You Should Read the Gay Dog and Bunny Webcomic
Since the 00’s, I’ve been a fan of (sidenote: short for “webular comic entertainments”) . Anybody with the wherewithal to create images and put them on the internet could self publish comics, and some weird and wild stuff has definitely come out of that over the years.
I still follow all the comics and webcomics subreddits. I still want to see all of the random comic content that every stranger puts out there, in all of its myriad quality.
One of the biggest genres on reddit’s webcomics forums? Hornyposting.
It’s super hard to find a way to make money as a webcomics artist, as far as I can tell. I don’t think it’s a terribly profitable choice of career.
Like, Creux is a very talented artist, and they spend all of their time hornyposting because it’s a reliable way to get users to follow their Patreon. “Do you want NSFW content featuring these characters you’ve just met? because it can be yours for only $X/mo” is - a legitimate monetization model. Gotta respect the hustle.
There are also, like, five or six webcomic artists also trying to abuse the “hornyposting to Patreon” pipeline, and I’m not going to list them all: most of them are not as talented as Creux but the fundamental concept is the same. Their comics exist in a 21-year-old-boy-brained world where the punchline is always sex or nudity. Tree? Nah, that’s a sex tree. Hat? Nah, that’s a sex hat.
… you know what, I don’t miss being a teenaged boy at all, it was exhausting.
The absolute top of the hornyposting heap is Oglaf, which, unlike most of the pinup artist collective, is, in my opinion, legitimately funny a lot of the time.
Swords Comic is excellent, and literally every comic is about a sword in some way. That’s… that’s dedication to the bit.
there’s this running character who’s just a cute little guy who goes on adventures, he’s the best:
There are guys who clearly are trying to survive in the now-dead field of newspaper comics:
One of my favorite genres is people who are clearly putting together their first ever web-comic and haven’t really put all of the pieces together, yet, and there’s a lot of that:
I don’t understand “My Dad is Dracula (and a OTHER THING)” guy, like, it’s got a Dinosaur Comics like cadence where it’s just a repeating formula, but it’s never really funny, but also I’m never really mad to see one of these:
this guy just started showing up and he’s an interesting and funny cartoonist with an unmistakable style
Shiki is sweet, and I swear to god I know more about her life than I do about some of my friends. Her dad died when she was very young! She got depressed and flunked out of engineering school! Now she’s trying to make it as a cartoonist!
there’s a fella who started doing a surreal horror series about a carnival
but the thing that dragged me here to write an article was Raw Dawg Comics, which is just…
This artist puts out new comics near-daily, has a style that’s a combination of “classic brushwork, bitcrushed” and “hyper-fluorescent patterned digital inking”, and creates these comics that are just, like, abstract and weird little vignettes.
And, you know what? I can’t think of anything I’ve seen on the internet that’s anything like this.
And the writing is surprisingly good, too.
Okay, that’s a bad example, but -
trapped in these weird little vignettes are a lot of evidence that Stahli and Bingus are in a pretty toxic relationship, which is consistent and develops over time.
What I did not expect from this artist was a 40-page-long story about Columbus Day, and yet, here we are:
What an interesting comic.