How Are You Getting Webcomics News These Days?

When I started getting into webcomics with any degree of seriousness, it was about 2004. I had known of webcomics before then, but I didn't really start reading any with any regularity until then. I recall thinking at the time that I was coming to the webcomics party exceptionally late. I mean, guys like Scott Kurtz, Jerry Holkins, and Mike Krahulik had been working for years at that point and they weren't even really the old guard. It already seemed like a crowded market, and I was thrilled when I could find the occasional webcomic that was JUST getting started.

But what I also noticed at the time was that I was largely on my own when it came to finding webcomic news. None of the usual comics news sites were reporting on webcomics with any regularity. Hardly at all, in fact. So what news I found was generally what was being posted by the webcomikers themselves underneath their latest strip. One of the reasons I started my webcomics column over at MTV Geek was because no one else was reporting on webcomics in any capacity. When MTV Geek shuttered its doors in 2013, though, there was still pretty much nothing else. Gary Tyrrell was doing his webcomics blogging over at Fleen but that was never really been a place for news per se. It's even less significant now, since he's been more or less on hiatus for the last several years, and a brief note from earlier this year about the birth of his son suggests he's not likely to re-start in earnest any time soon.

So when I moved over to FreakSugar, that was still pretty much it as far as anything resembling webcomics news. Brad Guigar has been running a few outlets for webcomics discussions (notably Webcomics.com and ComicLab) but those are generally geared for people making webcomics. News there is very much geared to an audience that is NOT a typical comics reader. Tom Spurgeon would occasionally post something he came across on social media, but those were very much a small part of his focus before he passed away. When my FreakSugar contributions fell to the wayside, though, and my former Comics Alternative podcast co-host passing away in 2019, I didn't see much else beyond what I could scrape from individual creators' social media feeds.

In the past five years, we've seen a significant rise in more corporate efforts at webcomics, most notably with Webtoon specifically. That has come with some news coverage on more 'traditional' comics news outlets like The Beat or CBR. (As a curious aside, though, a search for "webcomic" on The Beat turns up exactly one article from 2025 and only two from 2024, but a similar search on "Webtoon" returns 22 results from 2025 alone, most of which cover various business agreements of the company.)

So, for me, here in 2025, most of my news about webcomics still comes from the creators themselves. Either creators I'm directly following, or from mutuals who re-share something from the creators. Pretty much exactly the same way I was getting webcomics news two decades ago. Well, back then, it was the creators' notes and subsequent forum discussions on their own websites instead of social media, but social media wasn't really a thing in 2004. (MySpace had only just launched in 2003.) So in twenty years, we've got a slight platform migration, but no real substantive change.

So what am I missing? Is there still no good source of webcomic news? Are readers still relying primarily on the creators themselves to let them know what's news? How are you learning about webcomics now?

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