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Notable Webcomics

Check, Please! by Ngozi Ukazu - A Harvey & Ignatz Award winning queer webcomic about figure skater-turned-ice hockey player Eric Bittle's college years at the fictional Samwell University in New England. The series concluded in 2020 and has since been published in two volumes by First Second Books.

Fried Rice by Erica Eng - An Eisner Award-winning and Harvey Award-nominated work of autobiographical fiction which details the life of Min, a young artist living in Batu Pahat, Malaysia, who has plans of studying animation abroad after graduation. The series, as of 2023, is still ongoing.

Hark! A Vagrant by Kate Beaton - Published online between 2007 and 2018, Hark! A Vagrant features gag comics poking fun at a wide variety of figures from history and literature with a feminist perspective. This Ignatz & Harvey Award winning series was later collected in two hardcover volumes by publisher Drawn & Quarterly. Beaton has also recently published the universally-acclaimed, autobiographical, Ducks: Two Years in the Oil Sands which recounts her years paying off her student loans in Alberta in an industry toxic both to the environment and to the people who make ends meet by working in it. Ducks won the Canada Reads competition in 2023 and has been nominated for an Eisner Award for Best Writer/Artist

Lore Olympus by Rachel Smythe - Lore Olympus is modern retelling of the story of Persephone from Greek Mythology which has been published regularly on Webtoon since 2018 and is still ongoing. Lore Olympus has won both an Eisner and a Harvey Award, and has been nominated for a Hugo Award.

Stand Still. Stay Silent by Minna Sundberg - SS.SS is a post-apocalyptic story that takes place in a future where only Scandinavia remains inhabited after a worldwide pandemic. Taking inspiration from Norse mythology, the webcomic, which ran from 2013 to 2022, follows a group of researchers venturing out into the "silent world," ninety years after the end of the world.

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