This week I read a little bit
of a lot of webcomics. Prior to this week, I'd never read a
whole lot of webcomics. After reading a little bit of everything
(like Octopus Pie, Oglaf, and Riceboy) I realized why webcomics were so
powerful. What I found is that Web Comics are very similar to the episodic
newspaper comic strips, but adapted to the modern audience and with
contemporary sensibilities. They are almost like diary entries that
are shared with an audience just like a blog, but with a much more visual
aspect behind them. The biggest change though that Web Comics bring to the
world of graphic storytelling though, is the power that it gives to the
individual, It seems like webcomics
give the artists ultimate freedom to tell the stories they want to tell and how
they want to tell it. It's also great because anyone with a phone or laptop can
have access to this material and it's not something that you have to collect in
paperback
I definitely see a clear
future for comics in this web form. It's accessible and there's so much room
for collaboration and conversation between artists. There's something very
special about being able to reach out to artists as easily as shooting them a
tweet or an email. Artists having a big internet presence just makes this world
feel more collaborative as a whole!
