Scott McCloud gave an interview to Statesman.com discussing how the internet has changed comic books.
They certainly have transformed comics on the Web. By conservative estimates, I think we have at least 10,000-20,000 people making comics on the Web, which is a lot. Some of those are pretty bad — probably most of them — but there's a lot of really great work going on on the Web as well. So the degree to which Web distribution has changed comics culture is enormous.
I’ve been thinking about starting up my own web comic for a short while now. It would be almost purely self indulgent, but I think it would at the very least keep me writing, and more specifically, keep me writing in the format I wish to break into.
Web Comics, in my experience, aren’t about super heroes, they’re about more normal people. Which is fine. A large part of me thinks that writing about normal people will appeal to the public more than the traditional super-hero genre. Just look at Heroes.
Yes, I’ll mention Heroes as long as I think it’s amazing, which should be a good while if Tim Kring keeps stuff together. Seriously, the man was at (and still is at?) the helm of Crossing Jordan and I still love that show.
Normal people tend to relate better to normal people. I read somewhere a quote that I’ll paraphrase poorly and apologetically not attribute:
American people don’t want symbols. They want things they know.
Web Comics give people what they know. At the very least, they give people things they could know, which is almost the same thing.
Of course, my idea for a Web Comic is a fantasy story that I started with my best friend when we were in early grade school, but whatever.
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