All the game-themed comics like PvP were newspaper-strip-style. GIRLS WITH SLINGSHOTS was a strip comic. GUNNERKRIGG COURT wasn’t, but Tom started that epic with little table-setting short stories, which is more like what would happen later in cartoons like ADVENTURE TIME.
I missed most of the early stuff, Modern Tales and such, beinv a Luddite. Comics written to be read as books were starting to post one page three times a week, and Phil Foglio’s GIRL GENIUS read really well that way. Probably because he started as a one-page cartoonist in DRAGON MAGAZINE.
