Open Web Comics
Governance
How the Open Web Comics standard is maintained, how you can contribute, and how to get in touch.
Steward
The Open Web Comics standard is currently stewarded by Mark Stickley. The standard is intentionally open — it exists so that anyone can build registries and clients that interoperate, not to serve any single product.
Contributions
Suggestions, corrections, and contributions are welcome. The standard does not yet have a public repository, but this is planned. In the meantime, please get in touch directly.
Design principles
- Consistent. All endpoints are required, so consumers can always rely on a full-featured registry without conditional logic.
- Static-first. The API is designed to work as static JSON files on any file host, requiring no live server for read-only access (although if you wish to serve it dynamically, there's nothing stopping you!).
- Stable paths. Breaking changes introduce a new path version (
/v2, etc.) so old clients are never silently broken. - Vendor-neutral. The standard is not tied to any specific product. Any server or client can implement it.
Versioning policy
The spec uses semantic versioning. See the version history for details on the versioning conventions and what constitutes a breaking change.
Contact
Questions, suggestions, bug reports, and implementation reports are all welcome. Please get in touch via the contact page on Mark's website:
What to include
- Spec ambiguities or bugs — describe the endpoint or field, what the spec currently says, and what you expected.
- New implementations — share a link and a brief description to be added to the implementations page.
- General feedback — anything is welcome.