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I also make these webcomics!
But I’m A Cat Person:
Two ordinary graduates adopt a puppy…which turns out to be a magical
shapeshifting battle monster. Now one of them is involved in a
soul-binding ownership contract, rich and powerful people are lurking
around looking to challenge them, and they still can’t find any companies that are hiring.
Featuring adventure, politics, magic, and lesbians. Combines the
struggle of modern-day underemployed geeky millennials with the
ethical dilemmas that you
normally try not to think about while playing Pokémon.
Leif & Thorn:
Sparkly queer bilingual fantasy comedy. Dragonslaying hero Thorn Estragon and his team of
loyal knights are assigned to guard a foreign embassy;
Leif works there as a gardener, serving his
native Sønheim in order to pay off a mysterious debt. Thorn doesn’t
speak Leif’s language too well when they first meet — but he’s about to
find a lot of reasons to learn.
Featuring trauma recovery,
slow-burn romance, cross-cultural communication, and trying to pick the
perfect song for karaoke night.
Both comics are hosted with SiteGround. If you like the way the sites look, and you happen to be looking for a place to independently host a comic…please sign up through this link so I’ll get credit for referring you!
Leif is a gardener, serving his native Sønheim at a foreign embassy. Thorn is a Knight of Ceannis who got severely burned while dragonslaying, and was rewarded with a “cushy” job guarding the embassy gates. Thorn doesn’t speak Leif’s language too well at first — but as they get to know each other, he finds a lot of reasons to learn.
Possible triggers and if the comic is nsfw
Worksafe (there is a separate site for NSFW content). References to sensitive content include sexual assault, physical trauma, flashbacks, claustrophobia, stalking, and character death. Individual storylines have warnings available.
All the kinds. All of them. This post has pictures. The title characters are a budding m/m romance, one of them has two moms, there are a bunch of other same-sex couples, there’s an agender knight, a trans woman assassin, a trans man engineer with a husband, a grumpy trans goth boy, a bunch of queer butch women with crossbows, reincarnations with gender issues, and more.
Do you have any characters with physical or mental disabilities? If so, what kind?
Thorn has PTSD and burn scarring that limits his arm movement. Other cast members show up with albinism, autism, bipolar disorder, hallucinations, limb amputations, limb malformation, mutism, and vitiligo, to name a few.
Does your comic come in any other language other than English?
Psst, you should add Leif & Thorn to the "romance webcomics with characters of color" list! It's a cross-cultural fantasy comedy about Thorn, a knight who guards a foreign country's embassy, and Leif, the gardener he ends up falling in love with. Thorn doesn't speak the language too well at first, but he grows more fluently bilingual as they get closer.
Leif & Thorn is a cross-cultural fantasy comedy about trauma, recovery, vampires, magical girls, and falling in love across a language barrier.
What’s the story? Thorn is a classic fantasy knight – has a magic sword, killed a dragon, all that good stuff – but now he has PTSD, and actual burn scars, and doesn’t do well at barbecues. He and his team get assigned to guard the embassy of a country that’s basically Fantasy Scandinavia – which is where he meets Leif, a gardener working to pay off a mysterious debt.
Thorn doesn’t speak Leif’s language too well when they first meet — but he’s about to find a lot of reasons to learn.
They’re the heart of an increasingly-broad ensemble of characters, all
facing their own struggles to communicate across cultural boundaries,
deal with traumas and scars, use magic for practical solutions, and pick
the perfect song for karaoke night.
It’s a fantasy world with multicultural influences and a modern sensibility. (They have social media! And democratically-elected leaders! And same-sex marriage!)
Think Discworld if it had the internet, and more queer/trans people. Or Steven Universe with realistic language barriers, and vampires instead of alien rocks. Or Utena if the characters were adults with access to therapy.
So it’s pretty gay? Heck yes.
There’s lots of same-sex romance, a whole spread of casually-accepted trans people, characters who are happily poly and characters who are happily single, and no gendered limits on how they can dress or what they can do.
Which doesn’t mean it’s some kind of conflict-free social-justice paradise. This world still has problems! (Potion-smuggling, magical stalkers, cultural clashes, and “everything about Leif’s legal status” come to mind.)
Just not these problems.
When does it update? Daily! Sunday strips can be AUs, info pages, and other bonus strips. Monday-Friday are classic newspaper-style strips in the main storyline. Saturdays are for bonus art.
How long is it? It’s been running since late 2015, and never taken a hiatus, so…that long.
Summary: At St. Lucas, a school for super kids, explosions and bullets are the least of the students problems. Struggling with mental illness, trauma, and identity, they’re more comforted being blasted through a wall. This follows a group of students and staff members and explores these topics mixed in a universe with meta-humans
Summary: Artistic Process is a comic that talks about the struggles of being LGBTQ+ in Highschool, while also tackling problems like hyper masculinity; racism, and more, while we follow the two main character’s story and the way they all find to, in one way or another, begin to express themselves.
Assigned Male ( @assignedmale) (Warning: Transphobia)
Summary: AVERSION is a webcomic about diner owner Gavin Snyder, a human unwillingly caught in the middle of the Endless War of Heaven and Hell, and the angel Nadhirrah, assigned to protect him. It features wild dog demons, birds of prey angels and a majority queer, diverse cast. There will be violence, brief sexual content, foul language and a dorky amount of animal facts.
Avialae ( @avialaecomic) (Site) (Warning: Blood/Gore, Sexual Nudity)
Summary: Avialae is a webcomic about a gross bird boy and his bird-obsessed boyfriend–Imeanneighbor who helps him out during the painful and bloody process of growing wings. Gannet used to be perfectly normal. Sure, he was stuck in a homophobic hellhole in the middle of nowhere, but he was normal. Then he woke up one morning to find a freakish set of wings sprouting from his back. With no one but his wannabe ornithologist neighbor, Bailey, to confide in, Gannet now must go through the painful and bloody process of growing wings.
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: Cunning Fire is an urban fantasy story about witches and spirits in modern day Chicago, following the journey of Akiva Stein as she enters this unfamiliar, hidden world and learns the craft of the Death witch. Caught up in her new coven’s quest to create the legendary Elixir of Life, Akiva is forced to face her ability to see spirits and come to terms with the ways magic has tainted her past, and how it will shape her future.
Summary: Fai lives on space colony 88HK3 in the year 535 After Ascension, and he’s pretty sure fairy tales ain’t real. Then he meets a strange person, and a stranger fate.
Dumbing of Age (Hiveworks) ( @dumbingofage) (Warning: Depression/Attempted Suicide, Abuse, Alcohol addiction, Attempted Rape, Transphobia)
Summary: is a webcomic about college freshmen in the girls wing within a co-ed dorm at Indiana University, learning everything about life and themselves usually in the most difficult ways. It stars a Christian homeschooled girl and her atheist best friend, and also a disgraced cheerleader, a misanthrope, a rebel, and a caped vigilante.
Eerie Crests ( @eeriecrests) (Tapas) (Warning: Major Character Death, Mental Illness, Self Harm, Attempted Suicide, Drug Use, Transphobia, Abuse)
Summary:
Here’s the gist of it. Dallas Margolin was doing his best to better himself as a person. He was about to graduate highschool. He was Willow Grove’s star baseball player. He had good friends. Overcoming things from the past, You’d think, for once, the universe was kind to Dallas. That is, until one day, before an important highschool match, his best friend Malek starts planning to move away for college. In an attempt to make Malek stay with him, Dallas makes a terrible mistake. Something lurks in the quiet town of Blue Crests.
Summary: Callipus is being chased by the police after hacking into one of greatest corporation there is. During an escape, he meets a mysterious boy who appears to also be a runaway and after being saved by him, they end up working together.
Summary: Four years after a traumatizing supernatural experience, Leland Henderson and his best friend Jaida Warner are well on their way to becoming Wardens, members of the Order of Peridexion, which oversees diplomatic relations between humans and non-humans. For the most part, it’s not far off of what they expected; they’re learning magic, learning how to fight, and learning how not to offend faeries. But what they didn’t expect was the Order’s bloody history, or the mysterious illness killing off non-humans, or Leland having to face his own genetic heritage on the regular. And the more Leland and Jaida learn, the less certain they are about joining the Order - and more certain they can’t escape it.
Summary:
Kala Sharma has recently been suffering from some strange symptoms. She seeks help from a mysterious person named Lex Lehmann who claims she has a life threatening parasite. He’s willing to remove the parasite but at a high price.
Summary:
When her parents send her to Hogsback, South Africa to meet her grandmother Lulama, Shiana Witlow discovers a world completely different from her own. Bursting with magic and spirits, Shiana spends her summers in the Knysna forest, where she meets Henry, a stubborn but friendly demigod of the forest. Together, the two grow up and become close friends.
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: As a kid, Victor dreamed of training to be a superhero. That didn’t go so well. Now, nine years later, Victor is a resident at the Earl Estate, a home for kids who haven’t yet demonstrated that they can control their powers. With his 18th birthday - and a transfer - only a few weeks away, he has one last chance to prove he is capable enough to receive his licence and go home.
Summary: What is everyday life like for a professional summoner, their zealous assistant, and the demons who crash on their couch and help out with taxes?
Khaos Komix(Site) ( Warning: Nudity, sexual content, Transphobia, Homphobia, Rape)
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: Being a trans man is tough. Sometimes you gotta wrestle bears, and other times you can’t get the goddamn lid off the applesauce! Follow the funny adventures of 3 trans guys as they go through life.
Summary: Monster Pop! is a comic about two best friends and the slice of life adventures they share! Monster Pop! is set in an alternate Earth where monsters coexist with humans; sometimes they integrate well, sometimes they clash. This comic is heavily influenced by shoujo manga.
Summary: Set in a fictional town called Havenhart, located in Indiana around 1984, MCCC follows the life of young monster teenagers and the threat of hunters
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!
The Kickstarter for POWER & MAGIC Volume 2 ends TOMORROW AFTERNOON (11/9)!
They’re almoooost there at $44,733 of their $52,900 goal - if they meet it
20 new comics by queer creators of color get to see print:
The witch is a symbol of power for women across the world. She
represents defiance, transcendence, healing, feminine monstrosity, and
connection with the natural and supernatural worlds. From her wands and
flora, to her bonds of kinship, POWER & MAGIC VOLUME 2
explores what gives each witch her power and how she’ll choose to use
it. Whether you’ve been longing for the new volume, or just discovering
the series for the first time, we can’t think of a better way to
celebrate the witchiest month of the year than backing POWER & MAGIC and supporting queer witches of color!
☆ Castoff is a fantasy-adventure comic about magic kids with glowing eyes on the run from their problems (and the fantasy cops). Contents include magic boys, badass ladies, fight scenes and found family. New pages every Monday and Friday! ☆
