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Webcomics, also known as online comics and internet comics, are comics that are available to read on the Internet. ShadowCulture. Retrieved on 2007-07-01. ^ Bordahl, Hans. Where the Buffalo Roam which was published on the web in September of 1996. A year later, in 1997, Goats appeared (in April), followed by Sluggy Freelance (in August), Roomies! (in September), Newshounds and User Friendly (both in November). Penny Arcade, PvP, Jerkcity, and Pokey the Penguin began a year later. In March 2000, Chris Crosby, Crosby's mother Teri, and Darren Bleuel founded the webcomics portal Keenspot.[23][24] Crosby and Bleuel also started a free webcomic hosting service in July 2000, originally called KeenSpace but renamed Comic Genesis in July 2005. In July 2000, Austin Osueke launched eigoMANGA a web portal that published original online manga "webmanga". Within this year, eigoMANGA brought comic book industry attention to webcomics after being featured in many comic book web magazine articles and later appearing in the March 2001 issue of Wizard Magazine. In August 2000, Scott McCloud's Reinventing Comics, half of which consisted of a treatise on webcomics, was published. Though sometimes controversial, McCloud was one of the first advocates of webcomics, has pioneered the idea of the infinite canvas, [3] where, rather than being confined to normal print dimensions, artists are free to spread out in any direction indefinitely with their comics, as demian5 has done with his scrolling When I Am King.[4] Other comic artists, such as Ryan North of Dinosaur Comics, have taken copy-pasting of art to an extreme, with every daily strip having identical art, with only the text changing.[13] Pixel art, such as that created by Richard Stevens of Diesel Sweeties, is similar to that of sprite comics but instead uses original low-resolution work created by the artist.[14] There has also been a source of debate.[25][26] In 2001, the subscription webcomics site Cool Beans World was launched after a high profile publicity campaign including extensive print advertising. It won Internet Magazine's "Site of the Month" award in October 2001.[27] Contributors included, amongst others, UK-based comic book creators Pat Mills, Simon Bisley, John Bolton and Kevin O'Neill, and the author Clive Barker.[28] Serialised content included Scarlet Traces and Marshal Law. In March 2001, Shannon Denton and Patrick Coyle launched Komikwerks.com serving free strips from comics and animation professionals. The site launched with 9 titles including Astounding Space Thrills by Steve Conley, Buzzboy by John Gallagher, and Johnny Smackpants by Coyle. On March 2, 2002, Joey Manley founded Modern Tales, offering subscription-based webcomics.[29] The Modern Tales spin-off serializer followed in October of 2002, then came girlamatic and Graphic Smash in March and September of 2003 respectively. By 2005, webcomics hosting had become a business in its own right with

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