Notable events of 2014 in

webcomics Webcomics (also known as online comics or Internet comics) are comics published on a website or mobile app. While many are published exclusively on the web, others are also published in magazines, newspapers, or comic books. Webcomics can be ...

Events

Naver Corporation The Naver Corporation is a South Korean internet conglomerate headquartered in Seongnam that operates the search engine Naver. Naver established itself as an early pioneer in the use of user-generated content through the creation of the onlin ...

globally launched

WEBTOON Webtoons (), are a type of digital comic that originated in South Korea usually meant to be read on smartphones. While webtoons were mostly unknown outside of Korea during their inception, there has been a surge in popularity internationally ...

on July 2. *

Namco Bandai is a Japanese multinational video game publisher headquartered in Minato-ku, Tokyo. Its international branches, Bandai Namco Entertainment America and Bandai Namco Entertainment Europe, are respectively headquartered in Irvine, California and ...

subsidiary ShiftyLook shut down in March.

Awards

Eisner Awards 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 ...

, "Best Digital Comic" won by

Matthew 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 previou ...

's ''

The Oatmeal ''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 previou ...

''. *

Harvey Awards The Harvey Awards are given for achievement in comic books. Named for writer-artist Harvey Kurtzman, the Harvey Awards were founded by Gary Groth in 1988, president of the publisher Fantagraphics, to be the successor to the Kirby Awards that were ...

, "Best Online Comics Work" won by

Mike Norton Mike Norton is an American comic book artist and writer, known for his work on '' Battlepug''. Early life Mike Norton first discovered comics as a child when his father gave him a copy of ''The Amazing Spider-Man'' #163, before he was old enoug ...

's '' Battlepug''. *

Ignatz Award 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

Evan Dahm Evan Dahm (born 1987) is an American webcartoonist from Asheville, North Carolina known for creating the Overside universe of webcomics. Dahm started creating the surrealistic webcomic ''Rice Boy'' in 2006, which follows the titular Rice Boy as h ...

's ''Vattu''. *

Joe Shuster Awards The Joe Shuster Canadian Comic Book Creator Awards (or Joe Shuster Awards) are given out annually for outstanding achievements in the creation of comic books, graphic novels, webcomics, and comics retailers and publishers by Canadians. The awards ...

, "Outstanding Webcomic Creator" won by Jayd Aït-Kaci and

Christina Strain Christina Strain is an American comic book colorist, writer and screenwriter. Strain formerly worked for Marvel Comics as a colorist before pursuing a career as a writer. Strain's notable works include; the award-winning Marvel series '' Runaways ...

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The Fox Sister The Fox Sister is a Korean storyHeinz Insu Fenkl , about the mythical Korean nine-tailed fox demon (''kumiho''). Synopsis A man had three sons and no daughter. He prayed for a daughter, even if she was a fox. His wife gave birth to a daughter ...

''). *

Reuben Awards The National Cartoonists Society (NCS) is an organization of professional cartoonists in the United States. It presents the National Cartoonists Society Awards. The Society was born in 1946 when groups of cartoonists got together to entertain the ...

, "Online Comics"; Short Form won by Ryan Pagelow's ''Buni'', Long Form won by Jeff Smith's ''Tuki: Save the Humans''. * Cartoonist Studio Prize, "Best Web Comic" won by

Emily Carroll Emily Carroll (born 1983) is a comics author from Ontario, Canada. Carroll started making comics in 2010, and her horror webcomic ''His Face All Red'' went viral around Halloween of 2010. Since then, Carroll has published two books of her own wor ...

's ''Out of Skin''. *

Aurora Awards The Aurora Awards (french: Prix Aurora-Boréal) are a set of primarily literary awards given annually for the best Canadian science fiction or fantasy professional and fan works and achievements from the previous year."Literary glow of Auroras lure ...

, "Best Graphic Novel" won by Peter Chiykowski's ''Rock, Paper, Cynic''. *

Hugo Award for Best Graphic Story The Hugo Award for Best Graphic Story is given each year for science fiction or fantasy stories told in graphic form and published or translated into English during the previous calendar year. It has been awarded annually since 2009. The Hugo A ...

won by

Randall Munroe Randall Patrick Munroe (born October 17, 1984) is an American cartoonist, author, and engineer best known as the creator of the webcomic ''xkcd''. Munroe has worked full-time on the comic since late 2006. In addition to publishing a book of th ...

's "

Time Time is the continued sequence of existence and events that occurs in an apparently irreversible succession from the past, through the present, into the future. It is a component quantity of various measurements used to sequence events, to ...

Webcomics started

* January 1 — '' Eth's Skin'' by Sfé R. Monster * January 6 — ''Harpy Gee'' by

Brianne Drouhard Brianne Drouhard is a United States author, artist, director, and animator, known for her book ''Billie the Unicorn'' and her webcomic, ''Harpy Gee''. Drouhard has been involved in animation since 2004, when she was a character designer for the ''Te ...

* January 31 — ''

Demon A demon is a malevolent supernatural entity. Historically, belief in demons, or stories about demons, occurs in religion, occultism, literature, fiction, mythology, and folklore; as well as in media such as comics, video games, movies, ani ...

'' by

Jason Shiga Jason Shiga (born 1976) is an American cartoonist who incorporates puzzles, mysteries and unconventional narrative techniques into his work. Early life Jason Shiga is from Oakland, California. His father, Seiji Shiga, was an animator who worke ...

* February 12 — ''unTouchable'' by

massstar massstar (Hangul: 맛스타) is a South Korean webtoon artist. She is best known for her webcomic unTouchable. Career massstar developed a love of drawing when she was young, and wanted to be a comics artist since she was in primary school. Ho ...

* April 13 — '' Paradox Space'' by

Andrew Hussie Andrew Hussie (born August 25, 1979) is an American author and artist. He is best known as the creator of ''Homestuck'', a multimedia webcomic presented in the style of a text-based graphical adventure game, as well as other works in a similar ...

and various others * May — '' Pepper&Carrot'' by David Revoy * June 15 — '' Sanitary Panels'' by Rachita Taneja * June 30 — ''New Normal: Class 8'' by Youngpaka * July 1 — ''Bluechair'' by Shen * July 13 — '' Winter Woods'' by Cosmos and Van Ji * August 13 — '' Tahilalats'' by Nurfadli Mursyid * August–December — '' No Girlfriend Comics'' by

Brandon Sheffield Brandon Sheffield is a video game director and webcomic writer. As the director of Necrosoft Games, Sheffield has created various games for PlayStation Mobile,_including_''Gunsport''_and_''Oh_Deer!''._After_going_through_a_breakup.html" ;"title="p ...

and Dami Lee * October 19 — ''Devil's Candy'' by

Clint Bickham Clint Bickham is an American voice actor and ADR script writer working with Funimation and Sentai Filmworks/Seraphim Digital. After collaborating with illustrator Priscilla Hamby on ''Devil's Candy'', which was featured in the first volume of ' ...

and Priscilla Hamby * September 24 — ''Feast for a King'' by Kosmicdream * November — '' The Royal Existentials'' by

Aarthi Parthasarathy Aarthi Parthasarathy is an Indian filmmaker and webcomic creator. Having grown up in Mumbai and living in Bengaluru, Parthasarathy is known for creating the webcomic '' Royal Existentials'' and writing for the webcomic ''Urbanlore''. Parthasara ...

* November 20 — ''

Lookism Lookism is the discriminatory treatment of people who are considered physically unattractive. It occurs in a variety of settings, including dating, social environments, and workplaces. Lookism has received less cultural attention than other for ...

'' by Park Tae-joon * ''Bastard'' by Kim Carnby and Hwang Young-chan * ''

Princess Maison is a Japanese web manga series written and illustrated by . It was published on Shogakukan's web magazine from August 2014 to November 2018, with its chapters collected in six volumes. An eight-episode television drama adaptation was broadc ...

'' by Aoi Ikebe * ''

Congqian Youzuo Lingjianshan ''Congqian Youzuo Lingjianshan'' (从前有座灵剑山, literally "There was once a Spirit Blade Mountain") is a Chinese ''Xianxia novel, xianxia'' web novel series written by Guowang Bixia (国王陛下, a pen name meaning "His Majesty the ...

'' by Guowang Bixia and Zhuhua and Junxiaomo. * ''

Witchy ''Witchy'' is a fantasy webcomic by Ariel Slamet Ries that started in 2014. The webcomic follows the young witch Nyneve in a world where magical proficiency is based on the length of one's hair. Though the world of ''Witchy'' is culturally and ...

'' by Ariel Ries.

Webcomics ended

* ''Zap!'' by Chris Layfield and Pascalle Lepas, 2003 – 2014 * ''

Pictures for Sad Children ''Pictures for Sad Children'' is a 2007 webcomic, created by Simone Veil. The webcomic, about a ghost named Paul, featured a spare and minimalist black-and-white artstyle and depressive, nihilistic themes. In 2012, Veil launched a highly succes ...

'' by Simone Veil, 2007 – 2014 * '' Brawl in the Family'' by Matthew Taranto, 2008 – 2014 * '' Gunshow'' by

KC Green ''Gunshow'' is a 2008 webcomic created by KC Green. The webcomic is gag-a-day, having little overarching story and covering a large variation of topics with strong tonal shifts. ''Gunshow'' is well known for spawning the "This is fine" internet me ...

, 2008 – 2014 * ''

Nimona ''Nimona'' is a fantasy graphic novel by ND Stevenson, an American cartoonist. The story follows Nimona, a shapeshifter who joins the villain Ballister Blackheart in his plans to destroy the over-controlling Institute. Blackheart tries to oper ...

'' by

ND Stevenson Nate Diana Stevenson or simply ND "Indy" Stevenson (formerly Noelle Diana Stevenson; born December 31, 1991) is an American cartoonist and animation producer. He is the creator, showrunner, and executive producer of the animated television seri ...

, 2012 – 2014

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