In honor of Nonbinary Day this Saturday (7/14/18) I’m doing a masterpost highlighting nonbinary main characters. So far I have a lineup featuring 26 awesome comics and I’m always looking for more!
If you would like to make sure your comic in included in my lineup submit your comic to my tumblr submission box or email me at webcomiclibrary@gmail.com!
I also have a submission template that walks you through all the information I use both in my library and in masterposts. Check that out here!
Summary: Meriel’s Law is a short urban fantasy comic about a witch that’s been suffering through some bad luck for a while and the book and magazine door to door seller who promises to infinitely improve her life by selling her, well, anything really. It is a story about forgiveness, purpose, change and people moving. It features an exclusively queer cast and their identities are not the center of conflict. It’s written and illustrated by Kath Kirkegaard, aka illuia, and it’s their first published comic.
Summary: Mir is the story of the witch’s mirror from Snow White, trapped up in a tower and brought to life by a magic spell. When the Witch asks for the fairest in the land, Mir can’t answer, and the witch decides that obviously the solution to this problem is to give Mir a body and send them out into the world.
Never Satisfied (Hiveworks) (Warning: Body Horror, Violence)
Summary: Never Satisfied is an on-going webcomic about Lucy Marlowe, a magician’s apprentice competing against other apprentices for an important magical government position, dealing with issues of class differences and how hard it can be to understand others.
Nyx of the Overworld (Tapas) (Webtoons) (Warning: Violence)
Summary: Fantasy adventure comics feat. Nyx, a kinda-magical loot-obsessed half-human half-something on a mum-saving quest that’s mysteriously similar to a videogame. Ancient artefacts of great power, useless sidekicks, rad swords, a gathering darkness and sweet magic powers await.
Summary: How far would you travel for ice cream? Three teens travel the galaxy in search of weird and wonderful new flavours to try and save their cafe from going bust. Join Pascal, a chronic over-thinker, Vi, a non-binary optimist, and Elodie, a French girl with selective mutism, as their adventures take them through trials, tribulations, and romance!
Puu (பூ )
(Tapas) (Warning: Abuse, Blood/Gore, Dysphoria, Homophobia, Racism, Sexual Nudity, Transphobia, Violence)
Summary:
Jameel Mansour moves into a new flat with a strange roommate, Saboor Halwani, who has an obsession for flowers. Slowly, the two men find out that they’re not only perfect as roommates…
Say Something (Site) (Warning: Blood/Gore, Death, Transphobia, Violence)
Summary: Say Something follows the life of Buddy, a young teenager burdened by a demon. The demon is summoned from Buddy’s throat and eats whomever they talk to. They try to lead an average life, but it’s difficult when such a dangerous presence threatens to kill those you love.
Summary: Skyvein is a fantasy/sci-fi webcomic following the perilous adventures of our heroes (reluctant and otherwise) in a world where magick is regulated and everyone lives on islands in a sea of toxic clouds.
Summary:
SUPERPOSE takes place in the seaside tourist town, Port City. Here is Roman Labs, an aerospace company which fell into obscurity following the Space Race, and clings to the coattails of the 1980s tech boom. SUPERPOSE stars Rafael (recent high school grad, emotional labourer, stole a dog) Royal (college dropout with a dream to change the world in a major way), and friends like Kasra al-Ridha (unsung and bitter astrophysicist) in this blockbuster of summer 198X. Each dreaming of something better than what they’ve got, they become more firmly entangled, setting out to manipulate the very physics of reality in order to change it for the better.
Streetcrows ( @streetcrows) (Site) (Warning: violence, body horror, death,and gore)
Summary: Panic is brewing. After a number of kidnapped civilians all turn up dead, with no logical explanation, perpetrator, or motive, police have deemed the streets of Aberration unsafe. Even law enforcement dares not look too hard into the darkened corners and alleys of the underground. Curfew. Martial law. Chaos. The police are getting gradually more tight-lipped, until almost no information at all reaches the panicked public - and still, kidnappings go on. Only the brave run these streets now. The Streetcrows, a pack of driven young adults with no reason to stay inside, put on their feathers and fly. You have many reasons to stay inside. However, the reasons to solve this mystery are more important. This isn’t just a mystery; it’s personal. With your friendly narrator in mind, you approach the Streetcrows. Work together. Find out what is happening in this city. Game start.
Summary: In the future when robots live together with humans, it’s hard to imagine anything could ever go wrong. But when the mechanical replacement parts of random humans start taking them over and “glitching” them out, everyone in town is lost as to what should be done.
That is until a small group of five robots who work at a back-alley bar accidentally step up to take on the mystery of why this is happening to innocent people.
Armed with bad attitudes and broken hearts, how far can this band of “Bar Bots” go before they have to confront their own problems? Can they help each other out of the holes they’ve dug themselves- or are the Bar Bots out of time?
The Guide to a Healthy Relationship ( @tgtahr) (Tapas) (Smackjeeves) (Webtoons) (Twitter) (Warning: Abuse, Alcohol, Blood/Gore, Mental Illness, Sexual Assault, Suicide)
Summary: Apollo is an overly-friendly, night owl with an affinity for parties and getting drunk. After being dumped off somewhere by his drinking buddies, he has a fateful interaction with someone bearing an uncanny likeness to his late childhood friend. Once he sobers up and realises the situation, Apollo returns to confirm this person is indeed who he thinks they are, at least that’s what he hopes. They have to be, right?! Apollo begins desperately trying to rekindle the friendship which was ruined so long ago, being the bestest best friend ever! Unfortunately this person’s life is more complicate than he can ever imagine.
Will Apollo be able to better this person’s life, as well as fix his own destructive lifestyle habits, and avoid repeating past mistakes?
Using the words of LGBT+ people from around the world, PLUS is a project in which people can share themselves, along with their fears and hopes for the future.
Summary: Being legally dead is causing Razi some problems, and xer only chance of escape from bureaucratic limbo will involve a dangerous trek through wolfcat territory. Meanwhile, Halvanylila is supposed to be learning to hunt and fight, but it’s hard to concentrate when there are fascinating plants to be scienced at.Now they’re both lost in the middle of nowhere, and they’ll need each other’s help and unique expertise to find their way out.One problem: those wolfcats. Oh, wait, and a troupe of bandits? Two problems. But hey, as long as nothing else goes wrong …
If you enjoy any of these webcomics I encourage you to reblog this post or reblog their works. Most if not all of the comics mentioned rely on word of mouth to grow their audiences. All of these wonderful creators deserve to have their stories seen and heard and you can help by spreading the word!
Summary: Acethexis is an action/drama series about a girl and an illegal android who are swept up into a life of crime in the eyes of their government.
Summary: Its hard to get accepted in highschool (this school takes place in the Netherlands!), Especially when you start in your first year with rainbow hair. Arcus has a hard time fitting in. Iris, Maud and Gale slowly start to play a bigger roll in his life but not only for the good reasons.
Summary: Wynn is struggling to survive when the Immortal Swigne gives Wynn their Blessing. The only explanation Swigne gives is that Wynn now has “Power”. Wynn meets people Blessed by other Immortals that can help guide them. In searching for knowledge of their new gift Wynn finds love, friendship and a more full sense of self identity. Wynn learns that being Blessed is a gift with a price tag of responsibilities and constant hunger attached, but the pay off is fantastic strength and the resources they’ll need to thrive in the world they live in. As long as Wynn keeps overcoming the challenges their new status brings them.
Summary: A webcomic that takes place in a world destroyed by the Gods, following the journey of a homeless trio who takes on a job to help two brothers from a prestigious family hunt down an infamous terrorist group, Butterfly Blue.
Summary: Charity Case is about Julien, a sheltered young musician who - finding himself without financial support - has to try and navigate a life he’s woefully unprepared for. Its about found families, queer poly romance, and music!
Summary: In 2017, the crew of the interstellar ship ‘Odysseus’ went into deep sleep for their mission of finding other life in the galaxy. Three years later, Earth made first contact.Kay Chalabi, Nike Marmeladov, and Latoya Monroe knew that they were signing up for a mission that probably meant they would never return to Earth. When awakened from deep sleep centuries early they find themselves in an alien space in more ways than one. Earth is dead, and there are few survivors.But those survivors do include Samira Doshi, Captain of the Nautillus, a space pirate ship manned by a crew of Earthers and aliens alike– her right hand man Vee, left hand bot Charli, the worm doctor Doctor Worm, Fuzz, a tiny fuzzy angry mechanic, and Tachs, a four-armed six-eyed literal parasite. All of them find themselves lost, isolated, and apart from their own species, hoping to find something a bit more like home, and maybe unravel the secrets of the universe on the way.
Summary: Trigger Elliot is a bounty hunter who travels around the galaxy with his not-so-fully-licensed-and-technically-illegal-hunting-partner Vahn Gavotte. They’re lousy at what they do and often resort to petty tactics just to get their bounty, This is their life.Their home planet, June7, is a world rebuilding itself from an inexplicable catastrophic phenomenon that destroyed 75% of the planet’s surface. It has been 5 years since the destruction of June7 and the planet now thrives on the transient and growing population of bounty hunters. Trigger and Vahn’s routine changes when an ambiguous huge bounty surfaces; an alleged bounty hunter killer named the “ghost” with frightening abilities and unknown motive. When Trigger’s past catches up with him, there begins a strain on him and Vahn’s hunting dynamic, forcing them to become further involved in chasing the elusive and unpredictable ghost.
Summary: Gutless is a fantasy story about a genderless mechanical knight brought to life by a witch princess, set in a magical manifestation of North America called the Realm of the Seven Stars.
Summary: Timothy Tell work as a detective, for a secret agency called “RIMAD”. He gets called into work, where he’s told to bring in Samuel Qruint or at least locate Sam’s position.
Summary: Nokia is a young adult, living on a space station New Rauma. Nokia has just gotten their immortality and the best use they can come up with it is to browse the old internet all day long without eating or sleeping and not having to worry about dying of hunger. After three weeks of old internet Nokia’s parents decide they’ve had enough.
Summary:Two freelance demon summoners navigate relationships, difficult clients, gender, and the tension of plying their trade in a world that has a complicated history with demons, while a succubus decides to go celibate for ethical reasons.
Summary: Justin Hubbell is a trans non binary cartoonist born and raised in Upstate New York (and smug about it). They make comics that unpack social constructs using autobiography and humor if possible.
Summary: Lucretia von Eldritch leaves their life behind looking for fulfillment. Instead they find Edita, a disgruntled tavern maid hungry for a better life, her adoptive children Erowid and Gishbar, and many others all with their own ulterior motives.
If you enjoy any of these webcomics I encourage you to reblog this post or reblog their works. Most if not all of the comics mentioned rely on word of mouth to grow their audiences. All of these wonderful creators deserve to have their stories seen and heard and you can help by spreading the word!
Summary: Acethexis is an action/drama series about a girl and an illegal android who are swept up into a life of crime in the eyes of their government.
Summary: This is a story about nanobots, genetic engineering, and two girls falling in love. No matter how technology changes us, we’ll always be human.
Created by Mothcry ( @mothcry) (Twitter) and Co-Written by Carlos Baker
Summary: A story that revolves around various students and staff at high school that specializes in training meta-humans on how to use their powers while they discover more about themselves and the corrupt world around them.
Summary: ChaosLife is a semi-autobiographical comic. It focuses on a queer relationship between A. Stiffler and K. Copeland, who create the comic! It also delves into politics, GSM issues, mental health, pop culture, cats and other randomness. Since its debut in 2011, ChaosLife has been featured in numerous publications, including The Washington Post, The Discovery Channel’s Official Blog, The Australian Broadcasting Company, AutoStraddle, WIRED, Neatorama and MSN Japan, among many other online and real-world venues.ChaosLife updates once a week, at least!
Summary: Charity Case is about Julien, a sheltered young musician who - finding himself without financial support - has to try and navigate a life he’s woefully unprepared for. Its about found families, queer poly romance, and music!
Summary: Sparkly fantasy dramedy with magic, bilingual shenanigans, lots of queer characters, and the occasional dragon.A team of Knights are summoned to the capitol city of Ceannis, to guard the embassy of neighboring Sønheim. Thorn is the leader of the knights. Leif prunes the embassy’s rose trees. Both jobs end up being weirder, more complicated, and more hazardous than they look.
Summary: Les Normaux follows the life of a bunch of supernatural beings living in Paris after a human wizard named Sebastien moved to the city. They each tell their own side of the story in their respective diaries.
Summary: No End is a webcomic about a group of people struggling to survive in a post apocalyptic country ravaged by an unyielding winter and hordes of undead. Living amid a world of horror doesn’t erase the cast’s day-to-day worries about identity, family, friendship and betrayal, as they seek people they can trust, as well a legendary place called “Haven” rumored to be free of the cold and horror.Just as none of them are sure that it even exists, they aren’t sure what their place in their world is. But each step forward leads towards who they are, who they should become, and where they belong.
Out and About (Site) (Tapas) (Facebook) (Warning: Homophobia, Sexual Nudity, Mental Illness)
Summary: Out & About is a comics series created by illustrator Kris Barz that tells the story of Kevin and his friends going through life and its challenges. All the characters are part of the LGBTQIA community. The stories are about friendships, relationships, work, family, sexism, prejudice and the strips touch those issues with irony, comedy and a little bit of sarcasm.
Summary: Everyone has felt like the world is against them and for someone who has come to the realization that they’re queer it can be even more overwhelming. Experience the struggles of LGBT+ youth as they try to be themselves in a world that tells them they shouldn’t.
Summary: Our story centers around Elliot, a delinquent indie rock musician who gets caught up in the world of vigilantism through an unexpectedly stupid accident.
Summary: Isaac has resigned himself to being stuck alone in his family holiday house for 2 months – that is until he meets Derek, a merman that got wounded when swimming too close to a fishing boat. Now Isaac gets to spend his holiday nursing his new friend back to health, and finds that he wouldn’t want to spend it any other way.
If you enjoy any of these webcomics I encourage you to reblog this post or reblog their works. Most if not all of the comics mentioned rely on word of mouth to grow their audiences. All of these wonderful creators deserve to have their stories seen and heard and you can help by spreading the word!
Yo peeps! As many of you know, I keep my Library of all the webcomics I follow on Tagpacker. Tagpacker has been adding new features with the most recent being a way to exclude tags on searches! This is super cool cause that means you can sort out trigger warnings when looking for a new webcomic to read or any other thing you might not be interested in. All you have to do is enter in the tag to the archive search bar and click the dot next to the tag.
This is one of the two things I wish they had when I started using the site hence why I’m super pumped! The only thing left is to allow me to organize the order of the Tags and Tagpacks, cause not even the page counts are in order and it frustrates me. But this is still a big thing that helps me as a user and yall as searchers.
It’s an honor (and frankly a bit astonishing) to have so many people who want to read my story. I want to give particular shout outs to:
@lgbtwebcomicsfor sharing my poster and sending 100+ lovely people my way (please check out their listings of LGBT+ webcomics!)
@webcomiclibrary(The Webcomic Library has a huge catalog of webcomics to read and support!)
and @ironicallybadusernamefor reblogging every update that I post
Thank you to everyone who has sent me nice notes and encouragement and welcome to those of you who found your way here after the mess I made of ‘Go Fish’
There are still more 100 Reader Celebration Kissy Stickers available for anyone who hasn’t gotten one yet! At this time I don’t have any other free arts to give out BUT I am trying to work on something special as a giveaway for this milestone! Hopefully before 500 lmao
Hiya peeps! Today the Webcomic Library and the Aradia collective are collaborating on a reader discussion on Magical Girls! We’ll be working together to post one question a day over the week over Tumblr, Twitter, and Instagram for yall to chime in on!
All the questions for this week have been posted to the Webcomic Library Discord as well. If you’re interested in joining in on the discussion in a more direct way or are interested in meeting and learning from more folks in the community feel free to dm me for an invite. We’d love to have you!
Hiya peeps! Today I got come new tags sorted out! First I added a new “contemporary” tag for all of your modern desires. Second I took the “Historical Fantasy” and “Historical Fiction” tags and combined them into one “Historical” tag. I’m hoping this will be good additions to our tag lineup to help you find the stories you’re craving!
[Image depicts Webcomic Library Tagpacker statistics with 6 following, 100 followers, and over 92 thousand views]
We also recently hit 100 followers on Tagpacker! I’m super happy people have been wanting to follow along with what new content is being added to the library and possibly be inspired to start their own collections!
Adding and updating content takes a lot of time but it is truly a labor of love. It brings me so much joy to look over all of these stories so fondly and know that this helps people find comics that will fill them with wonder and excitement. I always have so much more I want to do but I’m proud of what I’ve managed to accomplish here with all of you!
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Do you create a webcomic? Submit your comic to the library by emailing me at webcomiclibrary@gmail.com
What started as a personal collection for my own personal reference and to recommend things to friends got turned into a blog and public database this day 4 years ago.
So much love and passion has gone into the library over the years. It’s become a huge part of my life and has changed me for the better. I’ve been able to learn so much through others and my own experimentation, read so many stories that both make me laugh and leave me in awe, and met so many people through the project with some I’d even consider close friends. I still have so many things I want to do with the Webcomic Library that I can’t wait to get to. I really hope you all with continue following the library along on it’s adventure. Whether you’ve been here since the beginning or found it a few days ago thank you for supporting the Webcomic Library!
Hiya! First of all I wanted to give a huge thank you to you peeps! Over the past week I’ve seen more folks following this tumblr and interaction with the Webcomic Library database than I’ve seen since I put this project out to the public over 4 years ago. I’m blown away by all the love the library has been getting!
With all the new folks following I wanted to give a little update on what I’ve been up to. Back in January I finished my previous major project which was expanding the library to include print, subscription, and download exclusive comics. I actually started this project back in May 2020 but it took a while to enter in my full personal collection. With that integration done I’m hoping to continue adding more paywalled content to help promote those works and let readers know what they’re getting into before buying.
With all the support this project has been getting I’m itching to get working on the next major project on the horizon. Now folks who have been following my work for a while be familiar with my pervious masterpost series and know that I back away from doing them around this time last year. I’ve been missing them terribly but want to take my blog work a step upward. For the next step in the library I’m looking to make an independent blog space! I have a lot of ideas for what kind of content I want to bring to the table and I’m hoping you all will stick around to see the result!
This major project is currently slow going as I have other priorities in my personal life that need my attention and care but I’m hoping to get more things moving during the summer. In the meanwhile I’ve been regularly working in the background to add and update the Webcomic Library database. Currently I’m chipping away at an inventory of the “Genre” tag category. I have plans to edit and add a few tags during the process, including combining the “Historical Fantasy” and Historical Fiction” tags and adding a “Furry” tag so keep an eye out for that!
While I’m at it I also wanted to promote the Webcomic Library Discord! We’re approaching 300 members strong now and hold events regularly. This month we have the following events going on:
Comic Cafe Day: Fridays
March 8th-12th: Creator Workshop on Script and Thumbnailing Processes
March 22nd-26th: Reader Discussion on Magical Girls In partnership with the Aradia Collective
End of DTIYS Art Challenges!
We have plans to introduce some new, fun art challenges next month. We always have something interesting going on whether it be new art to interesting discussions about the webcomic community. If you’re interested in getting more involved with the community feel free to dm or email me for an invite.
Thank you all again for the support! I’ve been having so much fun reading and being a part of this amazing community and I hope I can continue helping bring readers and creators together!
