Comics #2

Comic Books 2. Print / Web

Welcome to the wonderful world of Comics. What are comics? Are they printed on paper? Terrible Earth destroying paper (never mind that we grow trees specifically to be cut down, thus resulting in more trees now then… you know what never mind. Tree destroying bad, right? Right. We’ll just go with that.) So are those comics, or are those pretty little things on the internet comics?

Let’s be honest. They both are – one is just more accepted than the other. When we go into a store and see magazines on sale for three bucks a pop, with spider-man in them, or wolverine on the cover we feel “wow, this is a good comic.” When we come across an internet comic we think “wow, these things with the same potential quality in story and art are good, but they’re free and as such, they must not be as ‘real’.”

So most people look towards making standard comics. But, they are held back. They are limited to a page size, and all the constraints that that details.

Web comics can include hypertext, clicking in and clicking out, the infinite canvas that scrolls (you can have one page scrolling forever telling the whole story.) Still – most web comics just emulate their printed counterparts. Why? Because it’s what we have come to know and understand.

If you’re trying to make a name for yourself, sure you can try to publish them normally – but think about using the internet as your friend. A lot of comics out there have made a huge impact, and below I’ll list some of the best web comics that I have come across, as well as a link to a particularly good page. Feel free to love them or hate them, but appreciate them for what they are: real comics. Also – check out the web design. Pretty.

Penny Arcade
http://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2002/10/11/

The Perry Bible Fellowship
http://pbfcomics.com/?cid=PBF152-Scorpy_the_Forest_Friend.gif

Three Panel Soul
http://www.threepanelsoul.com/view.php?date=2007-09-25

Real Life Comics
http://www.reallifecomics.com/archive/031125.html

RPG World Comics
http://www.rpgworldcomic.com/d/20011104.html

Sin Fest
http://www.sinfest.net/archive_page.php?comicID=1