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JL8 is a webcomic by Yale Stewart based on the characters of DC Comics' Justice League. Having started in 2011 under the title Little League, the webcomic presents the members of the Justice League as 8-year-old children. Stewart has used JL8 to raise funds for charities, and the webcomic has been positively received by critics.
DC Zoom original logo. In 2017, DC Comics announced that a new untitled young readers imprint would launch in 2018. [3] Abraham Riesman, for Vulture, highlighted a shift in audience for graphic novels that didn't have to do with either Marvel or DC Comics; Riesman wrote that "shift was the result of decisions made by librarians, teachers, kids'-book publishers, and people born after the year 2000.
[1] [5] Those terms are somewhat arbitrary, with Roger Sabin defining children's comics as those for readers aged 16 or less, and within that group distinguishing nursery comics for those aged 8 or below, and adolescent comics for the group of 12-16 years old). [4]: 15 Some comics have also been described as "all ages" (ex. Little Lit). [6] [7]
Webtoon Entertainment, the serial comics platform, was founded in South Korea in 2005 by CEO Junkoo Kim, Naver. [16] Since its launch in 2013, WEBTOON has become the most popular mobile app, catering to young adults who enjoy reading comics and webcomic content. [17]
The Oatmeal is a webcomic and humor website created in 2009 by cartoonist Matthew Inman.It offers original comics, quizzes, and occasional articles. Inman has produced a series of Oatmeal books with content from the webcomic and previously unpublished material, related board games, and other merchandise.
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".
Scott McCloud created various experimental webcomics in the late 1990s and early 2000s, including The Morning Improv and The Right Number. Aaron William's Nodwick and PS238 debuted in print before moving online in 2001 and 2006, respectively. Phil and Kaja Foglio moved their long-running comic book series Girl Genius to a webcomic format in 2005.
Early webcomics were often derivatives from strips in college newspapers, [citation needed] but when the Web became widely popular in the mid-1990s, more people started creating comics exclusively for this medium. By 2000, various webcomic creators were financially successful and webcomics became more artistically recognized.