Crowdfunded campaign delivers free comics to sick kids

Comics are back en vogue, and the impact can be felt everywhere from the printed page to the cinema screen. Yet while the likes of The Avengers set box office records with feats of superheroism, both comics as a medium and the people who love them can do good in the real world too.

That's something comi creator Jamie Smart is well on the way to proving at any rate, with a fundraiser to provide stacks of comics to children's hospitals already smashing targets. His JustGiving campaign was seeking £2,000 to deliver 500 copies of Moose Kid Comics to care units across the UK -- a figure that selfless backers, who won't be receiving anything themselves, crushed on day one.

By: Matt Kamen,