Children’s Comics Collectives?


Does anybody know of any children’s or young adult online comics collectives? I’ve been searching but haven’t turned up much. Most of the online comics collectives out there have a focus more towards adults.

Also, who’s working on a children’s/midgrade comic right now? Or people you know? I’d like to hear about what you’re doing. I need more reading material. :) Any plans for MOCCA or SPX this year?

Just two pages left to pencil on my own children’s comic. 60 pages in four weeks, baby! Three if you take away the entire week I spent designing websites. :)

Been busy!

21 Comments


21 Comments

  1. man_size  •  Jan 14, 2010 @2:04 am

    i might have some news about a kids webcomix collective. look out for an email, soon…

  2. lilrivkah  •  Jan 14, 2010 @2:14 am

    YES!

  3. man_size  •  Jan 14, 2010 @2:21 am

    cool. thx for the email address heads up.

  4. emmav  •  Jan 14, 2010 @6:11 am

    Take a look at: http://supercomicsadventuresquad.blogspot.com/
    Much as I'm awful and barely post, it's a group of us who worked for the DFC – a kids weekly comic over here – creating original stories. It's who I did Violet for. ^_^
    They're a great bunch and nearly all working in children's comics/illustration. the DFC Library collections will be out soon and will be well worth a look ^_^

  5. Anonymous  •  Jan 14, 2010 @7:44 am

    Freewheel is geared toward ages 10+ though only a little more than the first chapter is up at the moment. I have just a bit into the fourth chapter finished though. I'm trying to finish it through the 5th chapter by the end of February so I have roughly 37 pages left to draw before then!

  6. hopelarson  •  Jan 14, 2010 @9:51 am

    Kean Soo and I created the Secret Friend Society back in 2005. As far as I know it was the first kids' comics collective, but we disbanded a few years ago after we scored book deals.

    I'm hard at work on my 5th MG GN, and I have another book in the works that started out as a comic script but is turning into something else. And I'll be at MoCCA again this year… We should get lunch!

  7. Anonymous  •  Jan 14, 2010 @10:00 am

    Sugary Serials is… “A Saturday Morning Cartoon Style Comics Anthology for All Ages”

    http://sugaryserials.com/

  8. goraina  •  Jan 14, 2010 @10:19 am
  9. Anonymous  •  Jan 14, 2010 @11:26 am

    My book Haunted is for about 10 and up. I'm about to start regular updates again too!

    http://www.hauntedcomic.com

  10. Anonymous  •  Jan 14, 2010 @11:53 am

    I'm still waiting to hear back from the agent as to whether the script I just wrote is MG or YA. I can only judge these things by what I read as a young person, which I don't think is necessarily representative of the industry's thinking! Confusing stuff.

  11. Anonymous  •  Jan 14, 2010 @4:47 pm

    I've really wanted to make youth oriented work lately. I hope something turns up.

  12. Anonymous  •  Jan 14, 2010 @5:17 pm

    I've wondered about this too, but the places I found were either too specifically geared to a certain group, i.e. creators from X publication or Y geographical area, or inactive. I've also been looking for general children books and comic books blog and forums, but, again, most I found were pretty lacking in activity.

  13. chrissydelk  •  Jan 14, 2010 @6:16 pm

    http://www.evildivacomics.com/ is my friend Brinson's.

  14. lilrivkah  •  Jan 14, 2010 @6:48 pm

    Oh my gosh! What a wonderful comic! <3!

  15. lilrivkah  •  Jan 14, 2010 @7:00 pm

    Who's the writer and who's the artist and who else does what? There isn't much on the site about about the actual people making it. Is it just Brinson, or do the other three people linked to on the right pitch in as well?

  16. lilrivkah  •  Jan 14, 2010 @7:05 pm

    Oooo! NICE! Especially digging Kate Brown's work. Looks like I'll be spending some time poking around. :)

  17. lilrivkah  •  Jan 14, 2010 @7:07 pm

    Thanks, Raina! *^-^*

  18. chrissydelk  •  Jan 14, 2010 @7:46 pm

    Brinson started out doing it all first… twoish issues? I think it has at the bottom tags of who does what these days. Joe and Brinson write, Brinson draws, Hai inks and flats, and Brinson colors and letters.

  19. Anonymous  •  Jan 15, 2010 @1:40 am

    Well I just finished a story so my next short project is a twenty-page kid's comic but I'm still in the very rough stages. Like usual for me, I wrote and storyboarded the whole thing and am just now realizing that I need to make some character designs. :/ Oh well. It'll get done when it gets done.

    Going back to college, maybe I'll be able to do it for my art class and get a grade and then sell it. Multitaskity!

  20. dernjg  •  Jan 15, 2010 @2:13 am

    Hello With Cheese ( http://www.hellowithcheese.com ) isn't intentionally written for youth, but we keep a PG-13 limit on it. There's the occasional adult theme, and the nerdy stuff might be a little too erudite for younger audiences, but there's never swearing, nudity or graphic violence.

  21. jdalton  •  Jan 17, 2010 @4:49 am

    I don't have anything to show off for it yet, but I've got a finished script (or nearly finished- it needs a rewrite) for a comic for kids that I want to turn into a submission to publishers. As soon as I have the time that is! Time is something I never have enough of.

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