Welcome to the Web Comics Awareness 2003 event! There are thousands of webcomics out there... from professionally produced daily strips for huge audiences, to personal projects shared with a few friends, and everything in between. Each webcomic creator has their own reasons for making webcomics and their own artistic goals, and the web makes it easier than ever for comics to find their audience. Every year on May 5 (Cartoonists Day) some of us make webcomics about webcomics. Here are links to all sorts of strips that deal with art, writing, economics, technology, history, and other aspects of webcomics of interest to their creators.

This is the third year of the WCA event. Here are the hub sites for other years: 2001 2002 2004.If you make a webcomic and want to participate in the event next year, you are welcome to! Please join the webcomics_awareness mailing list at yahoogroups, which has FAQs in the Files area and will be very quiet until a couple months before the event. :)

People all over the world make webcomics... Click here to visit comicmaps.com which shows a world map of webcomics creators!

Thanks to various websites that helped publicize the event:

• Comixpedia kindly plugged us on April 3 and April 11 and May 2
• Jen Contino at Comicon.com's The Pulse
• Radioscifi.net May 3 interview with Mark Mekkes of Zortic
• Digital Webbing
• focus on comics
• Scott McCloud
• The Comics Journal: ¡Journalista!
• ...and of course many participating webcomics!