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Writer of Penny and Aggie, Fans (also called Faans), Rip & Teri, Search Engine Funnies and A History of Webcomics. Experienced webcomics editor, currently seeking full-time work and working on strange and interesting new things...Tuesday, May 17, 2005
History of Webcomics Begun. Sort Of.
If the first chapter of your history is called "Prehistory" and you write it, does that mean you've started writing history?
3,040 words down. The History of Webcomics, Chapter One: Prehistory currently includes information on the following:
3,040 words down. The History of Webcomics, Chapter One: Prehistory currently includes information on the following:
- The origins of art
- The nature of comics
- The origins of the Internet (Vannevar Bush, J.C.R. Licklider and Ivan Sutherland)
- The emoticon
- ASCII art
- Slugs
- Where the Buffalo Roam
- How Mosaic changed everything
So what did I miss?
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Most of that stuff is covered in McCloud's Reinventing comics....
Isn't it a little early to declare a history of webcomics when clearly they are just beginning?
Isn't it a little early to declare a history of webcomics when clearly they are just beginning?
As I recall, McCloud covered the first two in Understanding and touched on the third in Reinventing, but that was about it.
No offense, but it's not clear at all to me that they're just beginning. There are some things ABOUT them that are just now beginning, but that's not the same thing. They're twelve years old, after all. In Internet time, that's 60 squiddillion years!
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No offense, but it's not clear at all to me that they're just beginning. There are some things ABOUT them that are just now beginning, but that's not the same thing. They're twelve years old, after all. In Internet time, that's 60 squiddillion years!
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