Digger T Mesch

Mates ! Hot Pink 88 Minimates here - http://www.cornerstorecomics.com/ Hot Pink Heavy Metal Minimates in NYC with Toy Tokyo . Eastman and I will be signing at show. New 88 Yahoo news hit this morning below. You are a part of all this -You rock. Fuck Lego! http://finance.yahoo.com/news/agent-88-makes-killing-kickstarter-052200495.html

Dear Luminous Beings, How can I thank you? I'll start with THANK YOU LUMINOUS BEINGS!!! I was advised by the Creative Illuminate of Hollywood that IF and WHEN the 88 KICKSTARTER achieved it's goal, I should be prepared with a strong THANK YOU letter to launch immediately after winning. I just can't do "IF". You can't entertain "IF" in the entertainment world because the level of obsession and conviction required to follow through no matter how completely fucked up things get is so intense it bears a strong resemblance to mental illness. So, the clock struck 8:08 on 8/8 and I just had to shut down. I didn't have the strength nor the bandwidth to pick up the endlessly ringing phone , or look at the 2000 emails and private messages I got blasted with over the next 3 hours before I passed out. They still havent stopped coming! YOU ALL made it clear that this was worth a shot and BAAAMM! NOW 88 IS HAPPENING! I apologise for being unprepared with a carefully crafted masterpiece of words and feelings. Something that would even begin to express how deeply I appreciate the support we received from so many people ...most of whom we never knew before. Most of whom swooped in and GAVE GAVE GAVE just to make sure we exceeded our 88k goal. That clock was counting down so very close to us getting nothing and we wound up with $104k! All of which will be going into making 88 as kick ass as we can make it. This is truly what makes Kickstarter so amazing and adrenaline pumping! Everything is at stake! All or Nothing! Come and watch us give birth to the next big thing or come and watch me fall on my face at 180 MPH! Either way ...wholly entertaining. If I won't risk everything I have for this project I believe in than why should you risk anything? Even your time is too valuable with everything we all have going on in life. I wouldn't ask you to waste your time or your money if I wasn't going to give it my all. I have SO MANY people to thank and I really want to do it properly with a mind capable of chewing gum and walking fairly straight at the same time. A mind I'll have tomorrow. I promise I'll do my best to get that letter out without hundreds of people twittering, posting and pushing everyone to the limits of their sanity. We truly blew up the internet yesterday. It was final hours and I wanted to make sure we were HEARD before that bell rang. Press was hitting me hard in the last 15 hours to try and cover it and I was like seriously ...I'd love to but HOW CAN I ? We're at critical mass here! NBC was talking about us on air and asking us to come down after we won and I was just worried about getting through the next 4 hours without a seizure. The 88 campaign wasn't created overnight. It evolved over the course of 4 months but the level of evasive action that was taken to get us to the finish line is really worthy of it's own book. Ernie Reyes Jr said it best in his video interview...."We're really going to give everyone a run for their money." Well said! Jan Utstein-O'Neill was running alongside me 24 hours a day to make sure that all the brilliant creatives who stepped up on 88 from ALL OVER THE WORLD weren't doing this for nothing and I'm just so happy we made it. Thank you again! A small army of exceptional creatives and supporters who were passionate about what they were doing participated in a high octane 30 day Kickstarter campaign with very little time or press and raised over 62k in very last 4 days of an 88K goal that resulted in $104,701.00 in the 11th hour. AWESOME! Kay D'Arcy was next to me the whole last day watching in AWE as the numbers just keep going up and up from what seemed absolutely hopeless to the surest bet she's had since she arrived here 10 years ago from London. 10 years later at 80 she's got more fight in her to make it than anyone I've ever met. Be inspired! You rock, DIG

Minimates getting lots of press! Check it ! http://trigg.la/2012/07/minimates-chewbacca-tmnt-agent-88-oh-my-comicast-ep-41/

some of my other work

This is a great ad! Love it . Im posting this This is the 10th anniversary and everything we're doing is a celebration. Please come for the ride.

Yes if we had 2 more weeks it would be no problem. I have offers already coming in but it looks a lot better to cash out first than not. No going back. All or Nothing! No deadline extensions. That's what makes it exciting! We crossed 15k. We went up 1k today so far. 124 backers $15,053 pledged of $88,000 goal 14 days to go http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1460783231/agent-88-the-web-series

Hope you are all liking what we have going on. Pushing hard. Not sleeping much at all. Just did an updated video with Jon Schnepp director of Metalocalypse whos going to guest direct an episode that Im going to act in. A 70's flashback episode where he can do whatever he wants. Something else that no one has done before. Please keep your minds open. This is how we roll . Thanks for the support. MTV GEEK obviously remembers what I was doing back in the day. Makes it worthwhile. Peace Digger http://geek-news.mtv.com/2012/07/25/agent-88-kickstarter/

GEEK SMASH http://geeksmash.com/movies-tv/reviews-movies-tv/agent-88-digger-t-mesch-072012/

AGENT 88 Special Edition MELTCAST Episode 9 with Digger T Mesch and Kay D'Arcy. Such a cool bunch of folk at Meltdown Comics. Thanks so much to Ryan, Josh and Angie for having us over. Good times. My voice is so raspy I can hardly understand myself. accck http://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/meltcast-2.0-episode-9-agent/id529665442?i=118473597#

Thanks Luke ! U'r a star man. Press is launched about Minimates high and wide today- should see some 88 and HEAVY METAL MINIMATE press coming shortly Guys - please try to spread the word cross the other topic boards cause this is my home base here for the time being. Time is burning even with the army I have pushing to see us win. We really need to move these A88 REDS thats would be a huge help. These were put up as a cheaper alternative to the other figures. We're about to launch a HEAVY METAL : THE ART OF 88 video in the next hour showcasing some of the 88 art with music from Goldsboro ( Sons of Anarchy ) .

Damn, at least u got the chance with one. I agree Darth Vader with pink gloves would be great! Dude- thats awesome. Thanks ! Don't stress. If all you can do is spread the word it's a huge help. We're doing really good today man, Kay is going to be the happiest blood drenched war mongoring 80 year old woman on Earth soon. Is there a MMMV presence on FB ? Guys The 2 missing minimates were suppossed to be mystery figures. That should have been written in the body of copy. I'll check with my partner to see if she can unlock the art and add that in now. once buying starts kickstarter locks you out of making changes.

https://twitter.com/diggertmesch Twitter is the best way to follow the campaign whether you want to see us make 88 or fall on our face. Please sign up and help spread the word. I believe if ur going to lose ...LOSE BIG and publically. gets you in better shape for the the next mission from God. I have a few questions - How many Mates fans are on this site? What are the age groups here ? if one more person calls me the Grandfather of Minimates im going to shoot myself. I'm 43 ! not 88! PETER TWEETING TODAY ABOUT OUR EVENT https://twitter.com/TheWookieeRoars/status/227077584234614789/photo/1 Yes we need to make SHIFT Peter Mayhew taller for sure as a Minimate. Colorado was an atomic tragedy- i'd dump my career to bring that kid back- something is seriously wrong with the world.

Here's GOLDSBORO - Guns and Roses just took them on tour as their opening act recently. They said whatever I want to do they'll back up. Good people

Just crossed 8k . Been working hard to get our team to push on Facebook as well as calls all over to the right people to sell the Associate prodicer credits and Executive Producer Credits. I need help to get the word out to the rest of the toy world faster. Our press releases were held back because of the shooting in Colorado but we're turning it up to 11 over the next few days and I need everyone that cares enough have invested or is considering investing to push all the new material thats going to launch. My friend Jon Schnepp who directs Metalocylpse is going to be guest directing an AGENT 88 70's episode which im psyched about. I know that many of you don't know that Kickstarter is the future of creative funding for everything. With this better work is going to come out without the interference of outside parties that are only in it for the money. Creatives can make great stuff and go direct to an audience. Jons following as well as Titmouses following is pretty rad and they're going to get behind me. If this means anything to anyone...take a look at how many creative people in the business are rallying behind me in this over the next week . Must be a reason! If we don't cash out on Kickstarer then I'll get the cash privately from an investor and we wont make any of the stuff that's in the campaign which would be a shame because the whole Minimate aspect of it would have really gotten the message out that Minimates matter. Here's Jon's last project that he funded for a lot more than Im asking and they were no where near their goals for weeks and had a longer campaign than we have. They were over 100k away with no time left and in the last 5 days days the thing went through the roof and over funded. We crossed 8k last night which I was grateful for but I'd really like to see all those A88 Red Mates be gone in the next few days. I put them up here for minimates fans. If anyone could please help push that to the other topic areas that would be great. Look at what other people are offering on Kickstarter and look at what we are offering ? Not even CLOSE. At least 15k of the cash we need to work with goes to making high end books, toys, shirts etc etc. $8,318 pledged of $88,000 goal 17 days to go New video showcasing the Heavy Metal Art of 88 book coming out later today. GOLDSBORO gave us rights to one of their tracks Great White Buffalo ( Sons Of Anarchy ) for 88 series. IM going to use it for this today so check it out later. They're rad. Please help move those A88 Reds. If they dont move in the campaign -Ill melt them into silly red slag -they wont wind up on ebay. DIG