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There were a number of early webcomics, with UF being among the more prominant.

Others I recall:

- "Cafe Hugo", I believe. Tagline included "vague enneui", possibly also "coffee, puns, ..." or something like that. Mostly college students / recent graduates and their life at a cafe. All traces seem lost.

- "Westward Ho!" was a very short-lived, and I think intentionally limited, comic about a young woman engaged in finding mutually-beneficial relationship and/or fighting for justice on the fronteir. Well executed and largely in good taste given the premise.

- "Help Desk", featuring Ubersoft (guilty of Unholy Business Practices). A mention here: https://comics.fandom.com/wiki/Help_Desk And apparently still online: https://www.eviscerati.org/comics/hd/2022/02/unprofessional-...

- Avalon High -- a very soap-opera-ish comic about students at a Candian high school. Archive: https://web.archive.org/web/20110707193859/http://www.avalon...




Some other webcomics I remember from that time:

- CFRH or College Roomies from Hell, still ongoing although at a much slower pace: http://www.crfh.net/

- Sabrina Online, started 1996 by Eric W. Schwartz of Amiga fame: https://www.sabrina-online.com/

- General Protection Fault, like the name suggest, this one also has an IT setting: https://www.gpf-comics.com/

- Roomies! and It's Walky! - A teen romantic comedy: http://www.itswalky.com/

- Argon Zark, this was the first web comic I discovered, seems to be going back to 1995: https://www.zark.com/


Roomies! got rebooted spiritually as Dumbing of Age. That iteration has been going for _12 years_


Man, I'd nearly forgotten GPF...



I recall https://nerocam.com/DrFun/Dave/Dr-Fun/df9707/df970710.jpg from back in my college days in the CS building.


That's one I remember seeing, based on the style.


"Helen, Sweetheart of the Internet"

https://web.archive.org/web/20160408073302/http://sweetheart...

Oh my: "In 2014 the strip was pitched for development as a live-action television situation comedy [...]" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Helen,_Sweetheart_of_the_Inter...


It's not quite as old, but I loved Hackles back in the day. http://www.hackles.org/


I think I remember "Westward Ho!", but I can't find anything that isn't the 1924 novel anymore. Do you have any more information about it?


It was drawn relatively realistically, had a very short run, maybe a dozen strips or fewer. I think there were two main characters, both female. One the eponymous Ho, the other something of a Robin Hood-ish / Lone-Ranger-ish character.

Shenanigans ensued ... for a brief but glorious time.


The first webcomic I remember was called Bruno, about a college-age girl with frizzy pencil hair and sardonic views on life.

Kevin and Kell

User Friendly

Something*Positive

Wow, trip down memory lane here.


"ozy and millie" was another favourite of mine from the userfriendly era




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