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Webcomic List
Sep. 29th, 2026 08:58 amI wrote a thread on webcomic recommendations elsewhere, and expanded it here.
OH MY GOD SOMEONE ELSE KNOWS ABOUT LABIRHIN.
Much gushing about Labirhin later...
And thanks, for sure, for a bunch of new ones to read! I'll put together a list of the ones I read. The Unsounded, Unicorn Jelly, Dropout, Fresh Meat have already been linked. First up, webcomics with (overly) ambitious narratives...
Sluggy Freelance. One of the best of the nineties webcomics, but it has since been surpassed. The story is absurdly complex, and it loses its initial manic energy after a point. Its quality recovered after its author stopped doing daily comics. Never do daily comics, webcomic authors.
SSDD. Starts off as a gag-a-day comic, ends up as hard sci-fi. The worldbuilding is solid, but like Sluggy Freelance, this is kinda one where you had to be there from the start to justify still reading it nowadays.
Doctor McNinja. Completed. Solid writing and art in a gonzo fantasy setting. It lacks the ethical core that would make it a true classic, but it's still worth reading. The site is currently down.
Freefall. More hard sci-fi, about both biological and mechanical AIs. Insightful and sensitive without ever losing its sense of humor. The art never does improve, sadly.
Octopus Pie. Completed. A magical-realist story about struggling New York residents. Solid humor and artwork, and immensely empathetic.
Gunnerkrigg court. A gentle high fantasy comic about the interaction of magic and technology. IMO the best-paced comic out there.
Nature of Nature's Art. Hard to follow what's going on, everyone philosophizes at the drop of a hat, and it'll cause eyestrain unless you zoom in. Traumatizing.
Kill Six Billion Demons. Sumptuous cosmic fantasy about a too-ordinary girl transplanted into a Hindu-inspired, singularly unique setting. The comic with the best action scenes. The setting carries the comic, but I eventually found that its philosophizing rings hollow.
Jack. A webcomic about hell, despised in some corners of the Internet, with an intricate and ultimately hopeful plot. It'll fall flat if you don't have a Christian background, though. Nowadays most of its stories are written by fans.
Dan and Mab's Furry Adventure. Another furry webcomic that started as gag-a-day but eventually developed an elaborate plot, mostly a fantasy pastiche but with some technological aspects. Eventually the plot centers around its setting's succubi and incubi, which are treated in a unique fashion. It has a super-cute artstyle and characters that make you want to hug them.
Order of the Stick. Starts off as a D&D parody comic, but acquires depth bit by bit until eventually it's telling quite a gripping story. The comic has gradually improved throughout its span, in every aspect. In terms of the narrative composition of individual pages, it's near the top.
Slightly Damned. For a furry comic that starts in hell, it's absurdly fluffy. Its fantasy world is not derivative, a rarity for sure, and (like many comics on this list) it's a joy to see its art improve as it goes on. Another comic that makes you want to hug all its characters.
Unicorn Jelly. Completed. Visionary, singular, and a mindfuck. It looks like nothing special to start, but the scale will expand. One of the very few stories that earns its immense scale.
Goblins: Life Through Their Eyes. Another story that starts off as a D&D parody before developing a serious plot. There's nothing quite like its sense of humor, which makes it all the more jarring when the story attempts to be horrific.
Dropout. Completed. A story about not committing suicide.
Fresh Meat. Completed. The opposite.
Pokemon Explorerz. Based on the Pokemon Mystery Dungeon series, I think. It has a solid expressionistic artstyle, rare in webcomics, and its dialogue often makes me flinch. I did not realize there was this much meaning to be found in Pokemon games.
Alterity. Another Pokemon one, based on a Nuzlocke playthrough, which is a kind of challenge run designed to make you think of your lineup as real creatures instead of statblocks. Fantastic artwork and a sharp sense of humor. It draws its content from examining the morality of its setting.
The Unsounded. NSFW. High fantasy in a distinctive setting. Superb art, narrative, characterization, composition, everything. Someone wrote that it's hard to discuss this webcomic, because there's nothing there to criticize. I think its characterization, in particular, surpasses any other webcomic. Being sanctimonious myself, I've returned repeatedly to its exploration of its sanctimonious protagonist.
College Catastrophe (completed) and Nine to Nine. Mildly NSFW. Follows the hijinks of a friend circle of furries. Utter fluff, but very charming. The archetypal furry webcomic.
Savestate. More furry fluff, this type focusing on gaming. It alternates gaming jokes with a whimsical low-fantasy narrative. Solidly drawn, and its humor is a step above that of other gaming comics.
8-bit Theater. Completed. Starts off as a Final Fantasy parody, but as it goes it (have you heard this before) develops an interesting plot to supplement its humor. Usually, the sitcom style of humor that generates its humor from having all its characters be awful people doesn't work for me. (It works for many, many people.) This comic is one of the exceptions.
Nukees. Completed. This one is for the physicists out there. A group of graduate students get into gradually escalating shenanigans. Its sense of humor stays sharp throughout, although the art never improves beyond functional.
Ozy and Millie. Completed. A comic about two young foxes. At first it tried and failed to be Calvin and Hobbes, but eventually developed its own gentle voice. The best of the first generation of furry webcomics.
Oglaf. Very NSFW. It turns out sexuality is very funny.
Class Menagerie. Completed. A solid furry webcomic about a group of college students. It felt like it could have developed into something more, but at least the author had the good sense to end the comic rather than succumb to the eternal hiatus.
Preeny Has to Repeat 6th Grade. Utter fluff in an apocalyptic scenario. Every character is a sparkledog OC of one its fans. I have no idea why this comic works as well as it does.
No Outlet. A furry comic about a kind of despair that can set in during college, centering on two characters, one a philosophy major and one a physics major. As someone with half a degree in philosophy and a PhD in physics, who fought a losing struggle with despair, this comic was close to me. It was long ago lost to Internet decay, and I can't even find a place that mentions it.
Limpidity. An early gag-a-day furry comic about a fox and rabbit. It's a comic that I remember fondly because it evokes an emotion I cannot name.
Creature, Keeper of the Vortron. Doctor Who, but with a mutt and a unicorn. Crude, no outstanding attributes, but its creator had a vision, and made more than half a thousand comics in the absence of a fanbase. Another comic attached to an unnamed feeling.
Homestuck. A comic that created a subculture, about how a social circle forms a world unto itself, often a world to be destroyed. A novel mix of text and comic, I bounced off of it twice because I couldn't handle the long, long chats. Very few comics give its characters such distinctive voices and writing styles.
Lackadaisy. A superb comic about Prohibition-era cats, with a manic sense of humor and fast pacing. It built enough of a fanbase to produce an animated version!
How to be Homeless. The author created this to provide practical advice about being homeless, while homeless. People who have experienced that condition say its advice its sound.
Two Kinds. Humans and anthros interact in a fantasy world where the latter are largely subjugated. It includes gentle, although at times barely SFW, explorations of queer sexuality.
Starfall. The only Homestuck-inspired webcomic I've found whose wit and characterization match that of its inspiration.
Caelum Sky is a lovely comic about a developing friendship between an angel and a demon. The demon, basically a dragon, is gorgeously rendered and very expressive. This comic has a very boisterous sense of humor.
Out-of-Placers is about a team of various creatures in a novel setting, headed by a human transformed into a Ynglet, basically an anthro kangaroo rat. This webcomic is the best at conveying nonhuman body language, at such a high level of skill that many of its jokes are carried by that alone. Its plot is slow but its humor is sharp.
OH MY GOD SOMEONE ELSE KNOWS ABOUT LABIRHIN.
Much gushing about Labirhin later...
And thanks, for sure, for a bunch of new ones to read! I'll put together a list of the ones I read. The Unsounded, Unicorn Jelly, Dropout, Fresh Meat have already been linked. First up, webcomics with (overly) ambitious narratives...
Sluggy Freelance. One of the best of the nineties webcomics, but it has since been surpassed. The story is absurdly complex, and it loses its initial manic energy after a point. Its quality recovered after its author stopped doing daily comics. Never do daily comics, webcomic authors.
SSDD. Starts off as a gag-a-day comic, ends up as hard sci-fi. The worldbuilding is solid, but like Sluggy Freelance, this is kinda one where you had to be there from the start to justify still reading it nowadays.
Doctor McNinja. Completed. Solid writing and art in a gonzo fantasy setting. It lacks the ethical core that would make it a true classic, but it's still worth reading. The site is currently down.
Freefall. More hard sci-fi, about both biological and mechanical AIs. Insightful and sensitive without ever losing its sense of humor. The art never does improve, sadly.
Octopus Pie. Completed. A magical-realist story about struggling New York residents. Solid humor and artwork, and immensely empathetic.
Gunnerkrigg court. A gentle high fantasy comic about the interaction of magic and technology. IMO the best-paced comic out there.
Nature of Nature's Art. Hard to follow what's going on, everyone philosophizes at the drop of a hat, and it'll cause eyestrain unless you zoom in. Traumatizing.
Kill Six Billion Demons. Sumptuous cosmic fantasy about a too-ordinary girl transplanted into a Hindu-inspired, singularly unique setting. The comic with the best action scenes. The setting carries the comic, but I eventually found that its philosophizing rings hollow.
Jack. A webcomic about hell, despised in some corners of the Internet, with an intricate and ultimately hopeful plot. It'll fall flat if you don't have a Christian background, though. Nowadays most of its stories are written by fans.
Dan and Mab's Furry Adventure. Another furry webcomic that started as gag-a-day but eventually developed an elaborate plot, mostly a fantasy pastiche but with some technological aspects. Eventually the plot centers around its setting's succubi and incubi, which are treated in a unique fashion. It has a super-cute artstyle and characters that make you want to hug them.
Order of the Stick. Starts off as a D&D parody comic, but acquires depth bit by bit until eventually it's telling quite a gripping story. The comic has gradually improved throughout its span, in every aspect. In terms of the narrative composition of individual pages, it's near the top.
Slightly Damned. For a furry comic that starts in hell, it's absurdly fluffy. Its fantasy world is not derivative, a rarity for sure, and (like many comics on this list) it's a joy to see its art improve as it goes on. Another comic that makes you want to hug all its characters.
Unicorn Jelly. Completed. Visionary, singular, and a mindfuck. It looks like nothing special to start, but the scale will expand. One of the very few stories that earns its immense scale.
Goblins: Life Through Their Eyes. Another story that starts off as a D&D parody before developing a serious plot. There's nothing quite like its sense of humor, which makes it all the more jarring when the story attempts to be horrific.
Dropout. Completed. A story about not committing suicide.
Fresh Meat. Completed. The opposite.
Pokemon Explorerz. Based on the Pokemon Mystery Dungeon series, I think. It has a solid expressionistic artstyle, rare in webcomics, and its dialogue often makes me flinch. I did not realize there was this much meaning to be found in Pokemon games.
Alterity. Another Pokemon one, based on a Nuzlocke playthrough, which is a kind of challenge run designed to make you think of your lineup as real creatures instead of statblocks. Fantastic artwork and a sharp sense of humor. It draws its content from examining the morality of its setting.
The Unsounded. NSFW. High fantasy in a distinctive setting. Superb art, narrative, characterization, composition, everything. Someone wrote that it's hard to discuss this webcomic, because there's nothing there to criticize. I think its characterization, in particular, surpasses any other webcomic. Being sanctimonious myself, I've returned repeatedly to its exploration of its sanctimonious protagonist.
College Catastrophe (completed) and Nine to Nine. Mildly NSFW. Follows the hijinks of a friend circle of furries. Utter fluff, but very charming. The archetypal furry webcomic.
Savestate. More furry fluff, this type focusing on gaming. It alternates gaming jokes with a whimsical low-fantasy narrative. Solidly drawn, and its humor is a step above that of other gaming comics.
8-bit Theater. Completed. Starts off as a Final Fantasy parody, but as it goes it (have you heard this before) develops an interesting plot to supplement its humor. Usually, the sitcom style of humor that generates its humor from having all its characters be awful people doesn't work for me. (It works for many, many people.) This comic is one of the exceptions.
Nukees. Completed. This one is for the physicists out there. A group of graduate students get into gradually escalating shenanigans. Its sense of humor stays sharp throughout, although the art never improves beyond functional.
Ozy and Millie. Completed. A comic about two young foxes. At first it tried and failed to be Calvin and Hobbes, but eventually developed its own gentle voice. The best of the first generation of furry webcomics.
Oglaf. Very NSFW. It turns out sexuality is very funny.
Class Menagerie. Completed. A solid furry webcomic about a group of college students. It felt like it could have developed into something more, but at least the author had the good sense to end the comic rather than succumb to the eternal hiatus.
Preeny Has to Repeat 6th Grade. Utter fluff in an apocalyptic scenario. Every character is a sparkledog OC of one its fans. I have no idea why this comic works as well as it does.
No Outlet. A furry comic about a kind of despair that can set in during college, centering on two characters, one a philosophy major and one a physics major. As someone with half a degree in philosophy and a PhD in physics, who fought a losing struggle with despair, this comic was close to me. It was long ago lost to Internet decay, and I can't even find a place that mentions it.
Limpidity. An early gag-a-day furry comic about a fox and rabbit. It's a comic that I remember fondly because it evokes an emotion I cannot name.
Creature, Keeper of the Vortron. Doctor Who, but with a mutt and a unicorn. Crude, no outstanding attributes, but its creator had a vision, and made more than half a thousand comics in the absence of a fanbase. Another comic attached to an unnamed feeling.
Homestuck. A comic that created a subculture, about how a social circle forms a world unto itself, often a world to be destroyed. A novel mix of text and comic, I bounced off of it twice because I couldn't handle the long, long chats. Very few comics give its characters such distinctive voices and writing styles.
Lackadaisy. A superb comic about Prohibition-era cats, with a manic sense of humor and fast pacing. It built enough of a fanbase to produce an animated version!
How to be Homeless. The author created this to provide practical advice about being homeless, while homeless. People who have experienced that condition say its advice its sound.
Two Kinds. Humans and anthros interact in a fantasy world where the latter are largely subjugated. It includes gentle, although at times barely SFW, explorations of queer sexuality.
Starfall. The only Homestuck-inspired webcomic I've found whose wit and characterization match that of its inspiration.
Caelum Sky is a lovely comic about a developing friendship between an angel and a demon. The demon, basically a dragon, is gorgeously rendered and very expressive. This comic has a very boisterous sense of humor.
Out-of-Placers is about a team of various creatures in a novel setting, headed by a human transformed into a Ynglet, basically an anthro kangaroo rat. This webcomic is the best at conveying nonhuman body language, at such a high level of skill that many of its jokes are carried by that alone. Its plot is slow but its humor is sharp.
