I guess you could call it my personal mission to assist everyone with talent and a drive to get seen out there, and to get their works noticed. I know, I know, I'm a nutball, but that's fine---so long as some of you make it, like I'm making it. I'm nothing special guys, but there are doors out there that can open to you if you look in the right place.

So, I would like to share a post, from my website with you, that just may be a door of opportunity for anyone in the right category, and with a set of 'gonads' (sorry ladies---but that includes you too!) to go after it.

Here's the post:

"Great thread!

I am not a comic book artist and outside of "girly" comics as a kid I never read comics or had any interest until I discovered Jaime's WANTED: HERO series. He opened my eyes to the possibilities of comics. Now I am on a new mission. (So blame it on him LOL)

My passion and work is with mental health professionals. In a nutshell, I think they are terrible at communicating their knowledge and services to health seekers. For crying out loud, most of them don’t even have a website or blog! Then they package their knowledge in a 300-page book filled with psychobabble that no one is going to read.

One of my many soapboxes is that the 30 and under clients, who will soon be the majority of their market, communicates in ways that most 40-65 year old therapists do not understand. Mainly, the Internet, websites, multimedia, IM, comics, graphic novels and online games. So we have a situation where most therapists cannot make a living and most health seekers cannot find the
help they need.

Jaime inspired me to think about the possibility of bridging this gap through online comics. I spent many hours exploring the digital comic sites. Frankly, I was very disappointed in most of what I saw. IMO, the world does not need another 100 comics about the daily life and angst of 20 something college students, copies of Manga and Anime comics, or more super-heroes. I looked at over 1,000 comics to find a few that I thought were ABOUT something for [Comics From The Heart www.psychjourney.com/comicsf...eart.htm on Psychjourney.

I believe there is a huge market for therapists who want to reach a new audience, get new clients and make passive income through online comics and graphic novels. I currently have in the planning an online graphic novel on sexuality issues and another on overcoming male sexual & physcal abuse as a child. I am concentrating on male issues on the first two comics since I believe that men are the biggest consumer of comics and that in the therapy field men’s issues have been overlooked.

I am looking for comic artists who are interested in discussing a collaboration to partner with me and a liscenced mental health professional to create comics or graphic novels about dealing with mental disorders, and other psychological issues. The comics will be sold online and include product placement for books and other services.

Contact me at deborah@psychjourney.com

Best,

Deborah

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DeborahHarper
www.psychjourney.com
deborah@psychjourney.com"

There's the door. Get up off your butt and walk through it.

Jaime Buckley
www.wantedhero.com