Super Comics Adventure Squad

An interesting email from Garen Ewing this morning announcing another noble endeavour...
"Today, Friday 27 March 2009 (GMT), sees the last issue of David Fickling's innovative weekly comic - The DFC - at least in its current form.
The comic creators, writers and artists who were brought together by this exciting project have gathered together for a new venture - the Super Comics Adventure Squad!
Here's the website:http://supercomicsadventuresquad.blogspot.com
If you are able to help spread the word about this new endeavour, I'd be most grateful."

A brilliant idea.

Next Steps

I spoke to Random House yesterday about the sale, this blog and the potential for a subscriber/supporter buy out of the DFC.
There is a lot to be done but it seems that there is some real scope to make this work.
There are three main tasks:

1. spreading the word about the DFC and this campaign


2. securing sufficient capital to support the DFC for a further year or more of operation


3. creating a 'vehicle' for the purchase and continued existence of the DFC

The response to this blog has been very encouraging and the generosity of the pledglings, young and not so young is astonishing. Keep it up everyone.... you never know, we might actually end up saving something that actually deserves saving.

DFC Superhero Supersavers

Vampanda says "Save the DFC!" why not send us your own drawing of a superhero supersaver to save the amazing DFC. The more the merrier. I'll try and figure out a neat gallery later today

send them here ... or post them to flickr with the keyword "savetheDFC" [this finally appears to work, flickr just takes a little while to display them...]

Shout about it

Obviously the more people we can get to hear about this the better so thanks to everyone who is linking to this page, traffic is starting to grow.

If anyone has friends with media contacts it would great if we could get something in the uk press.. am curious to see what is in tomorrow's guardian comic DFC-wise.

...speaking to Random

Have signed a confidentiality agreement to find out how big a mountain we have to climb to do this... it won't be until Monday that I will get any proper response, but in the mean time...

Please get the word out about this page to all you can over the next few days... and if anyone has any ideas about how to reach subscribers...

Pledglings....

its a first step, and its a bit low tech, but ...

I have added a little strip of 'pledglings' to the side of the page [moved from the bottom to make them easier to find].

If you would like to take part in a subscriber buyout of the DFC please use these to contact me to indicate how much you would be able to pledge.

even if its just a few quid, or you just won the lottery and want to do something worthwhile with all that cash... go pledge

.. and how can the DFC be saved?

Random House are looking to sell the title, and whilst the idea of a single wealthy benefactor coming to the rescue sounds great, it also sounds improbable in the current climate.... although with interest rates close to zero and the stock market tanking, you never know...

In any case, it seems unlikely that Random House is actively seeking a buyer.

A great alternative might be to galvanise the subscriber base of the DFC to get as many people as possible to know about it and, if they are interested, get them to pledge a small sum towards an eventual 'subscriber buy-out'.

I am not sure of the exact methodology of doing this but have seen it successfully used in other contexts.