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Our Current Top Five as of September 19, 2009.
Lackadaisy by Tracy J. Butler
This paean to speakeasy culture—via the anthropomorphic comics that were taking shape in that very period of
history—is not quite like anything else on the web. Or in print, for that matter. Vividly professional
characterization and vibrant panelology make Lackadaisy a bright young tour de force.
What Birds Know by Emelie Friberg & Mattias Thorelli
Friberg & Thorelli and their Hallon Press bring a vision of another world, with a common familiar shape, filled with
ordinary people and their daily lives and loves, and the castle of runic evil and gibbering infection that they live
a barely-comfortable distance from.
Three friends embark on a mushroom-collecting class assignment-cum-camping trip, and open an unnatural gate of
forgotten dread. Soon their forest frolic is beset with hauntings of rot and a uniquely horrific discharge from
their bodies, making them wish their worst adolescent problem was coping with boys back home putting the moves on
them.
Templar, Arizona by Spike & Matt
Oh, but yes. Fantasy deserves more realists, and the genre has new champions in the Chicago minds of Spike and her
co, Matt. Blending wonder with bitter is the work of mastercrafts, and Templar is the exemplar in webcomics today.
They have other stuff——bent relationships between satyrs and sims stuff. Find all that from out their hubs at ironcircus.com and Webcomicsnation.
Cat and Girl by Dorothy Gambrell
Dubbed by Fleen as "the benevolent Philosopher-Queen of webcomics", Cat and Girl creator Dorothy Gambrell has maintain such a consistent depth and keenness of observation in her work that it can only be assumed that she was right about time travel all those years back, and I was wrong. Also, don't miss her ongoing collection of not-quite-ephemeral data at Very Small Array.
Heliothaumic by Ben Riley
In reimagining The Midlands, the webcomic of his youth, Riley wrestles with issues of prejudice, power,
longevity and material exhaustion that his generation will likely face into their old age.
Heliothaumic stands between twin precipices of the abandonment of feudalism by fantasy races, and their
equal unreadiness for the onrush of a technomagical singularity. History collapses in on the characters across both
space and time—elves without an Edda risk epic fail, while wandering prodigals try to make up their
own victory conditions of life.
THE PAN-MULTIVERSAL LINK EXCHANGE
"...because we can."
The following webcomics link back to Yamara.
Our favorites are above. But the ones below are
"safe on our block". Because the multiverse of the interweb is like gang turf in that regard.
Want in? There are rules. Read and
follow them, then write us.
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