Growing up can be dificult at the best of times, let alone as a vegan child in a world mostly occupied with non-vegans. Enter Violet’s Vegan Comics to save the day. The team set out to create a catalogue of stories for plantbased children, which can be read on the Vegan Children’s Stories website for free, or bought as a hardcopy. We chat to the founder about the importance of vegan literature, and why the book, film and television industries need to think more carefully about the messages they portray to children.
Growing up, I loved my Tammy & Misty comic, but by the time my children were that age they didn’t make those kind of comics any more, so we decided to make our own. The diference is, our comic book heroes are vegan and they fight for the animals. From the beginning, we made our comics, stories and nursery rhymes for vegan and vegan-curious children of all ages. To give them virtual vegan friends with the same values they have — other brave and pro-active kids who question everything and fight for justice and compassion. We made them so that vegan kids everywhere — even if they’re the only one in their class and sometimes feel like they’re the only in the world — will know that they’re not alone. They’ll know that they’re part of a huge team of brave, cool and active vegans who speak up and take action.
There are a lot of instinctively compassionate children, growing up in non-vegan households, whose parents would never buy our books for them.