Webcomic

noun

noun ·Rare ·Advanced level

Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    An online comic, especially one first published on the Internet. Internet

    "Webcomics certainly have their selling points. They are harder to censor and generally free from editorial meddling[…]"

Example

More examples

"One of the main characters of the webcomic El Goonish Shive, and arguably the most adorable of them, is a weresquirrel (among other things)."

Etymology

From Web + comic. The word is first attested 2000, but websites titled "WebComics" existed previously (as early as 1995).

More for "webcomic"

SynonymsSentencesPronunciationTranslate

Next best steps

Find stronger synonymsSee usage examplesCheck pronunciationBrowse writing guides

Data sourced from Wiktionary, WordNet, CMU, and other open linguistic databases. Updated March 2026.