Comic Book Drive for Newtown, CT - UPDATE

We at Reading With Pictures reacted to the tragic news coming from Newtown, CT with the same sense of loss and sadness that everyone else felt. As a nonprofit organization with a special tie to education and schools, to see the bond of safety and trust punctured was absolutely heartbreaking.

The outpouring of support all across the nation has been inspirational and we want to help in our own small way. An important time of happiness between families is reading together and we want to put together a collection of kid friendly comic books to send to the families in Newtown, CT.

We’ll be working with connections we have in that community to coordinate the best possible direction for this donation but we wanted to ask for your own help in this comic book drive.

If you have any children’s comic books to or want to assist in this, please email [email protected]

Due to increased interest, we will accept donations through the end of January 2013. Please keep the following in mind:
1. We want children’s comic books only. Nothing scary, violent, suggestive in anyway. We will be scanning all donations to ensure the content is appropriate.
2. If possible, try to a few sets so we can spread them out among families
3. Your donations are tax deductible and we will provide all donors with a tax receipt
4. Reading With Pictures will attempt to document as much as possible the donation’s progress up until we send it but after that, we will want to respect the Newtown, CT community’s privacy

From all of us at Reading With Pictures, thank you so much for not only your compassion and caring but also believing in the power of comic books in creating community.

Update #1
We received our first donation yesterday! We’ll be cataloging each comic and making sure its all kid friendly, but at first glance it looks absolutely great!

We’re also just waiting to hear from our contact at Sandy Hook Elementary after reaching out. With everything that’s been going on, as well as school typically being out for holiday break, we are confident in hearing something concrete in the new year.

Reading With Pictures will also be donating a whole box of the anthology to this effort.

 

Update #2
We’ve continued to receive some great donations, including large sets of books of the Super Siblings comic and a TON of varied materials from the Viz Media Kids Line. Check out some of these on our Facebook page here.

As the month draws to a close, we’ll start compiling a list of every single donation and put it here so you folks know what’s been d. We’ll also be getting ready to ship it and keep you informed of that progress.

Posted on December 17, 2012 by Tsarran This entry was posted in Featured. Bookmark the permalink.

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