The Beacon

Hello everyone and welcome to the online home of Flashlight Comics!

It’s been a busy time and at the moment we’re gearing up for another push forward to appeal to educators and sponsors to publish and get Flashlight Comics into the hands of students across Canada.

A QUICK ADDENDUM: A few educators have written in asking about the status of Flashlight, which leads me to think that my original message was not clear. As of this writing, we are still waiting for funding for the first issue, and we’ll be printing and shipping it as soon as we can get financed.

Everyone involved in the project has done amazing work so far and with this latest stage of development we’re looking to educators, librarians, and other interested parties for ideas, suggestions, and help.

Essentially the work ahead falls into two categories:

• Getting more schools and libraries signed up and;

• Getting more sponsors on board with what we’re doing.

As of this writing we have over 88,490 students set to receive Flashlight when it’s published, through 760 orders comprising 3034 classrooms across Canada [see our handy map which breaks our orders down by Province].

As you can see, we’ve generated a lot of interest from the educational field [and on an extremely limited budget]. The inherent worth of the project is obvious to many Teachers and Librarians, Principals and Curriculum Coordinators across the country.

However, now comes the hard part. We’re working towards publishing our first issue in the spring, so we’re looking for an optimum number of 500,000 signups over the following weeks. This is where you can help us out the most.

Talk with other educators, and let them know what we’re proposing. Ask them to check out our company website and encourage more classrooms and libraries to sign on. We believe that what we’re proposing is of benefit to everyone involved.

We’re also looking for appropriate sponsors and our page rates are reasonable and flexible. Our criteria and our mandate are both pretty straightforward:

• We are looking for companies and organizations who share an affinity with our editorial mission to provide exceptional reading material to young readers.

• We are committed to paying good contributor rates, enabling them to earn a living wage for their work.

• We are striving to give parents the peace of mind that what we’re providing their children is safe and appropriate.

• We are giving educators a valuable tool from which to teach.

So if you have any suggestions, contacts or questions on who or how to approach a company or organization, please drop us a line.

We’d love to hear from you.

- Dave