Comicbooks for Kids

Our organization has lofty goals including putting comic books both in English and foreign languages into the hands of children who are in a hospital or cancer center. Farther down in this section we will outline our more expansive goals which is to expand into graphic novels, further support the community including teachers/military and reach a greater number of hospitals.

However, what we are trying to accomplish is very straightforward:

While we cannot take away the reason a child is in the hospital, they can just be a kid again as they read a comic book.

Our goal is to make that happen everywhere we can.

There are many facets for making this happen.

First, we are working on behalf of the overall comic book industry and all of the incredible people within it. To make this all come together, it needs to include distribution, retailers, publishers and the wonderful customers who buy the comic books. In 2017, and as noted on our website, we are working with the main distributor (Diamond) and almost every publisher in the industry's top ten. In 2018, we started adding brick-and-mortar retailers who are now working closely with us as well.

Second, it requires working closely with the hospitals. ComicBooks For Kids! reaches out individually to each and every hospital and tailors their comic delivery to the demographics that the Child Life departments need. Everything is packed tightly with a professional cover letter denoting what is being sent. Constant contact exists on a recurring basis with these hospitals.

ComicBooks For Kids! then acts as a hub connecting the comics we receive with the kids across the country who need them. Not all hospitals are the same and the demands of no two hospitals are the same. Yet because we tailor each and every shipment, we can meet their needs of each hospital individually.

We have the capacity and talent to exceed our goals.

We were incorporated in May of 2017. At that time we gave ourselves a goal of providing 1,000 comic books to 20 hospitals across the US and to work with two comic book publishers.

As we closed out 2017, we had shipped out and delivered over 8,000 comic books to over 100 hospitals in almost every state of this country. Further, we also reached into Canada; our website shows the stories of how we have impacted children in a positive way across North America.

As we expand into 2018 and beyond, we will be enhancing our Board of Directors with industry insiders and volunteer support to allow us greater reach to not only achieve our goals but to exceed them.

As mentioned above, we exceeded our 2017 goal by a significant margin. Our goal for 2018 is to exceed those targets and to focus on our new initiatives. This includes:

* Expanding from children's hospitals to all hospitals with a pediatric wing
* Expanding hospital libraries with graphic novels
* Bringing foreign language comics to the kids across the US in hospitals
* Supporting the community including teachers and promoting literacy
* Supporting our military by donating comics with more mature themes