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== It's over 10,000 ==
=== Current Web Comics ===
* ''[[Kevin & Kell]]'' - Started on September 3, 1995, making it one of the oldest web comics in existence. As of
== [[Memetic Mutation|It's over 9,000!]] ==
Empty section as of mid-June 2023... but we expect ''Superosity'' to get here in late-October 2023.
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== It's over 8,000 ==
=== Current Web Comics ===
* ''[[Superosity]]'' ([http://superosity.keenspot.com/ website]) began March 1, 1999,
* ''[[Sluggy Freelance]]'' - daily with occasional brief reversions to MWF since August 25, 1997, followed by a "whenever Pete wants" schedule after a switch to per-episode patronage funding strategy after the 20th anniversary site makeover in 2017. <!--reached 5000 on May 3, 2011-->Because all strips are transcribed by fans at http://sluggy.info/transcribe, an up-to-date count of strips is maintained there;{{verify}} as of December 5, 2021, there were 8,869 strips.▼
* ''[[Bonequest]]'' began Aug 17, 1998; reached 4000 on October 19, 2009; has 8,855 strips as of June 16, 2023.
* ''[[Sinfest]]'' began Jan 17, 2000; hasn't missed a day since July 10, 2006; reached 4000 on August 19, 2011 and had 8,
* ''[[Alex]]'' first appeared on the internet in June 1999, but has been a newspaper comic since 1987. Hit 3000 web strips in June 2007. The most recent strips are only available via ''The Telegraph''; there were 8,359 strips on the strip's website on June 16, 2023.<!-- The archive might be pants, but the strips are numbered. -->▼
=== Completed Web Comics ===
* ''[[Homestuck]]'': The MS Paint Adventures Wiki [https://mspaintadventures.fandom.com/wiki/Homestuck says] "''Homestuck'' is the fourth and largest story of ''[[MS Paint Adventures]]'', with 8,123 pages (out of 10,030 MSPA pages). It started on the 13th of April 2009 (4/13/09),{{sic}} 413 becoming a recurring number in-universe. The story contains foul language, violence, gore, and other adult themes. The comic ended on April 13, 2016, 7 years after the stable release was first published. The Credits were posted on October 25 of the same year."
▲* ''[[Sluggy Freelance]]'' - daily with occasional brief reversions to MWF since August 25, 1997, followed by a "whenever Pete wants" schedule after a switch to per-episode patronage funding strategy after the 20th anniversary site makeover in 2017. <!--reached 5000 on May 3, 2011-->Because all strips are transcribed by fans at http://sluggy.info/transcribe, an up-to-date count of strips is maintained there;{{verify}} as of December 5, 2021, there were 8,869 strips.
== It's over 7,000 ==
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==It's over 6,000==
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=== Counts and status need to be verified as of June 16, 2023: ===
* ''[[Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal]]'' began September 5, 2002; reached 2000 on September 14, 2010; reached 6000 on July 21, 2021; and has 6013 strips as of August 3, 2021.<!-- Some days have multipe strips, so don't just count days here! -->
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==It's over 5,000==
=== Current Web Comics ===
* ''[[Mezzacotta|Comments on a Postcard]]'', started [http://www.mezzacotta.net/postcard/?comic=1 December 8, 2008] and has never missed a day. Reached 1000 on [http://www.mezzacotta.net/postcard/?comic=1000 October 2, 2011]. it had 5,266 strips (for its idiosyncratic definition of "strips") as of June 16, 2023.
* ''[[Diesel Sweeties]]'' had 5,223 strips (including the 4,000 strips before the [[Continuity Reboot|reboot]] in 2016) as of June 16, 2023.
* ''[[Square Root of Minus Garfield]]'' had 5,141 strips as of June 16, 2023.
* ''[[Questionable Content]]'' began on August 1, 2003, passed 1000 in 2007, and has 5,070 strips as of June 16, 2023.
* ''[[General Protection Fault]]'' began Nov 02, 1998; reached 2000 on Sep 11, 2004; it appeared to have reached 3000 [http://www.gpf-comics.com/archive.php?d=20091012 here] on October 12, 2009; and ran [https://www.gpf-comics.com/archive/2023/01/04 its 5,000th strip] on January 4, 2023. It tied with ''[[Questionable Content]]'' in having 5,070 strips as of June 16, 2023.
==It's over 4,000==
=== Current Web Comics ===
* ''[[Irregular Webcomic]]'' began Dec 31, 2002; last missed a day on March 29, 2004; and hit 4000 on [http://www.irregularwebcomic.net/4000.html May 24, 2019]. When the 2,000 mark was hit on [http://www.irregularwebcomic.net/2000.html July 18, 2008], the news post explained how long you would have to make the comic for 3, 5, and 7 strips a week, and then listed the other webcomics that have gone on that long. The strip hit 3000 strips on [http://www.irregularwebcomic.net/3000.html April 14, 2011]. Entries 3198 through 3380 are "annotations", essentially once-weekly essays (with a very few "filler" sketches) on whatever caught David Morgan-Mar's fancy at the time. There are [https://www.irregularwebcomic.net/5000.html 5,000 instalments] - 182 annotations and 4,818 comic strips - as of June 16, 2023.
* ''[[Doc Rat]]'': Created in the 1990s, organized as a web comic June 26, 2006
* ''[[Station V3]]'' began May 6, 2003, reached 3000 on [http://www.stationv3.com/d/20110812.html Aug 12, 2011], and had 4,083 strips as of June 16, 2023.▼
* ''[[Dinosaur Comics]]'' began February 01, 2003; reached 1000 on May 22, 2007, hit 2000 on July 12, 2011, and ran [https://qwantz.com/index.php?comic=4000 strip 4000] on January 18, 2023. There were 4,060 comics as of June 16, 2023.
* ''[[Freefall]]'' began March 30, 1998; reached 2000 on February 24, 2011; has
=== Counts and status need to be verified as of August 2, 2021: ===
* ''[[User Friendly]]'' - daily since November 17, 1997, and has never missed a day, but has been in reruns for over a decade; reached 4000 on 2008 Oct 29. (A few times in 2009, there have been sets of rerun strips for a few months at a time, and [[The Other Wiki]] tells us that the strip went to reruns-only in 2010.)
* Factoring in Genoworks Saga, No Angel, Campus Safari, Sink or Swim, Gralen Cragg Hall, Puppet Strings as part of ''[[The Cyantian Chronicles]]'', and including [[Alien Dice]], Pure, Abby's Agency, Shivae! (Kaiden & Coel, Vas and Cler storylines), Sivine Blades, Black Rose and more, Tiffany Ross deserves credit for creating MULTIPLE universes and creating several long runners. '''MOD: Follow the example set by
* The four comics that make up the [[Walkyverse]] may or may not count, depending on whether you count them all as one work.
▲* ''[[Superosity]]'' ([http://superosity.keenspot.com/ website]) began 1999 Mar 1; reached 4,000 in March 2010.
▲* The four comics that make up the [[Walkyverse]] may or may not count, depending on whether you count them all as one work. '''(MOD: Follow the example set by the ''[[mezzacotta]]'' strips and break this up into its component strips as well, giving each one a separate entry.)''' They all occur in the same universe, have connected storylines, and have been written and drawn by the same author since September 1997.
** ''[[Dumbing of Age]]'' is in an [[Alternate Universe]].
==It's over 3,000==
=== Current Web Comics ===
▲* ''[[Freefall]]'' began March 30, 1998; reached 2000 on February 24, 2011; has 3,919 strips as of June 16, 2023.
* ''[[Yet Another Fantasy Gamer Comic]]'' began May 29, 2006; reached 2000 on November 18, 2011; has 3,544 strips as of June 16, 2023.
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▲* ''[[Alex]]'' first appeared on the internet in June 1999, but has been a newspaper comic since 1987. Hit 3000 web strips in June 2007.
* ''[[Bruno (web comic)|Bruno]]'' by Christopher Baldwin: began January 1, 1996; mostly daily; ended August 3, 2019. The 2,840 strips from June 7, 2010 to August 3, 2019 are still available [http://brunostrip.com/ on the live web]; you'll have to visit the [[Wayback Machine]] for [https://web.archive.org/web/20110516135256/http://www.baldwinpage.com/archive.html the earlier strips].
* ''[[Daily Grind]]'' began Feb 28, 2005 and reached pg. 3000 on Dec 03, 2010. Still running as of June 16, 2023, but not being published daily any more. Somebody needs [[Archive Binge|go through the archives]] and count the strips; apparently, there were multiple strips on some early days.
* ''[[Funny Farm]]'' ([https://funnyfarmcomics.com/ live web link]) began Jan 26, 1999; daily for most of its run; reached 3000 on Jun 21, 2007. ''Appears to have either rebooted or gone into reruns in 2020, with less than a hundred strips available on the live web as of December 2021.''
* ''[[The Mansion of E]]'' began July 16, 2003, reached 3000 on [http://mansionofe.comicgenesis.com/d/20111217.html December 17, 2011]. Still running as of June 16, 2023; somebody needs to go through the archives (on two different sites) and count the number of strips.
* ''[[Namir Deiter]]'' hit 3000 on April 14, 2011 - the same artist has also done over 2000 comics of You Say it First, over 500 of Unlike Minerva and Spare Parts, and a few other side-projects.
* ''[[Phil Likes Tacos]]'' ([https://www.fulltimeink.com/ website]) began May 22, 2001, reached 3000 on [https://web.archive.org/web/20120413055421/http://fulltimeink.com/archives/8860 September 28, 2010].
▲* ''[[Station V3]]'' began May 6, 2003, reached 3000 on [http://www.stationv3.com/d/20110812.html Aug 12, 2011].
▲* ''[[Phil Likes Tacos]]'' ([https://www.fulltimeink.com/ website]) began May 22, 2001, reached 3000 on [https://web.archive.org/web/20120413055421/http://fulltimeink.com/archives/8860 September 28, 2010].<!-- does not have an archive page and does not number its strips, so somebody will have to count them manually. -->
* ''[[Penny Arcade (Webcomic)|Penny Arcade]]'' began November 18, 1998
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* ''[[Gunnerkrigg Court]]'' hit its [http://www.gunnerkrigg.com/archive_page.php?comicID=1000 1000th comic] on February 15, 2012; it has 2,798 strips as of June 16, 2023.
* ''[[xkcd]]'' "officially" hit 1000 on [http://xkcd.com/1000/ January 6, 2012], but since there's [http://xkcd.com/404/ no comic #404]{{Dead link}} due to an in-joke,<ref>[[Don't Explain the Joke|The page for comic 404 is the error message "404 Not Found".]]</ref> the [http://xkcd.com/1001/ January 9, 2012 comic] was its 1000th strip. There were [https://xkcd.com/2789/ 2,788 strips] as of June 16, 2023.
* ''[[Faux Pas]]'' began its online presence on January 2, 2001, reached comic #1000 on October 20, 2008, and is still in production with
* ''[[Darths & Droids]]'' started on September 14, 2007; reached [https://darthsanddroids.net/episodes/2000.html 2000 strips] on May 25, 2021; and had 2,322 strips as of June 16, 2023.
▲* ''[[Faux Pas]]'' began its online presence on January 2, 2001, reached comic #1000 on October 20, 2008, and is still in production with 2625 comics [http://www.ozfoxes.net/cgi/pl-fp2.cgi?1 in the archive] as of June 25, 2022.
=== Completed Web Comics ===
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* ''[[Fans!]]'' began in 2000, ran until 2005, then was [[Revival|revived]] in 2008 and ran until 2012, running for 2,147 strips in all.
* ''[[Piled Higher and Deeper]]'' Ran from October 27, 1997 to December 24, 2018, for a total of 2,040 strips. Most comics started in [[The Nineties]] are higher on this list, but one suspects that the writer [[Creator In-Joke|procrastinated]] once in a while. Also started as a print comic in a school newspaper and only became a web comic after some time had passed.
=== Status Uncertain ===
* ''[[Jack (webcomic)|Jack]]''
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* ''[[And Shine Heaven Now]]'' began in 2003 and concluded the main strip in 2011. When the (already-drawn) spinoff finishes running in mid-2012, the final count (including guest strips) will be 2,902.{{verify}} So close to leveling up, and yet so far.
* ''[[Bruno the Bandit]]'' abruptly ended on October 23, 2009, at [https://web.archive.org/web/20180523100007/http://www.brunothebandit.com/d/20091023.html strip "39 of I'll get back to you on it!" of the story "Ambrose 2.0, Part 2"]. Somebody will have to go through the archive and count the strips.
* ''[[CRFH]]'' is still running as of June 16, 2023. (Once a month on an irregular schedule still counts as being updated.) The archive is divided by chapters and the comics themselves are not numbered; somebody will have to go through the archive and count the strips.
* ''[[Cyanide & Happiness]]'' began Jan 26, 2005; [https://web.archive.org/web/20100915094136/http://www.explosm.net/comics/1149/ This strip] from Jan 19, 2008 is strip 1000, despite being labeled 1149. It reached 2000 on March 30, 2010.
* ''[[The Devil's Panties]]''
* ''[[Dominic Deegan]]'' began May 21, 2002; reached 1000 on Apr 04, 2006 and 2000 on Apr 14, 2009. Celebrated its 2500th comic on May 19, 2011.
* ''[[Dragon Tails]]'' ran daily for 2000 comics, before the creator ended it on the 2000th comic. A few years later the creator started making comics again, though far less regularly.
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* ''[[Goats]]'' began 1997 Apr 01; reached 2000 on [https://web.archive.org/web/20130604230229/http://www.goats.com/archive/061127.html 2006 Nov 27].
* ''[[Least I Could Do]]'' began on Feb 10, 2000 reached 2000 on July 31, 2009.
* ''[[Legostar Galactica]]'', the first webcomic to use [[LEGO]] elements, began Aug 25, 2002 and reached 2000 on April 24, 2010. Completed web comic as of August 2022, but somebody needs to go in and count the strips.
* ''[[Melonpool]]'' ran from April 28, 1996 to March 6, 2017, with an April Fool's post in 2021. Somebody needs to go through the archives and count the strips... and the archive only shows one month of links at a time.
* ''[[Narbonic]]'' - daily from July 2001 to New Years' Eve 2006.
* ''[[PvP (webcomic)|PvP]]'' has run for roughly a quarter-century, but in the 2020s updates whenever Scott Kurtz has time to draw a new strip instead of updating on a fixed schedule. Somebody needs to go through the archives and count the strips... and the archive only shows one month of links at a time.
* ''[[Real Life Comics]]'' began Nov 15, 1999; reached 2000 on Jan 03, 2008.
* ''[[Sheldon]]''
* ''[[Something*Positive]]''
* ''[[S.S.D.D.]]'' began
* ''[[Unshelved]]'' - completed (and went into reruns) in 2016, but there's no easy way to get a count of the strips. somebody's going to have to count them one-by-one.
* ''[[The Tao of Geek]]'' ([https://web.archive.org/web/20160121050639/http://tog.litazia.com/index.php Wayback Machine link]) has been updating daily since June 2002. By the time the strip ended on October 23, 2010, it was updating six days a week. Somebody needs to go through the archives and count the strips... and the archive only shows one month of links at a time.
* ''[[TRU-Life Adventures]]'' - Started March 12, 2001. 2,109 strips—and 10 years!--as of March 12, 2011.
* ''[[Two Evil Scientists]]'', as of February 2011, it's only 4 strips away from reaching 2,000.▼
* ''[[Wapsi Square]]'' began in 2001 and reached 2000 in mid 2010.
* ''[[You Say It First]]'' - 2000 as of January 18, 2011...not counting about 500 comics of ''Unlike Minerva'', to which it is a sequel.
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* ''[[Grrl Power]]'' reached 1000 strips on November 25, 2021. It had 1162 strips as of June 16, 2023.
=== Completed and Defunct Web Comics ===
▲* ''[[Two Evil Scientists]]''
* ''[[Ubersoft]]'' ([https://web.archive.org/web/20110812235425/https://www.ubersoft.net/comic/hd/1996/03/alex-loss-words Wayback Machine link]) started in 1996 and ended in 2011, with 1,956 strips to its credit. And the art was still basically the same at the beginning and the end.
* ''[[The Book of Biff]]'' began January 2, 2006 as a three times a week comic, and went to a Monday-Friday schedule beginning on the first of 2007. It reached its 1000th comic on April 12, 2010. The last strip, #1902, was posted in December 2014.
* ''[[Scary Go Round]]'' began July 4, 2002; reached 1000 on August 10, 2006; ended with 1,785 on September 11, 2009.
* ''[[Achewood]]'' began on October 10, 2001 and completed on December 25, 2016, with a total of 1,762 strips listed in the archive.
* ''[[Problem Sleuth]]'': The MS Paint Adventures Wiki [https://mspaintadventures.fandom.com/wiki/Problem_Sleuth says] "''Problem Sleuth'' debuted on March 10, 2008, relaunching ''[[MS Paint Adventures]]'' after the abandonment of ''Bard Quest'' eight months earlier caused the site to be shut down indefinitely. Exactly one year later, on March 10, 2009, the central storyline reached its conclusion, and, after the release of an additional epilogue chapter, ''Problem Sleuth'' ended on April 7 with a total of 1,673 pages."
* ''[[8-Bit Theater]]'' began March 2, 2001; reached 1000 strips on June 3, 2008; ended with 1,224 strips on March 20, 2010; a fully illustrated epilogue was posted on June 1, 2010.
* ''[[Blip]]'' had 1,029 strips before the comic went defunct in 2011.
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* ''[[CVRPG]]'': As of Feb, 2011, sits at over 1400. The 1000th strip party took up 16 updates.
* ''[[Dan and Mab's Furry Adventures]]'' (1,100+ comics including a simultaneous prequel arc)
▲* ''[[Doc Rat]]'': Created in the 1990s, organized as a web comic June 26, 2006. As of March 30th, 2012 has 1505 strips.
* ''[[The Dreamland Chronicles]]'' began January 5, 2006 and reached 1000 pages on November 17, 2009.
* ''[[Drowtales]] ''
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* ''[[Girl Genius]]'' had around 1214 pages as of October 22, 2010 (around, because volumes are catagorized independently from one another, with many side stories and fillers in between, making it difficult to get an accurate count.). The site does not have an "archive" page as of August 2, 2021; the strips will have to be counted by hand, going through the strips one-by-one.
* ''[[Girls with Slingshots]]'' is 1215 strips long as of August 12, 2011, not including guest strips.
▲* ''[[Jack (webcomic)|Jack]]'' is over 1650 strips long as of January, 2012.
* ''[[Juathuur]]'' is over 1100, if you count both the original and the sequel.
* ''[[The KAMics|The KA Mics]]'' reached 1000 July 17, 2009.
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