A Web comic is a comic strip that exists and is published only on the World Wide Web, rather than one that is created primarily for a newspaper or magazine. Some successful web comics have subsequently been reprinted in book-length collections, just as a successful print comic might be.
One popular form of web comic is the sprite comic.
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