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webcomic en · NOUN

Etymology

From Web + comic. The word is first attested 2000, but websites titled "WebComics" existed previously (as early as 1995).

Meanings

1. (Internet) An online comic, especially one first published on the Internet.
   • Weinersmith, who is best known for his webcomic Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal, describes the polystate as a geopolitical entity in which multiple overlapping states exist — but each “state” consists of citizens who have agreed to the laws of a single non-geographic state; typical geographically-bound nations, or traditional “geostates”, would be replaced by “polystates”, which are collections of “anthrostates”. 2014 June 12, George Dvorsky, “12 Futuristic Forms of Government That Could One Day Rule the World”, in Gizmodo:
   • Existing tools for making sites for webcomics are quite limited. (Can we date this quote?), Panel Party, About Comix Cleric:
   • Almost six years ago, Andrew Hussie began another one of a series of webcomics on his website, MS Paint Adventures. These early comics were experiments in fan-sourced storytelling: He’d create and monitor forums for character and story suggestions, then fold them into the story. 2015 February 24, Lilian Min, “How the Internet Invented a New Kind of Storytelling”, in The Atlantic:
   • Webcomics certainly have their selling points. They are harder to censor and generally free from editorial meddling[…] 2008, Danny Fingeroth, The Rough Guide to Graphic Novels, →ISBN, page 275:

Forms

Relateds

webtoon

Translations (5)

es webcómic (first comic published on the Internet) · ja ウェブコミック (first comic published on the Internet) · ja ウェブまんが (first comic published on the Internet) · ko 웹코믹 (first comic published on the Internet) · pl komiks internetowy (first comic published on the Internet)