ASCII comic

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An ASCII comic is a form of webcomic which uses ASCII text to create images. In place of images in a regular comic, ASCII art is used, with the text usually placed underneath.

1 The Adventures of Nerd Boy
2 ASCII Art Farts
3 See also
4 References
5 External links

[edit] The Adventures of Nerd Boy

The Adventures of Nerd Boy, or just Nerd Boy is an ASCII comic by Joaquim Gândara. The first strip is dated August 6, 2001 and the last appeared on June 19, 2006. Overall, more than 600 strips were created. They were posted to ASCII art newsgroup alt.ascii-art and on the website. Some of the episodes have been translated to Polish and French.

[edit] ASCII Art Farts

ASCII Art Farts is a daily web comic which consists of selected art with an added caption, often offensive. The first "fart," as individual comics are called, is dated June 25, 1999 [1] and a new "fart" has been published every day since. This format is somewhat similar to Married to the Sea, although ASCII Art Farts long predates it. The comic's preponderance with scatological topics and using other people's art at first generated outrage in ASCII art community^{[citation needed]}, although later this attitude changed [2].

The comic's author is known as Tran Q. Nguyen ("tQn") [3]. It is unknown whether there is one author or several authors. Some believe there was at least two different authors throughout the history of the comic^{[citation needed]}.