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Vicennial
🕑 Added 2020-02-14 17:02:55 +0000 UTCTwenty years ago today, I posted my first comic on the Web. Greystone Inn, first appeared on a GeoCities site on February 14, 2000.
On April 16, 2001, it began running in the Philadelphia Daily News. Several other newspaper would pick up the comic, but only the Daily News ran it from its first strip to the last.
Greystone Inn ran online Monday-through-Saturday until the end of June 2005. The next day, Evil Inc was launched.
At the beginning of 2016, the comic-strip format was retired in favor of a comic-book approach and the site began updating twice a week in half-page chunks.
The past 19 years have also seen the rise of some other projects I'm very proud of. Courting Disaster, a single-panel strip about sex and relationships, was launched on Jan 12, 2005. It was originally created to accompany a sex-advice column that ran in the Philadelphia Daily News.
It ended in 2012, when I left that newspaper, but it was reinvented as Courting Disaster Uncensored, a NSFW feature available only to Patreon backers and in printed collections
Phables was a full-page comic about life in Philadelphia which started on Feb. 20, 2006. It was nominated for an Eisner Award for best webcomic the following year. It lost to an advertisement for a video game. I'm not making that up.
And, of course, Evil Inc After Dark, my first NSFW series, was launched officially in April 2015.
Along the way, there have been dozens of other projects I've been proud of — Webcomics.com, Arch Bros, Webcomics Weekly, Surviving Creativity, ComicLab, How to Make Webcomics, Webcomics Confidential, Tales from the Con, The Webcomics Handbook, The Everything Cartooning Book, Hey Comics — Kids!, teaching classes in both sequential art and entrepreneurship at Hussian College School of Art, teaching Storytelling at University of the Arts, winning the award for Comic Book Artist of the Year at the Philadelphia Geek Awards in 2012, being nominated for the Eisner Award...
Whew! It's been a busy 20 years!
And none of it would have been possible without your support — on my sites, at comic-convention appearances and here on Patreon. You folks have been with me every step of the way, and I couldn't be more grateful.
I have some great things in store to mark 20 years — a new website, an ambitious publishing schedule, and a Special Offer or two. We're going to make this a vicennial to remember.
To kick things off, everyone who is at the $5 level or higher by February 29 will get the following eComic after their payment is made:
- $5 tier and higher: BONUS! A collection of SFW bonus cartoons exclusively posted on Patreon
- $10 tier and higher: Evil Inc: Under New Management AFTER DARK edition! See the original Evil Inc storylines paired with their AFTER DARK counterparts!
Comments
Bhushan Harripersad
Thinking about the story from the start makes me wonder if since the reboot does the customer service section still send all their calls to lightning lady?
Brad Guigar
Thank you!
Brad Guigar
Actually, me neither!
Brad Guigar
Thank YOU, Eric!
Mr. Nobody
Congrats on 20 years.
coolraul07
I can't WAIT!
Eric the Baker
Wow! Great to hear that! I love your work! I have been along for the ride for about 12-13 years (only?). But it has been one helluva ride. Thank you for all the hard work you do.
