15 Free LGBT WebComics That We Love & You Will Too
- Proud Geek
- Apr 2, 2021
- 5 min read
Updated: Apr 6, 2021
Stuck inside with nothing to do? Looking for something new to read? Why not spend the afternoon reading webcomics! From magical fantasy adventure to lesbian superheroes, slow-burn queer romance to surviving the zombie apocalypse - here are 15 LGBT+ webcomics you should read in 2021.
TINDER
- Queer Women -
Tinder is an LGBTQ+ comic about a witch who falls for another witch in her program. There's a catch though, our main character finds that she's having trouble not exposing her crush because every time she sees her crush, her hair sets on fire and it only seems to be getting worse. What will she do?
DEAD CITY
- Queer Men -
A zombie apocalypse has happened and Mikael and JP are left in the city trying to survive after most of the population has fled. A slice-of-life post-apocalypse comic. Sometimes you find love in weird places. Like when you're trying not to get eaten.
FALLOW TIME
- Queer Women -
Fallow Time is a Dungeons and Dragons inspired comic about a trio of female adventurers taking a well-earned rest after a battle. Petra Redpick (a dwarf paladin), Briar Sylvana (an elf ranger), and Morwen Bonethief (an orc necromancer) are thrown together by ill luck and circumstance rather than pure friendship, but they love each other all the same.
HEIRS OF THE VEIL
- Non-Binary & Genderqueer - Queer Men - Trans Men & Women-
Heirs of the Veil is an Urban Fantasy story, about a witch taking on the task of finding her mother in a town that is not quite what it seems at first glance. It deals with topics of taking on responsibilities and growing up and is directed at teens and young adults.
The comic also features an LGBTQ+ inclusive cast and touches on topics of gender, sexuality, and dysphoria.
DECAF
- Queer Men -
Hanse is a floor manager of one of the departments of the magazine “Decaf”. He’s going through an existential crisis as to where his life is going, or rather where it isn't, until Karl, the new intern, shows up and makes things around the office a bit more exciting.
EERIE CRESTS
- Queer Men - Trans Men -
Dallas Margolin thought things were going to be okay. He was about to graduate high school. He was Willow Grove’s star baseball player. He had good friends. Overcoming things from the past, You’d think, for once, the universe was kind to Dallas. That is, until one day, before an important highschool match, his best friend Malek starts planning to move away for college. In an attempt to make Malek stay with him, Dallas makes a terrible mistake.
NAMESAKE
- Asexual - Queer Men & Women - Non-Binary & Genderqueer - Trans Women -
When Emma lands in another world following a library fire, she discovers she’s a Namesake — one with the power to open portals to other worlds via the power of their name: strange, fantasy, and fairy-tale lands we know thanks to literature, cinema, and folks tales. The rules of Namesakes are quite clear – Alices always go to Wonderland. Wendys always go to Neverland. However, Emma finds herself in Oz, where she is expected to act as the latest in a long line of Dorothies. She instead unveils a magical conspiracy plot that’s more than 100 years in the making.
FINDING HOME
- Asexual - Queer Men -
Finding Home is an award-winning slow-burn romance about learning to let yourself grow. Janek, a human cook who just wants to get back home to his old life, meets Chepi, a wandering fae healer haunted by memories of his past. As they get closer, they each find out there’s more to the other than meets the eye. But they're too different - it could never work between them... right?
INHIBIT
- Asexual - Queer Men & Women - Non-Binary & Trans -
As a kid, Victor dreamed of training to be a superhero. That didn’t go so well.
Now, nine years later, Victor is a resident at the Earl Estate, a home for kids who haven’t yet demonstrated that they can control their powers. With his 18th birthday – and a transfer – only a few weeks away, he has one last chance to prove he is capable enough to receive his licence and go home to a normal life. But when he most needs things to go smoothly for once, everything starts to go wrong, and he finds himself tangled in the plot of a mysterious arsonist…
WITH GREAT ABANDON
- Queer Men - Trans Men -
Harry is a gay trans man, Russell is gay cis man, and With Great Abandon is a queer romance set over the course of a year in London. It’s the story of their differences, their similarities, and their relationship. A hopeful and kind story. Also food and comics.
SUPER CAKES
- Queer Women -
Super Cakes is a series of comics about super-powered girlfriends, May Ai and Mo LaMarck. Follow them as they learn to live together while still being on-call to battle the next baddie that’s ravaging their city. Kat Leyh’s SuperCakes touches on topics most “capes and tights” comics wouldn’t even fly near.
O HUMAN STAR
- Queer Men - Non-Binary & GenderQueer - Trans Women -
Alastair Sterling was the inventor who sparked the robot revolution. And because of his sudden death, he didn’t see any of it. That is until he wakes up 16 years later in a robot body that matches his old one exactly and finds a world utterly unlike the one he left behind – a world where robots live alongside their human neighbours and coexist in their cities. A world he helped create.
WITCHY
- Non-Binary & Genderqueer - Trans Women -
Witchy is an ongoing webcomic about the young witch Nyneve, who is haunted by the death of her father and the threat the Witch Guard poses to her own life. When conscription rolls around, Nyneve has a choice to make; join the institution complicit in her father’s death, or stand up for her ideals?
You can also buy physical copies of Witchy HERE
SUPERBUTCH
- Queer Women -
SuperButch is a graphic novel about corrupt cops, a lesbian superhero and the women she protects. In an alternate 1940s where superheroes stalk the streets, a masked crimefighter protects her city’s queer community from corrupt police and politicians.
HEARTSTOPPER
- Queer Men -
Charlie, a highly-strung, openly gay over-thinker, and Nick, a cheerful, soft-hearted rugby player, meet at a British all-boys grammar school. Friendship blooms quickly, but could there be something more…? If you've already read Heartstopper Vol 1, Volumes 2-4 are available HERE
Have we missed off your favourite webcomic? Let us know your recommendations in the comments below:
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