For those of you who know me before my blogging hiatus, are familar with my artistic and design background / passion. Design and art was always on my mind and a part of my blogs since I started blogging. Whether it was the actual design of my blog or a side project, art and design always had a strong presence. One of the most fun and most received projects that I decided on was the Diabetic Superhero site. It started because I wanted something interesting and different for my blog and from looking at many of the design sites I frequent for inspiration, I ran accross an artist who did drawings of superheroes. This immediately gave me an idea to integrate superheroes & villians into the design of my blog. So, what I did was create a different header everytime I would write a new blog post. This got me a fair amount of positive reactions from fellow DOC members and readers. I decided, since this got such a good response, that I would expand it out to my blogroll. I would create an image of a superhero that represented each blogger in my blogroll. Lets just say that the response was great. So much so that I decided to move my blogroll to it’s own domain and host a seperate site for my blogroll. Each blogger would have their own superhero, with some statistics (name, alias, location, blog etc) along with a brief description about them. when I got this rolling and started telling people about it, I got a bunch of requests from people who were not originally on my blogroll, to create a superhero page for them. Needless to say, it was a hit. Then, when my burnout hit, I closed down my blog and cancelled my hosting subscription which removed my blog and my Diabetic Superhero site.

Well, Now that I am back and am excited again about blogging and getting back into my involvement in the Diabetes online world, I started thinking that I wanted another project in addition to my blog. I figure that this is the perfect opportunity to revive the Diabetic Superhero blogroll / site. While there will likely be similarities to the old site, I want to change it up just a little. I have quite a few ideas brewing and am really excited to  get it started again. For those who read this entry, I am going to give you the first opportunity to become a part of this. If you are interested in becoming a Diabetic Superhero, let me know in the comments section. There are going to be a few things that I will need from you if you want to be a part of this:

  1. Your name – A superhero must have a secret identity
  2. A picture – I like to base my superheros off of the physical attributed of the person. I am not asking for you to give me a picture, I just need a reference. So if you can point me to where there is a picture of you, that would be great.
  3. A brief description / bio – If you have an about page on your blog that tells me a little bit about you and your story, that would be great.
  4. Where you live (city, State) – Where does our mighty superhero reside
  5. When you were diagnosed – The birthdate of the Diabetic Superhero
  6.  What type of diabetic you are (T1 / T2 / T1.5 / Parent of)

I’m not trying to get anything out of this other than the joy of putting this together and to spread the word that we Diabetics are superheroes and fight a battle everyday against our arch enemy, Diabetes.  I am really excited to revive this and I hope that everyone wants to get involved in this. As the project progresses, I will post updates and post up on Twitter, Google+ and maybe even Facebook. So stay tuned for the new and improved Diabetic Superheroes.