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humorist + humanist ([personal profile] erinptah) wrote in [community profile] yuletide2020-10-18 02:32 pm

Webcomics in the Yuletide 2020 tag set

Webcomics! They're free to read. They're labors of love from individual creators, showcasing the range of earnestness, innovation, and unabashed gay stuff you can get with no corporate oversight. They boast some incredible talent -- Noelle Stevenson, Ian Jones-Quartey, Andy Weir, and Gigi D.G. all launched out of the webcomic scene. What's not to love?

This list has all the webcomics from the Yuletide 2020 tag set that are free-to-read online. With direct links to their websites, and a bit of summary for your consideration.

I've added a couple that weren't in my original pass because they got mis-sorted outside the "Comics" category. If you spot any more, comment and let me know. Also feel free to drop links to entries on the promo post for any of these titles!

In order by the way AO3 alphabetizes them:


1/0 [Other Media]
Endearingly weird narrative. The artist does things like bring individual molecules to life to round out the cast list; they get caught up in lots of debates about the nature of their existence.

The Great Mage Returns After 4000 Years
A magician named Lucas returns after 4000 thousand years in the new body of Frey Blake. In this new body, he is the worst student in the school of magic. He has to deal with bullies, his teacher and the fact that he is in a new body. He wants revenge. This is where his story begins.

Alethia
Robots on a distant world try to find meaning in their lives after being abandoned by their creators.

Apothecia
An eleven-year-old girl named Jessie finds an intergalactic mass murderer trapped in the woods behind her house. It wants her to free it or kill it, but she instead keeps it alive until it can be found by the extraterrestrial authorities and punished for its crimes.

The Center for Otherworld Science
About three women, awkward romance, interpersonal workplace dynamics, and a cryptozoology institute with questionable ethics. [Hey, did you like the aesthetic of Among Us? You'll like this.]

CosmoKnights
When a charismatic pair of off-world gladiators show up on Pan's doorstep, she finds that life may not be as small as she thought. On the run and off the galactic grid, Pan discovers the astonishing secrets of her neo-medieval world… and the intoxicating possibility of burning it all down.

Court of Roses
Follow a ragtag group of bards as they band together and travel the realm of Prismal. And who knows! Mayhaps they'll solve a murder mystery together!

Dr. Cataclysm
Janos Cola is a spatial delivery man. Then he's hit by a golden arrow, right in the heart, and then he has some new superpowers.

The Elduin and Donestan Chronicles [Books & Literature] (Promo post)
Heavy snow falls over a forest of men, struck down in a bloody battle between noble brothers. The young victor, wounded and near death, is discovered by one of his own nameless soldiers and carried to safety -  an isolated cabin on a lonely mountain. This small comfortable peasants’ home becomes a refuge for the unlikely pair as winter closes in around them....

El Goonish Shive
A strange comic about a group of teenagers and the bizarre, often supernatural, situations that they face. Includes a continuing storyline with non-linear joke comics on the side. Often ignores the laws of Physics.

Exorcism Academy
Ethan, a cadet exorcist, finds himself being seduced by his demon partner Al, but their unexpected romance is destined for darkness when human and demon worlds collide!

Fangs
Elsie the vamp meets Jimmie the werewolf at the local watering hole, the Odditorium. Elsie catches Jimmy's ear when she picks dogs over cats; Jimmy gets lucky when he comes forward as a fellow monster. From that point on, their relationship progresses gently, from their first morning after their first night together, to their dates under the moonlight and the prickly subject of their past luggage -- and past victims.

Girl Genius
An ongoing "gaslamp fantasy" story, Girl Genius follows the career of Agatha Heterodyne—a hapless student at Transylvania Polygnostic University who discovers that she has more going for her than she thought.

The Glass Scientists
The city of London is not the best place to be a mad scientist. Thirty years after the death of the infamous Dr. Frankenstein, its citizens have gotten awfully good at killing creatures, destroying laboratories, and generally wrecking anything new or strange-looking. Soon, every scientist within city limits will find themselves behind bars, unless someone can turn their luck around, and fast.

Gunnerkrigg Court
Antimony Carver begins classes at the eponymous U.K. Boarding School, and soon notices that strange events are happening: a shadow creature follows her around; a Rogat Orjak smashes in the dormitory roof; odd birds, ticking like clockwork, stand guard in out-of-the-way places. Stranger still, in the middle of all this, Annie remains calm and polite to a fault.

Heartstopper
Charlie, a highly-strung, openly gay over-thinker, and Nick, a cheerful, soft-hearted rugby player, meet at a British all-boys grammar school. Friendship blooms quickly, but could there be something more...?

Here U Are
Openly gay college student Yu Yang hasn’t entirely gotten over being rejected when he confessed to his classmate Lin Xiang last year, but at the start of a new term, he meets Li Huan; a tall, taciturn underclassman who soon becomes very precious to him.

How To Be A Werewolf

Being the only werewolf she’s ever known, Malaya has managed her condition by keeping tight control on herself and the world around her, with lackluster results. That is, until a strange guy wanders into her shop one day and introduces her to a whole world she never knew existed…

I'm The Grim Reaper
On earth there are bad people, and then there are REALLY BAD people. If you’re one of the latter, you don’t just get sent to Hell, you get sent to Hell and get assigned a job collecting the souls of some of the worst people on Earth. Such is the career path of a young woman named Scarlet...

Kill 6 Billion Demons
Allison Ruth obtains an extremely powerful magic item when her boyfriend is kidnapped, discovers a world of supernatural beings ruled by seven powerful entities, and must learn to survive in this strange new setting while attempting to rescue her boyfriend, defeat the entities, and figure out her own destiny.

Lackadaisy
Set in a Prohibition-era 1927 St. Louis with a population of anthropomorphic cats, the plot chronicles the fortunes of the Lackadaisy speakeasy after its founder is murdered.

Lady of the Shard
Lady of the Shard is a comic about an acolyte in love with the goddess she serves.

Lavender Jack
After the departure of Detective Theresa Ferrier and the defeat of Lord and Lady Hawthorne, the City of Gallery is left in the clawed hands of its vigilante hero, Lavender Jack. But as the City prepares for a divisive mayoral election, a new menace emerges from the shadows...

Leif & Thorn
Leif is a gardener at the Embassy, 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.

Lore Olympus
Witness what the gods do…after dark. The friendships and the lies, the gossip and the wild parties, and of course, forbidden love. Stylish and immersive, this is one of mythology’s greatest stories -- The Taking of Persephone -- as it’s never been told before.

Midnight Poppy Land
After making a grisly discovery in the countryside, a small town book editor’s life gets entangled with a young Mafia lord and his intimidating bodyguard...even as every step she takes draws her deeper into the dangerous underworld of the city.

Narbonic
For the staff of Narbonics Labs, tampering in God’s domain is just another day at the office. Mad scientist Helen Narbon is ready to show all those fools, ably assisted by geeky lab technician Dave, rifle-toting intern Mell, and Artie the superintelligent gerbil.

Nothing Special
Callie thinks that in the grand scheme of the worlds at large, she's nothing special. With the unexpected addition of friendship and adventure into her life, she's about to find out that she was very, very wrong.

On a Sunbeam
My initial goal with Sunbeam was to create a version of outer space that I would want to live in. So of course that includes tons of queer people, no men (did you notice?), trees, old buildings, and endless constellations.

Order of the Stick
Taking place in a magical world that loosely operates by the rules of the 3.5 edition of the role-playing game Dungeons & Dragons (D&D), the comic follows the sometimes farcical exploits of six adventurers as they strive to save the world from an evil lich sorcerer.

Paranatural
A omedy/action comic about a group of superpowered middle schoolers fighting evil spirits and investigating paranormal activity in their hometown.

Questionable Content
The world of QC is pretty much the same as our own except there are robots all over the place and giant space stations and the United States wasn't ravaged by a pandemic in 2020 and...okay so there are some differences. But it's not too far off!!! Follows best buddies Marten and Faye as they navigate life, make friends and forge relationships, and there is definitely some robot smoochin' later on.

Shaderunners
A thousand years ago, the last colour in the world faded to grey. Now, after the great archaeological discovery of Queen Sorizahana’s shade-stocked tomb, it stands ready to enter the world again. Ironwell City will become the birthplace of the burgeoning colour industry, where colour is pumped out of factories, poured into perfumed bottles and sold at exorbitant prices to those wealthy enough to afford the luxury.

Stand Still Stay Silent
A post apocalyptic webcomic with elements from Nordic mythology, set 90 years in the future. It's a story about friendship and exploring a forgotten world, with some horror, monsters and magic on the side.

Swimming Lessons for a Mermaid
Choa is a mermaid who can't swim! Discouraged, she trades the ocean for a pair of human legs. But when the star of the high school swim team finds out her secret, he offers her the chance to prove her family wrong: free swimming lessons for a mermaid!

Urban Animal
Meet Joe Gomez. He’s got high school on lock – good grades, a cool band, and girls digging his vibe. But just when he’s got the world figured out, he goes and turns into a saber-toothed tiger. A shape-shifting nature spirit known as a Chimera, to be specific.

Widdershins
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.

Wilde Life
First it was meeting the ghost of a 1940s mathematician in the upstairs hallway, then it was finding a teenage werewolf in the bathtub. Now Oscar doesn't know what will show up next. Maybe that's okay, as long as nothing eats him.

Yet Another Fantasy Gamer Comic
To pass the time one day, I started doodling a series of sketches involving a couple of characters drawn from a gaming world I’d been playing in for far longer than I want to think about too deeply. Since then, those handful of doodles of a Goblin and a Beholder have grown into a wild and tangled world.

The Story About You x Me
Two people fighting a battle of wits for whether to be on class duty or not! As the shocked bad guys go their separate ways, Gu Ze and Ye Ruchuan gradually start to get to know each other in the middle of a hateful godlike manipulation, and slowly cultivate an understanding of each other.... delinquent vs. vice president!

A Returner's Magic Should Be Special
The Shadow World - the most catastrophic existence humanity has faced in history. Desir Arman is one of the six remaining survivors of mankind within it. The six attempt to clear the final level of the labyrinth but ultimately fail, and the world comes to an end. However - when Desir thought he would meet his demise, what is revealed before him is the world... thirteen years ago?!

Beware of the Villainess!
I became the villainess of a novel! Do I hate it? No! I find it rather nice. A duke’s daughter = a jobless rich person. How I can miss out on a chance like this?!

Solo Leveling
I'm someone who has to risk his life in the lowliest of dungeons, the "World's Weakest". Having no skills whatsoever to display, I barely earned the required money by fighting in low-leveled dungeons… at least until I found a hidden dungeon with the hardest difficulty within the D-rank dungeons! In the end, as I was accepting death, I suddenly received a strange power, a quest log that only I could see, a secret to leveling up that only I know about!

For Your Love
Due to his older brother’s experiences, Jung Yohan already knows how unrequited love for another man can only end in misery. When a senior at his club seems on the verge of suffering the same fate, Yohan steps in to help him in his quest for love. But playing Cupid isn’t as easy or as fun as it sounds.

The Villainess Reverses The Hourglass
Aria unfairly meets death because of her sister Mielle’s schemes. And right before she dies, she sees an hourglass fall as if it were a fantasy. And just like that, she was miraculously brought back to the past. In order to face the villainess, she must become an even more wicked villainess.

Why Are You Doing This, Duke?
The Duke, the very person who was about to chop off my head last month, managed to become my husband?! He took me in not as a second or third wife, but as the first?!! I’d love it if this was true love, but this is all thanks to a mysterious magic spell. And the magic spell’s power has been weakening to boot–!

I Want To Be You, Just For A Day
The count’s daughter, Lady Psyche, is a soul loved by everyone. She easily gets anything she wants, and stole everything from me. I want to be her, just for a day.

The Remarried Empress
[Books & Literature]
Navier Ellie Trovi was an empress perfect in every way -- intelligent, courageous, and socially adept. She was kind to her subjects and devoted to her husband. Navier was perfectly content to live the rest of her days as the wise empress of the Eastern Empire. That is, until her husband brought home a mistress and demanded a divorce. “I accept this divorce… And I request an approval of my remarriage.” In a shocking twist, Navier remarries another emperor and retains her title and childhood dream as empress. But just how did everything unfold?
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[personal profile] diviscern 2020-10-19 06:08 pm (UTC)(link)
For some reason this one I'm requesting didn't show up on the app search for "webcomic" until I refreshed, but:
Swimming Lessons for a Mermaid
Choa is a mermaid who can't swim! Discouraged, she trades the ocean for a pair of human legs. But when the star of the high school swim team finds out her secret, he offers her the chance to prove her family wrong: free swimming lessons for a mermaid!

There's also The Remarried Empress:
Navier Ellie Trovi was an empress perfect in every way -- intelligent, courageous, and socially adept. She was kind to her subjects and devoted to her husband. Navier was perfectly content to live the rest of her days as the wise empress of the Eastern Empire. That is, until her husband brought home a mistress and demanded a divorce. “I accept this divorce… And I request an approval of my remarriage.” In a shocking twist, Navier remarries another emperor and retains her title and childhood dream as empress. But just how did everything unfold?
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[personal profile] diviscern 2020-10-21 03:17 am (UTC)(link)
Sure thing, thanks for putting together this post!
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[personal profile] silverfoxflower 2020-10-19 11:55 pm (UTC)(link)
The Elduin and Donestan Chronicles are also a webcomic free to read here: http://trickster-book.com/lostinthesnow/archive/act1eng/1.html
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[personal profile] silverfoxflower 2020-10-19 11:56 pm (UTC)(link)
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[personal profile] roga 2020-10-20 10:51 pm (UTC)(link)
A friend recommended Exorcism Academy and I read it and now I am requesting it too, and mentioning it here in case it spreads! SO GOOD. SO HOT. It's just a lovely sexy m/m webcomic between a cadet at Exorcism Academy and his demon. Great characters, great worldbuilding, great sex, great everything <3