Your first webcomic? Where did you go from there?

[Hazumirein]

I'm preeeetty sure my first (like a lot of other people it seems XD) was Megatokyo. I actually read an article about it in some anime/manga magazine, I think, and was curious about the idea of online comics. So I checked out the site, got totally hooked, and plowed through the archive in a few days. Don't read it much anymore though.

Sometime later I found Inverloch (which I plowed through in a few hours, haha), and realized that there was a whole WORLD of webcomics out there. And I've been pretty addicted ever since.

The funny part is, I can't remember if I started drawing my own comic and posting it on DeviantArt before or after I found out that webcomics were like, a real thing that lots of other people did.

[Gibson]

The first webcomics I read were Evil Dawn and Pulp Stiktion by Ben Steeves, currently doing [urlhttp://www.zombenstrikes.com/]Zom-Ben[/url] and the arting for my wording on Our Time in Eden. He'd been posting comics online for a while before I met him, and the conversation that nudged me into webcomics went something like...

Me: Cool art, man. Do you have any sequential stuff I can see?
He: Yeah, I have a webcomic.
Me: Ew, really?

Up until then, I'd met a few people who did webcomics, but they were terrible artists so I figured that's where bad artists go now. Turns out it was true, but after reading Ben's I got linked to some other stuff that was really good, and some more stuff that was really good, and still more stuff that was really good.

I suppose, truth be told the first webcomic I ever saw was Something Positive that a friend linked to me, but I hated it and never read it again.

[TTallan]

Me: Cool art, man. Do you have any sequential stuff I can see?
He: Yeah, I have a webcomic.
Me: Ew, really?

Ha! I have almost exactly the same story for my introduction to comic self-publishing-- just replace "webcomic" with "minicomic" and that was me 15+ years ago trying not to laugh scornfully at some local artists who had already figured out that some of the best comics come out of this tradition. Those same artists later became good friends of mine, and I started making my own minicomics shortly thereafter. :-)

[D.Z.]

I started in the sprite comic realm, so the first comic I ever read was a little corner-of-the-net gag-a-day sprite comic called "Saturday Night Sonic". Yes, I still remember that. No, it doesn't exist anymore.

I'd say my first real comic was probably El Goonish Shive, which I still read fairly religiously.

[Knara]

I'm old.

My first webcomic was Goats in its first year (not the first year of the reboot, the actual first year) and PA when it was small enough that Tycho actually replied personally to emails you sent.

After that it was Exploitation Now, MT, MacHall, Little Gamers, Sexy Losers, Avalon High, Okashina Okashi (later I made friends with a couple folks IRL who are related to that comic, including the girl that Nyarchan is modeled after, without having any idea who they were) and PvP. 

Sadly, I could never get into Poe's second comic, Errant Story.  EN ended, obviously.  MacHall ended.  Avalon High was very sadly never finished.

Now I draw and read a wide variety of comics.  Cuz I like'em.