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Hiya peeps! Welcome to day 4 of our reader discussion on magical girls in collaboration with Aradia! Todays Question:
Outside of Japan Magical Girl stories are often harder to come by in the international market. What reasons do you think this genre hasn’t entirely caught wind in other markets and do you think that could change in the future?
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! Welcome to day 3 of our reader discussion on magical girls in collaboration with Aradia! Todays Question:
While Magical girls are commonly seen as their own genre they also have a lot of similar characteristics with the Super Hero genre. What are some things that set these genres apart?
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! Welcome to day 2 of our reader discussion on magical girls in collaboration with Aradia! Todays Question:
The Magical Girl genre has a lot of crossover with other art genres and movements for example fairy tales, mecha, surrealism and romanticism and a wide variety of commentary on social movements. What characteristics of the genre do you think lends itself to being so flexible in its story style and overall message? In the same vein are there any obstacles within the genre that creators have to overcome?
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 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
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!
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.
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)
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.
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?
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?
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.
You can also buy comics you can find in the Library on Amazon and Bookshop.
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!
As of December 31st, 2020 Smackjeeves has closed. The site was a major pillar of webcomic culture, being one of the first webcomic specific sites out there and still pretty popular before it updated last year and caused a mass exodus from the site. The loss of this site is a tragedy with the variation of hosting sites slimming and the loss of many comics exclusive to the site.
Hiya peeps! 2020 has certainly been a rollercoaster for a variety of reasons. It has certainly been a challenge however I feel very pleased with what the library has been able to accomplish this year! Over the course of this year we have…
Has expanded to include print, download, and subscription comics
Added 2 completely new tag categories to the library (”Available as…” and “Style and Format”) along with a number of new individual tags to sort through.
Made it to 74k views on Tagpacker with 76 followers
Opened a discord for readers and creators alike. We give spaces to talk shop, share art and stories, and meet other peeps in the community! You can dm me for an invite.
The Library has expanded a lot this year and so many doors have opened as well. I have so many ideas for where I want to take this project but some of the goals I want to pursue in 2021 are..
Making more original posts on social media. I took some steps back from consistent posting in 2020 in exchange for focusing on my expansion projects on the library database itself. I want to be more active again and engage with folks.
Create a Pillowfort group. I want to be more active on this site especially. I think I could make use of Pillowfort to further engage with the webcomic community and just generally have fun with it!
Work to promote and continue building the WCL Discord into an active and supportive space.
Open an independent site. If you have been following me a while you’ll know this has been on my bucket list for a while but now I have an idea of what kind of content I want to produce on such a platform and how I could do it successfully.
Interact with comic groups and publishers to add more comics to the library. I think I have a good platform now that can offer something unique to different groups. I do a lot of content work surrounding the Library on my own so having external help from larger groups would be a big plus!
Reach 2,000 webcomics in the Library.
Despite everything I think I was able to walk away with some things I could look fondly back on. For the first time since around the time I begun this project publicly 4 years ago I have a group of friends who I regularly talk to. They’re a group of people who I respect and admire and I feel the same energy back. I’ve come to realize the skills and work I’ve done has significant worth and perhaps one day soon I’ll be able to put these skills to use in a job that could actually support me financially.
In the next year I want to take some massive steps. I would be lying if I said I wasn’t nervous but I’m also hopeful. 2020 has been far from the perfect year but I’m going to move forward with a desire to keep working towards making something I’m proud of. Thank you all for your support this year!
You can also buy comics you can find in the Library on Amazon and Bookshop.
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: Eric Bittle—former Georgia junior figure skating champion, vlogger extraordinaire, and amateur pâtissier—is starting his freshman year playing hockey at the prestigious Samwell University in Samwell, Massachusetts. And it’s basically nothing like co-ed club hockey back in the South. For one? There’s checking. It’s a story about hockey and friendship and bros and trying to find yourself during the best 4 years of your life.
Summary: What do you do when the cutie who moves in next door to you is an android? In a world of automation, artificial intelligence and reliable public transport, two awkward dorks try to work out how to date each other.
Summary:
In a very special town, there’s a very unusual bakery where the house specialty is a selection of baked treats hand-crafted to help you make your dreams come true – whether you need inspiration, support or confidence, they’ve got a cake or muffin fresh-made with magic to meet your needs. But for Ray, a quiet young woman with special powers of her own, the order is always the same: a hot tea with a delicious side of romance.
Daniel (Site) (Tapas) (Webtoons) (Warning: Blood/Gore, Body Horror, Death, Rape, and Violence)
Summary: Set during the 1930s, we follow the tale of Daniel Groth, a down-on-his-luck but good spirited gravedigger who simply disappears one day without a trace, leaving behind his best and only friend, Christine, of whom he was secretly in love with. He returns months later to Christine’s house…very much changed. Now a horrifying creature of the night, Daniel’s true personality is fading away, leaving only his unquenchable desire for blood.
Demon House ( @demon-house) (Tapas) (Gumroad) (Warning: Abuse, Blood/Gore, Body Horror, and Violence)
Summary: Tula is a student just trying to get through her senior year of college. Little does she know that her new rental is inhabited by demons. Juggling her social life and these new roommates should be no problem.
Summary: When she crash-lands on a strange alien world, anthropologist Halisi Mwangi must survive and teach the local alien denizens about humanity… armed only with the contents of her pockets.
Summary: Vamp is three hundred years old but in all that time, she has never met her match. This all changes one night in a bar when she meets a charming werewolf. FANGS chronicles the humor, sweetness, and awkwardness of meeting someone perfectly suited to you but also vastly different.
Summary: Lucy, a woman with an uncanny sense of taste and smell, discovers that her favorite restaurant has changed kitchen staff–and she does not know the identity of the chef whose cooking she’s loved for years. When a lucky accident leads her to two former chefs at Dimanche, she decides that she will do her utmost to track down each of their old colleagues in order to rediscover that “perfect taste”.
Summary: Alastair Sterling was the inventor who sparked the robot revolution. And because of his sudden death, he didn’t see any of it.
That is, until he wakes up 16 years later in a robot body that matches his old one exactly. Until he steps outside and finds a world utterly unlike the one he left behind – a world where robots live alongside their human neighbors and coexist in their cities. A world he helped create.
Now Al must track down his old partner Brendan to find out who is responsible for Al’s unexpected resurrection, but their reunion raises even more questions.
Like who the robot living with Brendan is. And why she looks like Al. And how much of the past should stay in the past…
You can also buy comics you can find in the Library on Amazon and Bookshop.
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!
