Saturday, October 18, 2014

An Overview On Original Web Comics

By Patty Goff


Web comics are very popular with netizens these days because they are actually quite fun to read and quite short too. Now in a nutshell, a web comic is actually a comic strip that is published on the internet and read by those who are on the net. Now for those who would want to know more about what original web comics are, here is a short overview of how they started out.

Now the very first ever internet strip was created in the year 1985 by a name who went by the name of Eric Millikin. Now his work which was named as Witches in Stitches did not become very popular yet as the internet was not very accessible to everyone yet. This comic was a parody of the famous story the Wizard of Oz and was transferred through Compuserve,

Eventually during the early nineties, another pioneer comic that went by the name of Where the Buffaloes Roam was also created. This was a comic that was made by mister Hans Bjordahl and was one of the first to come out. Another one came out in 1993 known as Doctor Fun made by David Farley.

After the year 1993, there were a lot of internet cartoons that came out because the internet became more popular and accessible to people everywhere. Now the comics that were made during that time were actually black and white and identical to the ones that can be found in the newspaper. Two very popular ones were Nukees and Polymer City Chronicles.

During the year 1996 up to the year 2000, this period was known as the age of Singularity. In this time, it was actually possible now for people to make money out of making internet comics and getting a lot of views. Eventually more trendy styles came out and most of them were based on the drawings of Japanese comics known as Manga.

Now things became really interesting during the start of the year 2001 even up until the year 2006. The reinvention of internet comic strips was during this time where the gaming comic strips as well as the nerdy gag strips made its way into the scene. It was actually during this time that independent artists went from print into the online world.

Now in the year 2007, the popularity of these comics reached its peak as there were so many people who were reading them while they were online. Of course a lot of artists eventually made use of social media in order to become more popular. Ever since the emergence of social media, this platform became very popular.

Nowadays internet strips have been claiming their turf on the world of mobile apps. Now in this generation, almost everybody is on their phones these days so web artists had to adapt to this new brand of technology. In fact, artists became more technology inclined because of the evolution in technology. Another very popular fad these days in the world of internet comics would of course be memes. Memes are actually short versions of comics that people would read on the net.




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