PvP

Player vs Player (http://www.pvponline.com/) is a web comic made by Scott Kurtz. It launched in 1998, and receives well over 100,000 unique viewers per day. It releases strips daily (except on weekends). PvP is iconic for pioneering web comics professionally. Penny Arcade has made the most successful business of any web comic and defined the archetype, but PvP was one of the trendsetters. PvP’s creator, Scott Kurtz, has over the years proven to be very outspoken and controversial, but very popular and influential in the realm of web comics. Kurtz could also be commended for sticking to his design guns for so long; he almost always keeps his schedule of one strip per weekday, and has spent the last 10 years developing the strip’s still-ongoing story. The subject matter started off as video games, but has since evolved to include many forms of digital media and technology. Personally, I think PvP is iconic, and that new web comic artists should take example of the discipline people like Kurtz have displayed with their comics. I’m hoping that comics like PvP inspire future web comic artists both in how to make/write their comics, and how to schedule/structure them.