Tim Dowd interviews Mike Malve, of the Hero Initiative, on the program and their mission to create a financial safety net for comic creators, much in the same fashion that exists in almost any other trade from plumbing to pottery. By March of 2001, the federal government approved The Hero Initiative as a publicly supported not-for-profit corporation under section 501 (c).
To find out more, visit their site.
http://www.heroinitiative.org/