Anybody knowing me in real life know that my love for webcomics borders on obsessive, although many would very well say that it is in fact obsessive. As such, I want to discuss about webcomics.
It is infact very probably that everyone of you read at least one webcomic, be it casually or avidly, as it is my case, and as such probably don't know the world surounding it as much as others that read a great quantity of them. Like somebody reading 52 of them, let's say.
It's fucking complicated, let me tell you.
Sure, you're probably all saying "Meh, all you need is a webpage and an idea and then voilà, there it is, a webcomic." True, but also very false. There's a lot of things to consider when doing your comic, and then even if everything as been watched under every angle possible and under a microscope, your comic might still get absolutly no bloody readers at all. Any popular webcomic artist out there ( well, any popular one that isn't a dipshit ) will tell you that they just wanted to start a webcomic and when they did, they got popular without even asking for it. Some will even say that there are far more talented individuals out there and that it should be their webcomic they should be reading. Most often they just had a website and an idea. And now, if you have an attention span slightly longer than a goldfish's, you might be noticing that I just contradicted myself by saying the exact opposite than in the beginning of this paragraph.
No, I didn't. You're stupid. Also, shut up.
While it's true that you might not have any preparation at all and get popular anyway, you'll get a lot of haters in the meantime. If you want to be more loved than hated in the long term, be prepared.
So if you're prepared, you'll probably know what type of webcomic you want to do. There is an incredible amount of comics, and if you want one about the daily lives of sheeps in a noir movie setting, there's probably one out there. As such, I won't bother to list them all here, since it'd take something like... oh, a small 4 or 5 hours. Go search for whatever you want.
Now, let's take a look at the artists/writers behind the comics. They come in all kinds and sizes, be it small, large, stupid, intelligent, moron, depressed, overconfident, furry, members of a nazi group, and also the kind of total idiot that goes flashing his dick to 10 years old, that dumbass im-tay uckley-bay. Should you know Pig Latin you'll know who talking about in the previous sentence. Then you can burn him. A lot.
So as you may have guessed from that previous paragraph, there are less than intelligent people in the webcomic world that still somehow manage to get popular. Depressed people do NOT count as less than intelligent though. As such, there is many, oh so many bad comics out there that the shear (yes, that is a word) amount of it in printed form could probably overshadow Mt. Everest. Okay, I'm exagerrating, but it's at least enough to fill a large crater. Learn to differentiate them, it's really easy. If the comic pretends to be humor and you can read the whole archive without so much as a chuckle, there is something wrong! Stop reading that webcomic. Remove it from your bookmarks. Why are you still reading it?
There, much better.
Now, I'll leave you with a nice list that will not increase the traffic of those comics at all because I have no readers. Enjoy.
Note that they're lesser known comics too.
...Aaaaand I'll leave it at that.
