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Hah! You have no idea. Why don't you see if you can find that survey thing i did for your web paper thing, I know that one of the questions had something to so with that. In the Unicorn Jelly forum Jennifer asked us to contribute recipies for here world.

Forum topic
http://forums.unicornjelly.com/viewtopic.php?t=577

Gryrnese Cuisine
http://unicornjelly.com/cuisine%20main.htm

I, myself, contributed PiiNuBuu and Plum Jam. :D
 

A lot of webcartoonists seem to like feedback, so I'd guess there's a fair bit of reader influence, but I don't know any certain examples affecting main plotlines and characters. On a lower level:

Gene Catlow The 2001 Festival sequence was a sort of "celebration of the readership", full of cameos of readers and their characters. (I'm the creature in the poloneck, right side of bottom-left panel. ;) )

Schlock Mercenary acknowledges fans' comments, as with the butter sequence and the subsequent burning-duck motif. (But he says he plans the actual storylines well in advance.)

It's at the edge of the topic, but Thomas Dye occasionally draws bonus Newshounds cartoons in response to forum discussions, as with the Yvonne thread.
 

There was certainly that stuff at the end of Walky where forum posters were characters. . .

If I wanted to make the answer more vague, you ought to consider times when fans also have comics. . .
 

Hmmm, good question. If you consider "Dilbert" a webcomic (in the sense of it tapping into a large "geek" demographic, having a large online audience during its heyday, etc.), Scott Adams frequently said that many of his best jokes and plotlines were based on reader feedback and suggestions, or even retellings of their true-life work stories.

More recently, Penny Arcade did a poll where they asked fans what sort of story they wanted to see during the summer convention season. The results showed that readers wanted a story about "Annarchy" (Gabe's gamer niece, a recent addition to the cast), which the writers said they were happy about, since that was the story that they would've preferred to do anyway.

My brain is kicking me, telling me that Sluggy, GPF, and/or Kevin & Kell have had story-changing reader feedback, but for the life of me, I can't recall specific examples.

- Isaac
 

I had a character known as "the Mighty Mart Guy" that was in the strip in cameos pretty much from the beginning of Melonpool...

http://www.melonpool.com/d/19960707.html

During a exchange on a copletely unrealted topic, things escalated to me saying that this character's name was, in fact, the same as one of my posters, K. Ivan Ruppert.

http://zoo.nightstar.net//viewtopic.php?p=117107&highlight=ruppert#117107

A few months later, I decided to make it canon:

http://www.melonpool.com/d/20040503.html

Hope this helps!

Steve
 

Perhaps reader's outrage balanced the thing towards Dave living, but if I hadn't come up with Chester, it just would have never happened. I think killing characters and bringing them back to life without any good reason is lame. Chester was a good reason enough for me, and so it happened. ;)

Maritza
CRFH.net
 

Once, a fan guessed the original ending to Fur Will Fly.

Suffice to say, I just can't bring myself to use it, now :P
 

And I think I once spoiled one of Ian McDonald's Bruno The Bandit puns by anticipating it in the forum.
 

Gaming Gaurdians and Zen-Dao Meow are full of this sort of thing.