I feel like the only new webcomics I see these days are episodic, comic strip type ones designed to turn into shareable viral posts. Do you think there's still space for new longer-form, serialised stories to establish themselves and find an audience like they did in the late 2000s/early 2010s?
A story-based comic is rarely popular until it's got a decent amount of story going, so "There aren't any recent popular story comics" is a little tautological when you think about it. There are story comics that have started in the last few years and have achieved some level of success, but you need to keep your ear close to the ground for them if you wanna be ahead of the curve. That's why you should join the discord!
That's where Lumsel met Peri, and they teamed up to make ForEach, est. 2022, a comic that's taking off so hard I'm desperately trying to attach myself to its history like I just did there. It easy to see why this comic is gaining steam, not just from its novel and clever premise but for being one of the most creative new comics in quite some time. There's no one doing what ForEach is doing.
Of course, you don't need a wacky format to be a good comic. Look at Puffer and Clarissa, also est. 2022, which finished its first book semi-recently, so it's a good time to pick it up. It's a fun adventure comic about dealing with your emotionally distant pirate mom and her fursuited supervillain ex. If you wanna read a fun comic about child abuse, that's a really weird desire, but Puffer and Clarissa got you handled.
Pnuema Vita, established 2023, is one of the newer members of SpiderForest. A comic about a girl setting out on a dangerous quest to find her dad's asthma medication in a dangerous possibly fascist poison world. The world may be rotten, but this baby comic's still fresh.
If you're looking for something even fresher, and maybe a little less "poison fascist", Kattabolt started just last year. It's a cute little comic about a spunky kid, and is one of the few pieces of media I've ever seen to definitively answer the question of whether their catgirls have human ears are not. If you're remarkably inattentive, the answer may surprise you!
But if you want the true bleeding edge, there's stuff like Beneath the Grove, which started just a few months ago. Is it any good? I legitimately don't know, it's too early to judge. Maybe we can find out together. The art is nice, at least!
