2025 with the Webcomic Library!
Hello, my good peeps! We have made it another year around the globe and with that were able to explore plenty of comics together. I'm glad to have you here and to still be around to share this experience with yall.
Admittedly this hasn't been my best year running the project to date. I've had a lot of irl stuff going on the background, much of it medical related, that has been taking a lot of my limited energy. There's a few things in the works for 2026 that will hopefully help, but I can't promise more consistency with so much uncertainty.
That being said what I have accomplished is nothing to scoff at! This year over 150 series have been added to the Webcomic Library database. Many of these were series made for print or download, which was a section of our scope that I wanted to explore more of. This let me explore Itch.io offerings and the chance to play with Caliber for the organization of my digital hoard. I've also gotten back into exploring my local library and the Tapas premium collections for stories to share. Even if you don't have the pockets to financially support folks directly, we still got to bring in plenty of free to read works, including 46 submissions directly from creators!
I've been pretty pleased with my consistency on social media this year. I've had at minimum 3 new short comics posted on Tumblr everyday with a strong queue to keep the train going. On Bluesky I've also been making the effort to tell folks what I've been reading every Wednesday. Sometimes it's an old database entry I've read from the beginning, other times it's a sneak peak for something yet to come. Regardless it's something fun to show I'm still kicking around!
At the beginning of the year I opened up a side database project, The Webcomic Travelogue, with a few of my webcomic peeps. Together we've catalogued 1,095 series from across the web, with articles, reviews, and plenty more ready to explore! Working on the WCL alone for so long it's a nice change of pace and I'm looking forward to doing more.
In terms of statistics we got:
- Over 6.52 Million views on the Webcomic Library Database
- 2,044 followers on Tumblr
- Over 3.1 Thousand followers on Bluesky
Knowing that even when I'm away this project is helping folks find stories and they want to join in this projects journey means the absolute world to me.
As for what my plans are for 2026... we're gonna be playing things by ear a bit. There's a couple of things I wanted to get done before the Webcomic Library's 10 year anniversary next November but these are things I wanna make sure I can really put in the time and energy to do it right. There's a good backlog of submissions patiently waiting to be added to the database as well as some personally read comics that I've been holding back on. The database could always use more entry inventories and updates. There's the ever present webcomic update backlog that I need to whittle down to eternity. I've also got the social medias and the Travelogue to add onto. With the Library I always have something to work on, which is a blessing and chosen curse. Just know whatever I accomplish it's done with love and the sincere intention to share stories I love with yall.
Thank yall for making it through another year. It's not easy but I'm grateful every day that we get to spend these moments together enjoying comics, even apart in time and space. Be kind to yourselves in 2026 and may you find a story that resonates with you.
