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xkcd, sometimes styled XKCD, [‡ 2] is a serial webcomic created in 2005 by American author Randall Munroe. [1] The comic's tagline describes it as "a webcomic of romance, sarcasm, math, and language". [‡ 3] [2] Munroe states on the comic's website that the name of the comic is not an initialism but "just a word with no phonetic pronunciation".
"Digital-first" comics can almost seamlessly transition from screen to print, as they are designed with this leap in platform in mind. Rosberg claimed that such comics are not webcomics, as webcomics are designed for consumption only on the World Wide Web, often using infinite canvas techniques or uncommon page formats. [4]
This project is dedicated to providing information on internet-based comic strips, or webcomics.The scope of this project may extend to other fields, such as webcomics in print, animation or video games inspired by webcomics, and people related to the webcomic community/industry.
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Sprite comics mainly use graphics from 1980s video games, such as Mega Man and Final Fantasy. Lore Sjöberg from Wired stated that sprite comics "re-create the feel of [such games] with a minimum of artistic effort." Penny Arcade ' s Mike Krahulik pointed out that sprite comics are a good way for people who can't draw well to create comics. [3]
Over time, the comics evolved from simple static images and captions to frequent animations set to original music, and occasionally to interactive games created in Flash [2] and HTML5. One adventure, Homestuck, has given rise to a large fan community as made evident by the increasing amount of fan art [7] and cosplay at comic book conventions. [8]
ASCII art of a fish. ASCII art is a graphic design technique that uses computers for presentation and consists of pictures pieced together from the 95 printable (from a total of 128) characters defined by the ASCII Standard from 1963 and ASCII compliant character sets with proprietary extended characters (beyond the 128 characters of standard 7-bit ASCII).
A Modest Destiny was created by Sean Howard. In an interview, Howard said that his background was in programming. He said that he became interested in comics when a website he followed went down for a server upgrade and the admin posted a list of things people could do instead, one of which was a link to Sluggy Freelance.