Notable events of 2018 in webcomics.
Events
Nicholas Gurewitch announced that he was cutting back on the production of The Perry Bible Fellowship. While it used to be a weekly strip, it is now infrequently updated.
Awards Eisner Awards, "Best Webcomic" won by Katie O’Neill's The Tea Dragon Society. Ignatz Awards, "Outstanding Online Comic" won by Carta Monir's Lara Croft Was My Family. Joe Shuster Awards, "Outstanding Webcomic Creator" won by Gisele Lagace (Ménage à 3). Harvey Awards, "Digital Book of the Year" won by Brian K. Vaughan, Marcos Martín, and Muntsa Vicente's Barrier. Reuben Awards, "Online Comics"; Short Form won by Gemma Correll's Gemma Correll, Long Form won by John Allison's Bad Machinery. Ringo Awards: "Favorite Publisher" won by WEBTOON. "Best Webcomic" won by Sanford Greene's 1000. Cartoonist Studio Prize, "Best Web Comic" won by Michael DeForge's Leaving Richard's Valley. Aurora Awards, "Best Graphic Novel" won by Peter Chiykowski's Rock, Paper, Cynic.
Webcomics started
March 4 — Lore Olympus by Rachel Smythe March 4 — Solo Leveling by Chugong March 13 — Romance 101 by Namsoo April 2 — True Beauty by Yaongyi May 19 — A Returner's Magic Should Be Special by Usonan and Wookjakga July 7 — The Beginning After the End by TurtleMe and Fuyuki23 August 11 — Oct 13 — Your Letter by Hyun-ah Cho August 20 — Mage & Demon Queen by Kuru October 2 — Eleceed by Son Je-ho and Zhena October 21 — SubZero by Junepurrr Acursian by John Barrowman Backchannel by Stan Lee and Tom Akel Caster by Common and Noble Transmission
Webcomics ended Guilded Age by T Campbell, Phil Kahn, Erica Henderson, & the Waltrip brothers, 2009 – 2018 Hello World! by Alex Norris, 2016 – 2018 Nano List by Min Song-ah, 2016 – 2018 Leaving Richard's Valley by Michael DeForge, 2017 – 2018 War Cry by Dean Haspiel, 2017 – 2018 Woman World by Aminder Dhaliwal, 2017 – 2018 1000 by Chuck Brown and Sanford Greene, 2017 – 2018
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