History Main / FourthWallMailSlot

* This was [[OlderThanTheyThink hardly]] invented by webcomics. One of the earliest examples: the ComicBook/FantasticFour used this trope many times in the early years, even making the mailman into a humorous stock character.

* In the third volume of the "Happy Happy Clover" manga. There is a section near the end of the manga, where the main characters would answer questions to Japanese fans of the manga. The very last page of the same, is a Q&A where the author would answer a question by Illustrating their answers.

-->-- ''Help Me, Professor Kokonoe'', ''VideoGame/{{Blazblue}}: [[VideoGame/BlazblueContinuumShift Continuum Shift]]''

See also NoFourthWall, PostModernism, CharacterBlog, OfficialFanSubmittedContent, LettersToTheEditor.

* Similarly, ''{{Svengoolie}}'' also did this.

** [[OlderThanTheyThink So did]] {{Ghoulardi}}.

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** Even [[Franchise/SuperMarioBros Princess Toadstool]] did it a few times in the NintendoComicsSystem (though the letters printed were really only from other characters).
** Also in the , the ''ComicBook/TheLegendOfZelda'' comics had Link and Zelda answering mail from the readers.

* ''Webcomic/StickmanAndCube'' does this in [[http://www.drunkduck.com/Stickman_and_Cube/index.php?p=270616 this comic]]. All the letters they get are, however, thoroughly pointless.

* Rachel from ''[[http://www.drunkduck.com/Dragon_City Dragon City]]'' does this weekly in a segment called "Ask Professor Rachel" in which she answers questions about the creator, the creator's other comics, dragon society, dragon biology, and so on. While she sometimes makes comments about what's going on in the story, in the comic/outside of Ask Professor Rachel, she does not retain this knowledge. She also cannot break the fourth wall inside the comic unless someone else does and she's scolding them for doing so. She also makes no indication inside the comic of having any knowledge of Ask Professor Rachel.

* Done several times in ''Webcomic/TheKamics'' although the authenticity of the letters was {{Lampshaded}} [[http://www.drunkduck.com/The_KAMics/5294388/ here]].
* ''Webcomic/MagicalMisfits'' answered a reader question [[http://www.drunkduck.com/Magical_Misfits/4881612/ once]].

* ''Webcomic/{{Jix}}'' introduced [[http://www.drunkduck.com/Jix/5370127/ "Ask Remula"]] bonus strips.

* British weekly comics have a long history of this. In the mid-1960s, ''TV Century 21'' had a letter column that was answered by "S", the head of the Universal Secret Service that was featured in one of the strips in the comic. Later, the job was taken over by Colonel White of Spectrum when the ''CaptainScarletAndTheMysterons'' strip began.

** AmbushBug answered his own letters, and in his first issue was puzzled that he had to wait months for feedback from the reader who had just finished the book.

* The Strong Bad E-mails from ''WebAnimation/HomestarRunner'' are a rare example of this becoming most of the website.

* ''WebVideo/TheLizzieBennetDiaries'' had 100 episodes plus 10 "Questions and Answers" sessions. Lizzie asked her viewers to send her questions through Twitter, Facebook or Youtube, and those that were interesting for the story or characters got answered in-universe. In additions, the creative team was always eager to communicate with fans at the official page or various social networks.

* ''WebVideo/TheAutobiographyOfJaneEyre'' is a SettingUpdate vlog inspired by ''The Lizzie Bennet Diaries''. Jane communicates with her viewers through commenting at the video, on her Tumbrl page or Twitter. Jane's actress Allyson Hall and others from the creative team sometimes offer their views and comments as well directly at the videos or on their pages.

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** Creator/CartoonNetwork did this, in that they had an address where you could write in to a favorite character and they would either read it on air, or they would reply via snail mail with a postcard. Shows like ''Cartoon Planet'' and ''JBVO'' also had addresses to which viewers could send letters.

* "[[WesternAnimation/BluesClues IT'S MAAAIIIIILLLL TIIIIMEEEE!!!!!]]"

* Pretty much the entire premise of ''Ask Shagg'': a RidiculouslyCuteCritter answers children's questions about the animal world.

** The British comic based on the film series does this as well. At first, it was run by Starscream (who wasn't pleased when readers sent him mail about how much they liked the Autobots). It's currently run by [[OddCouple Ironhide and Barricade]]. They have a lot of fun with continuity issues and Barricade's [[WhatHappenedToTheMouse unexplained disappearance]].