Week 14: Webcomics

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!