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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".
The traditional audience base for webcomics and print comics are vastly different, and webcomic readers do not necessarily go to bookstores. For some webcartoonists, a print release may be considered the "goal" of a webcomic series, while for others, comic books are "just another way to get the content out." [3]
Exemplars shows the standard format for comics-related articles, and gives some examples of accepted article structure. Naming conventions describes the best ways to name new comics articles. References – This page lists some comics-related references to aid in sourcing your edits of comics-related articles.
MayaVi is a scientific data visualizer written in Python, which uses VTK and provides a GUI via Tkinter. MayaVi was developed by Prabhu Ramachandran, is free and distributed under the BSD License. It is cross-platform and runs on any platform where both Python and VTK are available (almost any Unix, Mac OS X, or Windows).
Making Comics: Storytelling Secrets of Comics, Manga, and Graphic Novels is a book by comic book writer and artist Scott McCloud, published by William Morrow Paperbacks in 2006. A study of methods of constructing comics, it is a thematic sequel to McCloud's critically acclaimed books Understanding Comics and Reinventing Comics .
The limitations of computers of that time period necessitated the use of text characters to represent images. Along with ASCII's use in communication, however, it also began to appear in the underground online art groups of the period. An ASCII comic is a form of webcomic which uses ASCII text to create images. In place of images in a regular ...
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]
The traditional audience base for webcomics and print comics are vastly different, and webcomic readers do not necessarily go to bookstores. For some web cartoonists, a print release may be considered the "goal" of a webcomic series, while for others, comic books are "just another way to get the content out."