Dumbing of Age

Dumbing of Age
Author(s)David Willis
Websitedumbingofage.com
Current status/scheduleUpdates daily
Launch dateSeptember 10, 2010
Genre(s)
  • Drama
  • Slice of life
  • Comedy

Dumbing of Age is a webcomic about college life at Indiana University by cartoonist David Willis with themes involving drama or comedy, occasionally with a mixture of both. The series itself is a reboot reusing characters from Willis' previous comics (Roomies!, It's Walky!, Joyce and Walky!, and Shortpacked!).[1][2] While Willis' previous webcomics shared a science-fiction universe, Dumbing of Age is independent of these, reflecting more slice-of-life than the previous works.[3] The comic is generally set in the present day, yet not set in any particular year due to the glacial pacing (Every in-universe day takes around 1-2 months of daily comics), current technologies are depicted in-comic anachronistically so the comic is not a period piece.[4] Willis has reported Dumbing of Age to be his most popular webcomic, with a readership that around three times that of Shortpacked!.[5]

  1. ^ Inglis-Arkell, Esther (September 20, 2010). "'Roomies' Webcomic Creator Heads Back to College in 'Dumbing of Age'". ComicsAlliance. Archived from the original on January 24, 2011. Retrieved January 3, 2021.
  2. ^ Hanson, Ralph E. (2016). Mass Communication: Living in a Media World (Sixth ed.). Thousand Oaks, California: Sage Publications. p. 556. ISBN 9781506358567.
  3. ^ Willis, David (March 18, 2013). "At the beginning of Dumbing of Age I did a very..." Tumblr. Archived from the original on March 13, 2019. Retrieved January 3, 2021.
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  5. ^ Willis, David (March 17, 2015). "How popular (in terms of pageviews) have each of your webcomics been?". Tumblr. Archived from the original on March 4, 2016. Retrieved January 3, 2021.