- they aren't subject to censorship (newspapers can stop printing comics that their readers object to)
- they can be in color every day!
- the increased competition means that each artist has to be on top of their game every day (Wikipedia says there are over 38,000 web comics being published!)
- they can be in whatever format they want... a single comic could be 10 or 6 or 1 panel long depending on how long it takes to tell that day's joke/story
- because they can have a niche audience as opposed to comics in the paper that have to appeal to a wider audience, they can be more specialized.
The other comic I wanted to talk about, Achewood, is in some ways the polar opposite of Dinosaur Comics. It's still funny... hilarious actually... but it's darker & more pessimistic. Also, instead of a one-off joke in every strip, author Chris Onstad often creates elaborate story lines. This comic is the end of a story about little Phillipe going missing & the daring rescue. It's a good example of just how weird & random Achewood can be, but at the same time the world created in the strip has perfect internal consistency. Achewood is a good example of an awesome comic that just never would have had a chance to be picked up by the newspapers...it's just too WEIRD. and also dirty, plenty of the strips are not child-appropriate. But so wonderful! Achewood makes me happy when nothing else can.
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