About
Jerkcity is a webcomic created by Michael Lopp and Tristan A. Farnon with two others only known by their handles (Deuce and Pants) and it has been published almost daily since 1998. Jerkcity is created with Microsoft Comic Chat[2] and has crude and ridiculous content including drinking, drug abuce and sex jokes.
Premise
Jerkcity follows the adventures of four characters: Pants, Rands, Deuce, and Spigot and contains no actual character development, plot, storyline, or continuity. The creators described it as “a story told out of order.”
Left to right: Pants, Deuce, Spigot and Rands
History
In mid 1990’s Michael, Tristan and two other were connected to a private chatroom where they amused each other with dick jokes, programming jokes, and other off-color humor. In May 1998, Michael purchased jerkcity.com domain name independent of any actual use for it, until he discovered Microsoft Comic Chat and used three years worth of logs from group’s chat room to create the comic strip itself. The first strip was released on August 17th, 1998.[11]
Online Presence
Jerkcity was mentioned in Buzzfeed article 80’s And 90’s Web Comics Were Insanely Geeky. On September 18th, 2008, YouTuber SpamNapkin uploaded a video titled “Funny Jerkcity Joekz”, featuring several strips of the series and gaining over 11,100 views in the following seven years. On February 26th, 2010, YouTuber stretchpants uploaded a video titled “Jerkcity: SPACE JERKIN’”, being the reupload of an animation featuring Spigot masturbating with planets in the background, gaining over 10,000 views in the following five years.
On May 26th, 2010, a subreddit dedicated to the series was created, gaining over 166 subscribers in the following five years.[5] On April 8th, 2013, the Tumblr blog Jerkcity HD[6] blog was created, containing fanmade remasters of Jerkcity comic strips.[6] Other popular fan blogs have also been created such as Dick Missiles,[7]Jerkcity Hi-Fi[8] and Regular Jerkcity.[9] As December 5th, 2015, searching on the artist community deviantART the keyword “jerkcity” leads to over 100 results,[10] having also presence on other communities like Tumblr.[4]
Search Interest
External References
[1]Jerkcity – Jerkcity.com
[2]Wikipedia – Microsoft Comic Chat
[3]BuzzFeed – 80’s And 90’s Web Comics Were Insanely Geeky
[4]Tumblr – Search for jerkcity
[5]Reddit – /r/jerkcity
[6]Tumblr – Jerkcity HD
[7]Tumblr – Dick Missiles
[8]Tumblr – Jerkcity Hi-Fi
[9]Tumblr – Regular Jerkcity
[10]deviantART – Search for jerkcity
[11]Jerkcity – what with the boners