Matt Inman
''The Oatmeal'' is a webcomic and humor website created in 2009 by cartoonist Matthew Inman. It offers original comics, quizzes, and occasional articles. Inman has produced a series of ''Oatmeal'' books with content from the webcomic and previously unpublished material, related board games, and other merchandise. In 2010, Inman said ''The Oatmeal'' received more than four million unique visitors per month. In 2012, he said ''The Oatmeal'''s annual revenue was around US$500,000, of which three-quarters came from merchandising and the rest from advertising. The website won the Eisner Award for Eisner Award for Best Digital Comic, Best Digital/Webcomic in 2014. In 2019, Inman announced plans to step back from ''The Oatmeal'' for a while to concentrate on other work. Website Creation Inman created ''The Oatmeal'' website in 2009. Early comics regularly made the front page of Digg, driving traffic to the site. Inman said that when he started the comic, he felt that drawing w ...
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Comics
a medium used to express ideas with images, often combined with text or other visual information. It typically the form of a sequence of panels of images. Textual devices such as speech balloons, captions, and onomatopoeia can indicate dialogue, narration, sound effects, or other information. There is no consensus amongst theorists and historians on a definition of comics; some emphasize the combination of images and text, some sequentiality or other image relations, and others historical aspects such as mass reproduction or the use of recurring characters. Cartooning and other forms of illustration are the most common image-making means in comics; '' fumetti'' is a form that uses photographic images. Common forms include comic strips, editorial and gag cartoons, and comic books. Since the late 20th century, bound volumes such as graphic novels, comic albums, and ' have become increasingly common, while online webcomics have proliferated in the 21st century. The histo ...
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