Kickstarter May Provide More Funds to Creators this Year Than The National Endowment of the Arts

If you’re a fan of comics or video games, odds are very, very good that you’ve heard about at least one blockbuster Kickstarter project in the last year. Whether it was the Minecraft documentary or Tim Schafer’s Doublefine project; Womanthology or Rich Burlew’s Order of the Stick reprint drive; Neil Gaiman and Amanda Palmer’s joint Halloween tour of the west coast, or the Wonder Woman documentary’s SXSW debut; there’s likely something that you’re at least a little interested in that been made possible by the Kickstarter platform. But what puts that in even greater relief is that Kickstarter, which restricts its sponsored projects to ones with “creative purpose,” believes it is on track to distribute more money than the National Endowment for the Arts this year. Not bad for a three-year-old internet startup.