John Higby has a lot of clout in the yoyo community. I personally like his art. Not necessarily all of it but damn near all of it. To one of the OP’s comments about people being salty over the Kickstarter. John had started a Kickstarter for a children’s book called Eveybody Loves Yoyos. There was a goal of $2,000 needed to fund the book. Not surprisingly he raised like $12,000! To give you an ideal of just how loved and appreciated this man is.
Unfortunately, the book never came to pass. And that $12,000 turned into, well, basically a charitable donation. The most civil way to put it. And after a few updates stating he was trying to get things perfect with some of the people involved, with distribution perhaps, he simply stopped updating Kickstarter. So understandably some people were left feeling upset. I think especially with not bothering to reach out to the Kickstarter/ yoyo community that funded this project with any final update.