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Bonus strips added when a comic/WebComic[[Newspaper Comic]] or [[Web Comic]] is published as a book. A [[Sub-Trope]] of [[Bonus Material]]. See also [[Side-Story Bonus Art]].

* The first ''[[The Adventures of Dr. McNinja (Webcomic)|The Adventures of Dr. McNinja]]'' book has [[Alt Text]] (first introduced in the second issue) added for the first issue. The third book has a short story starring the side character "The Beeman".

* The ''[[The Order of the Stick]]'' books tend to do this (not counting the two print only stories). For example: ''Dungeon Crawling Fools'' has a set of new comics introducing the characters better than the cast page on the website. Lampshaded in-story twice. Once when characters suggest they add an unseen bit of action as bonus content for the next book and when Haley is suffering under a speech-impediment that turns all her speech into cryptograms, she can still communicate with The Oracle. When asked, he says that no, he doesn't understand her - he just has the power to look into the future, for when the strips are released in book-form with translations attached.

* Both ''[[El Goonish Shive (Webcomic)|El Goonish Shive]]'' books have an additional silly story and a [[Post Episode Trailer]].

* The ''[[Sluggy Freelance]]'' [https://web.archive.org/web/20131030220520/http://store.sluggy.com/home.php?cat=1 collected volumes] contain these. The character of Deplora was actually introduced in one of these bonus stories before being brought into the main strip.

* The ''[[Axe Cop (Webcomic)|Axe Cop]]'' book, in addition to publishing every episode of the webcomic released up to that point, includes commentary from Ethan on the ''Ask Axe Cop'' strips, plus fanart.

* ''[[Tea HouseTeahouse]]'' does cleverly: it lures potential readers by promises of [[Yaoi|yummy mansex]], traps them by a captivating plot, and rakes in the chips by keeping the great majority of the smut as well as some extra strips print-only.

* ''[[Daily Lives of High School Boys (Manga)|Daily Lives of High School Boys]]'' is not strictly a webcomic.<ref>It is published in an free-for-view commercial online anthology which operates like traditional manga anthologies</ref>. However, like the examples above, when this free-to-view online manga is collected into printed volumes, additional skits, i.e. ''High School Girls are Funky'', were added. It is remarkable to note that ''High School Girls are Funky'' is the only thing in this series that has a long-term plot.