![]() With mobile devices blowing the kids’ digital book market wide open, many publishers, programmers, and San Jose startups are competing to introduce kids’ comic apps to the market. Mobile apps definitely seem like the ideal way to bring webcomics to young readers, but it remains to be seen which providers will live and which will die. Of the current crop of kid-friendly webcomics, I’m a fan of The Last of the Polar Bears, by Lindsay Cibos, which follows the lives of two polar bear cubs born in a near future where their species is nearing extinction. Kid-comics portal Kidjutsu offers a library of long-form comics which, although not necessarily designed for kids, are appropriate for younger readers, like Sarah Ellerton’s fantasy epic Inverloch and A.P. The internet already has a small canon of classic kid-friendly comics, including Adrian Ramos’s Count Your Sheep and Christopher Baldwin’s Little Dee. Kids have been on the Internet for a long time now, mostly looking for porn. But now, with every other parent handing their kids smart phones and tablets to shut them up at restaurants, the time has never been better for online comics aimed at children. Hell, with Axe Cop on the scene, there are even hit online comics by children. Not entirely unrepresented, of course in a field where math comics become mega-blockbusters and something as bizarre as “Homestuck” attracts cosplayers and slash fiction, there really is something out there for everyone. And yet there still exist near-virgin territories of webcomicking into which the enterprising artist could make considerable inroads, and here are three that strike me as particularly hopeful. That was two whole years ago.Īnd yet, despite all the thousands of comics knocking around in the tubes, some genres remain surprisingly underrepresented. ![]() When using a search engine such as Google, Bing or Yahoo check the safe search settings where you can exclude adult content sites from your search results Īsk your internet service provider if they offer additional filters īe responsible, know what your children are doing online.Features Three Kinds of Webcomics I Can’t Believe I’m Not SeeingĪround the time my webcomics reading list included one comic about two married female itinerant laborers in space, one about eighteenth-century Bavarian religious politics, one that was at the time devoted to drawing gag strips based on Nancy Drew book covers, and one with a holiday installment entitled “The Year Kenny Loggins Ruined Christmas”, I started to suspect that Rule 34 had officially extended from pornography to webcomics, and there was now a webcomic on literally every subject conceivable to the human mind. Use family filters of your operating systems and/or browsers Other steps you can take to protect your children are: More information about the RTA Label and compatible services can be found here. Parental tools that are compatible with the RTA label will block access to this site. ![]() ![]() We use the "Restricted To Adults" (RTA) website label to better enable parental filtering. Protect your children from adult content and block access to this site by using parental controls. PARENTS, PLEASE BE ADVISED: If you are a parent, it is your responsibility to keep any age-restricted content from being displayed to your children or wards. Furthermore, you represent and warrant that you will not allow any minor access to this site or services. This website should only be accessed if you are at least 18 years old or of legal age to view such material in your local jurisdiction, whichever is greater. You are about to enter a website that contains explicit material (pornography). ![]()
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