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That's it, I found vol.1 in my local library like 20 years ago. Yes its still going, last time I checked.
Other notable mentions: Applegeeks, Dresden Codak, Misfile.
>That's it, I found vol.1 in my local library like 20 years ago. Yes its still going, last time I checked.
16 years ago for me, same thing: Found it in the manga section of the library.
I wonder if Fred donated unsold issues to libraries or something, you're not the first person I've seen who found it the same way I did.
Weird, same thing with me. First three volumes were at my local library in the comic/manga section.
Also: Goblins comic
As if I'm going to read it from where I left off over a decade ago, but I can say that the art quality has barely changed.
Bring back the cow.
I remember when the MV used to be posted here
>Looking for Group The Movie
That never happened, did it?
Of course not, Just a classic example of creators on the internet jumping the gun and announcing a new project in the middle of the one they STILL HAVEN'T FINISHED, that's also way too big in scope to be realistically done in any way.
Like the waterman movie.
I cannot think of goblins comic without also instantly thinking "I'M SAD"
that's so fricking cool. my libraries would never have allowed comics.
kinda reminds me of Incog
>misfile
holy shit this was fun, i wonder if it ever ended, i never finished reading it
i think mine was Mallrats
just a bunch of kids hanging out in a local mall, there was a loose character, a black character, and an azn character plus others
you mean "Mall Monkeys" right? I still remember that hilarious 'dress up Missy' game
>"I have to go to the little girls room"
>opens door. there are many little girls standing in it. closes door
>"That's better"
Misfile went off the damn rails. the art got technically better, but he kept modifying it to be 'less anime' (just drawing the eyes smaller and noses bigger without changing anything) and it just got weird. the story went off the rails, the angels started agreeing with ridiculous modern ideas of sexuality and propriety, and from what I'm told after i stopped reading, it got realllly bad and had an extra bad ending.
yeah we all dropped it at that point. i'm told it also became woke and shitty.
I'm both surprised and not surprised that the Dresden Codak guy trooped out
Dude is like the definition of sexual predator and you're surprised he trooned?
I liked Misfile but it's weird how the guy's art never improved. It was never absolutely horrible, the guy had (some) skill and potential but it doesn't seem like he ever really improved as an artist and the story just kept going and going.
I binge read a lot of webcomics in the summer vacation of 2009, 10, or 11, so I simply don't remember which one was the first. I remember reading Megatokyo, Candi, Adventurers!, and Gorgeous Princess Creamy Beamy, but there were more.
In more recent years I've made sporadic, unsuccessful attempts to find a full archive of "Press Start To Continue" ( https://web.archive.org/web/20060101093514/http://www.pressstarttocontinue.net/ ), one of the least funny and worst drawn webcomics ever which I think I'd read back then.
Does the name Duckyworth mean anything to you?
I don't think I've ever read a proper webcomic.
The oldest I can find traces of is Sabrina Online, but I kinda just stopped reading it twenty years ago.
>remember binging when I found the comic in middle school
>started 1995
>still going
Holy crap I was going to mention this one. Though it had ended.
Where's the joke?
First? Might have been this KOTOR 2 fan comic, name was something like Darth Mad. Vanished from the internet, I think.
The Wotch
>Is it still going?
Apparently, yes. Damn.
>the wotch
I always wonder how many anons got fetishes from some obscure webcomic they religiously read
It's usually the other way around (having the fetish makes you seek out the webcomic)
I swear everytime I see this trash comic it's drastically changed it's art style.
Well, is a TF comic, after all
>Apparently, yes.
Currently it is even more glacial then Outsider, unless it is published somewhere I am not aware of.
>then
THAN, "more than", "then it happened", it's not hard!! Than for comparison, then for events.
Yes, yes, yes, I know. I normally don't make those kinds of mistakes, but this was a plain typo.
So, how about the question then (corrected with the "than")?
Sorry, it triggers me and every now and then I have to blow up at someone online.
I have no idea, never read the Wotch and only know about it from threads like this.
KC Green did a ton of stuff, he's never stopped as far as I know https://kcgreendotcom.com/index.html
Brand new KC Green
> Is it still going?
No
Gunshow was great. Wonder if KC Green did anything after
A shame, but yeah you could see the death throes a little before the end.
Goonish Shive is still going, holy moly.
I imagine the name aged poorly
Last I checked this fricker had overhauled and re-explained the magic system a dozen more times, and all the characters are all still semi-depressed and extremely hung up about their unusually repressed feelings about everything.
aw you just reminded me of another artist's work I miss. She just dropped off the face of the earth after making a couple very cute comics. 'Monsterous Mimi' was the title
Sluggy Freelance
27 years and it's still going
damnit anon, we agreed to never discuss M*gatokyo on here ever again..
>ruins the next generation forever
So after seeing these comics on here for years I finally tracked them down.
Yinglets need exterminated.
Still going. Right now a big ant-beetle-slug is romancing a human israeliteeler.
I thought it was gonna be platonic until the blushing.
Webcomics are dead?
The era of webcomics is over.
I'm thinking of finishing mine soon-ish and move on to other still to be decided project.
pretty much
all the hosts at this point make it basically impossible to do it properly. They're all some combination of
>mobile-centric
>unable to be customized so your site is unique in any way
>and/or heavily, heavily censored (though usually very inconsistently enforced)
there's no more 'just get a free site, put up anything legal, wait for fame and fortune'
Noone is forced to use tapas or webtoon. It's just that shit cartoonists have discovered that they can easily make money by using those sites and pandering to alphabet homosexuals.
the good hosts are dead, trying to become webtoon and tapas, or (in the case of smackjeeves) both.. which was a massive tragedy, all of those comics are just frickin gone now.
I feel bad that my comic had so many jokes like these, because they were fricking hilarious in the early 00s when talking about this stuff was a novelty, but I also didn't commit to it hard enough.
Yuusha Yoshihiko did everything I did way better.
>Kid Radd
fricking classic that should be required reading. did wreck-it ralph way better than that did, way before.
Evil Pants is still hilarious.
1 / 0
No.
I had to go to my dad's office one weekend because he had to finish some work. So he just let me use a spare computer to browse the internet and somehow I found some webcomics.
Megatokyo, Penny Arcade, Real Life Comics, Applegeeks, Mac-Hall, and 8-Bit Theater were the ones that I remember.
I haven't read any of them in years except for a couple of Penny Arcade comics.
>somehow
In that era, every webcomic was advertising every other webcomic. It was like a slightly-more-modern webring.
No. But my second webcomic was Sluggy Freelance and Pete Abrams must have a work ethic or something because it's still going after nearly three decades.
Freefall. Still going.
First one I really understood was an ongoing thing and decided to try following along was finding Sister Claire and Blaster Nation at basically the same time
BN I stayed with until the lamentable end. SC really just lost itself and me with it
>Looking For Group ended a few months ago
Huh.
How did it turn out?
Marry Me. Ended years and years ago, but it did get a movie a 2 years ago
>First English-language movie based on a web comic.
>It's based on Marry Me.
I still can't wrap my head around it.
if I remember correctly, the whole comic was written with it being adapted into a movie at some point from the beginning. the artist must've been pitching it to studios ever since it ended.
I just binged this. Aside from the weird wacky marriage arc, this was really good.
Holy frick what did they do to the characters this looks like shit
I still can't believe that they got Owen Wilson and Jennifer Lopez to star in it. Sure they're past their primes, but when I first heard about it I thought at best it'd be C-listers on a Hallmark channel TV movie.
always liked this.
sorry, what? it got a movie?? is that the first time that's ever happened?
>8bit has been over of over a decade
Paranatural, it was funny in the beginning but then it started going nowhere with the story, dropped it during the overly long dodgeball arc, wanted to give it another go but since it went into text-form i refuse to even touch it anymore.
>since it went into text-form
The frick? Wouldn't any sane comic writer simply hire an artist at that point?
the creator was the artist, but his oh so poor wrists required long and constant breaks, guess he just gave up on making whole comics.
They just don't make enough money to afford that though things might be different now that there are more Third Worlders online. Most of these webcomics had more clout than profit. Paranatural's creator started it in college when he had free time to devote to it, but then the ride was over and he needed to pay rent and now I'm pretty sure he's doing other things.
I've never heard of a webcomic successfully transitioning to an illustrated novel format (and both are very different skillsets). You may as well just START as an illustrated novel, people will b***h less.
That's smart, easier to pitch a movie based off an existing IP, even better if you own that IP.
>it went into text-form
Wait, really?
latest page.
The gay went from a wannabe mangaka to a wannabe LN author. Jesus.
I mean this is an okay format.
oh god, that hurt so much
I get it, you had a kid.. but.. ask for money? we'll give you money for your kid. please keep making comics. I adored this comic and always will.
honestly should've gone for the VN angle at this point, recall seeing some people do that move and finding moderate success.
i have always wanted to do motion comics
and now that AI voices are a thing, i could. Read out all the parts myself, have the voice change... but that whole area is being attacked so hard the tools'll probably be illegal before I can figure out how to use one.
it might have more charm if it's unvoiced though, AI would just invite unwanted complaints about it and the only guys defending you would be guys that would jump ship the instant the matter is over.
I don't want either of those people, I'd do it just for me.
Of course the ideal is get a talented voiceover GF so we can voice it together. pitching a voice up or down here or there if they're outside our ranges.
Man, Paranatural. The art just got softer and softer looking over time, but I kept reading because I liked the characters. I tried to stick with it after the switch but his prose was just so... overwrought? Excessive? It's sort of cringeworthy.
Honorable mention to Cucumber Quest for saying it was going to make the same switch, doing one last update, and falling completely silent.
Erfworld was the best example I'd seen of a webcomic switching to text-with-pictures, and that still got way too big for its narrative britches and then abruptly shut down for completely unrelated reasons.
cuke quest was quite good for a while
and speaking of vegetitles, anyone remember Rutabaga Adventure Chef? That shit was great. So cute and easily digested.
someone submit it to Binging with Babish
Purple Pussy
I still remember the theme song
>P to the U to the S-S-Y
>gonna eat some candy bars and get real high
i miss when comics with wrong ideas were still kind of quaint and not depressingly relevant.
Dave in Japan?
I love it when men try feminism. Yes male thanks for shitting on women's voices your so correct and right, I'm sure that liberal chick will frick you and she's not getting her clam slammed by the local neo nazi
Probably Chaos Diamonds 3 on fireball20xl. Ended forever ago though a sequel was planned but didn't go through because even the artist thought it was terrible and that guy drew chaos diamonds 3.
OoTS has been at it for over 20 years at this point. Not bad for a D&D webcomic.
I can't for the life of me remember the name of the first one I read or really even what it was about. I THINK it was by an Asian-American guy with an artist self-insert character and it was just about him and his friends.
At various points I read Misfile, The Wotch, VGCats, Girly (completely forgot about this one until I was looking through lists of webcomics), there was also one I forgot the name about a guy with a succubus girlfriend and her lamia little sister
>Asian-American guy with an artist self-insert character and it was just about him and his friends.
Sinfest?
hmmm that certainly fits the description I gave but unfortunately that's not it, I'm pretty sure what I'm thinking of was in color. Of course my memory might be completely wrong about the artist too. Really the only significance it had to me is that starting from there I got linked to various other webcomics that I liked more
>there was also one I forgot the name about a guy with a succubus girlfriend and her lamia little sister
Krakow? I think the dude took it down.
That's it, thanks
>I can't for the life of me remember the name of the first one I read or really even what it was about. I THINK it was by an Asian-American guy with an artist self-insert character and it was just about him and his friends
Is he at some point references the 2004 tsunami i know which comic you are talking about.
But i also can't remember the name
I'm not entirely sure if 8-bit Theater was my first webcomic. Most likely it was.
It ended properly a long time ago.
Count Your Sheep, it was comfy, I followed it religiously until the author unceremoniously abandoned it, only to bring it back a few years later, only to unceremoniously abandon it again a few months later, but this time on a cliffhanger
Mistakes were made
Probably Kirby vs Shy Guys
What's a guilty pleasure you would never admit you bookmarked? What's the most obscure or autistic webcomic you've ever read?
girls with slingshots. i think its in its 4th re-upload
I can't think of any. Either I lack any shame or the excessive amounts of nipshit I read has taught me to not be guilty for what I enjoy.
That said: Weregeeks might be my most painful webcomic memory like what the frick was I thinking enjoying that? Even Goblins Comic I can look back on with some nostalgia and appreciate some parts of it.
Las Lindas.
US Angel Corps. I really wish Dave Cheung drew more male snuff though. Dreaming Of Utopia was alright too.
>be massive voregay
>follow two vore webcomics
>one about snakes and rabbits
>other about monsters and vacuum cleaners
>vore is treated as normal, an inconvenience
>can't show anyone without outing myself
Both are dead I think but so fricking weird
Jajuka! Can't believe someone else remembers that. Kaa devastated my brain so I was glued to that comic. What was the other one?
Last place I was expecting to see a Home Movies reference today. His snake art is hot. Was the other one about the furry janitors in the whale? Job Sucks.
weird ass necro comic,I legit wanted to puke but at the end the ghost of the corpse comes to thank the girl for fricking him because being dead is boring... and shit was kinda wholesome for some reason?
>What's a guilty pleasure you would never admit you bookmarked?
The Wotch and most TF webcomics
>What's the most obscure or autistic webcomic you've ever read?
Obscure? I read this webcomic that was about people working in a store (it isn’t Shortpacked). It started in black and white then went to color.
maybe Creamy Beamy. but it's almost legitimate.
oh wow, one of them turned back around? good for him. kinda like uh, the Sexy Losers guy. his brief foray into political correctness was thankfully temporary.
>lesnick
didn't he do a comic about an exhibitionist chick that was kinda good until it suddenly wasn't
Peter Is The Wolf. The werewolf chicks that weren't the main girl were hot as frick but of course only the giant werewolf chick got any page time.
On a related note, I wound up binging this TF fetish story on Literotica called Becoming Monsters even though the sex scenes sucked because I got wrapped up in the story. After a while I was like "Quit telling me how many eggs she eats every morning and get back to what's happening at the skeleton castle."
The number of high-quality lewd fetish fics/comics is surprisingly high.
A while later I pirated a sourcebook for the Rifts RPG and two of the three different not-werewolf RCCs had the art drawn by the PITW artist.
There was one set in like a mechanic's shop in a solarpunk technoutopia world (though at the end it was implied that some terrible stuff had gone down). So obscure I can't remember it's name.
Also Caesarcub's h-game comics (the h stands for "homestuck")(I'm kidding it's hentai).
Basically, I somehow stumbled upon an online TCG game that I played for a few weeks, without realizing it was based on a webcomic. At some point I got bored enough to check out the webcomic, ADVENTURERS, and it was decent enough to kill time with.
What I later realized is that I'd started reading about 2/3 of the way through, once the plot had begun. A few years later I went back and read it from the beginning, only to realize the first 2/3 were just awful one-off "aren't RPGs weird?" jokes.
I also discovered Kidd Radd from that card game, which was MUCH better.
Dan Avidan said something kinda profound recently about how humor is always temporal. It's what makes people laugh in that moment. Chances are good if you go too far into the future or the past, that joke won't work. regardless of 'offense' nonsense, it just wouldn't click with people properly. Wouldn't fit their moods. wouldn't be surprising enough. Or just if it's been done to death already because it was so funny the first time.
>obscure
Take your pick https://rentry.org/size-catalogue#webcomics
I think reading through El Goonish Shive was probably the only time I've actively felt guilt after catching up on a series. Probably because the creator finally went mad and caved to the genderspecials in his fanbase.
i don't think there are many people who did that -because not enough normal people read their shit-
that's an idiot executive decision. Indie creators are more victims of a related but still distinct situation: rather than views, it's love and attention they're not getting enough of, and they see the crazies as a built-in friend group who will let them in.
I've seen it over and over. By the time you realize they're actually savage, disloyal bullies who will happily throw you under the bus the second you don't keep up with the shifting norms they're inventing, it's too late, you're in. like scientology.
Twokinds
>I read Down the Hatch and Work Sucks for the plot
How do vore webcomics work? How do you keep the plot going without running out of characters or getting bored of the same thing happening over and over?
I don't know about webcomics but even when it comes to vore stories, people get strangely attached to characters. In the Felarya setting, one author got a bunch of shit from readers when one of his established characters actually got eaten until he was forced to say it's non-canon. Of course the Felarya autistic screeching is even reaches the creator whenever he tries to try something different.
Magic for the former comic, or the insides are a setting for the latter. Or you go the Reiger direction and it's like Game of Thrones but with consuming whole.
>bored of the same thing happening over and over
i see you're new to fetishes. the repetitive obsessiveness is literally the only thing repulsive about them.
I love when they make our points for us while trying to make theirs.
god I dunno, could it be that drawing takes a long time? Look at the hours mangaka keep. Now imagine having to have a job too because nobody is paying for your comic.
This is why I'm taking so long to start up a new one. I know once I start, I mustn't stop or I'm making people sad.
>new to fetishes
On this site? Anons will make up fetishes just to get attention in threads. Just how can you tell stories around fetishes in a way you put your readers won't get bored and without getting known as the next kit n kay boodle?
my point was, the obsessives DON'T get bored
for regular people though, if you want to make something fetishy and still enjoyable, you vary it up. People joke about Totally Spies a lot, but it was always some different weird shit happening each time. A single-focus fetish comic surely can't avoid that, but it doesn't need to. It's feeding the neverending demands of an obsessive, just as sure as a money printing machine would for a homeless person.
So what you're saying is base your webcomic off your fetish and you have infinite motivation
Yes
no no I just understand those people. they keep me in business / make me too busy to work on comics.
Twokinds started more than 20 years ago...
I had the biggest crush on Flora after discovering it.
It's surprising to me that I didn't grow up a massive furry despite my crippling autism.
I dropped the webcomic after following it for years when the endless boat trip arc began, picked it back up when they finally arrived at their destination, then dropped it again when the endless mansion arc began.
While the comic is still being updated, I don't think it'll ever finish with its current pace of one to three pages a month.
hard to believe the artist is markipliers brother.
It's kind of respectable. Both are self made people who don't rely on the other and can make a living with their own talents.
>respectable
>talents.
anon one of them makes a living catering to furry morons and the other makes a living actively making moronic children more moronic
And neither are stuck in a dead end grocery stocking job or fast food drive through. Sad!
correct, it is sad
I used to follow a pair of twin sisters, both great artists, but one was significantly better and more motivated to make more projects. she kept making many more new, cute, totally creative webcomics, but abandoning them after a little while. "Some Battling Monsters" is the one I remember best.
those were the days. no more links pages now, no contact the author, no awards, nothing. if they get fanart, it just gets posted as an 'update'
Either this or Penny Arcade. PA definitely is; no idea about MT.
Unironically one of the best webcomics out there.
Not sure why the mods seem to have such a hateboner for this one.
Boy meets boy (gone)
Something positive (wish it was gone)
Dominic Deegan (gone)
El Goonish Shive (still going)
Girl Genius (eternal)
Lackadaisy (animation pays better)
Queen of Wands (ended in 2005. What is my life?)
Webcomics are a dead medium. Webtoons are rising.
>Someone else remembers Queen of Wands
Certainly didn't expect that today.
Sinfest.
It was my homepage for years because the author updated everyday and had a full color page on Sundays.
Somewhere down the line, he became a feminist or something and everything got terrible.
Now he seems to have taken a 180, but not to his roots. Still better than those strange years though.
I also used to read a comics by Josh Lesnick. Looked him up recently and wished I hadn't. Jesus Christ.
i've forgotten a bunch of them, haven't really looked at any since uni, not sure which one was my first
dumbing of age (looks like it's still going but i'd probably hate it if i tried to read it again now, malaya was cute)
stand still stay silent (apparently finished in 2022)
ava's demon (still going)
ccc (the one by vinnie veritas that had flash animations on newgrounds, last page in 2018)
need to go back and read some of these again
oh man this looks so much like my friend's old comic
I liked it. The black haired girl was cute.
now that you mention it, the url WAS 'marrymemovie' wasn't it
better than nothing I tell you what.
i still have all my old dead URLs but the memories are fading. There is no trace of Trilokan left. Nobody but me remembers it.
Dead Winter was a fun read for a while but then the story kinda went nowhere and stagnated. the army vs police civil war arc was cool tho
Man, I used to love this one, I even bought the first volume, but between the creator getting tired of the premise and dropping it in favour of rebuilding civilization, and focusing on that game leaving the comic as an afterthought FOR ALMOST A DECADE NOW my interest just fizzled out
that and constant characters and side stories getting introduced that went and are still nowhere
Whatever happened to Drugs & Wires?
Avalon High. The creator got tired of drawing it so the final comic is just a wall of text explaining how he originally planned to end it.
>What was your first webcomic?
Octopus Pie
>Is it still going?
No but yes. No, considering it formally ended in 2017. Yes, because Gran throws the fans a bone and makes a new comic every once in a while. Last one ended up with Puget Sean getting married and Eve taking care of her son.
though i was aware of megatokyo first because my brother read it, i didnt actually start reading my own webcomics until i found RPG world.
there are so many other webcomics that i read in the early 2000s that i forgot the name of which sucks. they were mostly like nerd related stuff.
pretty sure most of them originated on keenspot
maybe one of these days ill deep dive into this and find those comics.
I stumbled across someone on DeviantArt a few years back that's actually continuing RPG World where it left off. Was pretty good and I felt it did justice to the original's characters and plot.
Unfortunately, that too has fallen into hiatus limbo. Pic related was the latest update and that was posted November 2022.
fascinating. I miss those old days when people felt a lot more free to just build on others' work
isn't RPGworld the one that was finally finished in an episode of OK KO?
the one thing that always made me laugh about webcomics is how people generally didnt know how to design clothing for their characters. so you always have those characters that wear a colored tshirt with a basic picture or some text on it.
>What was your first webcomic?
Arguably, Gone with the Blastwave.
My cousin did his best to translate and read the pages out loud for me. Years later I set off to to find it again, as I was now a bit more confident in my English skills.There might have been a grand total of 10 or 15 new pages.
>Is it still going?
Arguably, yes.
I consider my real first to be Unlife, which I found through an ad while re-reading Gone With the Blastwave. It was pretty new at the time too, barely two chapters in.
>Is it still going?
It is among the lucky few to have reached an actual ending before death, at a somewhat respectable 8 year long run.
>Gone with the Blastwave
the guy has over 900 people on patreon but posts a scarce few updates a year, they just pay him monthly for nothing?
What else would they spend money on? Buying a house? Hah!
A bunch of shitty sprite comics on the original Nsider forums, tho some were pretty well thought out with actual plot lines. There was also this female artist on there who went by Cartoony who drew a ton of typical gamer humor comics. Unfortunately all of it became lost media when it the site shut down, I've scoured multiple internet archives to no avail. I actually got in contact with of them about 5 years ago as I recognize the user name on another site so that was cool.
Mac Hall
Sexy Losers
Real Life Comics
wew
I guess it was Megatokyo for me as well, except I only read it in book form back then.
The first ones that I actually kept up with online were Freakangels (ended) and Girl Genius (still going).
Grim Tales is still ongoing
Dragon Ball Multiverse is still ongoing
Really had to think about this one, lots of old stuff from DA in particular comes to mind. StupidFox was one of them: It's still going and has been since I was a child, which is hard to describe how that makes me feel
achewood.
and it's the best one.
It was vgcats, sometime had posted the meatbag star wars comic on the Nintendo forums. It was probably 2003 or 2004.
Very first webcomic I saw, sometime around 95. Sinfest was also around. Dude never did anything particularly interesting with the comic but it was a big web demo for his webdesign business and back then being able to sling html was worth it's weight in gold
>2/7/2022 Update: The new Argon Zark! page (page 79) is in progress. I hope to have it up within the next couple of weeks.
My god it's still updating. I thought Outsider was bad...
I'm actually shocked it's still ongoing, though I guess it probably doesn't take much effort to produce, given its nature.
I was reading Wired and they had a game issue which was talking about Spore. That was their game issue and it mentioned Penny Arcade was releasing their first book.
About a year or 2 later when Spore was about to come out, I reread the issue and typed the Penny Arcade url into my browser.
Then having read it, I looked up webcomics on Wikipedia and found Kevin and Kell.
Then I started on a bunch of other webcomics over the next few years. Mostly because webcomics used to link to each other in the author’s comments.
Read Archipelago, The Meek (rip), Thistil Mistil Kistil (constant hiatuses), Ava’s Demon (rip but hopefully it will return), Unsounded, Girl Genius, Gunnerkrigg Court, random Hivework stuff (mostly rip) and Ctrl Alt Delete (not rip but good riddance).
All the comics I followed never got finished all the ones I pass are still going. In a way I think that is a blessing.
Despite the weird turn Dana Simpson took as a comic artist. I still look back on Ozzie and Millie fondly.
>actually has success post webcomics
Proof a hyperniche fetish or really infamous webcomic blunder can't stop you
Yeah I did a spit-take when I saw a book with his name on it at Target.
I don't think his webcomic was particularly well known but Andy Weir's Casey and Andy is a prototypical example of the genre
(He's the guy who wrote The Martian)
he really has a lot of charm. and for such a weirdjob, he's pretty good at keeping it under control in his work.
Freefall is still going strong
i remember some guy put this on his greatest comics of all time list kek
Probably one of these:
Kevin and Kell, I stopped maybe 15 years ago, think it's still running
Bruno the Bandit 1998, ended
Bruno by Chris Baldwin, 1996, ended
Freefall 1998
Girl Genius 2000
Schlock Mercenary 2000
When I am King, 2001 finished
Megatokyo 2000, stopped reading soon after Gaston left
Bobbins by John Allison, 1998
>Comics artstyle is just the Angry Beavers artstyle
>Artist runs his comic for about 4 years
>Switches to an og artstyle and shit looks kinda good
>Releases a cool 1 minute animated pilot
>Becomes friend with some freak
>Gives up and does vore/fat fetish commissions instead
Just looked at his accounts for the first time in years and yeah, he still draws fetish art
Real Deviantart hours
up and does vore/fat fetish commissions instead
The mental health gay strikes again.
Sinfest was my first webcomic.
It's still going, it's gotten real fricking weird though from some weird wing feminist shit to ultra right wing.
Just glad Criminy and his succubus GF seem to have gotten written out of the comic so they got spared from the mess.
The very first? I could not say for sure. Maybe Bug Quest or Crazy Shunshine. Don't seem to have much momentum anymore but they aren't outright dead. I recently gave my years old RSS feed a look just to find a shit ton of series to be gone off the face off the earth. Rather depressing. At the end of the day only a handful of them ever really had my genuine investment. Chief among them being Homestuck. Watching that recent Scott Pilgrim show got me to reread the series and made me nostalgic for that indie/webcomic boom era it inspired but it's clear as day that scene is near dead.
That Powerpuff Girls Doujinshi webcomic.
It is apparently still going. I dropped it because it was taking so much time to update.
I think it was jay naylor's furry comic where the mc fricks his twin sister and grows up to become an action hero
That was one crazy webcomic. Then I remember the sequel of them having kids and there is a plot involving vilgilantes and muffin capitalism or something.
I try to pretend I didn't read that one.
it was bad? because that description sounds great
If you're a particular breed of redneck (in, specifically), you'll love the part where he loses his virginity at 10 to a hyena. Or his dad's old war buddy explaining Vietnam.
please don't laugh
ORC RAPE
I wonder if the comic he started after this is still going. He did the smart thing and got an actual artist to work on that.
Bob and George. No, it's absolutely not still going. Frick me, I got old.
>What was your first webcomic? Is it still going?
Bleedman's PPG fanfiction
Unfortunately, yes.
It ended on a weird note
It didn't end. Eric still has to pay bills.
>First comic
it was called "Ah, Peegee"
>still going?
nope, but it is still online.
I miss old webcomics days.
What was your last web comic? Is it still going?
I'm just looking for something to read TBQH
The only webcomic I read nowadays is Unsounded. New page in a few hours.
Same. Gunnerkrigg Court was my 1st webcomic but it's decayed and lost its drive. Unsounded fricking rules, though. Pic related: believe it or not, this is the SECOND worst dad in the comic.
We might see the end of Unsounded in our lifetime.
every day I check about 90 comics. very few of them are still going, but I hold out hope. there's several hundred more 'definitely finished but maybe check again someday because they have come back before' in another bookmarks folder
Recs for you? Okay good ones I've discovered recently include
>Swan Boy
>Sugar & Spies (formerly "Underagents" but prudes have to ruin everything)
>Exvulnerum
>Wukrii
and there's a lot of good old ones that have come back lately, like Demon's Mirror and The Last Dimension.
oh and uh, Harpy Gee. But that only took a brief break
If you are gay or a leftist or into classic Boondocks/Doonesbury, you're in for a treat.
>last
>Is it still going?
20 different webcomics just this week: https://files.catbox.moe/288puq.png
There hasn't been a "last" for me in 15 years
(I'd post the pic, but some moron got my IP range blocked while I was gone for christmas.
Fricking shitposters)
>Ennui Go
I remember liking that for a while. it had kind of a lot of the oldschool webcomic feel... except when it didn't.
>Laserwing, Tad Danger, Green Knight, Squires for Hire
great taste.
so how does this 'feed' thing work?
Someone please post the infographic, for I no longer have it.
Anyways: Get yourself some feed reader browser addon. Something that can detect RSS feeds in a webpage, just to make things easier on yourself starting out. Feedbro is a well known example, and works on both Chromium and Firefox type browsers.
Now go to some webcomic, such as https://nukeronomicon.com/ (Tad Danger), click on the addon and select "Find feeds in current tab". Two feeds will appear, one for the comic, one for comments. Select one and subscribe to it.
Behind the scenes, an RSS feed is just a file with 10 or so entries consisting of a title, message, and link; in a machine readable format. Your reader will automatically check the link to said file every hour or so, keeping track of any new entries and adding them to your "unread" entries. It's actually not that hard to write a feed yourself if you're already familiar with HTML.
So, if you wait a moment, you'll see Feedbro notify you that there's 10 or so "new" updates you are yet to read. Mark them as read, wait for your webcomic of choice to update for real, and you'll see Feedbro add the new update to the "unread" list. Clicking on it will open the feed reader, and show you the relevant entry. You can click the link to be taken to the actual website the entry refers to (there's a config option to take you directly to the site instead of having to pass through the reader first)
This should work for most blogging sites, which is what most webcomics are built on.
If not, you'll have to find the link to the RSS feed yourself.
Usually it'll be a link (eg: Laserwing, at the bottom of the page), or a button with radio symbol in orange, or in white atop an orange background (eg: Nature of Nature's Art https://www.nofna.com/, also at the bottom). If that still fails, you can enter the url and tell Feedbro to scan from there, or copy the URL, and manually add the feed through "Open Feed Reader > Add a new feed".
Thank you, I might give this a shot. especially for ones that haven't updated in years, that I have stopped checking. I'd love to get that alert when that changes.
This one?
That's the one. Thanks anon
>find the link to the RSS feed yourself.
How to add a link in FeedBro for sites with no RSS? For example Property of Hate at jolleycomics.com/ has no RSS.
(me)
Ok, I found the TPoH's feed at bottom left and after clicking it to open the JSON FeedBro managed to add it, but it couldn't find it on the page otherwise.
Would still be nice to add URLs for sites without feeds, e.g. gunnerkrigg.com.
(me)
(me)
Ok, now I found www.gunnerkrigg.com/rss.xml in the page source code.
>gunnerkrigg
I went to check but Feebro found the feed for me with no issue.
Also, it's on the left panel, under "By Tom Siddell". Ctrl+F "rss?" Then again
is right in that finding the feed button is "easier said than done"
Yeah I found it after I searched the page source.
But FeedBro reports no feeds found for jolleycomics.com - I had to first find and then click the symbol then it found it.
rice-boy.com and bouletcorp.com/rogatons are other examples that stump FeedBro, rice-boy have to search source first and boulet fails so far.
Strange. Don't feel obligated to stick to Feedbro though. There's a button in the options menu to export your feed list as an .opml, which should be accepted by most readers
>whomp
>933 days
aw man
he did start a new comic. i miss it. but I get it, man. breakups kill you on the inside. that's why you should stay single until you're 100% sure, and why it's wrong for people to change into people incompatible with their previous partners. Unless that's because the person they were before was bad. In which case, don't be that person before. Just be the one you were gonna change into later, right away.
>What was your first webcomic?
The Class Menagerie.
>Is it still going?
In a manner of speaking.
Oh, wait, I have this. (The title is a lie, I'm missing quite a few.)
>Altermeta
This was my first. First time experiencing a webcomic artist floundering and rebooting multiple times too.
Never understood why, it worked in every iteration. She just stopped.
>Slightly Damned
Still read it
It's been over a decade since I've checked on it. How is it doing these days?
We're finally off the flower festival wild ride.
They found Kieri's brother. He hates demons, and Kieri hates his guts, but it's ok, because actually he's just gay and sad his boyfriend died. Also he's got a curse similar to Kieri's snow bunny thing, but dog.
Iratu is triple evil now.
Rhea got to talk with "death" about how the actual Grim Reaper has gone missing too, while searching for the other two missing gods.
Kieri has become a mute and everyone has taken to learning sign language to communicate with her.
Rhea Snaketail now has a literal snake tail.
Jake is now a Jasper. Or a Jenna. "They" haven't decided yet.
Dunno what else. It's been a long time, and neither the hiatuses nor weekly schedule help.
I quite liked that one though I suspect if I re-read it it would not hold up at all. I dropped it when they got to that festival or whatever and the plot just went to nothing
Webcomics are becoming boomer like newspaper comics.
please stop talking like a gay while making true points.
>What was your first webcomic?
VGCats
>Is it still going?
I thought it was over but aparently its still going
VGcats came back again? i remember the last time it ended
hey who remembers Gamercat? much more recent... very cute.
you know there are other reasons to blush. like when you feel sheepish or really impressed
>VGcats came back again?
Yeah, aparently there was a new strip on december and he's making stuff on patreon more often
>hey who remembers Gamercat?
I think that ended too, right? I don't think i ever bother actively looking for "cute" webcomics, or cute anythings for that matter
I just find cute ones here and there, they have a way of making themselves known.
anyway good for vgcats guy. it was never to my taste, but I'm glad someone's making money.
naw rednecks hate that stuff, it sounds good to me.
>Gamercat
Can never see that without thinking about her early BL/shota-adjacent anthro Pokemon art.
First Webcomic I don’t even remember the name of. It was about some people working at a retail store. I remember Protag was a blank slate for the audience, sidekick was a lazy dude with sunglasses, there was also a b***hy brunette chick and a Ninja. The comic ran from like 2000-2006 and then the creator died of cancer a couple years later.
>I remember Protag was a blank slate for the audience, sidekick was a lazy dude with sunglasses, there was also a b***hy brunette chick and a Ninja.
Index?
Nah, it was [Something]-Mart. I remember once story arc had sunglasses and protag visit the rival store to get supplies and that’s where we find out Ninja’s sworn enemy, a Pirate, works there.
i'm pretty tired of creators I enjoy getting cancer.
Gotta fix our healthcare and food systems. Also transit too probably.
uh huh. right.
Detect early, prevent with proper nutrition and exercise.
you've fixed it, anon! you've solved cancer. nicely done. I'll go tell everyone.
No wait hold up you need to give them my Ko-fi too.
This is like every 4th or so webcomic of the time...
i thought my young adult life was going to be full of so many wacky retail adventures.
>my work sucks so to cope I will make a webcomic
Does Not Play Well With Others took a rather bloodthirsty shot at a comic like that. Shortpacked?
nobody was using 'trans' as an adjective in 2013. . what the hell. they still said the whole word.
Nah, it definitely wasn't Shortpacked, this comic ended around 2008 or so. IIRC it was a colored comic, the store uniform was a red vest with white shirts. It sticks in my head all these years later cause I still quote "15 minutes on my ass is better than 2 minutes on my feet" when I visit another outlet of my store to get supplies instead of just grabbing what we have from the back.
Penny Arcade, yes its still going.
The one I was a huge fan of was Sluggy Freelance, then it had too many shit storylines in a row.
It felt for the longest time like Sluggy Freelance was just drifting from one pointless plot to another. Finally in 2017, with arc 70, the plot suddenly kicked into overdrive mode and all the old mysteries suddenly started getting answers. The truth about Oasis, Kusari's identity, all kinds of crazy shit starts happening.
If you read a lot of Sluggy Freelance from the beginning, you owe it to yourself to hop in on Arc 70 and finally get some answers. Shit just got real yo. I stopped reading years ago when I got tired of all the damn side-arcs that went nowhere, but a while back I remembered it and decided to check it out. After seeing Arc 70, I'm glad I did.
Webcomics update once a week if lucky and twice or more if the author actually gets paid for it. More need to stop pretending they have incredible twists and waiting literal years to tell 1 day's worth of story. Goddamnit why is pacing so bad in this genre.
Looking forward to the AI art webcomics that actually complete their 7000 page storylines because all it takes nowadays is an autist prompting stuff for a few hours to produce thousands of man hours worth of artwork
The closest webcomics have come to this is Feast for a King where the artist gave themselves a 1 hour limit per page and so the comic has... *checks notes* almost 8000 pages of story published, good god.
Outsider's backgrounds are done by AI now. It's only a matter of time
>"Reeeee I need constant stream of slop everyday!! how dare artists not pump out slop for MEEEEEEEE."
kys Ai shill
that's not what I said you silly little frick. I'm getting bored with this neo luddite whinging. Do they really think AI is going to go away if they cry loud enough? Grow the frick up.
If art generation is the worse thing AI does to you, you'll be lucky. May we all be that fricking lucky!
it's the same old shit reheated.
>using traced CG to cheat things that are hard to draw
>using photoshop techniques instead of doing lens flares and what have you by hand
>using digital art at all
>industry instead of toiling in the fields
>movable type and block printing instead of writing and drawing copies by hand
aaaaaaa do you have an original thought in your head ever aaaaaa go blow yourself up at the openAI office, make sure you use artisanal explosives
I think you missed the part where I was agreeing with you, good chum.
the dumb part is they're thinking it's going to be used to sell products for money (the thing they've been taught to hate the most)
how can free, publicly-available software be used to generate a paid product? the most you'd pay for is the computer processing part.
Sluggy Freelance kept up a 7-days-a-week update schedule for years and years and years, only changing over to 3 times a week after 2015. Around 2003 or so the weekends became side/filler arcs, but it was still a new strip every single day.
So far, it's only webcomic I've seen where the ending story is seeming like it was worth all the journey there. The Torg Potter shit and Oceans Unmoving crap can still be mostly skipped, but almost everything from the archives has come back or had some impact on the story at this point. Arcs 70 and 71 were outright cathartic after years of reading webcomics that never lived up to the stories they tried to build.
who remembers Pigtails & Potbellies / Amity Blamity?
Sabrina Online. Yes, it's still going apparently. I stopped keeping up with it regularly when it was fixated on Transformers autism for a while. I'm not sure where it's at now, but glancing the most recent update I see, she still works at the porn studio and characters have aged up. Props to Eric for aging up his characters over time.
>What was your first webcomic? Is it still going?
Ganbare Shimura-san
> Is it still going?
i have no idea
It apparently ended in 2010, but I think this is the first webcomic I started following. 8bit theater shortly after, I think.
> What was your first webcomic?
Schlock Mercenary
> Is it still going?
No, it ended after 20 years of daily updates.
epilogues are super appropes in a longrunning comic
I think Howard Taylor is still gradually putting the remainder of the comic into print books. Supposedly some new stories will eventually be told in the universe and put on the site.
who remembers Wigu / Magical Adventures in Space?
I do, I even have the printed editions
One of these days I'm going to make a MacaTacaHodo360
Super Effective. No.
1 p!ck3D !+ up this B00k @+ +#3 $+0r3. @ny0n3 h@v3 @ l!nk t0 +#3 r3$+ 0dmf +#3 $3r!3$?
This post gave me eye cancer. Points for accuracy though.
man I l33t more than most people and that is still incomprhensible to me. i mean, + for t? sure, it LOOKS like a t, but T has always been 7. It didn't make sense, but that's the way we did it. made L337 kind of.. symmetrical.
>It's been so long L3375p34k has become the forgotten runes of an ancient civilization only a few can still decypher.
I tended to use a lite patois of v0w3l-l33t. Much easier to understand.
That "0dmf" is filtering me, it's not really just an "of", is it?
I picked up this book at the store. anyone have a link to the rest of* the series?
Has anyone read Last Days of Foxhound? I could do a storytime of that
>sabrina online
>house of lsd
>class menagerie
I'm honestly surprised that I didn't turn out a furry when you consider my first exposure to web comics.
I started reading in 2001, stopped reading around 2012, and so glad I did, such a huge fall from grace.
Stopped reading this one when it became several spin offs. Didn't know they all finished until years after the fact.
>pickup a webcomic posted on /tg/ in 2010
>find out it updates 3 times a week
>sometimes posts multiple pages at once to not split up scenes
>author informs readers an update in advance if there will be no new page and it's infrequent
>has missed one or two updates without prior notice in the past 14 years
I didn't think it was possible.
>comic switches from 3D to 2D
One of the earliest was kind of science fiction, in a future with just 5 or 6 cities, all connected with a rail line. There was a recurring comment about the sky being not entirely right, a hint that the entire setting was in reality deep underground. The webcomic was rather well drawn.
I cannot remember the name of the webcomic but I vaguely recall it related to a colour. And I am really hoping someone can jog my memory here.
shit I think I might remember what you're talking about, but my memory has been completely replaced with another comic about a very planned limited dystopia, and it wasn't that. it was like, it's winter forever or something.. the artist eventually just admitted he couldn't keep going and quit. at least he told us though.
That sounds a bit similar to Color Seekers by the artist of Space Pack, but that one is too recent and too dead to be the answer, anything else you can remember?
everything Sefra makes is a complete and utter joy. I do hope we get more Color Seekers someday, but for now Bagley, OnixFox, and Bally-and-Friends is enough.
Stone Clouds?
>first
Hard to say but probably lowroad, pretty much just for the cute girls.
>still going?
No but the author is still doing similar comics I think.
>Lowroad
Thanks for reminding of the name of this webcomic, anon.
No problem.
>babel fish
Holy shit, hadn't heard that name in ages.
Wonder what happened to it.
Come to think of it yeah I wonder if it's still around. google kinda kicked its ass, then deepL kicked google's ass.
It is still on actully.
well good for it! those were good times. i also remember a searchable japanese vocab site I used a lot.
>anons unironically nostalgiagayging over furry webcomics
they were great
Simpler times. Most of them were just cartoon animals instead of humans.
Seems nice. Comic? And for me it was probably a shitty devian art comic, or a sprite comic....
Who remembers Life of Wily? Pear Pear? Zelda Comic? Pchan Mahou Densetsu? Hamsters City?
I was really bummed when Life of Wiley died. I miss the era of Mega Man sprite comics.
so wonderful. so creative.
oh I forgot to add that here
using sprites instead of drawing your own. people started b***hing about that too. I recall one Squidi making his own totally unique sprites, then being angry when people ripped and used them and made their own in his style.