gchoule:
Webcomic artists work super dang hard all-year long to bring you quality independent comics. They do this out of the goodness of their hearts and for the passion for their craft. And they do it for FREE.
Since Free Comic Book Day is basically opposite day - comics you usually have to buy are given out for free - why not PAY for the awesome comics you can get for free all year long? Tip you favourite creators, join their Patreon for a month, pledge to their Kickstarters, buy products from their stores!
If you’re broke: Tell them how much you appreciate their work. It’s easy as dropping them a little line, reblogging their work with nice tags or, if you’re feeling AWESOME, write out a a real message, with paragraphs and everything, just like you learned to do in school.
Since I gotta practice what I preach, here are some favourite works by what I feel are vastly under appreciated artists:
14 Nights by kstipetic
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This story is about a guy who is afraid of sex. I wrote it because it
was something I wanted to read, but didn’t seem to exist yet. Due to the
subject matter, it contains nudity and sex.
The Muse Mentor by Amy King
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Mona is in her early 20’s and trying to figure out what she’d be
happiest doing for the rest of her life, and that would probably be a
lot easier to figure out if she lived on the physical plane of Earth.
Unfortunately, she was born into the higher planes of thought, onto the
mental scheme, where everyone is a mood, impulse, thought or other
brain-related process that a human might experience at any given time.
To make matters worse, she doesn’t have any outstanding talents that
make it any easier to figure out what her process is, in the first
place!
Next Town Over by Erin Mehlos
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Next Town Over is a weekly western, liberally spiced with sorcery,
secrets and steam, updating Sundays. It primarily chronicles the
curious rivalry twixt laconic, mechnically-inclined Vane Black and
sorcerous rogue John Henry Hunter … and no: it most certainly does not take place in the historical American west.
Café Amargo by Pía Prado
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1939,
South-America. Domingo Ramirez has lost everything; his family, his job
and happiness. The only thing he still has left is bills to pay. Even
though his future seems worse than death itself, he decides to keep
strong and search for his “light of hope” that appears even in the
darkest and most difficult situations. But, the shape of that light is
not what he was expecting...
Mythos by Rosa Lee Marnie
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Mythos is a collection of stories from a world that
looks a bit like ours if you tilt your head and squint a bit. Jumping in
and out of history and across continents, it traces the tumultuous
relationship between a pantheon of idiot chucklefucks
primal god-spirits and the problem child known as humanity. Part soap
opera, part cosmic farce, it deals with everything from kingdoms in
exile to internet dating advice, taking in a hapless thespian, an
existentialist hyena, and a good number of fairy tales along the way.
Doomsday, My Dear by Cami Woodruff
A turn-of-the-20th century webcomic drama about a modern day plague, the
political turmoil that follows in its wake, and the lives of the people
it touches.
Riverside Extras by Miranda Chamberlain
Riverside Extras is a crime thriller, drama and mystery
that takes place in the fictional city of Riverside, WA during the year
1919, just on the cusp of Prohibition. The story primarily follows the Rose agent Ophelia Banksly,
and the mystery that she carries with her. She has no known family and
no history on file. No one knows where she’s from, or who she really is.
Even the people closest to her, like her best friend, Derry Lake, and her rival and sometimes-lover, Simon Emmett, know very little about her.
Brainchild by Suzanne Geary
Brainchild is a story about paranormal phenomena, bad first impressions,
wide-scale conspiracies, a whole bunch of mutants, and everything else
your senior year of college can possibly throw at you. It is written
and drawn by Suzanne Geary and updates on Sundays.
Widdershins by Kate Ashwin
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Widdershins is a series of Victorian-era adventure stories, set
in the fictional town of Widdershins, West Yorkshire- England’s magical
epicentre, home to bounty hunters, failed wizards, stage magicians, and
more, besides.
Band Vs. Band by Kathleen Jacques
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Honey Hart and her group The Candy Hearts just want to spread a goshdarn positive message with their sugary, peppy music — but will things get derailed when she runs into her troublemaker rival Turpentine, and her dirty, noisy band The Sourballs? And what are these…feelings…that keep drawing them together?
Never Satisfied by Taylor Robin
Never Satisfied
is the story of apprentices competing for the position of magician
representative for their city, serving directly under the king. There’s
no greater job for a magician, so who could want more?
Curia Regis by Robin Hoelzemann
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Curia Regis is long form comic moonlighting as a webcomic. It’s about
how people act under pressure, and the consequences of those actions.
It’s about what happens when someone takes your ability to make your own
decisions. At its heart, it’s about a man who should have been King,
and the shit he pulls to make it happen.
The Girl Who Flew Away by M. Dean
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The Girl Who Flew Away is a graphic novel in progress set in 1976 and
partly in 1926, following twenty-something secretary, Greer Johnson.
Through an affair with her boss, she becomes pregnant and is sent to
stay with his friends for the duration in Key West, Florida. There, she
begins to recollect her past and to dream about a little girl she’s
never seen before named Eugenie. Meanwhile, she makes friends with a
gardener missing his family and battles with her temporary caretakers.
Witchy by Ariel Ries
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In the witch kingdom Hyalin, the strength of your magic is determined
by the length of your hair. Those that are strong enough are
conscripted by the Witch Guard, who enforce the law in peacetime and
protect the land during war. However, those with hair judged too long
are pronounced enemies of the kingdom, and annihilated. This is called a
witch burning.
Witchy is the story of a young witch named Nyneve.
Terrified of the Guard, and of being enlisted, she hides her long hair
from everyone but her mother.
Aw what a sweet sentiment!