Peter David, writer of stuff and host of this site, suffered a stroke on December 29. Here’s how you can help.
To recap: Peter had a stroke while vacationing with his family in Florida. He’s currently recuperating in a facility in Jacksonville until he’s well enough to travel home. Even though Peter has health insurance, there are co-pays and the like, and since this stroke fell at the end of the year, there are all new co-pays to deal with, and there are things that the insurance company just won’t cover. So we are at the beginning of what is going to be a very expensive year.
Many people have asked how you can help. First: THANK YOU. Here’s how.
The most direct way is to buy his e-books from Crazy 8 Press (via ComicMix) or from Amazon or Barnes and Noble websites. These are books that he gets the money from directly and the most per book. The quickest and most money is buying the EPub versions from ComicMix, by the way. The more we sell of these books, the easier it will be for us to pay the bills as they start to pour in. All the books are in the sidebar.
Buying his other books does help– especially the Marvel graphic novels he has written. The Crazy 8 books are the most immediate help but all his writings do help the family and the family’s ability to pay bills. If you buy via Amazon, please use this link
Buy X-Factor. Put it on your pull list at your local comic book store. Encourage others to do the same. Peter is still writing it and will continue to write it. Issue 250 ships on Jan 15th, 2012 (today) and is a great jumping on point for both X-factor and something Peter has been working on in the Marvel Universe since his Hulk days.
If you’d like to donate directly, we’re working with the Hero Initiative to collecting donations on behalf of Peter for medical/recovery expenses. Any money above and beyond these expenses will be donated to Hero Initiative in Peter’s name. All your donations made through this button will be earmarked to help Peter out, and are tax-deductible.
And of course, you can still help us a lot by getting word out all over the Internet about how they can help Peter. We are asking every blogger and people who have access to an audience to spread the word. Feel free to use the sharing buttons at the bottom of this post.
We’ll continue to post on Peter’s progress on the weblog, so come back often or subscribe. We’re also working with Crazy 8 Press on speeding up the process of making Peter’s backlist available for sale, check back as we add more items that have been long out of print.
There will also be some auction announcements which will be added to this post closer to the time that they are ready to go.
Peter and I really appreciate the support and help that you all have been. We have talked a number of times about how this outpouring of admiration and appreciation has given us solace in some pretty dark times.
I am asking again to help us get the word out so I can help Peter get home and back to his new normal life whatever that might be.
Thank you all,
Kath
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Dear Mr. David.
Your Young Justice comics were a big part of my childhood joy. My brother and I collected them together, and I still treasure them. I can’t donate much, but I did donate a little — it’s the least I can do for someone who shaped my love of storytelling. Get well soon!
Your fan,
A. Jean
Dear Mr. David,
I can’t possibly repay you for the years of enjoyment you have given me through your comics (Hulk and X-Factor especially) I do a very small article on a wrestling website for the fans there that also love comics. On a good post I get nearly 1000 readers. And even though I am cutting back to try my hand at novel writing I can pledge that every post from here on out will have a link for other fans to help out where they can. I honestly can’t imagine a world where there isn’t a comic written by Peter David on the stands. That truly would be a dark tangent universe that must be fixed via a time machine or something.
I just wanted to add my voice to those wishing Mr. David a speedy recovery, and to say thank you for the many things that he has written over the years that I have read and enjoyed.
I’m too much of an anachronism to try an e-reader so I ordered the paperback version of The Camelot Papers. It arrived today and it’s a beautiful looking book! Not a cheap, tiny, mass-market paperback — it’s a glossy 14 x 22 inch, 400+ page REAL book.
It may take a little while to get to it but I look forward to reading it 🙂
Get well soon, PAD!
Dear Peter,
My thoughts are with you and your family. You have given this world a tremendous gift by offering your talent. Here is to a speedy recovery.
A major fan,
Lodro
My brother Patrick (co-owner @ Challengers Comics & Conversation in Chicago) are not only big PAD fans but are anxiously following his recovery, as or father suffered stroke the morning of January 28th. He returned home from the hospital last Saturday and is recovering well. He still does not have full use of his left arm, (& he’s left handed) and his left leg is still sluggish. He is able to walk up and down the stairs a few times a day, but still has trouble with his speech and seemed to have some aphasia. Our dad is 75, has had both hips replaced, a knee cap rewired and lost a kidney and 1/3 of his Colon to cancer. I’m letting you know all this because if our dad can make a full recovery, then I’m certain Peter can do the same.
We look forward to reading up on his progresses.
my thoughts are with you and kathleen and the kids.
Thanks for the many wonderful hours of entertainment you have provided me so far. I pray that you have a full recovery. Best Wishes.
Wait Seriously? I love Peter’s writing but are you people seriously asking for contributions for health care? All those issues of incredible hulk in the early 90s sold boatloads. I don’t even have health insurance myself but I do have the entire Hulk run and your entire X-factor run, so maybe I should ask you for some help Pete c’mon. I wish PAD a speedy recovery but this is gross.
one of the best writers in comics ever, period.
i hope you feel better sir
Dear Peter!
I just heard this and I am a long time reader and fan of you. I wish you good health and long life. You gave us a lot of wonderful stories since Hulk or Death of Jean DeWolff or Captain Marvel or Supergirl and Fallen Angel (my personal favorite).
I haven’t a big X-fan so your X-Factor the only one that I don’t buy but right now I subscribing that, too.
Thank you for everything and get well.
Peter,
I met you at June of 2004 at Dreamcon that was held at Jacksonville, FL. I was one of the con workers. I was already a big fan of your work with X-Factor and Star Trek books. I was ecstatic that a signed copy of One Knight Only. It was nice to see you reunite with Jewel Staite whom you worked with in Space Cases, and see you do karaoke singing the Rainbow Connection.
I have also had health problems… alot of health problems… in the last couple of years, and I have survived. I’ve bought a few of your e-books directly and I hope that helps. I’ve been wanting to go go Sun-Ray Cinema for a long time, and now that Oz, The Great and Powerful is playing there, I think I’ll go.
God bless you and your family. You and they are in my thoughts.
-Brendon
Peter: having known you since 1975 I always look for your works whenever I have the opportunity. With a busy law practice & 15yo son, this is not often enough. I was shocked to read about your illness and pray for your recovery. Get well soon and back to writing. There are not nearly enough writers putting out work of your quality.
Hello, I’m Brazil. I just get through the hq 252, and do not really know what to say. Well for starters, I’m a big fan of yours, the x-factor is my favorite hq worldwide, and not know how to thank you for your incredible work. I hope with all my heart that recovers soon, and continue their incredible work. My thoughts are with you and your family. God bless you and your family.
Hi just want to add my (distant) support to you. I met you at Armageddon in Auckland & you signed my Tangent Wonder Woman comic & you asked me what I thought of it & I said it was hilarious. According to you I was one of the few who “got the joke” & you then took the time to basically read the whole thing aloud to me. A treasured & special moment for me. Since learning of your stroke I have purchased 5 of your books thru Amazon US & will look out for others I am missing. I can’t do much from here but I will contrbute as I can. Get well soon from NZ.
Best wishes to you Peter David, am stocking up on TPB’s and haranguing lapsed comic fans into buying X-Factor. Either pull list or trade. I may frog-march some of them to the shop as well!
In all seriousness, this must be horrid for you and your family. God bless all of you.
Peter,
I’ve been a fan of your Star Trek and Babylon 5 books for many years. I recently learned of your stroke, and I am happy to read that you are recovering.
About two years ago, I had a stroke that sounds similar to the descriptions I’ve read here, although it sounds like you were hit a bit harder than I was. At the risk of sounding inspirational, I made a substantial recovery simply by following all the rehabilitation directions I got (except the ones to take it slowly). The brain is a marvelous machine, and it has an amazing capacity to bounce back.
During my recovery process, I kept my friends updated by posting on Facebook. My goal was to keep everyone’s spirits up (including mine) by mocking the entire recovery process. My friends tell me I was successful, and they suggested I save what I wrote so others could (somehow) benefit from it.
The result is here: http://laboroflike.wordpress.com/2013/02/27/the-stroke-saga/
I hope it will bring a few laughs at some point when you need one, so that my friends aren’t completely off-base. I came to realize through my experience that if other people can’t laugh at my misfortunes, there’s no point to having misfortunes at all.
Best wishes for your full and speedy recovery.
Share and enjoy,
John A.
Dear Mr. David….no. PETER.
I can’t tell you how much you & your work means to me. Since I discovered your work in the epic Hulk run (sadly in the final 5 years, but better late than never), I’ve tried to follow everything you’ve ever written. With all due respect to other writers of all genres, yours were the only pieces that made sense to me, that I could understand & be challenged by. If you used a word I’d never heard of before, I’d either look it up in the dictionary or figure it out by myself depending on the surrounding text, etc.
I’m truly sorry for not finding out about this…situation until today, and I’m also sorry to say that I’m crying my heart out as I type this. But you have to understand – you have inspired this smalltown Canadian to be an author, too. YOU ARE MY HERO, and forgive me for saying this, but I still need you around. To challenge me, inspire me, provide me with hope. Yes, it’s selfish, but dámņ it that’s how I feel. Crazy as it may sound, but I think of you as something of a father to me. Not a LITERAL father, just…y’know, a LITERARY father. And, not to brag, but I’m pretty sure I’m not alone in saying that there are others who feel the same way I do – needing you around.
Well. I think I’ve expounded enough to alienate just about everyone, so…I hope that you’re doing better, or at least getting well soon. I’ll continue to write what I can, as long as you do. No pressure.
Yours, with the deepest respects, etc.,
Robbie
Sorry to hear Peter love your x-factor and other stuff hope your back to full recovery a mind is terrible thing to waste especially one such as yours.
All the best