OK, this is a bit of shameless self-promotion, as I contribute reviews to Good Comics for Kids. But this announcement is really testament to Brigid Alverson’s consummate skill as a writer, editor, den mother, and comics expert. Thanks to her hard work, her all-ages blog is moving to the School Library Journal website, where it will reach a wide audience of librarians, parents, and booksellers:

[W]e’re moving onto the School Library Journal website. The content of the new Good Comics For Kids will stay the same—reviews, interviews, linkblogging, and noisy roundtable discussions—but we’ll have a spiffy new home and hopefully we’ll be bringing in some new readers. We’ll miss Dan Hess’s excellent banner art, but he has thoughtfully drawn chibi representations of all the bloggers that are already the envy of everyone we know. We’re kicking off the new site with a short Hello World post, followed by Robin Brenner’s interview with Willow Dawson, the artist for No Girls Allowed: Tales of Daring Women Dressed as Men for Love, Freedom and Adventure. So reset your RSS feeds and bookmarks, and get ready for a good time!

As Brigid explains in her inaugural SLJ post, the mission of Good Comics for Kids is simple: to review the full spectrum of comics for kids, with a particular emphasis on material pitched to the under-thirteen set:

I believe we are standing at the brink of a new Golden Age of children’s comics. It started with Bone and Amelia Rules, and now we are seeing an array of choices, from the Toon Books preschool titles and DC’s Tiny Titans comics to sophisticated novels for older teens.

This blog will cover it all. We are a varied group that includes librarians, editors, writers parents, an artist, and an actual teenager. The one thing that brings us all together is our love of comics. We’ll be following (and breaking) comics news, reviewing new and old titles, and talking to creators. Sometimes we just talk among ourselves and compile that conversation into a roundtable post.

With so many writers and a wide range of interests, this will be a very inclusive blog. Any comic written for readers 0-18 is fair game, although we will concentrate more on the preschool to middle school sector. And while we’ll pick out the good stuff, we’re not afraid to give a bad review to a comic that deserves it, or admit to liking cheap commercial crap once in a while.

Hope you’ll bookmark the page and see what develops!