Big 100% upvote here. First, I think this idea would be best fully implemented after the improvements of the next HardFork and implementation of the Hivemind communities. Hopefully those are both just a few months more at most! I think the signup streamlining of the hardfork and improved user retention communities could offer will make an effort like this not in vain. It doesn’t mean planning & fundraising can’t start now though!

I have the @steem-comic-con account and web domain (recently scrapped the site & working on restarting...) and I’d always envisioned outreach like this when the time was right. I’m not the guy to run it though. I’ve realized I want more time devoted to creating than being a community organizer, but I want to be a big part of some founding comic communities and will throw whatever resources I can behind it as well! I’ll get behind whatever branding you’d like, but if you’d ever want to take over access to that account to use, it wouldn’t be a problem.

Two things that could help with fundraising would be two projects that have received big SP delegations. First, you could start a Fundition campaign. They’ve been dealing out some solid upvotes to good projects. Second, they’re not as heavy handed with the votes, but SteemPress (a WordPress) plugin has been good as well.

I’m here to brainstorm ideas and chip in what I can!