Find the Best Webcomic Artists on DeviantART
If you enjoy reading webcomics, and want to find out more, if you admire the artists and want to see more of their work, or if you simply want to find some beautiful artwork on DeviantART... read on.
I am an avid webcomic reader, and a passionate artist, and a compulsive collector of pretty art. As such, one of the first things I look for now, on finding a well drawn webcomic, is whether they have a DeviantART gallery for me to look through, and hopefully watch - far easier than keeping track of different sites.
All the webcomics on here are ones I read regularly and enjoy. Doesn't necessarily mean they're good - but I think they are! Basically, this is the page of webcomics I would recommend anyone look at. I will of course add to this page as I discover more webcomic artists on DeviantART.
And may I point out to readers the Required Reading About Webcomics for readers, fans, would-be writers and artists and... well everyone. I'm collecting informative rants from webcomic artists in this section about how-tos, not-tos, dos, don't whats, wheres, etiquette, plot, design...
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All my Book Reviews
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My Book Lenses
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Well, my main lensography/about me page is getting a little out of hand, so I've moved my book reviews onto their own lens! I'm an avid reader, mainly of fantasy and science fiction, as well as reading a lot of webcomics - on average of twenty update...
Disclaimer and Overview
The obvious - stated for posterity
1. I am not affiliated with any of these artists, nor is this an official page.2. The art linked on this page belongs to the respective artists. It may be free to take, but most of it will not be. You check with the artist first.
(For some free wallpapers check out my Places to find me lens
I repeat, if you see some art here you like, and if you wish to use it for something *ask first* - I do not allow commercial use, but will probably be happy with other things. And I do NOT speak for any other artists here
3. Reading this page signifies agreement and acceptance with my status as ruler of the world. I will expect your tribute after the beep.
4. To search for artists on Deviantart:
- either randomly, search by keyword and hope they remembered to write it on their work (*again, I may have missed yours because I couldn't find it this way!* )
- using their name.
If you know their name, you can go to them directly, by typing [NAME].deviantart.com
eg flynn-the-cat.deviantart.com
It's still being written up - original descriptions for each comic, as well as banners, art from the DeviantART gallery (hopefully including an example comic page) and links to books to buy, if they exist. This means I have to hunt all these down, reupload banners, get my linkage correct and in some cases rereads the comic's beginning, so I now what I'm talking about.
What's A Webcomic?
Comics on the Web
Webcomics, online comics, or Internet comics are comics published on a website. While most are published exclusively on the web, others are also published in magazines, newspapers or, often self-published, books.
Webcomics can be compared to self-published print comics in that almost anyone can create their own webcomic and publish it. As of January 2007, the four largest webcomic hosting services hosted over 18,000 webcomics, ranging from traditional comic strips to graphic novels and covering many genres and subjects. Very few are financially self-sustaining.
No Rest For The Wicked
Andrael on DeviantART
"One day, the Moon up and disappeared; where it went, or why, none can say. Without the Moon's light to keep them in check at night, monsters, crawling horrors, and other creatures of the dark run rampant throughout the land. But Princess November has much more pressing matters to worry about: she hasn't had a decent sleep in ages."
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No Rest For The Wicked is one of my favourites - rarely updated, I recommend you add yourself to the email list. It references a great many old and wonderful fairy tales in interesting ways. The cast is fascinating, full of character - the curious, pretty and brave Princess November, who is very delicate and allergic to peas, out to break her curse of sleeplessness; the very catlike (that is selfish, refined, and clever) Puss; the mysterious and terrifying Red, who keeps her own counsel;
Pierre, the Marquis de Carabas - Puss' master... "He had an extremely loose upbringing. Also he fell on his head as child. Very sad."; Clare, the sad and guilt ridden once-queen, her hands replaced by silver; the Boy, a mysterious and cheerful stalker questing after Princess November, and Prince Ricardo, the endlessly picky, who dashes in and out of the story rescuing and discarding princesses...
Among others.
The artist, Andrea L. Peterson has a gallery on DeviantART under the name Andrael
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Heh. NR For The Win.
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- Luka Delaney Luka Delaney Jul 10, 2009 @ 8:08 pm
- NR is one of those rare webcomics that you can recommend without feeling like a loser whose tastes will be judged and found wanting. I want to eat the artist's brain and gain her skills.
Digger
Ursulav on DeviantART
Digger is a story about a wombat. More specifically, it is a story about a particularly no-nonsense wombat who finds herself stuck on the wrong end of a one-way tunnel in a strange land where nonsense seems to be the specialty. Now with the help of a talking statue of a god, an outcast hyena, a shadow-being of undeterminate origin, and an oracular slug, she seeks to find out where she is and how to go about getting back to her Warren.
Updates Tuesdays and Thursdays
This book mixes cuteness and cleverness, demons, forgiveness, cannibal rites, talking snails, morality, death, trust and geology. I recommend it. A lot.
A very strong flavour of Pratchett - that classic mixture of humour, sideways-ness and plainest of sense, as well as the odd direct reference ('don't eat anything that talks', messenger 'pigeons') underpins this webcomic. Add in an astonishing variety of obscure mythologies - vampire gourds, creation stories, and the elephant god (and its statue) Ghanesh, to name a few - and different cultures - villagers, hunter-gatherers, fanatics and more - all conveyed realistically, all fitting into the story.... and through it all trudges Digger, trying to find her way home, dismissing problems and Gods wih equal practicality.
Reminds me a lot of Vimes, actually ^_^
Also, one of the best summations of good verus evil that I've read in a long while...
Ursula Vernon's art can also be found as Ursulav on DeviantART
Digger, Vol. 1
Amazon Price: $18.95 (as of 12/09/2009)
List Price: $18.95
Some reviews:
The Digger webcomic is interesting, entertaining, and a darn good story. Reading the hardcopy turned out to give a much better "flow" to the story than sitting in front of the computer and waiting on the refreshes. If you like Digger, give the book a try.
A spectacular story, centering on these strange circumstance: a stolid wombat strays significantly far from the familiar, into a world wrought with wonders, worries, and weirdness. Possessed of persistently practical perceptions, our poor hero is harassed by heteroclite horrors, and it is hilarious.
Oracular slugs, orphaned daemon babies in the form of shadows, blood-sucking fruit, talking statues, and a heroine in the form of a wombat who maybe accidentally stumbles into (or rather climbs into) a world that reluctantly needs her help--Digger is a story for everyone (well, young adults and older)! Ursula Vernon is not your garden variety genius. Her artwork is usually accompanied by witticisms that will make you laugh, her blog is hilarious, and her comic, Digger, brilliantly fun and addictive. Perhaps it is the way she plays with stereotypical perceptions of characters--slugs are wise; daemons, innocent; fruit, dangerous; wombats, sarcastic (well, maybe they really are sarcastic--I don't know). My favorite character is shadow child! Whenever she/he/it pops up in the story, her questions and comments make me laugh and remind me of a two or three year old human child's fantastic insight. If you want to check out some of the story (before making the purchase) go to Graphic Smash where you can view pages from Digger. I also recommend her book It Made Sense at the Time.
(don't tell - but I intend to buy it for someone soon. Family, preferably, so I can 'borrow' it off them)
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I think Digger is one of the better webcomics on the web - although I admit it's a little slow going, page by page. I love the charcaters, the subtle humour, the fact it all works and the unique art style.
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Fetching blurbs now... please stand byNot worth reading
Outstanding!
The Dreamer
Comic-Chic on DeviantART
"Beatrice "Bea" Whaley seems to have it all; the seventeen year old high school senior is beautiful, wealthy and the star performer of the drama club. And with her uncle's connections to Broadway theater, the future looks bright ahead of her. Little does she know that her future might actually be brighter behind her.
Bea begins having vivid dreams about a brave and handsome soldier named Alan Warren-a member of an elite group known as Knowlton's Rangers that served during the Revolutionary War. Prone to keeping her head in the clouds, Bea welcomes her nightly adventures in 1776; filled with danger and romance they give her much to muse about the next day. But it is not long before Beatrice questions whether her dreams are simply dreams or something more. Each night they pick up exactly where the last one ended. And the senses-the smell of musket shots and cannons, the screams of soldiers in agony, and that kiss-are all far more real than any dream she can remember."
Updates Two pages on Fridays
The Dreamer: The Artist Speaks
Personal reviews of The Dreamer
Updates 2 pages every Friday.
The Dreamer is an epic, and exciting adventure of Bea's double life in modern day high school and in the turmoil of the Revolution. And drawn beautifully - yet another webcomic whose quality and layout that tricks you into thinking it's a book you grabbed off the new releases stand in the library before it disappeared forever (...graphic novels get stolen a lot from public libraries, for some reason).
See more artwork from Lora Innes at Comic-Chic on DeviantART
The Dreamer: Awards
Webcomic Awards
Drunk Duck Awards 2008
Winner of THREE Drunk Duck Awards in 2008
(Best Romance, Best Digital Art and Best Adventure)
Nominated in the 2008 Web Cartoonists' Choice Awards in the "Outstanding Newcomer Comic" Category!
Nominated for TWO Harvey Awards! For Best New Series and Best New Talent
The Dreamer: The Consequence of Nathan Hale, Part 1 (Pt. 1)
Amazon Price: $15.59 (as of 12/09/2009)
This webcomic is *big*. Each page is in graphic novel format, and it's long enough to have six published books already. And therefore, much easier, and nicer, to read holding it in your hands.
Lora Innes writes and illustrates the tale of 17-year-old Beatrice "Bea" Whaley, a student who begins having vivid dreams about a brave and handsome soldier named Alan Warren... a member of an elite group known as Knowlton's Rangers that fought during the Revolutionary War. Prone to keeping her head in the clouds, Bea welcomes her nightly adventures in 1776; filled with danger and romance they give her much to muse about the next day. But it is not long before Beatrice questions whether her dreams are simply dreams or something more... each issue of this new historical action romance features a full 25 pages of story and art.
Price: $19.86
The rest of The Dreamer graphic novels.
So far The Dreamer is up to its sixth book. I am impressed.
Prices seem to be showing inconsistently, but - depending on the publisher - it seems to be $3.99-$5.95 for each graphic novel.
Dreamer #2
In issue two, Bea wrestles through the implications of her previous night's dreams and winds up taking it out on her unsuspecting cousin. And when she falls asleep right before a very important event, Bea finds herself back in the eighteenth century struggling to get to the bottom of what is happening
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Dreamer #3 (IDW Publishing)
In issue three, Bea wakes up from yet another vivid dream about Knowlton's Rangers just in time to make it to the museum for her date with Ben. The evening takes a sudden turn for the worse when she discovers an ominous clue in a painting-a clue that suggests at least one of the Rangers is in mortal danger.
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Dreamer #4
Disturbed by her discovery at the art museum, Bea convinces Captain Hale that it is imperative that they rescue Alan. However, she realizes things are not quite as they seemed and her mistake just might cost them their lives...
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Dreamer #5
Bea and Nathan manage to find their way back to Knowlton's Rangers in time to warn them that General Howe has set a trap for the Americans. The Rangers make a hasty retreat but are caught off guard by a group of Redcoats, and it's a flight for their lives to make it back toward the forts.
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Dreamer #6
With the Americans trapped between the British Army and the East River, Knowlton's Rangers find themselves in an impossible situation. But when the adventure finally comes to an end, Bea finds herself back home, alone, and reeling from the events of the battle.
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- Sojourn Sojourn Jul 13, 2009 @ 1:12 am
- I hadn't heard of these before (I haven't seen a comic since I sold off a giant box load of ones I'd had forever last year) but I do appreciate and admire the art work on this one in particular. Nice write up!
Earthsong
LadyYates on DeviantART
A young woman named Willow awakens to find herself on a mystical world with no memories of her former life. She soon discovers that not only are the residents of this world fantastical creatures of ancient lore, but the planet itself is alive and conscious... and in grave danger! Caught in the middle of a terrible struggle, Willow must come to terms with a harsh reality not of her choosing.
I present... the beautiful Earthsong
Updates Monday
I actually picked up the book in the library a few months ago and was very impressed. (Well, actually, I was more impressed by it being something I'd seen online, actually making it into my library, but!) the art is lovely, every character is completely unique by definition (one single representative of each species across the universe). It combines superhero comics (they all have magic powers or special abilities) with fantasy manga.
See the DeviantART gallery of LadyYates
Earthsong Vol 1
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There are so many reasons why Earthsong is worth buying. Number one has to be the art though, it's one gorgeous page after the other. The colors are jaw dropping, the characters are extremely well designed, and overall if for nothing else you'll want to buy it just to be able look at something this gorgeous.
But you'll want to buy it for more then that. Because the storyline is as good as the artwork. It's engaging and unique, but has a lot of very familiar tones to it that will entertain sci-fi, fantasy, and even action/adventure fans alike. In my opinion, it's one of the best on-line to print comics since megatokyo.
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Flaky Pastry
Falingard on DeviantART
"Formerly described as being about nothing in particular, it is more accurately about the unlikely adventures of three room mates: Marelle, Nitrine and Zintiel. They are joined by a vast irregular cast of characters from various corners of my imagination.
Flaky Pastry takes place in an undefined world. Take elements of Fantasy and Science fiction, sprinkle a dash of the real world, mix thoroughly, beat it into submission with a rolling pin, and bake for thirty minutes.
The stories feature prominently: silliness and situational comedy, with a healthy dose of adventure, action, romance and outright craziness. It may also include the occasional spoof, obscure pop culture reference or social commentary. But not so much of that last one."
Updates Late Friday/ Saturday morning (depending on timezone)
This updates once a week, and is one I check regularly. regularly meaning, 9am on Saturday.... 9.15am.... 9.25am... 9.40am... 10.30am *zing* update! [NB: timezone will probably be Friday night for most of you. I'm in the New Zealand time zone)
Starts out as DnD-type humour... in a more modern world. Nitrine, the goblin girl, and studious Marelle -who-is-NOT-a-catgirl need extra rent money, or their landlord will eat them... so they end up with Zintiel the completely insane, chaotic evil (was it evil? or neutral, I forget) high elf... it degenerates
SeeFélix Lavallée's gallery - Falingard on DeviantART
Kiddie Marelle Journal
Price: 11.99
Jr. Jersey T-Shirt
Price: 23.50
Wall Clock
Price: 13.50
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Gunnerkrigg Court
Tea-san on DeviantART
Gunnerkrigg Court tells the story of Antimony Carver, a young girl who has just started attending a strange and mysterious school called Gunnerkrigg Court, and the events that unfold around her as she becomes embroiled in political intrigues between Gunnerkrigg Court and the inhabitants of the Gillitie Wood, a forest outside the school. The comic's style and themes include elements from science, fantasy creatures, mythology from a variety of traditions, and alchemical symbols and theories; the literary style is heavily influenced by mystery and manga
Updates: Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays.
I love this comic so much, I wrote an entire lens for it! See below.
See more drawings from Tom Siddell at tea-san on DeviantART
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Gunnerkrigg Court
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Gunnerkrigg Court is one of my favourite webcomics. Written and illustrated by Tom Siddell - a 3D artist from the British city of Birmingham - and slowly unfolded three times a week since April 2005, with never a missed update (a legendary feat amo...
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Gunnerkrigg Court - Awards!
Who are 2008's outstanding webcomics? It's time for YOU to tell us!
The Webcartoonists' Choice Awards (WCCA) are back for an unprecedented 8th installment, and with the registration gates opening up, it's time to sign up and start thinking...
2006
- Outstanding Newcomer
- Outstanding Use of Color
- Outstanding Long Form Comic
- Outstanding Story Concept
- Outstanding Environment Design
(tie with Inverloch)
- Outstanding Comic
- Outstanding Long Form Comic
- Outstanding Fantasy Comic
- Outstanding Dramatic Comic
- Outstanding Writer
- Outstanding Long Form Comic
- Outstanding Layout
- Outstanding Use of Color
- Outstanding Character Rendering
- Outstanding Environment Design
Gunnerkrigg Court: Orientation
This graphic novel has the all-round appeal of the Harry Potter series -- not to name-drop. Drawn with a quirky style that comes alive as the book progress, this series of clever stories quickly pulls you in and takes you to a world of a taciturn pre-teen alone in a English boarding school. Still waters run deep, you soon find with Antimony, as she has the knack for knowing foreign languages or beings able to throw a bully to the ground, but all with a quiet stillness that hides deep wounds. Only her close friend Kat can make her break a smile.
Together Kat and Annie (as Kat calls her) explore the strange things that are happening around them. This is not an ordinary English school, they soon find out.
This is a perfect father / daughter book, except that dad may wind up stealing it to read himself!
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Amazon Price: $17.79 (as of 12/09/2009)
List Price: $26.95
Gunnerkrigg Court Volume 2: Research
Annie and Kat begin their second year at Gunnerkrigg Court! Parts of Annie's past are revealed, as well as mysteries that tie back to the origins of the Court itself. Finding a secret tomb of ancient robots beneath Kat's workshop leads the two friends to question how they are linked to the mysterious ghost that attacked Annie the year before. And as a new Medium-In-Training, Annie is able to visit the powerful trickster god Coyote in Gillitie Forest, a visit that reveals more than she ever imagined!
Not yet released - but available for preorder!
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Amazon Price: $17.79 (as of 12/09/2009)
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Heliothaumic
Rincewindmog on DeviantART
Updates: Tuesdays and Saturdays
Heliothaumic has a slightly odd, but engaging art style, which certainly grows on you. I'll warn right now for nudity, and sex, but it's handled in a 'this is part of our lives' way, and a natural result of the characters' interactions.
A futuristic, not-quite-Earth-as-we-know-it, story, with desert 'Deadlands' destroying arable farmland, cities, and feuding nations, technology, University students and elves. Swings from dying Elvish nation, to best friends feuding on a road trip, to getting a job, to sex, to Thaumaturgy, to politics...
Start reading from the beginning or...
See more of their work as Rincewindmog on DeviantART
- The Midlands
- This is the OLD Heliothaumic - the first version, from a younger, less innocent time... in 2004.
- heliothaumic on USTREAM: Watch webcomic Heliothaumic get inked and colored!
- heliothaumic @ USTREAM: Watch webcomic Heliothaumic get inked and colored! Get the Photoshop palletes burned into your retinas! FUN. Drawing
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Kagerou
An Electric Manga
"In this story, our protagonist Kano finds himself in a strange and fantastical place known as Gray World. As one would expect in such a situation, he is revealed to be a Chosen Hero charged with an Epic Quest to rescue a captured princess. But as it turns out, Kano has more than one person living in his head -- and at least one of these is a dangerous psychopath."
Updates occasionally - sometimes a page a week, sometimes four pages in one go. New pages announced on their DeviantART and Livejournal community
I LOVE this webcomic. Kagerou is japanese for dragonfly, and Luka Delaney's art is splendid, evolving and fantastic.
So, how do you tell if you're dreaming or possessed, if you're a magical Champion, with a penchant for suicide and multiple personalities?
The art is constantly improving, the characters are varied and believable, the main character has a very good reason to believe he's hallucinating - and somehow, he has to figure out the whole 'Champion' business. Parts of this are somewhat mature, due to zombies, selfharm, violence, insanity and various, but it's a very, very, good read, and the grittiness makes it more real.
I would point out that this is after reading,a nd rereading Kagerou for a long time. It's quite complicated, and the beginning doesn't explain much. But it all builds on itself, so it IS worth it.
Start at the first page....
Kagerou: The Artist
AtomicFireball on DeviantART
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LinT
Planussea on DeviantART
.Updates Tuesdays amd Fridays
I adore LinT - the art is lovely and constantly improving, the humour is oddball and never sacrificed, sacrfices are made and are always touching, people change and grow and fall in love, relationships are refused and stereotypes inverted. It begins as a fantasy romp of elf prince gathering his loyal band of ... people, and grows into a more epic 'save the kingdom and overthrow the usurper' story.
Having been rereading the comic from the beginning, the initial impressions:
First 2-3 pages are terrible. Drawing is poor and scratchy pencil or ink, dialogue is forced, and basically it's 'obvious scene setting'. (Actually, the first page is a much more recent painting of Zedwig, so loook forward to more of that later).
But then! It switches suddenly to well drawn pencil, dialogue improves and the storyline, while making little sense, flows more naturally. The quest begins!
Somewhere between 50-100 pages later, digital colour kicks in. While initially sorry to see the lovely pencil drawing disappear, the underlying grace of the art was still there and the colour lent a vibrancy of life to the scenes and people. This only improves.
Colby Purcell's artwork can be found at Planussea on DeviantART
And for the books... these are tie-ins to the webcomic, which isn't in print yet, but I'm considering buying them myself (and postage to New Zealand is enough to put me off, unless I really mean it! And lets not talk about the exchange rate *sobs*)
Bactine Gallagher: Corn Miner's Daughter
Bactine Gallagher - Corn Miner's Daughter:
A NaNoWriMo novel, prequel to Lint the Comic
"Bactine is a simple peasant girl. Actually, there's nothing simple or peasant about her. She is a girl, though. Bactine has a problem. She's bored. Fortunately, that all changes the day she begins meeting elves. Begun as a NaNoWriMo challenge, this Lint prelude novel swiftly became all of the characterization I couldn't fit into the webcomic proper. With indepth information about what goes on in the minds of Bactine, Xylic, Sangwine, and Al'bert, this is a novel Lint enthusiasts will probably want to read."
It begins...
Dear Mum and Da,
I've gone with Xylic on a little jaunt; No, Mum, we're not eloping. We're going on some sort of "quest". I'm not really sure of the particulars, or I'd tell you, but I'm sure it can't be too dangerous. Oh, and we're being joined by an elf, a midget dwarf, and a half-ogre. I'll be back in a few days.
Please feed Snowball for me!
Bye,
Bactine
Price doesn't always show on this reliably. Seems to be $12.99 new
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Fromage
Fromage - The Darker Side of Schloeffelonia ... and how it destroyed itself
"It came, it took, it blew over. This is the novel that wrested control of my life for the past three months, and finally, it's complete. Everything you ever wanted to know about Fang, Al'bert, and Zedwig in one neat little package, including footnotes referring to specific comic pages in the time line and numerous sketches and panels from the comic to illustrate the story."
$16.89 new
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Colby Purcell's books on Lulu
Books from the LinT Store
Bactine Gallagher: Corn Miner's Daughter
Lulu Price: $9.99
Fromage
Lulu Price: $12.99
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The Meek
Alexds1 on DeviantART
First page
Updates Once or twice a week (still establishing)
You can follow the the_meek on twitter or the Livejournal community
Rampant nudity throughout the first chapter (a girl running around in the jungle, basically) so be warned. Although it doesn't actually come off as very NSFW to me, but then, I've been reading YAFGC
More art by Der-shing Helmer - including some venom cartoon hand/pose/foot etc tutorials, and a great deal of Avatar fancomics and fanart - can be found at Alexds1 on DeviantART
So far, this comic is not in print (the year is yet young, and while it updates weekly, hath not yet accumulated such a following and backlog as to lend sufficient support to the author's confidence that he has to the publisher taken it)
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What did YOU think about The Meek?
What four words would you use to describe it? Did I start you reading it? Who would you tell NOT to read The Meek?
Suggestions for me? Suggestions for the comic?
The Phoenix Requiem, Inverloch, Dreamless
ArtsAngel
The artist of the astonishing and beautiful fantasy webcomics
and Dreamless (which I need to find a banner for)
Which all deserve glowing reviews and long writeups with lots of adjectives. But I've been doing too much of that, this update and my wrists hurt ^_^
See more fantastic artwork by ArtsAngel
Inverloch Vol 1
Meet Acheron, an innocent young pup from the horned wolf-like race the "da'kor." After a chance encounter with a beautiful elf, Acheron sets out on a seemingly innocent quest--that of trying to locate another elf who has been missing for the past twelve years.
Together with his newfound companions, Acheron quickly learns that the world is not the peaceful place he believed it to be, embroiled in prejudice, hidden danger, and unexpected mystery.
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Inverloch Vol 2
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Inverloch Volume 3
Following the Archmage's strange advice (and with a little help from some magic), Acheron and his friends journey west to find the mysterious Silvah and see what he knows about Kayn'dar's disappearance. But the world proves to be a more dangerous place then Acheron ever expected, and he soon discovers what fate befalls any da'kor foolish enough to venture so far from home.
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Red String
Strawberrygina on DeviantART
About Red String
The very popular, sweet and romantic manga Red String follows Miharu and her school friends through life, love,a arranged marriages; covering boys, girls, school troubles, work, business, cooking and family. Sweet, but not simple, the characters are original and engaging. This comic is well written and drawn so nicely that I kept forgetting it was a webcomic and not a published manga I'd pick up in the library!
It's been picked up by Dark Horse Comics and the fourth volume is hopefully out in May.
Red String: The Artist and the Books
Red String Volume 1
When first-year high school student Miharu Ogawa gets a call from her parents, telling her to come straight home from school, she prepares herself for the worst. After all, the last time her quirky restaurateur parents told her to come straight home she ended up as a contestant on a kiddy game show! But nothing she could ever have imagined could have prepared her for their "great news:" Miharu is getting married! How's a spirited and independent teenager who has never even kissed a boy supposed to deal with suddenly having a fiance she's never even met? And how will her feelings change when she finds out that there are other boys out there vying for her affection, and other girls ready and willing to take away the man she's not even sure she's ready for? With her family, friends (and enemies!) to cope with, will Miharu even have the time to find out if the handsome, devoted Kazuo Fujiwara is really the man she is meant to be with, the man connected to her by the red string of destiny?
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Red String Volume 2 (v. 2)
Romantic high school student Miharu Ogawa believes that red strings of destiny tie lovers together forever, but a few hardened hearts around her feel that such bonds can be easily broken. Still struggling with the news of the arranged marriage that her parents lined up for her, Miharu begins to doubt her first instincts about Kazuo Fujiwara. After a rainy afternoon brings them together, Miharu finds that she has more in common with the salacious Makoto Yosue than she thought. Karen begins to vie for the heart of a boy who's promised to another, as memories of a past love torture her. Collected for the first time ever, this second book presents chapters eight to fourteen of an ongoing journey of self-discovery.
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Red String Volume 3 (v. 3)
With a dear friend moving to Tokyo, an arranged marriage pending, and a difficult teacher holding a grudge against her, Miharu Ogawa is having one of her worst semesters in school ever! Her friends aren't having an easy time, either. After breaking down and finally expressing her feelings to Fuuko, Maya seeks solace and advice from Karen-who isn't really an expert in love and is having her own relationship problems. "Lone Wolf" Hayashihara struggles with the fact that he's actually making friends, a new character - Jun Mataichi - arrives to stir up a little more confusion, and a snowy accident brings two bickering souls closer together. Red String delivers all of the great surprises and romantic moments you've come to expect and enjoy!
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Prophesy of Destiny Volume 1: Fate
For Aiden Cambell, things will never be the same again. He finds himself on the run after becoming the unwitting victim of a horrible experiment. Though safe from the corporation that would prefer him dead rather than alive, he discovers the future may hold a terrible promise.
Shojo manga illustrated by Gina Biggs and written by A.N. Ferguson
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Threads ~ A Red String Artbook
The artbook of Red String!
Old and new, full colour illustrations
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Sunset Grill
Katfeete on DeviantART
Updates Monday, Wednesday, Friday
The year is 2426. Earth is a patchwork quilt of restive, squabbling Domains, loosely joined under the mantle of the Empire, which fights to present a strong, united front to the dozens of technologically advanced, land-hungry, and not particularly moral alien races. The Empire also controls the Sol weftgate, humanity's connection to the galaxy at large: through it goes a steady stream of cheap labor, gone to build, clean, or kill for the wealthier races, and through it comes the money and alien technology that fuels much of Earth's economy.
None of which matters particularly to the patrons of the Sunset Grill, a bar on the shady side of town in the run-down and corrupt city of Kieselburg. They're too busy staying alive. Because no matter what the year, there will always be those who struggle to survive. And no matter how distant, how strange, or how advanced the place, there will always be someone to ask that all-important question: "Hey, is there anywhere in this dump I can get a decent beer?"
See some of the behind-the-scenes work, and other art at Katfeete on DeviantART
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This webcomic's actually unique on this page for being the only 3D generated comic! And science fiction too ^_^
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If you haven't, does it look interesting?
Yet Another Fantasy Gamer Comic
Gorpo on DeviantART
Updates daily
YAFGC immediately became one of my favourites on discovery, for the humour, storylines, incredibly amusing characters, gratuitous nudity, clever writing, interesting and often hilarious takes on classic DnD fantasy gaming conventions and the really, really well drawn figures.
It's almost all sketched out in pencil , which can be a little faint occasionally and looks a bit unfinished but I got used to it very quickly. I swear, simply reading this comic has improved my ability to draw people (YAFGC! Improve Your Art In Days! Take in Doses of One Strip A Day, Once A Day).
(Sadly, the flat colouring... well, I'm not a fan, and I don't care for the occasional colour splash pages. Maybe if it was always coloured, it would work, but it's too big a switch from welldrawn and delicate pencil sketch to flat cartoonish colour). Sadly, most of what they have for sale plays on the 'finished' and humourous side of the art. I'd LOVE to get my hands on a a sketchbook.
*please note, when I say 'gratuitous nudity', I mean 'do not read this at work, unless you are a) the boss or b) very lucky in your job. Or c) don't like your job.
See more drawings from Rich Morris at Gorpo on DeviantART
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Yu+Me and I Was Kidnapped by Lesbian Pirates From Outer Space
Rosalarian on DeviantART
Yu+Me - a sweet, twisty, endlessly changing in art and approach comic of dreams and love .
Updates Monday, Wednesday Friday
(Actually, as of September 14th, will be five days Monday-Friday)
(I Was Kidnapped by) Lesbian Pirates from Outerspace - a rollicking and highly amusing ride. With pirates.
Updates Mon, Wed, Fri
Find her gallery as Rosalarian
...and sadly there are no cover pictures.
I Was Kidnapped by Lesbian Pirates from Outerspace, No. 1; May 2008
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Writing Gay Characters
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For those of you who don't know me, my name is Megan Rose Gedris. For the past 7 years, my primary activity has been writing and drawing comics with LGBT themes. I also do a lot of prose (short stories and novels) that feature LGBT people, and I&...
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The Webcomics Reviewed Above
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- All my Book Reviews
- Disclaimer and Overview
- What's A Webcomic?
- No Rest For The Wicked
- Digger
- The Dreamer
- Earthsong
- Flaky Pastry
- Gunnerkrigg Court
- Heliothaumic
- Kagerou
- LinT
- The Meek
- The Phoenix Requiem, Inverloch, Dreamless
- Red String
- Sunset Grill
- Yet Another Fantasy Gamer Comic
- Yu+Me and I Was Kidnapped by Lesbian Pirates From Outer Space
- Writing Gay Characters
The Shiny Ends Here- You Have Reached the End of Cake.
I mean, finished webcomic reviews. Everything that follows is either halfbaked or decidedly Not Cak-uh, a Webcomic
Basically, everything below this bit, is either 'Misc' - that is, not a direct review of a webcomic, but more general (eg, the unfinished list of webcomics; the miscellaneous links and lists - eg Twitter, other lenses, and my bookmarks; the Required Reading section linking to useful and entertaining rants from webcomic writers... )
- All my Book Reviews
- Disclaimer and Overview
- Writing Gay Characters
- More Webcomic Artists on DeviantART
- Required Reading About Webcomics
- Join the storm - what webcomics do you read?
- Your Favourite webcomics, artists, galleries, pages?
- WebFoot: Find More Webcomics in my Tagfoot Bookmarks
- Praising the artists!
- Love This Lens?
- Leave a Comment!
- Miki Falls
- Stitch
More Webcomic Artists on DeviantART
....or 'descriptions I need to update' !
Webcomics are listed alphabetically
Artwork
Blackbird
Fey Winds
Head Trip
Sister Claire
True Magic
Undertow
Ideally, I will move each into their own section, eventually.
- Artwork - Erulisse2
- Blackbird - Shilin
- Currently on hiatus but stunning all the same.
http://blackbird.ashen-ray.com/
note to self! find a banner
- Fey Winds - Lelenia
Being redrawn!
- Head Trip - Shinga
- Head Trip needs a banner...
- Sister Claire - Yamino
- True Magic - Vanilleon
Has Pratchett references. What more needs be said?
Being redrawn, and the storyline is changing. I msut admit, I preferred the old art, but the story is much better the second time around.
- Undertow - Saehral
Read any of these?
...yes, will update the above, and give them their own polls. If you've something specific to say, leave it in the comments?
Feedback or Reviews?
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To remind you, the ones in the above section are:
Artwork
Blackbird
Fey Winds
Head Trip
Sister Claire
True Magic
Undertow
Are they readable all together? Should I hurry up and finish each one? Do you have a favourite? Tell me something you like about one of them, and dislike about another. Recommend a readership demographic one would suit.
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Required Reading About Webcomics
Etiquette, amusement and how-tos... Rants and Writeups from the Writers
- Tamar Curry's Rant
- Simple and straightforward pointers for would-be webcomic writers and artists about website design, and webcomic planning and writing from Tamar Curry (creator of Lumia's Kingdom
- qcjeph: State of the Webcomics Union*%u2020
- J. Jacques of Questionable Content looks back over the growth of webcomics online, the culture and artists, and whereabouts they stand now.
But it's all in bullet points, so much less pretentiousness than my description XD
I have been doing webcomics for a little over six years now, which is not as long as some but is long enough to have made some observations about how things have changed over the years. This was originally gonna be really long and prose-y but I think I have chopped it down sufficiently to get my observations across!
ANYWAY TL;DR- SOME THINGS HAVE CHANGED AND SOME THINGS HAVE NOT AND I AM AN OLD FOGEY
*Not an actual union
%u2020As I see it, anyway - The Webcomic Reader's Guide to Etiquette by Megan Rose Gedris
- Required reading for webcomic readers!
Megan rose Gedris is the author and artist of these webcomics
First Edition: Just because webcomics live on the internet, doesn't mean you're required to be an asshole. In fact, dozens of people on the internet are actually rather nice people! You can be one, too. Just follow this nifty, easy-to-do guide, and become one of the elite, non-assholes on the web!
The points:
Webcomics artists are not robots.
Which means: AI development needs to get a move on
You're not as important as you think you are.
Unless you're me, of course
The webcomickers need to eat, and most of them enjoy living indoors.
I Another point for robots. And the outdoors is good for you. Oh wait, internet connections to upload comics... we'll let this one pass
Don't bitch about missed updates.
But they might not have noticed! (Although there are very good profit/readership reasons to not miss updates, that is on the artist's head. They are strong. Let them bear up alone with their suffering.)
What the characters say is not necessarily what the writer thinks.
Ah, but is what they said what the writer *thinks* they said? Is what you think they said, *what* they said? Is aaaaargh the same thing in all languages? Not according to Pratchett.
Don't pimp your own stuff in the comments section.
Who does this? really? (more than once? ^_^ )
Read some of the other comments. So you can point out their typoes.
It's okay to say something positive.
But does it have to be comic related?
Oh fine.
See below or click if you're lazy
Join the storm - what webcomics do you read?
What webcomics do you read? Are they worth following?
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Did I miss one? Something you think should be here? I link I forgot to add to the description? You have a favourite comic strip or painting from one of these artists? Fanart? Add it here! (and don't forget to rate)
WebFoot: Find More Webcomics in my Tagfoot Bookmarks
Webcomics I read
My Tagfoot Webcomic Bookmarks
I'm updating these as I find them, and I tag them by update day, so if you're looking for something to read, and today is Monday... then click through and use that tag to find something that catches your fancy!
This bookmarks list includes all the webcomics I read, as well as all the artists who ddon't have DeviantART galleries to link to on this lens.
(options: daily, weekdays, monday, tuesday, wednesday, thursday, friday, saturday, sporadic)
'catchup' means I haven't finished reading it, so it might not stay on the list, but will be updated in the future. Surprisingly, there are no 'sunday' updates, apart from the daily ones.
Tagfoot is a bookmarks/Twitter/Stumbleupon-style integration, that allows you to keep track of bookmarks, videos, wishlists and post news to the world, yourself, and Twittter. It's quite handy. And lets you add an AdSense account.
If you'd like to set up your own Tagfoot, and maybe earn some money, 
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Fetching RSS feed... please stand byPraising the artists!
Do they deserve it? WHO deserves it?
To quote from the above blog entry
"You might read a comic and think to yourself, "Boy, this sure is an excellent comic! But I'm sure the writer hears that all the time. I don't need to write and tell them about it." You would be wrong there.
People are much more likely to write in with something negative than something positive. People love to complain. But nothing motivates a webcomicker more than someone taking the time to tell them "Good job! Keep it up!""
What do you think?
I think webcomic writers and artists deserve a shoutout and praise! Do you agree? Who specifically, do you think deserves a bit of praise today?
Fetching blurbs now... please stand byI think they need all the encouragement they can get! The webcomic I want to praise today is...
Nah, they don't need/deserve it. I have nobody to give a shout out to.
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I've adored Artrage - a digital painting program - since the moment I got my graphics tablet. Actually, no, that's a lie - I bought my tablet because of ArtRage. It's always been quite special finding other painters using it - and there seem not be...
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Gunnerkrigg Court
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Gunnerkrigg Court is one of my favourite webcomics. Written and illustrated by Tom Siddell - a 3D artist from the British city of Birmingham - and slowly unfolded three times a week since April 2005, with never a missed update (a legendary feat amo...
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So You Want To Start A Webcomic...
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You read them, you love them, and now you want to make them. But where do you start? Hey all! I'm Kit, co-creator of the webcomic Strawberry Syrup. Since starting our webcomic in July of 2007, I've learned a lot of things about the process, and I'm...
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On The Origin Of PCs
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The first book in the Order of the Stick series - On the Origin of PCs is exactly what it say. The origin stories of the main characters. This black and white book is only available in print and well worth reading (also cheaper than the full colour v...
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Tips for Artists on Using DeviantArt to Increase Online Exposure
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Miki Falls
MarkCrilley on DeviantART
A YouTube Webcomic: Mark Crilley's "Miki Falls"
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/006084616X/ --Manga creator Mark Crilley presents "Miki Falls: Freshman Year," a new web comic designed especially for Youtube. You can view selected artwork from this video here at my DeviantArt page: http://markcrilley.deviantart.com/art/Scenes-from-quot-Freshman-Year-quot-76201635 Visit Mark's website here: http://www.markcrilley.com/ Don't know how often I'll be able to do these--it was unbelievably time-consuming--but it's nice being able to bring Miki and her friends out for an encore. Feel free to suggest ideas for episode 2: I will be creating this story based in part on the suggestions of my viewers. --Mark
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Stitch
Yeaka on DeviantART
Yeaka's Sketchbook Part 1
A video flip-through of my sister's sketchbook. She draws the yuri/furry webcomic Stitch ( http://stitch.comicgenesis.com/ ). And is on DA ( http://yeaka.deviantart.com/ ). :) I filmed it and shouted "Bye" at the end, btw. XD My own sketchbook flip-through can be found via my profile... :)
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