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Krahulik, 29, didn't set out to be a Web cartoonist. In 1998 he and his collaborator, Jerry Holkins, created Penny Arcade to enter a contest run by a video-game magazine. They lost. "Eventually we sent them so many that they told us to stop," says Holkins, 31. "So then we basically just started publishing them online. Typically the route is to go to a syndicate and negotiate for visiting rights to your work. We knew there was no way that was ever going to happen with Penny Arcade." Now their strip, which stars two young...
...writing in webcomics is different too--it's bizarre and wildly inventive in a way that's reminiscent of early print pioneers like Krazy Cat and Little Nemo in Slumberland. One of the most ambitiously literary--though still bracingly, crudely hilarious--comics on the Web is called Achewood. It's about a loose community of creatures--cats, a bear, a squirrel, a baby otter, a few robots--who are variously wealthy, clinically depressed, psychotic and gay. It swings, sometimes disconcertingly, from funny to sad and back. In one story arc a wealthy pleasure-loving cat named Ray dies and goes...
...belief that it was real," Kurtz says. "I stumbled onto it." His strip was about office life at a magazine, and he called it PvP (short for Player vs. Player). By 2000 he was getting a million page views a month and could quit his day job doing Web design for a radio station. Now PvP has more than 150,000 readers a day, and Kurtz sells PvP merchandise and produces a regular animated version of the strip...
Still, the "real" funny pages do have their appeal. Just as a few bloggers are drawn to the old-media respectability of print, some Web cartoonists are succumbing to the siren song of syndication. In January a popular webcomic, Diesel Sweeties (which features robots and hipsters making hyperironic pop-culture references), was picked up by United Features--the same company that renamed Peanuts more than 50 years ago. "I don't know why you'd want to rush to get to that cemetery," says Krahulik. "I guess everybody wants their dad to like them, right? They feel like they need...
...CONSEQUENCE: Watch out, front runners. It's not just TV ads that need damage control. All is fair in politics and on the Web...