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| | Wired News: You, Too, Can Be a Comics Whiz |
 | | Video-game characters in a comic strip were not unheard of, but the remarkable thing about Anez's comic was that rather than using drawings of the characters, he used the actual video-game character art -- "sprites" in programming jargon -- along with some simple backgrounds and word balloons. |
 | | While Anez wasn't the first person to create a comic strip from video-game sprites, his strip was the first to gain widespread popularity, and it inspired others to create their own sprite comics. |
 | | has grown to be the most popular sprite comic on the Web, and, according to Comixpedia, it's the third most popular Web comic in existence. |
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