Hey, @bashadow.
I like the idea. I've thought about seeing who I could get based on how sales went. It would be good for them to be local, too, since the few times I've tried getting art via the Internet wasn't the easiest of collaborations even if I liked the results.
What I have in mind is a series. I haven't quite decided how to do it—monthly installments for seven years or maybe seven annual graphic novels. I haven't plotted things out that far, so I'd need to know what I have first.
I started roughing that all out, but got interested in STEEM. Haven't quite tried to go back to it since. :)
If you have a comic book store in your town then there are young adults that might be seriously interested. back in the early days of internet social, 1987-93 time frame, I met a couple of people on line that were doing or trying to do graphic novels from Oregon, but they had no clue how to get started.
You have that get started knowledge from your newspaper works and you kindle works, so finding a few kids, (people in their early 20's or so, or heck even other older people), together to build a comic book team. I don't think Stan Lee had a big group of people to get started.
It would not even be that time consuming for you, or them, a few hours a couple nights a week for the team to meet and discuss the progress and ideas you have laid out.