A Way With Words Foundation, Inc. is a nonprofit 501 c (3). According to its founder, Brenda M. Rider, "There are as many treatments for cancers as there are cancers. One type of treatment is music. Another is poetry. This foundation encompasses both, helping those touched by cancer who find themselves having a way with words. This is their voice." Money raised by A Way With Words Foundation, Inc. enables the R.O.C.c.K Children's Choir to bring their message and songs of joy to audiences of all ages by way of public and recorded performances. Funds raised through these musical efforts, as well as the foundation's creative writing anthologies, go directly to help encourage cancer patients and raise awareness about cancer research which will and may benefit all of us eventually. Brenda is an eight year breast cancer survivor. A long time song writer and an award winning poet, her music and poetry have been enjoyed throughout the United States. As a result of her writing skills, Brenda was commissioned by her hometown city fathers to write a poem in 1998 for the bicentennial celebration of Austintown, Ohio. Prior to being diagnosed, with cancer, Brenda was busy making a living as a successful business owner and Police Officer. According to Brenda it was only after her diagnosis that she started to have a life. Now her world really had focus and purpose. She pulled her guitar out and immediately began writing some of the most honest 'cancer-real' songs of inspiration to date. These songs and the poems she wrote concerning her experiences with cancer were soon being shared with other survivors, patients, and professional care givers everywhere. The sharing of her experiences prompted the birth of A Way With Words Foundation, Inc. in 2001. It is our hope that this issue of Life Maxx comics will be an informative encouragement to you and a welcome addition to our always growing family here at A Way With Words Foundation, Inc. Letters may be sent to us at: Life Maxx Mailbag, 14 North Anderson Avenue, Austintown, Ohio 44515 USA.

CHRIS YAMBAR has been called everything from "the godfather of modern independent comics" and "a one-man art factory" to "a nut" and "an ugly baby." When he's not working as an internationally celebrated pop art painter (he's created over 2000 images to date), he's writing for mainstream comic titles such as Bart Simpson Comics, Radioactive Man, I Dream of Jeannie, and Mister Magoo, to name but a few. In addition to contributing scripts, graphics, and cover art for more independent comic titles than we can list here, Yambar has unleashed his own stable of award-winning creator-owned mayhem upon the earth including such icons as Mr. Beat, Itsi Kitsi-Happy Adventure Cat, El Mucho Grande-Wrestler for Hire, Faith: Warrior Princess, The Twerp, The Blue Baboon, McBride-The Faerie King, Misfits, and now, Life Maxx. In addition to his humor and science fiction work, Yambar co-adapted the lost Thomas Edison horror film classic "Edison's Frankenstein 1910" to overwhelming critical response in 2000. When he's not up to his neck in paint and manuscripts, Chris travels around the country lecturing on college campuses and at art institutes, conventions, churches, book fairs, and high schools on the topics of art, publishing, pop culture and theological issues. Busy guy. Currently, Chris is working on a book about his whacked-out childhood entitled Joys of a Misspent Youth, where he talks about his love of monsters, superheroes, rock music, and cereal. You can read more about Chris and his work at www.yambar.com

GEORGE J. BRODERICK, JR. began cartooning at age five when he peddled drawings of Mighty Mouse, Woody Woodpecker and Popeye from the back of his little red wagon to the unsuspecting neighborhood moms for a nickel a sketch (which George still considers one of the highlights of his freelance career). George has worked as a professional in comics since 1982. Since then, he has written stories for DC Comics, Marvel Comics and handled both scripting and editing on the LOST IN SPACE and QUANTUM LEAP comic books for Innovation Publishing and editing on LOST IN SPACE: Voyage To The Bottom Of The Soul for Bubblehead Publishing. George's art credits include work on BOZO THE CLOWN and SANTA CLAUS ADVENTURES for Innovation, SPEED RACER for Now Comics and THE MUNSTERS for TV Comics. His most current work includes COURAGEOUS MAN ADVENTURES, STARDUST & THOR, EL MUCHO GRANDE, CHRISTMAS EVE and HOLLY JOLLY CHRISTMAS COMICS for Comic Library International, the RADIOACTIVE MAN and LURE LASS/WEASEL WOMAN features in SIMPSON'S SUPER SPECTACULAR for Bongo Comics, MUMMIES, GHOSTS, and KOLCHAK for Moonstone Books, and (of course) LIFE MAXX for A Way With Words Foundation. George's biggest ambition in life is to become one of the most beloved characters in American Folklore! You can read more about George and his work at www.georgebroderick.com

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