Was Wondermark originally designed to be a webcomic?
A. Wondermark started as a webcomic before I knew what webcomics were. I was just trying to make a comic strip and put it on a website and sort of made a webcomic by accident. Once I found out what I’d done I was totally mortified but it was rather too late to turn back. Unfortunately in my opinion, webcomics have become sort of infected with a comic-booky personality. There are a lot of nerdy comic-book ways of talking about webcomics, when in my opinion webcomics should be talked about like websites. Way more people visit websites than read comic books. And while I’m very thrilled to present the strip in a beautiful way, and also hopefully broaden its audience, with the new Dark Horse book, I don’t think that print is the be-all and end-all of comics anymore. With any entertainment product, you’re best off going where the people are. The top 10 best-selling comic books these days are moving 95,000–184,000 copies. That’s the audience of a mid-tier webcomic, with the top webcomics comf
