First Web Comic?

[neyeghtcartoons]

What was the first web-comic you started reading?
I probably have to say mine was cyanide and happiness, but I remember there being this one about these two roommates and one of them had a head shaped like a weird palm tree, that was probably my first, but I can't remember the name.

[Raven_C]

It was probably Cucumber Quest or Todd Allison and the Petunia Violet...like back in 2010/2011.

[joannekwan]

My friend's actually, (Space) Girl & I, right here on Tapastic. Unfortunately she stopped updating it a while ago, life got in the way I suppose.

[WintreKitty]

I've read random webcomic strips throughout the length of my relationship with the internet, but I didn't truly fall in love with the platform until Unsounded by Ashley Cope.

[wrentemple]

SIN by drake Tsui over on Inkblazers I think... S'been going for years and it's one of the few I've followed for a long time.

[AnnaLandin]

Mine was Penny Arcade, waaaaay back in their earlier days. Like, probably back in 2000 or so. I was 12-13, and got to borrow the family computer for half an hour every afternoon. My brother - who knew I liked drawing, and knew I liked video games - told me I should check out Penny Arcade, so I did. And it's all been downhill from there, hahaha!

I don't read it any more - I stopped years ago, in fact - but that's where I started.

.... Goodness me, I've been reading comics on the internet for 15 years. D:

[shazzbaa]

The now-defunct Dragon Tails was my first introduction to webcomics --

-- followed closely by DMFA! I don't 100% remember which arc of DMFA I started reading on, but I'm pretty sure I was pre-highschool, so probably before 2001?

(YOU UH, CAN TELL WHAT PART OF THE INTERNET I GREW UP ON, I was absolutely a Yerf kid)

[okellymx]

Todd Allison and Petunia Violet, except it was on Inkblazers at the time.

[WednesdayAsh]

Ctrl+alt+del and order of the stick! Haha mikoooo...noooo...

[kurisquare]

SugarStars (and all of its reboots), back in like...2003-4...I was a hardcore fangirl of that webcomic back then ngl

[Aetherwing]

Order of Tales by Evan Dahm is the first one I can remember (I haven't been on the scene for very long) and it's actually what got me interested in webcomics.

[neyeghtcartoons]

I've actually never read penny arcade, except for like two or three strips. lol!

[AnnaLandin]

I've actually never read penny arcade, except for like two or three strips. lol!

I'm not surprised! For years and years, you couldn't talk about webcomics without mentioning Penny Arcade - it's like a monolith in webcomics! - but the scene has grown a lot broader since those early days! When people talk about getting into webcomics via stuff like Todd Allison and Petunia Violet, I feel like a grandma grumbling to all the kids to get off my lawn. XD

But it's a good thing - there's a whole universe of stories to be told, and I'm glad webcomics are a way for people to accomplish that.

[Jrej]

Probably Stray Hounds from my good friend Joao. He introduced me to the world of webcomics and taught me how to speed up my creative process. I consider him as one of my mentors.
Unfortunately his stuff has been on hiatus for a while but I know he is working on a buffer for later on.

[MylCreates]

First comic I started reading was Tsubasa by CLAMP, as well as many of CLAMPS series like xxxholic, Chobits, Wish, etc. All from the library. Then I found out there was a lot of manga you could read online...
First online web-comic... I can't quiet say, I can't remember when I started realizing they existed. I think Megatokyo was the first I actually recognized as an online long-story webcomic but never really read it. I saw Cyanide and Happiness and Rage comics with the meme faces aswell through facebook posts, as well as random comic pages on Deviantart but never sought to follow them either. The first host site I heard of was either DrunkDuck or SmackJeeves and discovered a bunch of random comics but never followed any of them really.
I rarely ever follow webcomics on their own separate site since I hate the hassel of having to guess when they update. But the first webcomic series I actually dedicated myself to following was Ava's Demon around 2012. I was still heavily relying on the library for all my comic-reads. It wasn't until Tapastic that I began to read webcomics left and right. Only on tapastic though. The only comics I go out of site to read are currently Ava's Demon and Trying Human. I check up occasionally with Lackadaisy and The Property of Hate. But that's about it.

[Chopythes]

Oh! This is a pretty funny coincidence!

I JUST recieved my print copy from a webseries I've followed since 2007 which also was the year I started to read webcomics. Before that, I didn't really have a good internet connection.

It was Scorch and I loved the goryness of it.
I discovered it when I was about to publish my own first webcomic, and I found it on the newly updated tab.
The second was "Hanna's not a Boy's name" and I adored the thinking outside the box of that comic. It had some pretty awesome art too.

And I shouldn't forget "Strays" while we're at it.

[eschaefges]

Penny Arcade and Mac Hall were probably my firsts, way back in the early 2000's.

[Doubtcent]

That would have to be StupidFox. I was happy when it carried over to Tapastic, but it hasn't been updating, like at all. So sad.
At least it still updates at the original site:
http://stupidfox.net/

[lartianmartian]

Mine was Anders Loves Maria by this lady. This was in 2007.

[colinwmd]

I think I started with Scott McCloud's Morning Improv back in 2001. I'm not sure how I found it but from there there were links to others which then got me excited about webcomics in general.

The Morning Improv was basically Mr McCloud making up stories as he went along, drawing one panel every morning. They were based on titles chosen by readers I think. Some of them were great (Meadow of the Damned, Brad's Somber Mood and Somnivore especially) and some not so great but quite entertaining because it was obvious he was making it up each day.

I also remember paying to read his story The Right Number using Bitpass, a short-lived micropayment system around 2003 (it's free now though). That was awesome but it's a 3 part story and he only finished the first 2 parts. I did tweet to him to ask if part 3 is in the pipeline though and he replied that he did plan to finish it so I'm optimistic...