If you want to do more detailed investigation have a look at the Most Funded list on Kickspy:

http://www.kickspy.com/projects/find?Keywords=&Status=1&Categories=2&SortBy=6&SortOrder=2

You can narrow it down so you get the most successful comics who originally had a goal under $5000.

http://www.kickspy.com/projects/find?Keywords=&Status=1&Categories=2&GoalAtMost=5000&SortBy=6&SortOrder=2

You can also look at the statistics of these projects, for example here’s the distribution of the $ raised by those projects

http://www.kickspy.com/stats?Status=1&Categories=2&GoalAtMost=5000#raisedusd

At the end of the day though the biggest factor to success is marketing. If you have a big audience or you can get it yourself then your most likely to be successful on Kickstarter. That’s what almost every crowd funding event I’ve been to stresses.

And in case you haven’t come across it, Tim Ferris has a great breakdown of doing the marketing work:

http://www.fourhourworkweek.com/blog/2012/12/18/hacking-kickstarter-how-to-raise-100000-in-10-days-includes-successful-templates-e-mails-etc/

Cheers
Walter

We’ve actually talked several times before in 2011 when Shot in the Dark Comics was interested in publishing Black Snow: Two Drink Minimum and you were interested in having Alex and I rewrite your script for the comic Brix. Of course ultimately we did not move forward with either project together.

But that is actually all beside the point, as what you are referring to is a search engine result of 3 blog posts from 2011 that were tagged Shot in the Dark Comics. They were tagged as such because they were about our Black Snow relaunch and mentioned the potential deal with your company.

However, tagging a blog post does not imply any kind of affiliation. Much like when I regularly tag posts about Halloween with the name of the holiday it is not implying we own or are affiliated with said holiday.

I take it you are not overly familiar with the way search engines and the internet work. Quite frankly, I can tag my posts whatever I want and I can make pages about whatever I want. If I feel like writing about Marvel, DC or Dark Horse I can. What you are doing is akin to the head of Marvel writing every time someone mentioned their company name and saying “We own that name, you can’t say it.”

When I tagged my blog post I never claimed to own your company name, or have any affiliation, thus there is not actually anything to correct.

I do understand your frustration though. My three blog posts appear to be ranking highly on the first page of Google for the search phrase “Shot in the Dark Comics”. Unfortunately this is because your company has a low web presence and is not search engined optimized. That is actually what I do in my day job when I’m not making comics, help small to mid-sized businesses with their web presence. It is something I could potentially help you with if you are interested.

I hope this clears things up for you, and I wish you all the best.