Web First



A Web Original work that has been published in print.

May contain a Print Bonus.

Web Comics

 * Trace now a Manhwa
 * As well as Noblesse
 * Megatokyo
 * Questionable Content
 * El Goonish Shive
 * Flipside
 * Gunnerkrigg Court
 * Questionable Content
 * Dinosaur Comics in print became "Your Whole Family Is Made of Meat."
 * Xkcd's "Volume Zero."
 * Pv P
 * Axis Powers Hetalia
 * The Non Adventures of Wonderella: "why read for free what you can buy" says the ad.
 * Girl Genius is an odd case that started off as an independent print comic. After publishing three and a half volumes, they moved to publishing online first in order to reach a larger audience.
 * Hark a Vagrant
 * Cyanide and Happiness
 * The Order of the Stick, with bonus material, side stories and prequels only available in print.
 * Narbonic
 * Skin Horse
 * Khaos Komix, print version planned once the story is concluded.
 * Variant; many of the t-shirts seen in Questionable Content wind up in the QC store if there's enough demand.
 * Sluggy Freelance, with bonus material, though the collected volumes are lagging behind the online strip by several years.
 * Bruno the Bandit
 * Penny Arcade
 * Axe Cop
 * Diary of a Wimpy Kid
 * Apple Geeks
 * Shortpacked has four volumes, Roomies one with a second on the way, and the first year of Dumbing of Age is set to be collected soon.

Web Animation

 * Homestar Runner was successful enough to have many DVDs.
 * Alejo And Valentina
 * Making Fiends was picked up by Nicktoons and remade for TV.
 * Happy Tree Friends started out as web animation but ended up getting a TV show.

Web Serial Novel

 * John Dies At the End.
 * Phil Plait's Bad Astronomy. Went from a popular science website to a nonfiction book.
 * Amakute Hoshikute Torokeru Chuu started out as a web novel on Fuguriya's website before being adapted into the seventh game of the Sono Hanabira Ni Kuchizuke Wo series.

Blog

 * Scott Adams published a number of his blog posts in the Dilbert book.
 * How to Teach Physics To Your Dog started out this way
 * Cake Wrecks has produced a book, complete with a book tour (to which many fans brought cakes of their own).
 * Stuff White People Like started off as a blog and was made into a book.
 * Julie and Julia: blog=> book => movie with Meryl Streep. A big gap in that final step, made by the fact that Nora Ephron just didn't like the attitude she got off of Julie Powell from her blog.
 * Jump the Shark from the late website of the same name
 * Comic Book Legends Revealed from the blog Comics Should Be Good - half new items and half items already posted on the blog.