Notable events of 2003 in webcomics.

Events

Mike Krahulik Michael Krahulik (; born September 25, 1977) is an American artist for the webcomic '' Penny Arcade'' and co-founder with Jerry Holkins of Child's Play, a charity that organizes toy drives for children's hospitals. He goes by the online moniker ...

and

Jerry Holkins Jerry Holkins (born Parkinson"Holkins is a combination of Holcomb (hers) and Parkinson (mine)." https://twitter.com/TychoBrahe/status/12073336701; February 6, 1976) is an American writer. He is the co-creator and writer of the webcomic '' Penny A ...

of ''

Penny Arcade ''Penny Arcade'' is a webcomic focused on video games and video game culture, written by Jerry Holkins and illustrated by Mike Krahulik. The comic debuted in 1998 on the website ''loonygames.com''. Since then, Holkins and Krahulik have establish ...

'' founded Child's Play.

Awards

Web Cartoonist's Choice Awards The Web Cartoonists' Choice Awards (WCCA) were annual awards in which established webcartoonists nominated and selected outstanding webcomics. The awards were held between 2001 and 2008, were mentioned in a ''The New York Times'' column on webco ...

, "Outstanding Comic" won by Justine Shaw's ''

Nowhere Girl ''Nowhere Girl'' is an adult fiction webcomic by Justine Shaw, about a "college student who feels like an outsider in her own life, finding her place in the world and coming to terms with her sexuality". It is named after a song written by Briti ...

''. *

Ignatz Awards The Ignatz Awards recognize outstanding achievements in comics and cartooning by small press creators or creator-owned projects published by larger publishers. They have been awarded each year at the Small Press Expo since 1997, only skipping a ...

, "Outstanding Online Comic" won by James Kochalka's ''American Elf''. *Justine Shaw's ''

'' becomes the first webcomic to be nominated for an

Eisner Award The Will Eisner Comic Industry Awards, commonly shortened to the Eisner Awards, are prizes given for creative achievement in American comic books, sometimes referred to as the comics industry's equivalent of the Academy Awards. They are named in ...

Webcomics started

* January 1 — '' A Modest Destiny'' by Sean Howard * February 1 — '' Dinosaur Comics'' by Ryan North * February 7 — '' A Softer World'' by

Joey Comeau Joey Comeau (born September 26, 1980) is a Canadian writer. He is best known for writing the text of the webcomic '' A Softer World'', and for his novels ''Lockpick Pornography'' and ''Overqualified''. Career In 2003, Comeau co-created the webc ...

and Emily Horne * February 10 — ''

Least I Could Do ''Least I Could Do'' (''LICD'') is a humor webcomic by Ryan Sohmer and Lar deSouza (also the creators of the fantasy webcomic ''Looking for Group''). The strip debuted on February 10, 2003. Past artists for the strip include John Horsley from ...

'' by

Ryan Sohmer Ryan Sohmer (born ) is a Canadian writer and businessman. Sohmer writes the webcomics '' Least I Could Do'' and ''Looking for Group''. Sohmer is the Vice President/Creative Director of Blind Ferret Entertainment and was the owner of The 4th Wall, ...

and

Lar DeSouza ''Least I Could Do'' (''LICD'') is a humor webcomic by Ryan Sohmer and Lar deSouza (also the creators of the fantasy webcomic ''Looking for Group''). The strip debuted on February 10, 2003. Past artists for the strip include John Horsley from ...

* February — '' Idiot Box'' by Matt Bors * March — '' Digger'' by Ursula Vernon * April 6 — ''

Girly ''Girly'' is a webcomic created by Jackie Lesnick which follows the romantic relationship between two girls named Otra and Winter, as well as other citizens of the city of Cute-Town. It ran from 2003 until 2010. Plot summary The webcomic is a ...

'' by Jackie Lesnick * April 20 — '' No Rest for the Wicked'' by Andrea L. Peterson * May 6 — '' Station V3'' by Tom Truszkowski * May — '' Wondermark'' by

David Malki ''Wondermark'' is a webcomic created by David Malki which was syndicated to ''Flak Magazine'' and appeared in ''The Onion'' print edition from 2006 to 2008. It features 19th-century illustrations that have been recontextualized to create humorous ...

* June 11 — ''Count Your Sheep'' by Adrian 'Adis' Ramos * June 30 — ''

Badmash The Lockheed F-104 Starfighter is an American single-engine, supersonic air superiority fighter which was extensively deployed as a fighter-bomber during the Cold War. Created as a day fighter by Lockheed as one of the " Century Series" of ...

'' by Sandeep Sood, Nimesh Patel, and Sanjay Shah * June 30 — '' The Right Number'' by Scott McCloud * July 13 — '' Zap!'' by Chris Layfield and Pascalle Lepas * August 2 — ''

Questionable Content ''Questionable Content'' (sometimes abbreviated as ''QC'') is a slice-of-life webcomic written and illustrated by Jeph Jacques. It was launched in August 2003 and reached its 4,500th comic in April 2021. The plot originally centered on Marten Re ...

'' by

Jeph Jacques Jeffrey Paul "Jeph" Jacques ( ) (born June 17, 1980) is an American cartoonist who writes and draws the webcomics '' Questionable Content'', '' Alice Grove'', and ''DORD'' (and formerly "Indietits"). Personal life Jacques was born in Rockvil ...

* August 4 — ''

Loxie & Zoot ''Loxie & Zoot'' is a webcomic by Australian artist Grace Crowley (going by "Stephen Crowley" at the time) that ran from 2000 to 2006. The webcomic, which was originally intended for a niche audience of naturists, follows the inhabitants of a fic ...

'' by Stephen Crowley * September 25 —''

The Order of the Stick ''The Order of the Stick'' (''OOTS'') is a comedic webcomic that satirizes tabletop role-playing games and medieval fantasy. The comic is written and drawn by Rich Burlew, who illustrates the comic in a stick figure style. Taking place in a mag ...

'' by

Rich Burlew Rich may refer to: Common uses * Rich, an entity possessing wealth * Rich, an intense flavor, color, sound, texture, or feeling ** Rich (wine), a descriptor in wine tasting Places United States * Rich, Mississippi, an unincorporated comm ...

* September — '' Smithson'' by

Shaenon K. Garrity Shaenon K. Garrity is a webcomic creator and science-fiction author best known for her webcomics ''Narbonic'' and '' Skin Horse''. She collaborated with various artists to write webcomics for the Modern Tales-family of webcomic subscription serv ...

et al. * October 22 — ''Twisted Kaiju Theater'' by Shin Goji * October 22 — '' Twokinds'' by Tom Fischbach * November 1 — '' y2cl'' by John Horsley * '' Anima: Age of the Robots'' by Johnny Tay * ''

El Listo El Listo (literally The Clever One) is a webcomic character conceptualized by Xavier Àgueda in 2003. Àgueda initially tried to syndicate the strips about his 30-year old unemployment in Spain, unemployed engineer in magazines, but after getting n ...

'' by Xavier Àgueda * '' Hetalia: Axis Powers'' by Hidekaz Himaruya * '' Inverloch'' by Sarah Ellerton * ''Is This Tomorrow?'' by Kelly Shane and Woody Compton * '' Li'l Mell and Sergio'' by

et al. * '' Unspeakable Vault (Of Doom)'' by François Launet

Webcomics ended

* ''Leisure Town'' by Tristan A. Farnon, 1997 – 2003 * ''

Makeshift Miracle Makeshift Miracle is a surreal fantasy coming-of-age webcomic created by Jim Zub, suitable for young teen readers. History The Makeshift Miracle Initially titled The Makeshift Miracle, the story was originally serialized online three pages per wee ...

'' by Jim Zubkavich, September 10, 2001 – March 4, 2003 * ''Zombie and Mummy'' by

Olia Lialina Linguistic categories include * Lexical category, a part of speech such as ''noun'', ''preposition'', etc. * Syntactic category, a similar concept which can also include phrasal categories * Grammatical category, a grammatical feature such as ''t ...

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Dragan Espenschied Dragan Espenschied (born 1975) is an 8-bit musician and media artist who lives and works in New York City. He studied communication design at the Merz Academy in Stuttgart, Germany Stuttgart (; Swabian German, Swabian: ; ) is the capital ...

, 2001 – 2003

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