Womble on Kidjutsu
I am pleased to announce that the first "collection" of Womble (1-12) is available on Kidjutsu, a comics portal for kids. If you have kids who like comics and want a safe place to read them online for free, check out Kidjutsu, as there's a lot of excellent stuff there. I'm not sure what model we'll go with for future updates (since Womble updates so sporadically) but we'll deal with that when we get there. (Unity may end up there eventually, although there's a few concerns about the subject matter, what with the walking, talking, naked monotremes having implied quasi-sexual relations with transsexual boviforms and so on.)Also, Brian (the founder/programmer/etc.) is happy to hear feature suggestions, bug reports, and other improvement requests.
Comments
I agree that Unity probably wouldn't be a fit. Besides the weird pseudosexual stuff, I think it'd be above most kids' heads.
I think it's easy to underestimate kids' intelligence. I loved Arthur Clarke as a kid (obviously Rendezvous with Rama was a huge influence) and I think if Kidjutsu expands their audience to include preteens/teenagers that would be a pretty good match, although of course at that point they could just go to my site themselves. I think Brian does want to expand the audience, though, once he works out a better way of doing parental controls/filtering. The site is still in a very experimental phase.
The size issue is my big concern, but Brian is thinking of adding zooming/scrolling to it, so it can be read as intended.