Editing Bob and George (section)

==Significance==
While not the first webcomic to ever use video game sprites in place of hand-drawn art, ''Bob and George'' is noted as being the first sprite comic to gain widespread popularity<ref name=Wired>{{cite magazine|url=https://www.wired.com/news/culture/0,1284,63691,00.html?tw=wn_2culthead|magazine=[[Wired (website)|Wired]]|title=You, Too, Can Be a Comics Whiz|last=Sjöberg|first=Lore|date=2004-06-04|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20051225205631/http://www.wired.com/news/culture/0%2C1284%2C63691%2C00.html?tw=wn_2culthead|archive-date=December 25, 2005|url-status=dead|df=mdy-all}}</ref> and the originator of the sprite comic "craze".<ref name=Cambell>Campbell, T. ''A History of Webcomics'', "The Golden Age: 1993–2005", March 2006.</ref> At the height of its readership in 2004, Bob and George held an Alexa traffic rank of around 20,000. Anez's comic "paved the way"<ref name=Kernel>{{cite news|last=Thomas |first=Lucas |date=2002-04-19 |url=http://media.www.kykernel.com/media/storage/paper305/news/2002/04/19/Kerneltech/Quirky.Comics.Find.An.Online.Home-241146.shtml |title=Quirky comics find an online home|publisher=[[The Kentucky Kernel]]}}{{dead link|date=July 2017 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}</ref> for the creation of numerous other sprite comics, including ''Oldskooled'', ''Life of Wily'', and [[Brian Clevinger]]'s [[8-Bit Theater]].<ref name=8Bit>[[Brian Clevinger|Clevinger, Brian]]. ''[https://web.archive.org/web/20040218132753/http://nuklearpower.com/webcomics.php  Sprite Comics (essay)]'', ''Nuklear Power'', archived from [http://www.nuklearpower.com/webcomics.php the original] on February 21, 2004.</ref> Clevinger has called Anez "the Father of Sprite Comics"<ref name=8Bit /> for his role in popularizing the phenomenon, and directly credits a friend showing him Anez's Bob and George for his inspiration to make his comic.<ref name=Wired /> Regarding the use of sprites in a comic, Clevinger has said,

{{Quotation|As we all know, it's only a comic if it uses art, and it can only be art if it's hand drawn. David [Anez] didn’t know it then, but he’d be the pioneer in shattering this stereotype"<ref name=8Bit />}}