cb4k
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Post by cb4k on Jun 18, 2018 12:55:29 GMT
Hello all.
My name is Mark Weiss and I am the founder and president of a charity here in the states called ComicBooks For Kids! You can see our web site at Cb4K.org or CB4K.com. Our mission is to provide comic books to kids in hospitals and cancer centers. Since we started in 2017, we have provided over 10,000 comic books to kids in over 100 children's hospitals in just about every state. We volunteer all of our time and 100% of every penny we make goes back to the kids, none of us take any compensation.
Since we started, we have been receiving request for non english comic books. Makes sense right? Why many of you here collect foreign comic books for their novelty(and yes, I am a collector of comic books myself-always loved finding them during my very rare trips out of the country), these comic books would be used to reduce stress and anxiety to children where english is not their primary language.
So jumping onto Google, I saw this incredible site. I have no expectations other then to shout out and ask any of you if you know of a company or a place where I can procure some of these. We have reached out to Panini but so far, that is an exercise in frustration. We are also trying to work through the comic industry itself so we will see where that goes.
Finally, and this is the challenge. We are trying to get new ones or ones that dont look like they have been through the washing machine and dishwasher. Since these are being given to kids in hospitals, well-you understand.
I will be checking here but I can also be contacted via my web site.
I appreciate any guidance any of you may have and thanks for allowing me a few minutes to post on your board.
Mark
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Post by Jesse on Jun 20, 2018 22:34:18 GMT
Welcome to the forum!! Your organization sounds like a good one. I wish I could help you out, but it does sound like you are trying the right thing by contacting the publishers. Perhaps you would have more success talking to the US headquarters of DC and Marvel. They would have more pull with their overseas publishers. Tell them it'd be great publicity and a good will gesture. Also, how about Disney for young children comics? I believe they have a publisher in Mexico for Spanish comics. Anyway, I wish you luck on your endeavor.
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Post by KenW on Jun 24, 2018 10:38:53 GMT
Welcome to the forum, Mark (and thank you, Jesse; for replying before I got a chance to do it).
Yep, Jesse's spot-on .. you're doing the right thing, Mark.
Good luck, Sir!
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