Webcomix came about in mid-2024 as a solution for a very specific need: Maintaining operation continuity for a web comic site based on no longer supported technology. As work progressed on that solution, it soon became clear that the tools developed had far greater potential than merely supporting a single website. The decision was made to develop a best-of-class web comic publishing platform.
... by creators. The Webcomix core team share collective decades of experience communicating creatively with words, visuals, and ideas. That creative and collaborative history was the essential ingredient in developing Webcomix into a platform that could be shared as a service with other creators. We're committed to making Webcomix the best platform we possibly can...
...not the other way around. Webcomix is small, agile, and built from the ground up to have a fully customizable and responsive experience. This is not easy. The web is fairly saturated with web comic blocks, many of them extremely large and offering services at no cost. There are also thousands of self-maintained web comic sites, many of them using the same technology Webcomix was designed to replace.
We don't regard either of these as truly acceptable alternatives. Large hosting sites serving thousands of digital properties provide very little in terms of a unique creative experience. Hosting your own web comic on a WordPress-based site, using one of several custom plugin/theme combinations designed for that purpose... is certainly doable (we did it for about ten years). But it is far from ideal, from either the perspective of a comic creator or the perspective of a web/digital professional.
Webcomix is a website that hosts web comic sites, built on the Concrete CMS web platform. It does not run on WordPress, it never has. It mimics the functionality of a WordPress plugin, but is entirely original Concrete-native code developed by Rose City Digital (RCD)-- a small digital services agency based in Portland, Oregon that specializes in Concrete-based solutions.