webcomic
See also: Webcomic
English
Alternative forms
Etymology
From Web + comic. The word is first attested in 1997, but websites titled "WebComics" existed previously (as early as 1995).
Noun
webcomic (plural webcomics)
- (comics, Internet) An online comic, especially one first published on the Internet.
- 2008, Danny Fingeroth, The Rough Guide to Graphic Novels, →ISBN, page 275:
- Webcomics certainly have their selling points. They are harder to censor and generally free from editorial meddling […]
- 2014 June 12, George Dvorsky, “12 Futuristic Forms of Government That Could One Day Rule the World”, in Gizmodo[2], archived from the original on 28 October 2025:
- 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”.
- 2015 February 24, Lilian Min, “How the Internet Invented a New Kind of Storytelling”, in James Bennet, editor, The Atlantic[3], Washington, D.C.: The Atlantic Monthly Group, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 15 August 2026:
- 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.
- (Can we date this quote?), Panel Party, About Comix Cleric[4], archived from the original on 7 September 2026:
- Existing tools for making sites for webcomics are quite limited.
Translations
first comic published on the Internet