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Professor Patrick Hickey

Patrick Hickey, English Lecturer, 
Raised $7,500 for Comic Book Company

Patrick Hickey, KCC English lecturer, and business partner John Svedese raised over $7,500 for their comic book company, Legacy Comix, which launched in November 2021. With a planned six-comic run on the table, they knew they needed funds to make it happen. The two created a Kickstarter campaign hoping to raise $2,500 for publishing, but instead raised triple the amount. 

When asked about the impetus for starting this project, Patrick recounts, "Over the last five years, I’ve had my journalistic and non-fiction work added to the libraries of Harvard, Yale, Stanford and over 150 other libraries worldwide. I’ll never stop writing to educate, but I felt it was time to dream more. These stories have been on my mind for a long time and I felt like this was the time to take my shot at fiction.”

Patrick and his partner received nearly three times what they asked for.  “This means we’ll have enough to put out more than our initial print run. To get this much support was amazing. In the end, it's an opportunity for this Kingsborough graduate-turned-professor to have a legacy in comic books."

News 12 Brooklyn profiled Patrick during his fundraising journey. Congratulations Patrick!

Visit Legacy Comix HERE. Read News 12 article HERE.