The Road to Dawn

The Road to Dawn is a zine centered around Riku, the deuteragonist from Kingdom Hearts. The zine is a first of the zines published by khrikuzine.
==About==
The zine was first announced on December 4, 2018, on both Twitter and Tumblrhttps://twitter.com/khrikuzine/status/1070037177038340096.
Applications for artist and writers opened on January 3, 2019https://twitter.com/khrikuzine/status/1081067954752565248. Applications closed on February 10, 2019, with a record of 3over 300 artist applications and over 40 writer applicationshttps://twitter.com/khrikuzine/status/1094838443820036096. Emergency applications for artist spots ran from April 24 to May 10, 2019, to fill in for 2 or 3 artist spotshttps://twitter.com/khrikuzine/status/1121307309592854529.
Preorders opened on May 21, 2019, with the following pricing tiershttps://twitter.com/khrikuzine/status/1130968877226004480:
* Digital Zine ($10 USD) - Digital Zine, Icons
* Way to the Dawn ($25 USD) - Physical Zine
* Nightmares End ($30 USD) - Physical Zine, Double Sided Charm, Sticker Sheet
* Braveheart ($45 USD, Inital limit to 80) - Physical Zine, Charm, Sticker Sheet, Acrylic Standee
The Braveheart bundle sold out within two days of the store openinghttps://twitter.com/khrikuzine/status/1131539115600535552. The bundle was restocked again on May 27thhttps://twitter.com/khrikuzine/status/1133142206347268097. Preorders for physical items closed on June 22, 2019, but digital zines could still be purchased for two more weeks afterwardshttps://twitter.com/khrikuzine/status/1145827574964056065.
Shipping began approximately after August 3, 2019, according to a shipping updatehttps://twitter.com/khrikuzine/status/1157598250146209792. All physical orders were shipped by August 22, 2019https://twitter.com/khrikuzine/status/1164692124173914113.
Leftover sales for extra copies and discounted damaged items opened on August 29, 2019, and ran until supplies ran outhttps://twitter.com/khrikuzine/status/1167002693224693760. A giveaway for a Braveheart bundle was run from August 29 to September 1, 2019https://twitter.com/khrikuzine/status/1167003292548751360.
The team who organized The Road to Dawn went on to create a second installment of Riku-centric zines, The Things That Matter.
 Project Schedule
 	Start 	End
Contributor Applications	January 3, 2019	February 10, 2019
Preorders 	May 21, 2019 	June 22, 2019
Shipping 	August 3, 2019 	August 22, 2019
Leftover Sales 	August 29, 2019	-
==Contributors==
The following names were taken from the project's social media accounthttps://khrikuzine.tumblr.com/post/183134147608. The listing may be inaccurate due to later changes requiring pinch hitter applications.
===Artists===
* Canary (CanaryWitch, breaveheartriku) - Guest
* Fifi (chumfee)
* Dagneo (dddagneo)
* Ems (dearprotagonist)
* Hunter (deerlordhunter)
* Hakei (hakei1211)
* Ionomycin - Cover Artist
* Keirukei
* Kett (KETTsuper) - Guest
* Alex (maplekeurig)
* Maddie (MorningSeaFoam)
* Joy (MysidianRabbit)
* Sofía Ciarlo (naosususu, naoscifra)
* Taylor (naotoosh_art)
* Orion (Cherophobe) - Guest
* pahnts
* RobotMojo
* Kipin (sarakipin)
* shuaitofu
* Nymph (sintomacronico) - Guest
* Tam (spicytampura)
* Dani (Wisteria__Tree)
* Xanthe (xoxobouma, rikuanti) - Guest
* Shieru (ybbshieru)
* Jay (yourhandheld)
* Chunnyeol
* Lottie (trashcanprince)
===Writers===
* Asia (pineovercoat)
* Casimir (lebeaus)
* Fate (FateReplay)
* Kari (kawree)
* Zephyr (ZephyrEden)
===Merch Artists===
* Chunnyeol
* Dagneo (dddagneo)
* Lottie (trashcanprince)
===Mods===
* Jess (shakyypen)
* Nymph (savaagenymph)
===Former Contributors===
==Gallery==
File:Riku zine vol1 cover.png|Zine Cover by Ionomycin
File:Riku_zine_vol1_limited_bundle.png|Braveheart Bundle Listing
== Fan Reception ==
The following posts are a sample of posts retweeted by the project's social media account about the zine.
jaybird wrote on Twitter
indecisivebeing wrote on Twitter
RIKO wrote on Twitter
Jay wrote on Twitter
Dani wrote on Twitter
yujun wrote on Twitter
VelCake wrote on Twitter
Fairy Fucker wrote on Twitter
Time wrote on Twitter
Ely wrote on Twitter
== References ==
Category:Kingdom Hearts Zines
Category:2019 Zines