Kidjutsu - new kids comics site open to the public

Welcome! I am Brian, the founder of Kidjutsu, pronounced [kid-joot-soo]. For those who just browsed here, Kidjutsu is a kids comics website that lets kids read, discover, and share comics. We are a site geared toward kids, tweens, teens, and the big kid in all of us. At Kidjutsu, kids can read kid-friendly age-appropriate comics from popular comics and webcomics creators using our high resolution comic reader. The reader even has a fullscreen mode, which makes the experience very fluid.

When I set out to build Kidjutsu - Comics for Kids, I set two goals for the site:
1) Introduce kids to comics, and

2) Build a sustainable revenue model for creators with a life-long passion for kids comics.

As many parents, teachers, and librarians are discovering, kids comics are a good way to get kids to read. The comic book medium over the years has strayed from its original audience of kids as publishers catered to existing readers instead of investing to attract new readers. This choice by the publishers combined with higher costs of print has made comics totally inaccessible to kids today. By building an ad-supported site, we hope to provide an easily accessible supplement to the children's books and all-ages graphic novels that kids are already reading. As we grow, we will focus heavily on child-appropriateness, parental filters, and most importantly being a gateway to the imagination. We already have one of the largest assortments of all-ages comics for kids on the web.

Kidjutsu opened to the public shortly before Thanksgiving of 2008 with over 60 comics from 15 creators. Another 15 comics creators have joined since then and more join every day. From day one, Kidjutsu has formed an equitable partnership with creators to further the primary goal of introducing kids to comics. The success of the site is as much a result of these creators' hard work as it is the software development we do in the background.

Enough about us, you should read some comics on Kidjutsu. Just pick a comic and go!