Notable events of 2003 in webcomics.
Events
Mike Krahulik and Jerry Holkins of Penny Arcade founded Child's Play.
Awards Web Cartoonist's Choice Awards, "Outstanding Comic" won by Justine Shaw's Nowhere Girl. Ignatz Awards, "Outstanding Online Comic" won by James Kochalka's American Elf. Justine Shaw's Nowhere Girl becomes the first webcomic to be nominated for an Eisner Award.
Webcomics started
January 1 — A Modest Destiny by Sean Howard February 1 — Dinosaur Comics by Ryan North February 7 — A Softer World by Joey Comeau and Emily Horne February 10 — Least I Could Do by Ryan Sohmer and Lar DeSouza February — Idiot Box by Matt Bors March — Digger by Ursula Vernon April 6 — Girly by Jackie Lesnick April 20 — No Rest for the Wicked by Andrea L. Peterson May — Wondermark by David Malki June 30 — Badmash by Sandeep Sood, Nimesh Patel, and Sanjay Shah June 30 — The Right Number by Scott McCloud August 2 — Questionable Content by Jeph Jacques August 4 — Loxie & Zoot by Stephen Crowley September 25 —The Order of the Stick by Rich Burlew September — Smithson by Shaenon K. Garrity et al. Anima: Age of the Robots by Johnny Tay El Listo by Xavier Àgueda Hetalia: Axis Powers by Hidekaz Himaruya Inverloch by Sarah Ellerton Li'l Mell and Sergio by Shaenon K. Garrity et al. Unspeakable Vault (Of Doom) by François Launet
Webcomics ended Leisure Town by Tristan A. Farnon, 1997 – 2003 Makeshift Miracle by Jim Zubkavich, September 10, 2001 – March 4, 2003 Zombie and Mummy by Olia Lialina and Dragan Espenschied, 2001 – 2003
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