Up, up and away…
Word Balloons is a group blog about comics for kids. We will cover all ages from preschool through young adult, but we won’t lump all ages together; we’re smart enough to know that a three-year-old has different abilities and interests than a 13-year-old.
Our goal is to be the morning newspaper for anyone interested in kids’ comics: creators, editors, teachers, librarians, retailers, and most importantly, readers. We will present interviews, reviews, and opinions and link to the best of what other folks are writing. We expect to have frequent guest posts, and we invite our readers to send us a heads-up whenever they see something interesting about kids’ comics on the internet or even in print.
Also, we will cover all the comics kids read, as opposed to the comics grownups think they should read. That means we will cover works of great literary and artistic merit, but we won’t ignore the formulaic crap either. If it’s fun, it’s in.
So pour yourself some milk, grab the cookies, and join in the conversation!
Welcome!
Nice to see you here. It’s a subject that needs something doing for it. And you’ve started well.
I’ve linked and written a quick article about you at:
http://rhbfictions.blogspot.com/2008/04/word-balloons-blog-comics-for-children.html
http://forbiddenplanet.co.uk/blog/?p=7044
Thanks very much
RIchard
Thanks for the kind words, Richard! I think this is going to be a lot of fun–I hope you enjoy it as much as we do!
I’m so happy to have found this blog, since I am an avid comics reader and have two young sons, and I’d like to know what’s out there for them to read (and have read to them).
I do have one suggestion for your posts – since you give age ranges for the comics you review, it might help to create tags/categories for each of those age ranges. That way, readers interested in comics for 8-10 year olds, for example, could click on that category to find all comics that you have reviewed that are appropriate for that age range. Just a thought.
Keep up the good work!
Hi Sandy! We are tagging the posts with age ranges, I just haven’t figured out how to make them show up yet. I agree that that will make the site more useful.
Hey everyone involved! This site looks fantastic!! A welcome and much needed addition to the comics blogo landscape!