The Rise of Webcomics | Off Book | PBS Digital Studios
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The internet has given birth to yet another new medium: webcomics. Moving beyond the restrictions of print, webcomic artists interact directly with audiences who share their own unique worldview, and create stories that are often embedded in innovative formats only possible online. Sometimes funny, sometimes personal, and almost always weird, web comic creators have taken the comic strip form to new, mature, and artistic heights.
Featuring:
Christina Xu, Breadpig breadpig.com/
Nick Gurewitch, Perry Bible Fellowship pbfcomics.com/
Sam Brown, Exploding Dog / explodingdog
Lucy Knisley, Stop Paying Attention comics.lucyknisley.com/
Andrew Hussie, Homestuck www.mspaintadventures.com/
Other Comics Featured:
XKCD xkcd.com/
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal www.smbc-comics.com/
Diesel Sweeties www.dieselsweeties.com/
Johnny Wander www.johnnywander.com/
Music (In Order of Appearance):
"Winter Fruit" by MegaEnx - / winter-fruit
"No Room for Answers" by MegaEnx - / no-room-for-answers
"Incoherent" by Josh Woodward - www.jamendo.com/en/track/21574...
"Every Cloud" by MegaEnx - / every-cloud
"Instrumental" by gbrdhvndi - / instrumental
"Bidama (Instrumental) by kpopinstru / bidama-instrumental
"Strange Dreams" by MegaEnx
"Goof" by Binarpilot - www.jamendo.com/en/artist/1125...
"Solar Mountain" by Whersmydope - www.jamendo.com/en/artist/4269...
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Rare appearance by Andrew Hussie
You can't fight the homestuck.....
Do you? I guess I comment a lot. I always got something to say when ever I watch videos I guess :3
I heard the full interviews lasted about 20-30 minutes. I know that the full length interviews would be not that great, but an expanded edit of each webcomic maker would be great to see! PBS, you can do it!
I love watching awesome videos and randomly coming across my music. :) Thanks for using my tune, and for your always-awesome videos.
Hey, I love webcomics! They were special to my sister and i growing up in the late 90's and early 2000's. Some of my favorites were Megatokyo, RPG World, and PVP.
I personally loved problem sleuth, It was one of my favorite web-comics/series of all time. And seriously, I want to see some more fiction that's ironic, epic, and hilarious without being so steeped in teenaged drama
Anytime these are emailed to me, I'm online to view it as soon as possible. I love these! Keep it up PBS.
"Claps" Thanks for being a voice of reason!
you are the only person to agree with me on the fact that Hussie did plan out most of the events of homestuck, and for that, I thank thee
That's the beauty of it. For everyone who doesn't like certain styles or kinds of comics, there's some out there to their taste.
3:30 That one AC:B mission
I started reading _Stop Paying Attention_ because of this episode, and I can only say: Wow, that was amazing :D
+Arturo Gutierrez have you read homestuck?
Xero0 I haven't yet. I'm a bit afraid of getting hooked and my family filing me as a missing person after weeks of absence XD
Arturo Gutierrez oh ok jajajjaja.
do as i do read it on your free time when you feel like reading it or when you have nothing else to do, and the format of the comic is very good, because of how it is done you can easilly take a rest between pages and when you go back to read it you dont feel lost, of course dont press the link to the next page before the rest because if you pass by you will see the image and start reading it.
One of my favorite youtube channels. The video quality is superb too.
Thanks for the recommendation! The first chapter was beautiful, and I'll definitely read more of it.
I can't get enough of this web series. Brilliant stuff! :D
It would be great to see the full interviews!
I would really love to see the full interviews with each of these artists. It would be incredibly interesting to see them all.
Found this thru sub recommendations from Idea Channel... Loving it!!!
fun game: mute vid, scroll down until about 3/4 of screen is covered, try to guess whose stubbly chin is on screen at any given moment
Excellent compilation and interviews related to my favorite artistic medium :3
because of this video, I started reading Lucy Knisley's comic's! Thank you Off Book!!
I love you PBS. Never. Stop.
Guys, you should totally do an episode for Internet Education. Call Vsauce(1 - 3), SixtySymbols (along with Numberphile and PeriodicVideos), Veritasium, MinutePhysics, Numberphile, Smarter Every Day, the list goes on and on.
By the way, big ups to you for XKCD and especially Homestuck.
Actually Oda, creator of One piece had a particular ending in mind from the start, it just became more and more popular that he began to release more and more content...
I need to watch this twice, once for the comics second for commentary.
The internet isn't any one country or one culture. So long as you know who will enjoy your art, and that audience is on the internet, you will always find people who will treat creativity with the respect it deserves. Times have changed thanks to the internet, and national barriers are breaking down (for better or worse). As an artist, you can easier fight the trends (which might be successful depending on your style), or you can take advantage of them, like artistic programming or web comics.
I once read homestuck all day for around 8 hours....Even though I already read it frequently it still takes a long time.Especially reading Rose Lalonde's posts, especially trying to comprehend the paradoxes, shenanigans, complex story, I mean there are just so many irons in the fire....I am not even halfway through as I myself had stalled, and the creator is still making at least 3 pages a day....But, it is certainly worth it.
Here's the deal, I never came into Homestuck with the intention to hate it, but the fandom is probably far more intrusive than even the Sherlock fandom. However, the fans are only as insane as the content, and Homestuck has some really insane and really incredible content. I read all of it last summer, and it is among the best decisions I've ever made. The storytelling is among the most complex I've ever seen and it works to the story's advantage (though probably not the reader's).
I just subscribed to your channel. Incredible music!! :)
Homestuck FTW! One of my goals in life is to make my own multi-media webcomic. I really wish more webcomics would do what homestuck does...
You make awesome music!!
Reading comics and watching video at the same time: can't.
Oh, they weren't a problem. I was basking in their magnificence.
Great covering of awesome webcomics; Stop paying attention is now on my bookmarks bar :D
Should've mentioned Zenpencils too. It's a great webcomic
I came for the homestuck.
same, thank god homestuck was included for once
Valrey Peebler who didnt
the music is killer!!
This is the coolest channel ever.
According to his old Formspring (which has since been deleted) the basic plot structure has stayed the same since the beginning, but a lot of it was not planned ahead.
Then there's Sheldon {look up the "Stripped" kickstarter while you're at it}, Schlock Mercenary, Kevin and Kell, Gunnerkrigg Court, Questionable Content... this piece should have really touched on people who make their living off webcomics they create.
Saw the Huss at Comicon... good times!
Well, the most popular webcomics these days sell merch, which sustains a lot of these sorts of people.
Many thanks!
I love how half of the pictures were from xkcd. :)
Omfg, this is so beautiful. Im gonna cry tears of rainbowly inspiration right now.
Where ever I stop, I just save it in a book mark (or save the tab if I'm using Firefox) and read more later. I don't think I completely remembered everything the next time I would start reading again, but that way okay. :>
This a very cool :D love it!
This made me really happy :) Yay webcomics!
I'd say Homestuck is one of THE most popular webcomics out there, period (It's also the largest in size, no contest). But you're right, the others aren't all that widespread AFAIK.
there's one thing I want to ask Andrew Hussie, concerning Homestuck.
Have you planned everything that's happened in the story, from the very begining?
I like webcomics, sgtbenbo is def my fave! hope it comes out in print some day!
Depending on how much time you spend on it, anywhere from a week to several months. But don't rush through it, it's better to do it in your occasionally in your spare time than to try and get through it all at once.
thank you for adding that last part, cause I would have added like 20 links to Homestuck, I'm not fucking kidding here
Homestuck, xkcd, Perry Bible Fellowship. Yes. :D Two comics that define webcomics in their tendency to shirk the normal limitations of the printed comic medium, and one that just takes advantage of the fact that there are no editors or censors on the internet.
No TheOatmeal? That's a shame. He might have been cool to hear from. Great video though. This channel deserves way more recognition than it gets.
Magnificent!
There are a few people who quit their day jobs and live as professional webcomic creators, precisely because they DO make enough money that way to support themselves. Not many, mind you, but it is possible. Not all dreams die completely.
I love this channel.
Andrew Hussie might considering how much money he's making off Homestuck. IMO Webcomics are like video games: people still are learning to take them seriously as an artform. IMO we're going to see webcomics and video games getting more and more recognition as art within the next decade, which is why I'm going to college to be a game design.
Not end of "web comic" (in general) but end of that particular 1 person doing the web comic ... though 3 or 10 more have already risen up to create web comics. It's like saying, "End of art" or "End of hobbies" or "End of what I enjoy to do in my free time" or "End of creating things". So rethink your stance on the future state of web comics ... they will not die, in general.
Let me put it this way: in plain text it's well over 400,000 words by this point, making it in the ballpark of War and Peace. And that's before you get into all the text in images, interactive games, animations, etc. It might take a few goes to finish it all, but hopefully by Act 5 Act 2 you should be in 'whoops when did it become Tuesday morning I still have hundreds of pages to read' mode.
We just changed the title from "Web Comics" to "Webcomics". Now we do not look as dumb. Sry. :)
Solid!
Haha, Hussie sounds as geeky as he looks.
Im I the only one that thought they were making a Off by Mortis Ghost book from the title?
With all the xkcd they had, I cannot freaking believe they didn't interview the author.
i forgot about the reverse polish sausage
I was hoping Ryan North would show up in this at some point.
Nice one :D
there's actually this one really great comic i recently found that isn't quite as multimedia as homestuck but i really enjoy it regardless. it's called ava's demon, at the end of every chapter, i think, there's a video wrapping that bit of the story up nicely. you should check it out :)
Howard Taylor does webcomics for a living and he is almost 45.
"my goal is to end homestuck...."
ahhh, day ruined : (
I just really don't even want to contemplate the end......
well, he ended it. then made 3 games from it. then made an epilogue. and is now making a sequel.
Well it's that or have the comic trip, fall on it's face, attempt to crawl forward, and die a slow and painful death all alone. As well as slowly fade away and become a empty lifeless shell.
I'm with DSHC224 and tinau n. I would really like to see the full interviews of each webcomic maker >.>
it took me amonth, but this was in the summer with all day. Odds are you won't finish before the comic stops updating in a little less than a month (gosh... we're almost there...). But its a great read and funny dramatic and every adjective you can think of. dont get discouraged at how boring or tedious act 1 is, most of it is irrelevant anyways. but DONT SKIP ANYTHING, youll be sorry later. best of luck sir and/or madam!
There are too many webcomics right now, I cant keep track of them all.
A friend of mine took a few months, I think. Believe me that it's better to be reading it through than have to wait for the updates. It is very boring in the first act, but believe me, once you get to Cascade and the Dark Carnival scenes, it'll be SO worth it!
Watching Andrew Hussie talk about Homestuck was awesome!!! And then he said his current goal and I felt like crying :'D
D': I DON'T WANT IT TO END NOOOoo
he still didn't end it
FOR SOME REASON
The man with the messy hair is trying so hard to sound sociopathic
For a world wide web this is a very american-centric view on webcomics.
Check it out! 'The Rise of Webcomics' is featured in our Videos of the Week show.
Not by a long shot. You can learn more about that kind of thing from the interview he did with Scott Pilgrim (just google it)
Can you do a brief history on typography? Thanks
wait, "my goal right now is to end the comic"
WAIT WHAT NO
Okay well at least can we have like the same characters ;w;
God, when homestuck ends i will have to give these other comics a try. But gonna let it end before i give up on it.
What the heck is Penny Arcade? Some parody on Sweet Bro and hella Jeff?
Are you kidding? Andrew Hussie, for example, is making money through the brand, which is how he funds the comic. The clothing, books, etc. have been more than enough for him to continue doing what he loves. Besides, art is its own value beyond people making money off it.
Of course it depends on how much else you plan on doing. Three days is kinda crazy rushed and a little bit insane I think. A week would be more reasonable. Unless you have school.
I wished they showed Ryan North.
LETS TELL THEM
ABOUT *HOMESTUCK*
I think the problem is Hussie knew for a long time exactly where he was going with the plot and has built the story as such.
Adding on extra might ruin in, but all the same, i'll hurt when the fandom starts to die, and new material becomes more and more scarce............
there are other webcomics beside homestuck? :O
I think I can guess which webcomic brought us all here XD
Sorry, but I couldn't stop staring at Hussie's lips.
I find it sad to say that I feel like I'm not going to know what to do with my life when Homestuck ends. :'(
I was wondering if I could get a recommendation.
I want something to fill my comic book shelves, so I'm looking to webcomics that have been printed into books.
I'd like it if the webcomic is completed, and every collective volume has been released. I don't wanna have to worry if the collection will ever be completed. :~P
Cheers.
hey there! i know some fantasy comic published in the web :) got them all myself
look for "strays online" , " Goblins of Razard" , "The Chronicle of Arcea", "the light of the land" (
Lime Cat
Awesome!
Thanks dude!
I guess you know a lot more about it than I do... But if I we gonna try and recommend some for you...
You probably know this one, but there are the Liz Climo books.
Also, I think Scott Ramsoomair released VGcats and Super Effective as mini graphic novels, but they're really topical, so they might not be your thing.
Try Apple Black, OP
Dumbing of Age is pretty good
homestuck
I would love to start a webcomic but then I end up doubting myself.I know I shouldn't worry what people think but I also want feedback. I'm also working on my drawing skills and everything but I just dont know. Is it a good idea? Its a story about Chinese Zodiac and regular zodiac signs but I don't want to be attached by people saying homesuck already covered that. Should I do it?
ChocoKaylaRobin Everything has been done a thousand times over. Hussie wasn't the first to theme characters around the western Zodiac and most definitely won't be the last. The key is to take what inspiration you have and make it your own. As the saying goes. "Good artists copy, Great artists steal." and that's the most important part. Make it your own.
but how does it explain everything that went on over the recent updates (over the course of the last 3 months)
Also, it's not like you HAVE to rush through, ya know.
There is a RUclips channel called HomestuckColab that really got me into the comic I reccoment starting there and after that it depends on if you want to rush or just take your time
Trying to end home stuck? Does he not realize this does not end?