🌲 LONG EXPOSURE UPDATE!! 3 new pages! chapter 9 is OVER!
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When Jonas Wagner is paired with high school bully Mitch Mueller for a class project, he only expects the worst. What he didn’t expect was to get involved with a government research site, develop superpowers, and weirdest of all… fall in love with this jerk. More info.
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ᕕ(∵ ･ิ◡･ิ ∵)ᕗ <–This is Saint, btw
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A Sandy Trail (Tapas) (Warning: Alcohol)
Created by Amy Buchan (Site) (Twitter)
Summary: A knight on a quest gets lost beyond hope in a vast desert - but finding his way to freedom and safety leads to an unexpected friendship.
Galaxy Stop 910 (Webtoons) (Warning: Death)
Created by Soya (Twitter) (Patreon)
Summary: The weight of your memories does not adapt to zero gravity.
Ghost Bros (Gumroad)
Created by Rhael McGregor ( @raysdrawlings) (Site) (Twitter) (Ko-Fi) and H-P Lehkonen (Site) (Twitter) (Patreon) (Ko-Fi)
Summary: Two Youtubers are filming in a haunted orphanage… But is it gay to hold hand if you’re scared?
In The Beginning (Webtoons) (Warning: Death)
Created by Caragh ( @ephermeres) (Twitter) (Ko-Fi)
Summary: Legend tells of a goddess who thrives on death and destruction, ruining the land wherever she goes. But high in the mountains, another version of the story is told - a story of how the goddess Fauna helped create the world, and in doing so, destroyed everything she held dear.
The Little Red Fox (Webtoons) (Warning: Alcohol)
Created by Stormedy (Twitter) (Patreon) (Ko-Fi)
Summary: Clementine has been familiar with the emptiness of a broken home since she was a child. Her mother was mostly absent from her life and her father busied himself with work, gambling, and drinking. Clementine was only able to find solace in the company of her five stuffed animals. But as the inescapable sense of loneliness became more than she could bear, Clementine built up the courage to venture out into the forbidden woods behind her house, where she comes across a peculiar little red fox.
Opera Chaos (Webtoons) (Warning: Abuse, Death, and Suicide)
Created by Mioko-san ( @mioko-san) (Twitter) (Patreon) (Ko-Fi)
Summary: Why would you end up in such a place? Sure, stay a while, before you go. We have a tad bid of maintenance here, please don’t mind.
Tale of a Fisherman’s Wife (Tapas) (Webtoons)
Created by Heidi Holmeaa ( @heidiholmeaa) (Site) (Twitter) (Ko-Fi)
Summary:
The fishermen’s wives tell each other tales - have you heard them? Agnes has never felt the way she does after she meets Karoline-Matilde. But it’s not all beautiful sunsets on the beach; something is strange about this other woman, and Agnes tries desperately to figure out what it is, while navigating her blossoming feelings.
To Hell With You (Webtoons)
Created by Deo ( @deo101) (Site) (Twitter) (Patreon) (Ko-Fi)
Summary: She’s dating Satan, and everything is going great! That is, until she accidentally sends him back to Hell. Are they meant to be worlds apart, or can the power of their love bring them back together?
The Touch of Sunlight (Webtoons)
Created by Joey “Sandflake” Granger ( @sandflakedraws) (Twitter) (Patreon)
Summary: Every wish has its price. And once each full moon, a fae emerges from a timeworn well to accept them. But what should befall, when a guest makes a bewildering wish they fail to grant? What role should they play, when they aren’t expected to give?
Wandering Souls (Webtoons)
Created by Diana TS (Site) (Twitter) (Patreon) (Ko-Fi)
Summary: “Sometimes words are not needed to tell a story. Sometimes pictures hold more meaning than words could ever describe.” Wandering Souls is a silent heartwarming comic about two lost souls finding their way back home.
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Webcomics are roughly what it says on the tin: comics, which are posted on the web!
So, are they just like comics in print, except online instead?
Kind of! There are a lot of comics online which are formatted very
similarly to print comics, and the reasons for this are varied.
Sometimes it’s because the creator intends to print them later, and it
makes this process easier if the pages are already laid out
appropriately. Sometimes it’s just because that is the type of comic
they enjoy reading, and which they’re inspired by.
So they’re like webtoons?
Yes and no. Webtoon is a brand name– a very popular brand, but just as not every can of soda is a coke, not all webcomics are webtoons, although arguably all webtoons are webcomics. They are, after all, sequentially illustrated and use many narrative conventions associated with comics (speech bubbles, panels, etc), and are published online.
But that’s far from the only type of webcomic out there! In the earliest days of webcomics, formats tended to be constrained by users’ bandwidth and limited monitor sizes, so simple art and layouts were a must, as well as small file sizes. But as technology improved and more people started reading and creating webcomics, people started to experiment and play with some of the options that digital formats have to offer. (In particular, use of animation, or of interactive elements such as components of the page that appear or change when a user hovers their mouse over a part of the graphic.)
During the run of the popular webcomic Homestuck, there were a number of updates whose content consisted of full-on video games within the browser screen, which would allow readers to use keyboard commands and mouse movements to control a sprite character and interact with an environment within the browser window, including dialogue trees with other characters, events, and so on. These were mainly coded in Adobe Flash, which has since ceased to be supported, making these games difficult to archive in playable form, but similar effects can be achieved with Javascript, as the popular stick-figure strip comic XKCD has used.
What do webcomics look like?
The style and format of many early webcomics were inspired by newspaper strips, and the daily posting schedule of a webcomic is a close approximation to the way in which newspaper serials were historically published, making it an easy fit. Some of the first webcomics to become widely read utilized this format, such as Penny Arcade. Many of these strip comics are comedy-centric, with each update being a new joke; sometimes, but not always, featuring a central cast of characters. Some comics used the format to branch out into longer ongoing stories, occasionally reaching beyond the comedy genre into fantasy or drama storylines, building dedicated and passionate fan bases as they went.
As the medium became more widely known, more and more different styles and approaches began to appear. For every genre or style of physical comic or graphic novel, there are now webcomics utilizing similar storytelling approaches. Some are inspired by western comic books; by bande dessinee or other European books; photo collages (fumetti), or by manga.
Some webcomics will release a single horizontal row of 3-4 panels in an update. Some may release a full page with 6-10 panels or more, filled with painstaking detail, Some may update with animations, or a single panel at a time almost like a storyboard. And still others use the infinite canvas of the digital screen to create a vertical scroll for the reader to read, which can contain the equivalent amount of content as 2-10 ‘standard’ comic book pages.
What kind of content or themes do webcomics contain?
Hoo boy everything under the sun, huh
Because of the nature of webcomics being without the need of a traditional publisher, the content created has an enormous range in artistic freedom. Many webcomics are more intimate, passion projects that take advantage of the flexibility provided without boundaries, making it an excellent outlet for anyone to create to their heart’s content. The stories vary from a traditional comic style approach with a long running cast and story, auto-bios from the artist’s experience, gag strips, animated games, and much more!
So, ultimately:
They are what they are!
Webcomics are in the name, comics published on the web. Varying in artistic quality, format, content, and style, this medium of comic has a diverse range of stories and possibilities. With a large majority free to read, webcomics are both accessible and abundant!
This is a big post compiling all the printers of books, prints, and other popular comic-related merch that I (Varethane) have either worked with or heard recommended by other indie creators!
There are a lot of
different categories for this subject so I’ve tried to split them up in a
way that makes sense to me, though if anyone reading this has
suggestions for changes I could make please feel free to suggest away!
This sort of thread is most useful if it’s being continuously edited and
updated to reflect more companies and resources (or to take them off,
should they close their doors for whatever reason). And of course, if
you know more printers or have more information on any of the ones
listed here, please let me know! (Or for those of you with editing
capabilities I guess you could just add them).
This post also lives on the SpiderForest Webcomic Collective forums, which is where it first started!
