Check, Please! (webcomic)
2013 webcomic by Ngozi Ukazu / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Check, Please! is a 2013 webcomic written and illustrated by Ngozi Ukazu. It follows vlogger and figure skater-turned-ice hockey player Eric "Bitty" Bittle as he deals with hockey culture in college, as well as his identity as a gay man. Ukazu provides fans of Check, Please! a variety of extra content through her Tumblr and a dedicated Twitter account, establishing a piece of transmedia storytelling to expand on worldbuilding. A large fan base has accumulated around Check, Please!, and when Ukazu set up a Kickstarter campaign to fund the physical release of a first volume of the webcomic, she reached her goal with ease. In November 2019, Ukazu started up a Kickstarter to fund a Check Please! "chirpbook" containing Bitty's best tweets. The Kickstarter surpassed her goal within a single day. In 2021, Ukazu started a Kickstarter to fund a Year Four release with one of the rewards including a new comic entitled "Madison" taking place between Years Two and Three. On the final day of the campaign, the Check Please! Year Four Kickstarter became the most funded webcomics Kickstarter ever.[1]
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![]() Banner for Check, Please! Year One, featuring protagonist "Bitty" | |
Author(s) | Ngozi Ukazu |
Website | http://omgcheckplease.tumblr.com/ http://checkpleasecomic.com/ |
Current status/schedule | Completed |
Launch date | 8 August 2013 |
Genre(s) | Sports, LGBT |
In May 2017, Ukazu created an official website for Check, Please. On April 7, 2020, book two of Check, Please! came out in bookstores, containing the comic's ending before it was posted on the website. Ukazu then started posting the remaining comics one a day onto the website ending on April 11 with the final comic which was itself entitled Check, Please!. However, the Year Four comic "Parse" and the Extra comic "Pranks" were left as existing only in book two and have not been posted to either the Tumblr page or the official comic page.