webcomic

English

Etymology

From Web +‎ comic. The word is first attested 2000, but websites titled "WebComics" existed previously (as early as 1995).

Noun

webcomic (plural webcomics)

1. (comics, Internet) An online comic, especially one first published on the Internet.
   • 2008, Danny Fingeroth, The Rough Guide to Graphic Novels, →ISBN, page 275:

     Webcomics certainly have their selling points. They are harder to censor and generally free from editorial meddling […]

   • 2014 June 12, George Dvorsky, “12 Futuristic Forms of Government That Could One Day Rule the World”, in Gizmodo‎^[1]:

     Weinersmith, who is best known for his webcomic Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal, describes the polystate as a geopolitical entity in which multiple overlapping states exist — but each “state” consists of citizens who have agreed to the laws of a single non-geographic state; typical geographically-bound nations, or traditional “geostates”, would be replaced by “polystates”, which are collections of “anthrostates”.

   • 2015 February 24, Lilian Min, “How the Internet Invented a New Kind of Storytelling”, in The Atlantic‎^[2]:

     Almost six years ago, Andrew Hussie began another one of a series of webcomics on his website, MS Paint Adventures. These early comics were experiments in fan-sourced storytelling: He’d create and monitor forums for character and story suggestions, then fold them into the story.

Translations

first comic published on the Internet

• Japanese: ウェブコミック (webu komikku), ウェブまんが (webu manga)
• Korean: 웹코믹 (wepkomik)
• Spanish: webcómic (es) m