This year at San Diego Comic-Con, there was "An Introduction to Webcomics" panel with the following description in the official Events Guide: "The single largest explosion of new comics talent in history is happening online. Did you know that there are over 18,000 webcomics? Some of them have millions of readers. Most of these comics are free. Is this news to you? Then come find out what you've been missing from Phil Foglio (moderator and writer/artist of Girl Genius), Brad Guigar (Evil, Inc.), Dave Kellett (Sheldon), Scott Kurtz (PVP), and Kris Straub (Starslip Crisis)." The first "Comic-Con Webcomics School 101" was held in 2005 and featured the creators of Unshelved, Goats, Checkerboard Nightmare, Jazz Age, Bob the Angry Flower, American Elf, Diesel Sweeties, Melonpool, Smile, The Creatures in My Head, It's Walky! and ShortPacked. To this day, I've only ever read a few of the webcomics listed here, and it was never online. I started Girl Genius back when it still came out in floppy form, then held off on the online stories until they were collected in digests. I recently discovered Basic Instructions in San Diego's Reader, and it's being collected later this year (see the picture above).
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