About

This is an obviously "UNDER CONSTRUCTION" website where I plan to list all the webcomics I like to read. I figured since I spend so much time trying to find new (and good) webcomics to read, I might as well share my list. I make no promises that our tastes align, but I hope you find something new to like!

I chose neocities to pay homage to the web1.0 culture that brought about the webcomic over 25 years ago. This will be my playground to refresh and further my HTML and CSS knowledge past a basic class in high school. Don't worry, there will hardly be any Javascript or PHP tainting this website. I still believe that websites should be simple and load quickly. This site may not be the prettiest, but it will load on basically all hardware, will cause less carbon emissions, will never mine your data, and will hopefully inspire us to take back the internet as it should be.

History

To understand the webcomic it's important to briefly catch up on the comic. Comics as an artistic medium first rose to prominence in the interwar period where they made the leap from gag strips to episodic stories such as Superman in the USA. Readers of comics, likely inspired by the success of Marvel, DC, etc, went on to create their own independent studios. Relevant to the webcomic, Antarctic Press was founded in 1984. A.P. crucially picked up the Albedo Anthropomorphic featuring the widely influential Erma Felna: EDF. Later in 1991, Furrlough began and regularly added new artists to its anthology. Radio Comix Press was created by A.P. expats and published comics including Havoc Inc. Mu Press also entered the scene in 1990.

At the same time, universities were first getting computer networking connections. T.H.E. Fox is the oldest surviving webcomic (1986) and began to show what was possible in the digital space. Soon the cost reduction of full color document scanners, Photoshop licenses, and hosting lowered the bar for entry such that sufficiently nerdy artists could show off their artwork on the net.

This is a rather crude and expedient summary of webcomic history. As with all of the website I invite discussion over e-mail to discuss finer details or verbally beat me over the head. For better or for worse the circumstances which brought us webcomics today are overwhelmingly “furry” and to separate one from the other is historically false. All comics mentioned by name are specifically mentioned by assorted postings from the old guard of comic artists.

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