What was your first webcomic?

[onyisart]

Mine was Todd Allison and the Petunia Violet it actually inspired me to get into making comics, I thought I had to be some manga drawing pro to make comics.

Anyway, it got canceled or put on an indefinite hiatus or whatever, it never finished and it never will.

What was the first webcomic you ever read?

[lauragarcia511]

Rock and Riot was the first webcomic I read when I first discovered Tapas. It's a great read and I highly reccomend!

Rock and Riot | Tapas

[ninjashira]

Oh man, gotta reach way back into the vault for this one. I probably started reading webcomics like 15 or 18 years ago... I think I was reading things like Megatokyo and Ctrl+Alt+Del and Penny Arcade. Maybe Red String by Gina Biggs? It was around that era, anyway.

It wasn't until I read The Devil's Panties by Jennie Breeden that I was inspired to make my first webcomic, which was an autobio comic strip about my time working at a comic book shop. I think I drew about 300 strips for it before I moved and wasn't working at the comic shop anymore and I moved on to other things, but I learned a lot by doing it.

[arxianfall]

Penny Arcade.
But like with every endless comic I kind of abandoned following it.

I still follow 2 very very very smutty ones and Nerf Now.

[crowstories]

I believe mine was Something Positive, which is apparently STILL GOING. I was reading this in like 2003

https://somethingpositive.net/

[GGY]

The Fox Sister. I'll never forget it. Really made me start taking comics seriously and made me think "uh, I too can draw and publish my stories digitally"... and the rest is history

Till this day they still haven't updated but I'm ready and waiting ; )
http://test.foxsister.com/index.php?id=1

[NickRowler]

My first was MegaTokyo but it was in print form.

[artamazon]

The only one I remember was back in high school a bunch of us used to read this NSFW comedy webcomic called Sexy Losers. I think it's actually still going!

[crowstories]

It seems like a high proportion of older web comics are still going, and I suspect it's because the market wasn't as saturated back then, so you could find an audience and possibly even make a career of it with relative ease (not that it was ever actually easy, just relative to the market now). So many of the ones I followed back in high school are still going.

[artamazon]

I guess I feel like I would have gotten bored after 22 years of doing the same thing, lol

[crowstories]

Saaaame.... though a lot of the ones I used to follow are somewhat based on the artists' lives, so I could see keeping that going. Another one ended, but the artist keeps making new stories with different characters set in the same world, which seems more interesting.

[artamazon]

It's probably also different if you have regular readers.

[VibrantFox]

I don't really remember the very first but Snailord's Snailogy, Yuu's Anti-Social Media and Evan Stanley's Ghosts of the Future are the ones that stand out most in memory when I try to think back.

GotF is probably the only one I know to still be sort of ongoing though the artist is busy working on official Sonic stuff. Fully understand the whole stuff you read inspiring you to create and it's Snailogy and Anti-Social Media (along with AKoW) that even inspired me to start my own comic here on Tapas.

I will say it's probably comics like Kikiine's Peony, celiere's Hidden in Plain Sight, Sinlaire's Only Human and other such story driven comics that really inspired me and are the reason why I want to be able to craft my own interesting and inspiring story based series. Plus like...a ton of others with pretty art that make me want to hone my craft more.

[erudenedure]

I don't remember what my first webcomic was, since it was a medium I went hogwild on for awhile on.

These are ones that I remember reading in 2004-2006:

Chugworth Academy by Dave Cheung and Jamal Joseph Jr. (Not sure if this one is entirely appropriate, skimming through it on the Internet Archive right now. Edit: Yeah, no. Aged really badly.)
Rachel the Great by Rachel Naboors (when it was on girls.com lol)
VG Cats by Scott Ramsoomair
Cyanide & Happiness by Rob DenBleyker, Kris Wilson, Dave McElfatrick and Matt Melvin.
Questionable Content by Jeph Jacques
Death and the Maiden by Nina Ruzicka
Charby the Vampirate by Amelius (gorey and maybe inappropriate, so fair warning)
Zap! by Chris Layfield and Pascalle Lepas

I also read The Devil's Panties Jennie Breeden, but I totally forgot about it until I saw it in this thread. And she's a mom now. I'm going to have to catch up on it.

In a way, a ton of these webcomics inspired me to start my own, but I got the final push from Lore Olmpus by Rachel Smythe.

[Rhonder]

The first webcomic I was introduced to was Zelda comic, somewhere around 2005~7. One of my friends in middle school discovered it and showed it to me, then we would read sometimes in the library during breaks:

https://www.zeldacomic.net/

[thedude3445]

All of my first webcomics were sprite comics that are all now lost to time. The first webcomic I followed that is still available on the internet? Probably VG Cats or Brawl in the Family maybe. It was all Nintendo-related stuff when I was a middle schooler though, because that was my sole interest in life for a bit.

[Larua1997]

OMG I LOVED THAT COMIC.

But my first webcomic I ever read was probably Dr. McNinja or Girl Genius.

[Kaydreamer]

Mine was Lackadaisy Cats! I was absolutely blown away when I found it on DeviantArt, something like a decade ago. It's still ongoing!

It did not inspire me to get into making comics, because it was so overwhelmingly beautiful and well-rendered I thought I would never be able to meet that standard! It wasn't until I came across modern webcomics with styles more similar to my own that I thought "Oh, this looks way more achievable!" and I began to entertain the idea of making my own.

[iHateFridays]

My first webcomic isn't on here and I don't really have any images of it, but it was called the Dream Guardians. All the charcters were pretty much airlifted straight from a fanfic sooo

[Van]

Probably either Homestuck or Twokinds
I should pick up Twokinds again someday