Before the game's release, a four-panel Internet manga illustrated by Pero, one of the art directors in the game, began to be serialized irregularly on the game's official website.
The book was released as a weekly online and newspaper series, and was published in its entirety by Doubleday in 2002.
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After the publication of Scalzi's second book, Old Man's War, by Tor Books, a limited edition of Agent to the Stars was published in 2005 by Subterranean Press, with a cover by Mike Krahulik of Penny Arcade fame.
Andrew Hussie is the creator of MS Paint Adventures, a collection of webcomics, including Homestuck, as well as several other web comics, books, and videos.
Jonathan Rosenberg, author/artist of the humorous science fiction webcomic Scenes from a Multiverse, references an ansible powered by a quantum-entangled ferret in one of the comics.
Other special events include wars, in which players collaborate to defeat enough "waves" of monsters to win the war over several days, and live events with guest stars like Voltaire, One-Eyed Doll, George Lowe, Paul and Storm, Jonathan Coulton, the cast of Ctrl+Alt+Del, Ayi Jihu, ArcAttack, They Might Be Giants, and Michael Sinterniklaas as the voice of Deady.
As a founding member of Blank Label Comics, Guigar also spearheaded the 2005 Webcomic Telethon for Hurricane Relief that raised an estimated $28,635 for the American Red Cross response to hurricanes Katrina and Rita.
Concerned, a webcomic parodying the video game Half-Life 2
The company has also produced content based on the Penny Arcade franchise, The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey/The Lord of the Rings, DC Comics, and others.
Wilson and DenBleyker have mentioned the traditional comic The Far Side by Gary Larson and the webcomic The Perry Bible Fellowship by Nicholas Gurewitch, as some of their influences for the comic.
On June 9, 2008 Coffman teamed with the Denver based hip-hop/rock band Flobots to produce an original webcomic that features stories based on real life accounts of their fans and inspiring social change.
:Dave Davenport is also the name of a fictional character in the webcomic, Narbonic.
drive: the scifi comic, more commonly referred to as simply Drive, is a weekly webcomic created by Dave Kellett.
One of the soldiers mobilized was an intra-Reserve transfer or "fill" from Boise, Idaho, who later used his experiences there to form a major chapter in the online webcomic "BOHICA Blues."
Homestuck is a webcomic written, illustrated, and animated by Andrew Hussie, and is the fourth overall webcomic published on MS Paint Adventures.
Ian McConville is the creator of the webcomic Mac Hall.
Canadian webcomic artist Kate Beaton has created similar caricatures, which featured in her comic Hark! a Vagrant, comparing the Merveilleuses to the modern day hipster subculture.
A webcomic called Persepolis 2.0 was created in 2009 by Iranian-born artists Payman and Sina whose subjects were the re-elections of conservative Iranian president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and the social turmoil that followed them.
Jennifer Diane Reitz (born 1959 in Baker, Oregon) is an American writer, webcomic author, and computer programmer, known for creating webcomics such as Unicorn Jelly, Pastel Defender Heliotrope and To Save Her, and computer games such as Boppin'.
In December 2008, his webcomic I Rule the Night began on Zuda Comics.
Some examples of leet include B1ff and n00b, a term for the stereotypical newbie; the l33t programming language; and the webcomic Megatokyo, which contains characters who speak leet.
Mac Hall (debut: November 7, 2000) is a webcomic which was created through a bet between the creator Ian McConville and a friend who claimed he "couldn't make a comic like Penny Arcade".
In 2007, The Great Catsby, an award-winning Korean webcomic, was adapted into a live-action drama, after a run as an on-stage musical in 2006.
At this time, Mitch told fans he would be collaborating on a strip called Joe and Monkey with fellow webcomic artist Zach Miller.
The character Rose Lalonde in the webcomic Homestuck lives in a fictional house over Rainbow Falls in Parishville.
During this time he started the Something Positive webcomic, in response to a criticism from his friend, voice actress Clarine Harp, that he should "do something positive" with his life.
Robert Khoo is the "President of Operations and Business Development" of Penny Arcade, but is also referenced as the "Business Manager" for the company and the Show Director for PAX, the largest consumer gaming show in the United States.
The track "Livin' at the Corner of Dude & Catastrophe" is about another webcomic, Achewood.
In 2003, webcomic Penny Arcade posted an "advertisement" for an imaginary computer game, American McGee's Strawberry Shortcake—a parody of the actual computer game American McGee's Alice, a twisted and violent take on Lewis Carroll's works.
In the webcomic Homestuck the character Terezi Pyrope has a variation of teal (hex code #008282) as her blood color.
Players add any details they wish about the TerraDrive Universe, much like Epic Legends Of The Hierarchs: The Elemenstor Saga was developed, which was created by Jerry Holkins of Penny Arcade.
The Phoenix Requiem is a fantasy webcomic written and drawn by Sarah Ellerton, author and artist of Inverloch, which takes place in a setting similar to Victorian-era England.
Adult, abstract and surrealist comic strips are also featured, such as Maakies by Tony Millionaire, Kaz's Underworld by Kaz, Idiot Box by Matt Bors, etc.
Rob DenBlyker, one of the creators of the webcomic Cyanide and Happiness, parodied the commercial in a 2013 installment where a father, after re-enacting the commercial, admits to his son that he himself is on drugs.
See 2P START!, for Tim Harding, writer for the video game webcomic
It is found in several other works: Jan Perkowski's 1976 book reprinted Vukanović's account, the webcomic Digger incorporates a field of vampire squash (most of which resemble butternut squashes in appearance), and recent popular books on the topic of vampirism include a mention.
Veilchen is a webcomic and graphic novel version created by Bissan Rafe based on the second novel installment of Μυρτισα II: The Perfect Work (a 4 volume anthology which includes four semi-illustrated novels in chronological order: Grandlazar, Veilchen, Verlassen and Repressalie).
What's New with Phil & Dixie, a comic strip that appeared in Dragon magazine, now republished as a webcomic
World lines appeared in Jeffrey Rowland's webcomic Wigu Adventures as part of the "Magical Adventures in Space" side story line, in which Topato Potato and Sheriff Pony accidentally delete a world line relating to the initial creation of Earth from asteroids, causing the Earth to never have existed.
Wumo, formerly Wulffmorgenthaler, is a webcomic and newspaper comic strip created by Danish writer/artist duo Mikael Wulff and Anders Morgenthaler.