Webcomics, online comics, online graphic novels, or internet comics are comics published on a website. Webcomics are like self-published print comics in that almost anyone can author their own webcomic and publish it. An estimated 18,000 plus webcomics now exist online, from traditional cartoon strips to graphic novels, covering many genres and subjects.
The growth of webcomics has also resulted in the growth of online communities around webcomics. There are fan bases that artists foster through the use of forums, fan sections and blogs. The artists also create communities through the exchanges of emails, links, and forum posts.
Take a look at our recommended webcomics:
Penny & Aggie
Xylia: a faerie tale
The phoenix requiem: a graphic novel
Directions of destiny
Fantasy realms
Lackadaisy
Roza Firel
Writer: T Campbell
Artist: Gisele Lagace
Editor: Greg Eatroff
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Penny Levac
A trendsetter within her high school, a trend-watcher outside of it. Penny has long since mastered the "game" of high school popularity. Boys want her, girls want to be her. But she has only a few real friends, and is beginning to question her long-held career goals of acting, modelling and trophy wifedom.
Aggie d'Amour
Aggie is eccentric, easy to approach but hard to know. She likes being the weird one, the one no one can predict, and cultivates creative and political interests like poetry, art and animal rights. She hides considerable sadness about her mother's passing, and her crush on Marshall can reduce her to red-faced incoherence, but her wry wit carries her through most situations, and she's beginning to make friends she can count on.
Writer/Artist: B. L. Jacobs
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Xylia is the tale of a young British historian who discovers his connection with Azloe, the lost faerie realm, and Xylia, a beautiful faerie woman. This high fantasy story features good and bad faeries, a sentient dog that can grow to the size of a bear, and sorcerors. Xylia is presented in lush full color illustrations, and updates on Mondays and Thursdays.
Writer/Artist: Sarah Ellerton
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The Phoenix Requiem is a Victorian-inspired supernatural fantasy story about faith, love, death, and the things we believe in.
On a cold December night, a gentleman stumbles into the town of Esk, gunshot wounds leaving a trail of blood in the snow behind him. Despite making a full recovery at the hands of an inexperienced nurse - and deciding to make a new life for himself in the town - he is unable to escape the supernatural beings, both good and bad, that seem to follow him like shadows.
As they try to discover why, the nurse must question her beliefs and risk her own life in order to protect her family, her friends, and those that she loves.
Warning: Contains horror, violence, supernatural themes, drug use, and brief suggestive content. PG-13.
Writer/Artist: Hans Tseng
Updates: Every Thursday
Rating: PG
Welcome to the Alatus Institute of Higher Academics, where students train in the arts of Weapons, Magic, Summoning, and Technology. Zephaniah is 15 years old and just wants to be the best at everything, but his classmate Azalea unknowingly stands in his path to glory. As the Headmaster's daughter, Azalea always seems to draw the spotlight away from Zephan without even trying. However, Zephan may find that he's got more important things to worry about when the students are suddenly faced with attacks by powerful, mythical monsters. With the faculty acting strangely unresponsive, only the Student Council is left to defend the school. Confronted by this new threat, Zephan and Azalea find that they must work together to figure out exactly what's going on.
Writer: Clay Gardner
Artist: Niko Geyer
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Through adversity the Realms have been forced to decide between action and inaction, force and evasion. Creation and destruction... Though the current state of affairs is one of peace, with trade and business thriving across the Ganeda provinces, an undercurrent of dark portents threatens to disrupt this harmony.
Lost since an unhappy childhood, Shiva has found it difficult to find her role in life. When a chance meeting with a childhood friend turns her life upside down, Shiva finds herself wrapped up in a chain of events that entwines with the future and the unanswered questions of her past. What is fate, when everything is not as it seems?
Now, after a life of running away, Shiva is forced to face what she has never wanted to. Herself.
Writer/Artist: Ishkabibble
Updates: As often as possible
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St. Louis. 1920: located at the junction of the Mississippi and Missouri rivers. The city is one of the nations largest. It’s both a busy river port and a major train hub. The recent enactment of national prohibition promises to bring great change. For better or worse. The city’s once prosperous breweries struggle to remain in business. Most do not survive. But an emerging underground industry begins filling the gaps or taps as it were.
Restaurateur Atlas May owns and operates a modest niche within the city - The Little Daisy Café. But his unassuming establishment happens also to be a portal into an extensive maze of limestone caves below St. Louis. Soon, though St. Louis is dry on the surface, there’s a wellspring underground. A club-shaped pin worn under the collar or inside the lapel grants trusted patrons access to this subterranean place. The Lackadaisy Speakeasy. The location of St. Louis in the middle of the country means illegal liquor flows in by numerous routes. Never at a loss for supply, Lackadaisy prospers and becomes the city’s most prominent bootleg operation. Atlas has a small empire. But as prohibition persists, formidable rivals begin to emerge. The competition is anything but friendly. Enemies lurk around every corner. And in 1926, Atlas meets a violent end. Lackadaisy falls into the hands of his widow, Mitzi May. But there are rumours of her involvement in his death. Amidst shaken loyalties and mounting pressure from competitors, there is a great exodus of constituents. A near fatal blow for Lackadaisy itself. By 1927 on a small faction of Atlas’s crew and a handful of steadfast patrons remain. The organization struggles to survive.
Writer/Artist: Kelly Hamilton
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A mischievous young vagrant. She’s looking for a powerful sorcerer who can help her control the strange magical effects of her curse.
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