Webcomic Wednesday: A Look at Traditional Media in Webcomics

If you haven’t figured it out by now, we are huge fans of comics here at Fuel Your Illustration. I am constantly on the lookout for new comics to take up my lunch hours with and so I started #WebcomicWednesday at my own blog a few months ago in an effort to share with others the joy that comics can bring. As a fan of traditional media, I have noticed that there are very few webcomics that are hand-colored and so I wanted to take a moment to highlight some of my favorite webcomics that are done using more traditional media.

Some say webcomics done in this way are “unrefined” but I say just the opposite. These are some of greatest, most detailed, webcomics I have read so far. Enjoy!

Tiny Kitten Teeth, Becky & Frank Gibson

• Tiny Kitten Teeth is a hand painted online comic that currently updates a couple times a week. It follows the slice-of-life adventures of Mewsli, a fish out of water in Owltown, a compact metropolis built around a particularly affluent arts college.
• Gouache Paint on Watercolor Paper

Hark, a vagrant, Kate Beaton

• Hark! a vagrant mainly consists of comics that find humor in historical or literary figures. There are also a number of comics where Beaton interacts with her younger self, and ones that were drawn by Beaton using MS Paint during her breaks at work.
• Pencils, Pen on top

Inhuman, H. Carlian

• Inhuman is set about 1,000 years in the future, where a religion called Rulerism based on Earth has spread across the galaxy, leaving much of space under its banner. It is about schizophrenic, an intergalactic struggle, jaded aliens and the meaning of humanity.
• Pencils, Microns Pens, Watercolors on Bristol Board

Chronicles Project, Jonathan Ellsworth & Stefan Landshut

• Chronicles Project is a comic that works around this whole imaginary world of magic, science, history, and fantasy. It is a place where the beginnings of the modern world blend with the beings of legend and fairytale.
• Colored Pencils, Markers, Watercolor

The Dawn Chapel, B. Root

• The Dawn Chapel is an anthology of short stories, folktales, and one-offs, created as an ongoing experiment and learning process. While there are a few digital creations throughout the comic, the majority of tales are done in traditional media.
• Watercolor