Talk:Webcomic

message: I saw the  tag "This article may not provide balanced geographical coverage on the region in question." I see no discussion here on the Talk page, but I do agree that the article is almost entirely about online comics in the Anglo-saxon language sphere and neglects European (non-English) and Asian work.
Therefore I started the section Non-english webcomics with an example of one German comic.
I know nothing about the history of online comics outside of what I read in the French and German articles and faint memories of Compuserve comic forums (possibly German around 1995). Nevertheless I added inside html comments the following very rough skeleton that could be expanded to cover the French.
A section on the different developmental path that French "webcomics" took could be added here. Paraphrasing http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bande_dessin%C3%A9e_en_ligne:
Comics in the French language appeared online very hesitantly: 1997 
Bande dessinée interactive?
first (shortlived?) appearance at Angoulême International Comics Festival;
existing print-comic publishers show limited strips on their web-portals (Fluide Glacial);
group of illustrators launch BDAmateur 1998;
2001 "Lapin by Phiip first french online comic strip"?
...
Anglosaxon and Asian regions clearly ahead;
claims on line comics in Korea represent a quarter of the cartoon market!
2005 revitalisation of francophone comics: Blog BD (mixed set of graphic novel fragments, illustrations, sketches, popular as, but different from US-webcomics);
contrary to rest of world French comics online return to the traditional printed paper style;
I would be interested if anyone could expand this section for several other languages and cultures, for example where are Japanese and Korean webcomics mentioned (apart from eigoMANGA)?
84user (talk) 01:43, 22 December 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: Adding content about non-English webcomics seems a worthy goal, but the current state of this section is not ideal.  A list of non-English webcomics isn't the way to go - we don't have a list of English language webcomics in the main article, and how would one decide which comics to include and which to exclude?  If someone can find a good source for analysis of such comics, that would be great. Right now, though, we've got a grab-bag of comics - hardly encyclopedic. Fasrad (talk) 02:18, 28 April 2009 (UTC)
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thread_title:  Non-english webcomics 

message: Well I added this:
France:
"In France Comic Blogs are thriving. There are now festivals dedicated to webcomics like the Festiblog. Even at the famous Comic Festival of Angoulême, comic bloggers are present and award the price of the best webcomic. France is a country with a strong tradition in comics but there seems to be a place left for bloggers who represent the new generation of comic authors. A good example is Boulet, who started with a blog and who's publishing his second album of webcomics now: Bouletcorp. Here's a list of established and less established French webcomics: Frédéric Boilet, Guy Delisle, Lucille Gomez, Nicoz, Clément Oubrerie, Paka, Pluche, Lewis Trondheim, Wayne, Blog de la Mirabelle, Le repaire de Lommsek... This is only a short selection and some of these blogs have an audience of 30,000 readers/day, others of 200 readers/day, but their diversity reflect the broad range of webcomics in a French comic environment in constant evolution. Some of these webcomics are mixed genres. Using the freedom of a blog some authors mix comics, photography, videos, texts, but essentially these blogs are webcomics."
But it was censored because the links (in bold) are considered spam!!! Unbelievable.
I'm done here. I don't feel like working for nothing.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by Lamirabelle (talk • contribs) 20:30, 11 March 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Censorship 

message: Would it be relevant enough and not considered spamming to add an external link for a webcomic artists's discussion forum? There is resourceful information about creating and making a business of webcomics at this website. I've read the external links rules and I can't seem to figure out whether this would be considered spam since it is of assistance and provides information.  Thanks for your help!  Wendyannee (talk) 03:03, 8 May 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  adding an external link 

message: Found a source about Single Asian Female:
*"New Comic Strip Seeks Single Asian Female Perspective." Asianweek. November 10, 2006.
WhisperToMe (talk) 07:03, 24 May 2011 (UTC)
thread_title: Single Asian Female

message: in the introduction to the article it says that there where an estimated 38,000 webcomics in 2007. The problem is in the source of this information. It is apparently a short blogpost by Joey Manley (I say apparently because it is no longer in the original website. the link, from 2009, does not work any longer. I read it on a blog archive). It makes some wild assumptions without any justification, and in the end he says himself that this is not a reliable estimate. this is a link to the post I am refering to http://archive.is/ZAFf . because of this I am going to eliminate the sentence. I would recommend replacing it with something like the number of webcomics listed in popular websites that manage webcomics, because without an original academic study I don't think an approximation is good enough to be posted on wikipedia.  Melquiades Babilonia (talk) 20:13, 31 January 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  Estimated number of webcomics 

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message: I've removed the link to Yanapax, a reader application. Can't seem to find any sources that this one is more relevant than all the other. I don't see the relevance of this link anyway. Regards Knud Winckelmann (talk) 09:02, 10 September 2015 (UTC)
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message: Hello,
since the 11-year-old discussion regarding T.H.E. Fox above, the claim that Witches & Stitches was the first webcomic has appeared in the article. However, in his recent book Webcomics, Sean Kleefeld is skeptical of this claim, writing about Eric Millikin, author of Witches & Stitches:
:"[...] however, there seems to be no surviving evidence of this, and, in an interview where he was expressly talking about his early comics-making experience, he talked about selling his early comics for a quarter apiece in his fourth-grade class, but made no mention of the internet."
The interview cited was apparently published in the book Attitude 3: The New Subversive Online Cartoonists by Ted Rall. Kleefeld awards to T.H.E. Fox the more measured claim of being "One of the earliest (often considered the earliest)" webcomic. Kleefeld's book seems to me more reputable than the sources cited here, who provide no argument for their assertions. I would just edit the article, but since the claim is also repeated in other places (History of webcomics, List of early webcomics, Eric Millikin, no further sources there except an assertion by Yahoo! Celebrity), and I'm more comfortable on German Wikipedia, I thought I'd ask for comments here first.
Thank you, --Linseneintopf (talk) 22:11, 12 October 2020 (UTC)
thread_title:  First webcomic 

message: Hello, I have started a discussion at Talk:Digital comic#Clarification needed to distinguish from Webcomic which affects both articles. 93 (talk) 21:55, 11 February 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  Clarification needed to distinguish from [[Digital comic]] 

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