Web First

Not always practical.

A Web Original work that has been published in print.

May contain a Print Bonus.

Examples of Web First include:

Web Comics

• Trace now a Manhwa
• As well as Noblesse
• Megatokyo
• Questionable Content
• El Goonish Shive
• Flipside
• Gunnerkrigg Court
• Questionable Content
• Dinosaur Comics in print became "Your Whole Family Is Made of Meat."
• Xkcd's "Volume Zero."
• Pv P
• Axis Powers Hetalia
• The Non-Adventures of Wonderella: "why read for free what you can buy" says the ad.
• Girl Genius is an odd case that started off as an independent print comic. After publishing three and a half volumes, they moved to publishing online first in order to reach a larger audience.
• Hark! A Vagrant
• Cyanide & Happiness
• The Order of the Stick, with bonus material, side stories and prequels only available in print.
• Narbonic
• Skin Horse
• Khaos Komix, print version planned once the story is concluded.
• Variant; many of the t-shirts seen in Questionable Content wind up in the QC store if there's enough demand.
• Sluggy Freelance, with bonus material, though the collected volumes are lagging behind the online strip by several years.
• Bruno the Bandit
• Penny Arcade
• Axe Cop
• Diary of a Wimpy Kid
• Apple Geeks
• Shortpacked has four volumes, Roomies one with a second on the way, and the first year of Dumbing of Age is set to be collected soon.

Web Animation

• Homestar Runner was successful enough to have many DVDs.
• Alejo And Valentina
• Making Fiends was picked up by Nicktoons and remade for TV.
• Happy Tree Friends started out as web animation but ended up getting a TV show.

Web Serial Novel

• John Dies at the End.
• Phil Plait's Bad Astronomy. Went from a popular science website to a nonfiction book.
• Amakute Hoshikute Torokeru Chuu started out as a web novel on Fuguriya's website before being adapted into the seventh game of the Sono Hanabira ni Kuchizuke wo series.

Blog

• Scott Adams published a number of his blog posts in the Dilbert book.
• How to Teach Physics to Your Dog started out this way
• Cake Wrecks has produced a book, complete with a book tour (to which many fans brought cakes of their own).
• Stuff White People Like started off as a blog and was made into a book.
• Julie and Julia: blog=> book => movie with Meryl Streep. A big gap in that final step, made by the fact that Nora Ephron just didn't like the attitude she got off of Julie Powell from her blog.
• Jump the Shark from the late website of the same name
• Comic Book Legends Revealed from the blog Comics Should Be Good - half new items and half items already posted on the blog.
• The Law of Superheroes by James Daily and Ryan Davidson was born from their blog, Law and the Multiverse.