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Web comic

2009-07-05T16:25:03Z

DesertEagle:

'''Web Comics''', also known as '''Online Comics''' or '''Webcomics''' are a form of comics that are started on the [[Internet]]. Many online comics are [[published]] exclusively online, while some are both in print and archived online. There are many different types of webcomics; some are created to be more like traditional comic strips, while others are created to be more like [[graphic novels]]. Popular webcomics include [[Day By Day]], [[xkcd]], and [[TheOrderOfTheStick]]. Webcomics, like other comics, run the gamut from in depth story-based plots to talking stickfigures to random jokes every day to political analysis.

Most webcomics can be viewed free of charge. Webcomic creators still gain money off their work by selling printed versions of their webcomic, offering more content at a fee, selling merchandise, or simply asking for donations (sometimes donations are asked merely to pay for the site fees). Ads put on the webcomic's site also pull in some revenue.

With web comics, the restrictions of the traditional newspaper or magazine format can be lifted, which allows the [[artists]] to take advantage of the internet's unique capabilities, such as being able to draw and say anything they want without repercussion providing more freedom and creativity. Webcomic artists also are not confined size limitations. Some webcomics, such as those published by [[Scott McCloud]]<ref>http://www.scottmccloud.com/</ref>, have experimented with interactivity and animation in their comics. Most webcomics provide an archive for readers to look up any strip they wish.

== References ==
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[[category:comic Strips]]
[[category: internet]]

H. P. Lovecraft

2009-01-15T02:53:11Z

DesertEagle:

[[Image:998907809.jpg|right|thumb|He is in the picture]]
'''H. P. Lovecraft''' (1890-1937) was an [[United States of America|American]] author of fantasy and horror tales. He is the author who created the [[Cthulhu]] mythos, a fantasy world adapted by many subsequent authors. Lovecraft horror took many influences from [[Edgar Allan Poe]]. Lovecraft often openly attacked religion and idealism choosing to portray them as blind ignorance in the face of a terrifying reality.

Lovecraft has been accused of bigotry against Africans, Asians, Arabs, and Jews.

==Works==
*''Dagon''
*''The Call of Cthulhu''
*''The Other Gods''
*''The Shadow Over Innsmouth''
*''At the Mountains of Madness''

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[[Category:Authors]]
[[Category:Horror]]

Cthulhu

2009-01-15T02:39:56Z

DesertEagle:

[[Image:Cthulu.png|thumb|right]]
'''Cthulhu''' (pronounced "K'Thoo Loo") (Other spellings: Kutulu, Ktulu, Cthulu, Kthulhut, Thu Thu, Tulu) is a fictional entity (called one of the "Great Old Ones") variously described as a "sleeping" or "dreaming" in the works of [[H. P. Lovecraft]]. Cthulhu sleeps in the sunken city of R'lyeh and when the stars are right, will reawaken ushering in the destruction of humanity. It is featured in the eponymous short story [[The Call of Cthulhu]], as well as many other works by both Lovecraft and his contemporaries.

Some have suggested a connection between Cthulhu and Judeo-Christian figures such as [[Satan]], though this comparison is shaky at best. In every Lovecraft story, the universe is full of strange and terrible entities that humans mistakenly call Gods; Cthulhu being a powerful but not unique creature with Godlike powers. Lovecraft himself was an [[atheist]], and his stories reflected his views of humanity's role in the universe as insignificant and at the mercy of greater, unknown powers.

In 1932, Lovecraft himself declared: "All I say is that I think it is damned unlikely that anything like a central cosmic will, a spirit world, or an eternal survival of personality exist. They are the most preposterous and unjustified of all the guesses which can be made about the universe, and I am not enough of a hair-splitter to pretend that I don't regard them as arrant and negligible moonshine. In theory I am an agnostic, but pending the appearance of radical evidence I must be classed, practically and provisionally, as an atheist."<ref>H.P. Lovecraft Letter to Robert E. Howard (August 16, 1932), in Selected Letters 1932-1934 (Sauk City, WI: Arkham House, 1976), p.57.</ref>

==References==
{{Reflist}}
*http://www.cthulhu.org/cthulhu/index.html

[[Category:Fantasy]]

H. P. Lovecraft

2009-01-15T02:37:22Z

DesertEagle:

[[Image:998907809.jpg|right|thumb|He is in the picture]]
'''H. P. Lovecraft''' (1890-1937) was an [[United States of America|American]] author of fantasy and horror tales. He is the author who created the [[Cthulhu]] mythos, a fantasy world adapted by many subsequent authors. Lovecraft horror took many influences from [[Edgar Allan Poe]]. Lovecraft often openly attacked religion and idealism portraying it as blind ignorance in the face of a terrifying reality.

Lovecraft has been accused of bigotry against Africans, Asians, Arabs, and Jews.

==Works==
*''Dagon''
*''The Call of Cthulhu''
*''The Other Gods''
*''The Shadow Over Innsmouth''
*''At the Mountains of Madness''

{{DEFAULTSORT:Lovecraft, H. P.}}
[[Category:Authors]]
[[Category:Horror]]

Web comic

2008-09-16T19:45:02Z

DesertEagle:

'''Web Comics''', also known as '''Online Comics''' or '''Webcomics''' are a form of comics that are started on the [[Internet]]. Many online comics are [[published]] exclusively online, while some are both in print and archived online. There are many different types of webcomics; some are created to be more like traditional comic strips, while others are created to be more like [[graphic novels]]. Popular webcomics include the [[conservative]] [[Day By Day]] and the politically neutral with occasional liberal opinions [[xkcd]].

Most webcomics can be viewed free of charge. Webcomic creators still gain money off their work by selling printed versions of their webcomic, offering more content at a fee, selling merchandise, or simply asking for donations (sometimes donations are asked merely to pay for the site fees). Adds put on the webcomic's site also pull in some revenue.

With web comics, the restrictions of the traditional newspaper or magazine format can be lifted, which allows the [[artists]] to take advantage of the internet's unique capabilities, such as being able to draw and say anything they want without repercussion providing more freedom and creativity. Webcomic artists also are not confined size limitations. Some webcomics, such as those published by [[Scott McCloud]]<ref>http://www.scottmccloud.com/</ref>, have experimented with interactivity and animation in their comics. Most webcomics provide an archive for readers to look up any strip they wish.

== References ==
<references/>

[[category:comic Strips]]

Web comic

2008-09-16T19:26:59Z

DesertEagle:

'''Web Comics''', also known as Online Comics and Webcomics are a form of comics that are started on the [[Internet]]. Many online comics are [[published]] exclusively online, while some are both in print and archived online. There are many different types of webcomics; some are created to be more like traditional comic strips, while others are created to be more like [[graphic novels]]. Popular webcomics include the [[conservative]] [[Day By Day]] and the politically neutral [[xkcd]].

== Medium ==
With web comics, the restrictions of the traditional newspaper or magazine format can be lifted, which allows the [[artists]] to take advantage of the internet's unique capabilities, such as being able to draw and say anything they want without repercussion. Webcomic artists also aren't confined size limitations. Some webcomics, such as those published by [[Scott McCloud]]<ref>http://www.scottmccloud.com/</ref>, have experimented with interactivity and animation in their comics.

== References ==
<references/>

[[category:comic Strips]]