Category:Web Comics
"They're all about video games, gamer nerds, web geeks, dork nerds, gamewads, nerd games, web webs, and elves."
—--Strong Bad on webcomics
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A webcomic is exactly what it sounds like, a comic on the World Wide Web.
They vary in format from gag-a-day Garfield-style strips, to dramatic, romantic graphic novels, to Japanese-inspired manga-style comics. Some of the most popular webcomics tend to have a computer game theme, giving an idea of who their key audience are (or, perhaps, where the author is coming from).
The medium as a whole suffers from the same problems as Fanfic with regards to Sturgeon's Law: a low barrier to entry means that the entire 90% of crap is visible. While many of the webcomics -- particularly those on free community sites like Drunk Duck and Comic Genesis and Comic Fury -- are considered low quality, there are many high-quality comics out there.
Some webcomics, such as Penny Arcade and xkcd have even gained sufficient popular and critical acclaim to earn their creators a living wage from their work, usually via selling The Merch. As was noted on the Newspaper Comics page, the bar for success in sequential art was set fairly low by the old newspaper syndicates and comics publishers, so "a living wage" rather than movie/rock star extravagance is all anyone ever expected to begin with.
Webcomics work on a very different set of standards than other fiction. Almost all webcomic authors are working pretty much entirely alone as they both draw and script their comics and most do not plan any further along than to the end of their current story -- sometimes not even that far.
Many of them try to adhere to a schedule they aren't really capable of meeting, resulting in them rushing to meet their deadline and making mistakes that should be avoidable. So many of the good 10% lack qualities standard in traditionally professional works. This can be because of the lack of editorial input as well as the lack of lead time. Not all webcomics suffer from this, though, and even the ones that do can still be interesting. Arguably, some strips benefit from their rawness.
Growing in popularity in recent years, webcomics use Tropes just like any other media, and thus can be seen cited throughout the wiki.
Subcategories
This category has the following 6 subcategories, out of 26 total.
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- Unclassified Webcomics (159 P)
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- Web Comics/Heartwarming (57 P)
- Webcomics Multiverses (25 P)
- Wild Mass Guessing/Web Comics (160 P)
Pages in category "Web Comics"
The following 200 pages are in this category, out of 1,972 total.
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- Something*Positive
- Somewhat Cure
- Somewhere Different
- Song of the Cloud
- Sonic and Pals
- Sonic the Comic Online
- Sonichu
- The Sorcerer's Apprentice (webcomic)
- Sorcery 101
- Sordid City Blues
- Sordid Details Following
- Sore Thumbs
- Sorting Algorithm of Deadness/Web Comics
- Sorting Algorithm of Mortality/WMG/Web Comics
- Soul Symphony
- Sounds Like a Melody
- The Space Between
- Spacetrawler
- Spamusement
- Sparkling Generation Valkyrie Yuuki
- Special School
- The Specialists
- Spell My Name with an "S"/Web Comics
- Spelling the Vacuum
- Spiddrelli
- Spiderwebs
- Spiked Math
- Spiky-Haired Dragon, Worthless Knight
- Spina Cage
- Spinnerette
- Springiette
- Sprite Comic
- Spy6teen
- Square Root of Minus Garfield
- Squid Ninja
- Stage Select
- Star Guys
- Star of Destiny
- Star Something
- Star Trek Ragnarok
- Starcrossed
- Stardroids
- Starfighter
- Starslip
- State-tan Project
- Station V3
- Status Quo Is God/Web Comics
- Stealth Pun/Web Comics
- Stencil 88
- Stickman and Cube
- StoneToss
- Stop Helping Me!/Web Comics
- The Stormrunners
- Strange Acquaintances
- Strange Fiction
- Strawberry Death Cake
- Strawberry Syrup
- Strawman Has a Point/Web Comics
- Strays
- Strife Strips
- String Theory (webcomic)
- Striptease (webcomic)
- Stripy Six
- Stubble Trouble
- STuCK
- Stupid Fox
- The Stupiders
- Subnormality
- The Suburban Jungle
- Sugar Bits
- Suicide for Hire
- Suitcase Nuke (webcomic)
- Sunflower and Blade
- Supah Nario Bros
- Super Effective (webcomic)
- The Super Fogeys
- Super Sam and John of The Night
- Super Stupor
- Super Temps
- Super Weight/Web Comics
- Superandom
- Superego
- Superidol
- Supermassive Black Hole A*
- Supermegatopia
- Supernormal Step
- Superslackers
- Suppression
- Surviving the World
- Survivor: Fan Characters
- SuzixEmma
- Sweet and Sour Grapes (webcomic)
- Sweet Beat
- Sweet Bro and Hella Jeff
- Sweet Jade and Hella John
- Sword of Heaven
- The Symmetrical Breadpazoid
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- T/R-andom Watch
- Tag Dream
- Taiki: The Webcomic
- Tails Gets Trolled
- Tailsteak
- Take That/Web Comics
- A Tale of Fiction
- Tales From the Middle Kingdom
- Tales From the Pit
- Tales of a Gay Asian
- Tales of Gnosis College
- Tales of the Questor
- Tales of the Unrefined
- Tally Road
- Tallyho
- Tamuran
- Tara and John
- Taylor's Polynomials
- Teahouse
- Teh Gladiators
- Templar, Arizona
- Tempting Fate/Web Comics
- The Ten Family
- Terinu
- Terminal Lance
- Terrifying Monsters
- Terror Island
- Thaumaturge
- Theater Hopper
- There Is No Kill Like Overkill/Web Comics
- Thesis
- Thespiphobia
- They Changed It, Now It Sucks/Web Comics
- They Wasted a Perfectly Good Plot/Web Comics
- Think Before You Think
- Thinkin' Lincoln
- This Is Normal
- This Is Not Fiction
- This Is the Worst Idea You've Ever Had
- Thistil Mistil Kistil
- Thog Infinitron
- Thomas and Monkey Comics
- Thornsaddle
- Three Panel Soul
- The Three Times
- The Thrilling Adventures of Lovelace and Babbage
- Throw It In/Web Comics
- Thunderstruck
- Time Lord/Web Comics
- Times Like This
- Titanzer
- Title Drop/Web Comics
- Today Nothing Happened
- Todd Allison & the Petunia Violet
- Tonzura Koite
- Too Dumb to Live/Web Comics
- Too Much Information (webcomic)
- Took a Level in Badass/Web Comics
- Totally Flaked
- Touhou Nekokayou
- Touhoumon Nuzlocke Challenge
- Tower of God
- Trace
- Tragic Deaths
- Tranquility Base
- Trans Girl Diaries
- Transformation Comic
- Transformers Nexus
- Transpose Operator
- Treading Ground
- The Trenches
- Triangle and Robert
- Trigger Star
- The Tripadelic Life of Spannith no-Punchlines
- Tripp
- Tripping Over You
- Trompez L'esprit
- Troops of Doom
- Trope Namers/Web Comics
- Trope Overdosed the Webcomic
- TRU-Life Adventures
- True Companions/Web Comics
- True Magic
- True Villains
- Trying Human
- Tsunami Channel
- Tsundere/Web Comics
- Turbo Defiant Kimecan
- Turn Signals on a Land Raider
- Turner Academy
- TV CIRCUIT
- Tweep
- Twelve Dragons
- Twice Blessed
- Twisted Kaiju Theater
- Twisted Mirrors
- Two Evil Scientists
- Two Guys and Guy
- Two Keys
- Two Lumps
- Two Rooks
- Twokinds
- Type Trainer