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 26 subcategories, out of 26 total.
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- Campaign Comic (9 P)
- Comics (4 P)
- Completed Web Comics (66 P)
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- Embellished Webcomics (144 P)
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- Fantasy Webcomics (369 P)
- Furry Webcomics (146 P)
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- Gag Per Day Webcomics (175 P)
- Gaming Webcomics (110 P)
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- Historical Webcomics (31 P)
- Horror Webcomics (90 P)
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- Korean Webtoons (21 P)
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- Meta Webcomics (32 P)
- Military and Warfare Comics (21 P)
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- NSFW Webcomics (46 P)
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- Popular Webcomic Sites (15 P)
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- Sci Fi Webcomics (203 P)
- Slice of Life Webcomics (142 P)
- Stick Figure Comic (21 P, 1 F)
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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 1,973 total.
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- The B-Movie Comic
- Baby Aliens
- Bad Guy High
- Bad Machinery
- Badass Boast/Web Comics
- Badass Bookworm/Web Comics
- Badass Creed/Web Comics
- Badass Normal/Web Comics
- Badirfilay
- Badly Drawn Kitties
- Balderduck
- Ball Point Junk
- Ballerina Mafia
- Balloon Belly/Web Comics
- Balls 2 That
- Bar'd
- Bardsworth
- The Bare Pit
- Baritarian Boy
- Barracuda Smile
- Basic Instructions
- Batman and Sons
- Batman Gambit/Web Comics
- Batman: Meanwhile...
- Be Calm
- Be the Sea Dweller Lowblood
- Beach Episode/Web Comics
- Bear Nuts
- Beardy Bastards
- Bearmageddon
- The Beast Legion
- Beaver and Steve
- Becoming Blizzard
- Bedlam Genesis
- A Beginner's Guide to the End of the Universe
- Belligerent Sexual Tension/Web Comics
- The Bend
- Benders and Brawlers
- Berserk Button/Web Comics
- Best Known for the Fanservice/Web Comics
- Better Days
- Better Than It Sounds/Web Comics
- Between Failures
- Between the Lines (webcomic)
- Between Two Worlds
- Beware the Nice Ones/Web Comics
- Beyond Reality
- Beyond Temptation
- Beyond the Canopy
- Beyond the Impossible/Web Comics
- BIBLE
- Bibliography (web comic)
- Big Bad/Web Comics
- Big Damn Heroes/Web Comics
- Big Eater/Web Comics
- Big Fancy House/Web Comics
- Big No/Web Comics
- Bigger Than Cheeses
- Billy the Heretic
- Bionicle Manga
- Bird Boy
- Bite Me! (webcomic)
- Bittersweet Candy Bowl
- Bittersweet Ending/Web Comics
- Black Adventures
- Black Annis
- Black Rose
- Black Tapestries
- Blade Bunny
- Blade Kitten
- Blade of Toshubi
- Blank It
- Blatant Lies/Web Comics
- Blazen!
- Blessed with Suck/Web Comics
- Blind Idiot Translation/Web Comics
- Blip
- The Blonde Marvel
- Blood Money Boogie
- Bloody Urban
- Blue Crash Kit
- Blue Milk Special
- Blue Yonder
- Blur the Lines
- Bob and George
- Bob the Angry Flower
- Bobwhite
- Body Horror/Web Comics
- Bomberman Land Parody
- Bonequest
- The Bongcheon-Dong Ghost
- Boobs Ahoy
- Book Ends/Web Comics
- The Book of Biff
- Books Don't Work Here
- Boring but Practical/Web Comics
- Botched Spot
- Bowdlerise/Web Comics
- Boxer Hockey
- Boy Aurus
- Boy Meets Boy
- Boy on a Stick and Slither
- Braceface Fangface
- Brain Bleach/Web Comics
- Brat Halla
- Brawl in the Family
- Break the Cutie/Web Comics
- Breakfast of the Gods
- Breaking the Fourth Wall/Web Comics
- Breakpoint City
- Breezy Days
- Brick Joke/Web Comics
- The Brick Testament
- Bridges
- The Bright Side
- Bro Rangers
- Brock of the Undead
- Broken Base/Web Comics
- Broken Lines
- Broken Plot Device
- A Broken Winter
- Brother-Sister Incest/Web Comics
- Bruno the Bandit
- Buffet of Lies
- Bug Martini
- Building 12
- Buni
- Bunny Ears Lawyer/Web Comics
- But I'm a Cat Person
- Butt Monkey/Web Comics
- Buttercup Festival
- Buttersafe
- Buttlord GT
- By the Saints
- Bytes of Life
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- C'est la Vie (webcomic)
- Cain and Unable
- CAKE (webcomic)
- The Call of Whatever
- Cameo Comic
- Camp Calomine
- Candi
- Canis
- Canon Discontinuity/Web Comics
- Canterlot Is Corrupt
- Cantrip the Magic Rabbit
- Captain Broadband
- Captain SNES
- Cardboard Angel
- Cardcaptor Torika
- Caribbean Blue
- Carnies
- Carpe Chaos
- Carpe Diem
- Carried By the Wind
- Carrot Cake Storybook
- The Cartoon Chronicles of Conroy Cat
- Casey and Andy
- Cass Toons
- Castelocked
- Castlevania RPG
- Cat and Girl
- Cat Legend
- Cat Nine
- Catalyst (webcomic)
- Catch Phrase/Web Comics
- Catena
- Catharsis
- Cats n' Cameras
- Chainmail Bikini (webcomic)
- Chainsawsuit
- The Challenges of Zona
- Channel Ate
- Chaos Theory
- The Chapel Chronicles
- Char Cole
- Character Derailment/Web Comics
- Characterization Marches On/Web Comics
- Charby the Vampirate
- Chasing the Sunset
- Chatroom (web comic)
- Cheap Thrills
- Check, Please! (webcomic)
- Checkerboard Nightmare
- Cheer!
- Cheese in the Trap
- Chekhov's Gun/Web Comics
- Cheshire Crossing
- Chess Piece
- Chester 5000 XYV
- CHEVALIER
- Chibi Mikusan
- Chicanery
- Chimneyspeak
- Chirault
- Chocolate Milkmaid
- Chopping Block
- The Chosen Four
- Chronicles of Loth
- Chugworth Academy