History CreatorBreakdown / Webcomics

* Parodied in [[http://www.smbc-comics.com/index.php?db=comics&id=397#comic this]] ''SaturdayMorningBreakfastCereal'', where the end of a relationship shows through in the crossword.

* Nicholas Gurewitch of ThePerryBibleFellowship suffered a breakdown in 2008 when he put the comic on indefinite hiatus out of fear that becoming too dedicated to it would [[TypeCasting forever pigeonhole his career as only a webcomics artist]]. For some time, the final strip appearing on the site was "Catch Phrase", a rather [[BlackComedy dark]] and [[DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything poignant]] comic (even by PBF standards) in which a TV personality commits suicide after [[CreatorBacklash becoming sick of the over-saturated popularity]] of his catchprhase, "Gee Golly Jeepers!" PBF would not return until over two years later, upon which Gurewitch began updating the comic again, albeit much less frequently than before. The "Catch Phrase" strip has since been removed from the official website but can be seen [[http://www.funnyjunk.com/funny_pictures/94973/Catchphrase/ here]].

* Jeph Jacques of QuestionableContent stabbed his hand in a drunken stupor and took two weeks off from his comic after a tumblr user sent him an angry and belligerent post over one of his latest comics. What did he do? He didn't draw HollywoodHomely nerd Marigold "fat enough" in a swimsuit.

* Jeph Jacques of QuestionableContent stabbed his hand in a drunken stupor and took two weeks off from his comic after Tumblr activists went on a [[DisproportionateRetribution crusade]] of internet arguments, culminating in a group confronting him in real life. What did he do to deserve this? He didn't draw HollywoodHomely nerd Marigold "fat enough" in a swimsuit.

* Jeph Jacques of QuestionableContent stabbed his hand in a drunken stupor and took two weeks off from his comic after Tumblr activists went on a [[DisproportionateRetribution crusade]] of internet arrangement's, culminating in a group confronting him in real life. What did he do to deserve this? He didn't draw HollywoodHomely nerd Marigold "fat enough" in a swimsuit.

* Jeph Jacques of QuestionableContent stabbed his hand in a drunken stupor and took two weeks off from his comic after Tumblr activists went on a [[Disproportionate Retribution crusade]] of internet arrangement's, culminating in a group confronting him in real life. What did he do to deserve this? He didn't draw HollywoodHomely nerd Marigold "fat enough" in a swimsuit.

* This was one of the most popular theories about Tess Stone and her jarringly abrupt [[OrphanedSeries abandonment]] of her series ''HannaIsNotABoysName''. The abandonment has since been confirmed to be caused by copyright issues.

** Now her relationship of eight years has collapsed (though it appears to be ending amicably), and the strip is on hiatus again. The biggest problem seems to be how to deal with Sid, who is strongly based on her now ex-boyfriend.

** Now her relationship of eight years has collapsed (though it appears to be ending amicably), and the strip is on hiatus again. The biggest problem seems to be how to deal with Sid, who is strongly based on her now ex-boyfriend.
* [[{{Webcomic/XKCD}} xkcd]] played with this: When {{Randall Munroe}}'s wife was diagnosed with cancer, the strips took a more serious turn, and for a while the comic had a higher percentage of serious as opposed to comedic strips. However, the serious ones still included things like "Life is wonderful and so let's enjoy it!" and the funnier strips have since returned in force.

** Now her relationship of eight years has collapsed (though it appears to be ending amicably), and the strip is on hiatus again. The biggest problem seems to be how to deal with Sid, who is strongly based on her now ex-boyfriend.

* The webcomic ''[[Webcomic/Avalon Avalon]]'' unfortunately suffered from this more and more as the author went through progressively worse states of depression not long after being launched. The planned four-year series lasted much longer due to month-long hiatuses. After a year of not-updating, the author gave up and the ending was written out instead of drawn.

* The webcomic ''Webcomic/Avalon'' unfortunately suffered from this more and more as the author went through progressively worse states of depression not long after being launched. The planned four-year series lasted much longer due to month-long hiatuses. After a year of not-updating, the author gave up and the ending was written out instead of drawn.

* The author of ''GameDestroyers'' reached a point in the story where he grew to hate what he was writing, which led to two of the four [[SeriesHaitus hiatuses]] and a lot of ScheduleSlip. This was eventually solved by getting past the horrible storyline and moving on to things which made more sense and allowed for more freedom.

* The webcomic AvalonHigh unfortunately suffered from this more and more as the author went through progressively worse states of depression not long after being launched. The planned four-year series lasted much longer due to month-long hiatuses. After a year of not-updating, the author gave up and the ending was written out instead of drawn.

* Lis Boriss of ''{{Broken Plot Device}}'' fame had her mother diagnosed with breast cancer. Lis's depression caused an unexpected indefinite hiatus, but luckily, surgery was succesfull, and webcomic came back very quickly.

* The webcomic [[http://www.avalonhigh.com/ Avalon High]] unfortunately suffered from this more and more as the author went through progressively worse states of depression not long after being launched. The planned four-year series lasted much longer due to month-long hiatuses. After a year of not-updating, the author gave up and the ending was written out instead of drawn.

* [[http://www.livingwithinsanity.com/index/ Living With Insanity]] was originally supposed to be a solo comic done by David Herbert, updating every weekday (And sometimes on weekends) successfully. However, despite there only being thirty strips, David was repeatedly told by friends and pro editors that while they enjoyed his writing, his art was horrible. To make matters worse, his girlfriend dumped him around this time. His already frail ego shattered, Herbert quit the comic's art duties and hired Paul Salvi, which ended up making the comic much more successful than any of Herbert's other comics.

* Christian Weston Chandler, creator of ''{{Sonichu}}'', does this in issue 10 of his series, [[KillEmAll eradicating everything that has bothered Chris up to that point]] before issuing a letter to his fans, before unofficially [[OrphanedSeries abandoning the comic]], claiming that the trolls "[[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KAqAIkE1ZIs drained his creativity]]".

* Christian Weston Chandler, creator of ''{{Sonichu}}'', does this in issue 10 of his series, [[KillEmAll eradicating everything that has bothered Chris up to that point]] before issuing a letter to his fans, telling them he'll work on the comic whenever he damn well feels like it.

* Lis Boriss of ''{{Broken Plot Device}}'' fame had her mother diagnosed with breast cancer. Lis's depression caused an unexpected indefinite hiatus. Luckily, surgery was succesfull, and webcomic came back very quickly.

* Christian Weston Chandler, creator of ''{{Sonichu}}'', does this in issue 10 of his series, [[KillEmAll eradicating everything that has bothered Chris up to that point]] before issuing a letter to his fans, telling them he'll work on the comic whenever he damn well feels like it.

* Ever since Randall Munroe's fiance was diagnosed with breast cancer, ''{{xkcd}}'' has featured several strips dealing with cancer, ranging from BlackComedy to not comedy.

* ''{{Doobl}}'', was a short-lived comic that started as a Christian evangelical comic and became eventually more and more dark when the author's mother died, finishing in killing off every character and then the author himself. It was later made official that it was a StealthParody, but man, it'd be easy to get fooled.

* ''{{Doobl}}'', and in incredibly bad taste, ye have been warned) was a short-lived comic that started as a Christian evangelical comic and became eventually more and more dark when the author's mother died, finishing in killing off every character and then the author himself. It was later made official that it was a StealthParody, but man, it'd be easy to get fooled.

* ''{{Doobl}}, and in incredibly bad taste, ye have been warned) was a short-lived comic that started as a Christian evangelical comic and became eventually more and more dark when the author's mother died, finishing in killing off every character and then the author himself. It was later made official that it was a StealthParody, but man, it'd be easy to get fooled.

* ''[[http://doobl.comicgenesis.com/ Doobl]]'' (link {{NSFW}}, and in incredibly bad taste, ye have been warned) was a short-lived comic that started as a Christian evangelical comic and became eventually more and more dark when the author's mother died, finishing in killing off every character and then the author himself. It was later made official that it was a StealthParody, but man, it'd be easy to get fooled.

* ''{{Brawl in the Family}}'' creator Matthew Taranto suffered a short case of Creator Breakdown when his Wii was gutted out and lost all of its data. He drew a bonus strip where all of the major cast members [[EndOftheWorldasWeKnowIt as well as the Earth itself]] were destroyed by the Sun, as a comedic reference to a previous bonus comic.

* Parodied (and very possibly played straight) with ''{{Homestuck}}'', dealing with AndrewHussie's massive ego.

* The excellent webcomic [[http://www.avalonhigh.com/ Avalon High]] unfortunately suffered from this more and more as the author went through progressively worse states of depression not long after being launched. The planned four-year series lasted much longer due to month-long hiatuses. After a year of not-updating, the author gave up and the ending was written out instead of drawn.