The Heartstopper webcomic’s first update dropped on September 1st 2016. Today, on April 11th 2026, the story has concluded.
I don’t quite know how to put all of my feelings into one letter. Heartstopper means more to me than words can express, but I’ll try my best.
Heartstopper has defined the past decade of my life. It started as a fun side project and quickly grew into something much bigger, eventually becoming my career. Despite that huge and unexpected change, making the Heartstopper comic feels the same to me as it did on day one. When I sit down to make Heartstopper, I feel at peace. When the world feels so scary and difficult, I have been able to return to Heartstopper, and everything feels okay again for a little while.
Nick and Charlie first appeared as supporting characters in my first novel, ‘Solitaire’. In Solitaire, Nick and Charlie represent the idea that hope, love, joy and connection can persist and thrive despite the trials and tribulations of being alive. So maybe it’s ironic that Nick and Charlie have come to represent this in my own life. They have brought me joy. They have given me purpose. They have given me everything, really. And I’m so grateful for every moment I have spent with them.
Heartstopper is profoundly special to me. Which makes it extremely hard to say goodbye.
But it is time. I always knew that Nick going to university would be the end point of the story. And despite how sad I am to be bidding farewell to these characters, I am so, so proud and excited to have made it to the end and concluded the story exactly the way I wanted to.
Any webcomic creator can tell you that making a webcomic requires a heavy amount of determination and endurance. To draw a page almost every day for the past ten years has required a lot of sacrifice and a lot of energy. But every moment was worth it. And now that it is complete, Nick and Charlie’s story can be experienced from beginning to end, for the rest of forever.
I wouldn’t have made it here alone. From the very start, Heartstopper’s readers have offered so much support, love, community, conversation, and enthusiasm. Knowing that there are people out there who love these characters just like I do has given me the strength to keep going. I’ve also had the support of many colleagues, friends, and family members, who’ve all helped in different ways at various points in the past decade. Thank you so, so much to everyone who has been here for the journey.
I have no idea what I’ll make next. For now, I’m taking a break. And I know that Nick and Charlie won’t simply vanish. I expect I will always return to drawing them and writing about them, probably in smaller ways, for the rest of my life, as long as my body allows.
Nick and Charlie will forever be in my heart, hand in hand on a beach somewhere.
Heated rivalry is proof we need to kill the binge watch format and go back to weekly appointment viewing . Nothing better than when there’s a show airing new episodes once a week and your whole tumblr ecosystem is thriving on the nourishment of two men fucking raw on their screens .
i will never understand people who get mad because the disney zombies franchise keeps adding more and more shit. that's one of the best things about it you morons. i need there to be 47 more installments in this series and i need zeddison to meet a new monster type in every single one and i need all the new characters in each movie to keep returning so the cast becomes impractically large and i need all of the films to have a Someday Reprise and i need to see brand new footage of Shrimpy at least once every few years. don't you understand. what's not fucking clicking
Its interesting watching the F1 Academy show documentary thingy and seeing the blatantwealth differences
Cause wdym some of these girls have ranches and jet skis and others are renting from their trainers, and doing their own merch (lets go abbi, multi tasker, we love it). Or completely having to go on their own to get funding with sponsorships.
Loved the show though. Binged it in an evening. Just interesting how they portrayed those very obvious differences between the girls.
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