Search results
Results From The WOW.Com Content Network
The first comics were shared through the Internet in the mid-1980s. Some early webcomics were derivatives from print comics, but when the World Wide Web became widely popular in the mid-1990s, more people started creating comics exclusively for this medium. By the year 2000, various webcomic creators were financially successful and webcomics ...
The PC Weenies is a webcomic with a special focus on technology humor and geek culture, [1] [2] [3] as experienced through the lives of the fictitious Weiner family. The PC Weenies was created and launched on the web in October 1998 by Krishna M. Sadasivam, a former electrical engineer.
While many webcomics are published exclusively online, others are also published in magazines, newspapers, or comic books. Webcomics can be compared to self-published print comics in that anyone with an Internet connection can publish their own webcomic. Readership levels vary widely; many are read only by the creator's immediate friends and ...
The earliest video game webcomic was Polymer City Chronicles, which started in 1995. However, 1998's PvP is seen as the origin of the genre, influencing various webcomics following it. [1] Low-quality video game webcomics were particularly common in the mid-2000s, often featuring author stand-ins with poor dialogue and unrealistic relationships ...
xkcd, sometimes styled XKCD, [‡ 2] is a serial webcomic created in 2005 by American author Randall Munroe. [1] The comic's tagline describes it as "a webcomic of romance, sarcasm, math, and language". [‡ 3] [2] Munroe states on the comic's website that the name of the comic is not an initialism but "just a word with no phonetic pronunciation".
Munroe's webcomic, entitled xkcd, is primarily a stick figure comic. Its tagline describes it as "A webcomic of romance, sarcasm, math, and language". [15] Munroe had originally used xkcd as an instant messaging screenname because he wanted a name without a meaning so he would not eventually grow tired of it. [16]
In recent years, Neurotically Yours has become one of several series run under the broader Youtube banner of 'Foamy the Squirrel', which also includes his side series Island (focusing on Sue Z. June, Foamy and Pilz-E), his animated rant videos and a roughly-weekly (usually posted on Thursdays or Fridays) video podcast called Squirrels and ...
Scott McCloud created various experimental webcomics in the late 1990s and early 2000s, including The Morning Improv and The Right Number. Aaron William's Nodwick and PS238 debuted in print before moving online in 2001 and 2006, respectively. Phil and Kaja Foglio moved their long-running comic book series Girl Genius to a webcomic format in 2005.