Backer Surveys have been sent! Please take a minute to fill those out so we can get accurate counts on everything and be able to send out your comics and items as soon as possible.

Thanks everyone again for supporting us and our comic, Olga has been sending in thumbnails between packing boxes and we'll be providing more updates on pages and panels soon!

Wells Thompson

First we celebrate! Then we get to work!
5 months ago – Tue, Sep 30, 2025 at 05:53:46 PM

Hey Everyone!

Earlier today we not only finished out the campaign with 275 backers and nearly hitting $7000 in funding, but also closed out the Printopia event with every single campaign fully funded! Really excited that we got to be part of this community event and thrilled that we get to bring Echoes to life!

So, here's what's going to happen next:

  1. Over the next two days, your payment methods will be charged and pledges processed. You'll get an email saying it either was accepted or declined and how to fix it. To my knowledge, BackerKit doesn't enforce a time limit on these things like Kickstarter would, but you should still try to fix it sooner rather than later to make sure everything goes smoothly.
  2. I'll be working on your backer surveys sometime next week and they should be sent out by Mid-October. I'll send out another update before they go out so you can keep an eye out for them.
  3. I've directed Olga to start working on the thumbnails for the rest of the comic. Right now she's in the middle of an unexpected move, which she expects will slow things down a little, but I'm fairly confident we'll be within our anticipated timeline. If that changes, I will let you know.
  4. I'm going to take a nap.

Thank you all so much for your support, we did it and that's definitely worthy of celebration! We'll be in touch soon.

Wells Thompson