FREAKS’ SQUEELE: The Complete Chaos Curriculum

Some survey notes
6 months ago – Wed, Jan 21, 2026 at 02:04:20 PM

Hi everyone!

Some additional questions have been raised that didn't come up during the "smoke test". We'll try to answer a couple of those questions here:

1. For those of you who haven't received your survey email invitations yet, it's possible you selected "Pay over time" on Kickstarter. Because of that payment plan, you will not receive your survey from Backerkit until the last payment has been confirmed as collected by Kickstarter. It looks like that final payment is scheduled for March 2nd, so you should probably get your survey links a couple of days after that. We won't be locking orders until the middle of March (aiming for the 20th), so you should still receive your survey before then, with a couple of weeks’ margin. We'll definitely let you know in an update around that time.
2. For those of you who pre-registered, you may have noticed your free print missing from your pledge. That was an oversight on our part, which has been corrected. If you did pre-register ahead of launch, you should now see that item added to your order (for free). If you believe you pre-registered, but don't see it, it might be that you pre-registered under a different email address than the one you pledged under on Kickstarter. If you think that might be the case, please message us here on Kickstarter, and we'll be happy to check for you.

In addition, we've fielded a few messages from backers abroad who were a bit taken aback by the shipping price for the boxed sets overseas. As a reminder: the Boxed Set is extremely heavy -- 16 lbs -- containing 8 books. That's over 1000 pages, plus the weight of the hardcovers and the box itself. The shipping calculator we used on Backerkit is built from the current courier rates, which we have no control over, unfortunately. International shipping (with tracking) is unfortunately expensive these days, and there's not much we can do to fight the tide of the global economy. The price range shown on the campaign page was explained as the estimated rate for a ~5lb package, or only 1-2 books. That compounds significantly when talking about 8 books of equal weight -- our options are limited as far as what we can do, but if you find cost-efficient alternatives, we'd be very interested in looking into them. We want to make things as affordable as possible for everyone (to the extent of our abilities)...!

If you have any other questions, please feel free to message us here on Kickstarter, and we'll reply as quickly as we can.

Thanks, everyone!

Surveys are go! And Boxed Set Footlocker pix!
6 months ago – Mon, Jan 19, 2026 at 04:17:20 PM

Hi everyone!

As promised, the rest of the surveys have been sent. Check your inbox at the email address corresponding to your Kickstarter account and look for a message from Backerkit on behalf of Label 619-Magnetic Press. We'll leave the Pledge Manager open until sometime in March, at which point we should be ready to start wrapping things up and locking orders. Things are rolling along -- it has been a lot of work designing and finishing EIGHT BOOKS AND AN AWESOME BOXED SET!

Speaking of Boxed Set, the factory has completed their prototype dummy, and it is soooo cool...!

Here's a preview vid we got from the factory recently:

...and then we received that same prototype dummy filled with blank dummies of the actual books inside this past weekend! Check out this brief unboxing, showing the cardboard mailer and styrofoam padding each Box will come in...

The cardboard mailer will have some printing on it, too, but that wasn't ready for these pix yet...

The glow-in-the-dark elements are really cool too -- here are a few rough pix after some light-charging:

(Kinda hard to charge/appreciate in the day, but trust us -- it's glowy!)

The faux-metallic edges look SO COOL... It's amazing what you can achieve with spot UV gloss and some creativity...! 😎

You may have wondered what that plastic baggie was in the unboxing video -- each Boxed Set will include a set of sticky-dots you can use to affix your bookplate wherever you'd like. The bookplates will come packaged separately, since we have to get them signed. We're printing the m now and hope to have them in-hand within the week (so that we can bring them with us to France next week for Florent to sign!)

FYI: These things are HEFTY.

Some of you have asked what they weigh (in regards to shipping costs, particularly overseas) -- they weigh in at 16 pounds each! That's over 7 Kilos!  That's quite a load, especially by international courier... If you think about it, though, with 1080 pages of content in 8 hardcover volumes, this thing is practically a brick of solid paper.

That's all for now, but we'll try to collect or post some fun stuff while we're visiting Florent next week!

Thanks, Everyone!

Smoke Test Surveys have been sent!
6 months ago – Fri, Jan 16, 2026 at 03:26:53 PM

Hi everyone!

~5% of you may have received an email from Backerkit today with your survey link -- congratulations! You're part of the randomly selected "smoke test"! Be on the lookout for an email from Backerkit on behalf of Label 619-Magnetic Press.

The smoke test is a randomly selected ~5% of the surveys sent ahead of the others so that we can test for any hidden bugs in the pledge manager that should be fixed before the rest of the surveys are sent. You randomly selected 71 are the guinea pigs. 🙂 If you have any issues or questions, or if anything doesn't look right, message us here on Kickstarter or email [email protected] and let us know so we can fix it quickly.

The smoke test phase usually takes about 24-48 hours, or until ~75% of those surveys are completed. Assuming we set everything up right, we should get the rest of the survey links sent by Monday.

If you have any questions or haven't received your links by early next week, let us know, and we'll help you out!

Thanks, everyone! We received an early printed build of the slipcase from the printer, and it looks great! We're taking some photos now and will post them in an update very soon!

HAPPY NEW YEAR!
7 months ago – Fri, Jan 02, 2026 at 05:09:46 PM

Wow. What a finish. Thanks to you, this has been our best campaign ever. And we're so excited to get all of this stuff in your hands! We finished the exclusive Art Book layout this afternoon, so everything will be coming together as quickly as possible.

We'll start building the Pledge Manager next week and get the survey invitations out to you as soon as possible. It might take two weeks (based on their recommendations, allowing them time to collect all pledges), but we'll keep you well-informed along the way.

For now, however, we have the first weekend of 2026 to enjoy! Then it's back to work!

THANK YOU!

You made this something special. :)

ALL STRETCH GOALS UNLOCKED!!!
7 months ago – Fri, Jan 02, 2026 at 12:26:52 PM

Wow. You all.  Outstanding job... THANK YOU! We unlocked the last stretch goal a short while ago, and we still have 5 hours left...!

Look at all this cool stuff you unlocked!

Such a wonderful way to ring in the new year! You won't be disappointed in anything pledged or unlocked in this campaign! We've just wrapped up production on the final volume, and it's GREAT!

WIth 5 hours left, there's still time to spread the word to anyone you know who might enjoy these campaign exclusives! The stretch goals are only included for free with pledges. If we find ourselves with any extras (eg. rounding up our print orders), those few extras might be added to the Pledge Manager for purchase, but only pledges get them all for FREE!

Thanks, everyone. See you in a few hours for the final bow! YOU ROCK!