History KeepCirculatingTheTapes / WebComics

* The webcomic Webcomic/DoubleK used to be a notorious parody [[FanWebComics Fan Comic]] of Anime/TengenToppaGurrenLagann that reimagined the show's setting by combining it with that of a BuddyCopShow. But unfortunately, as the author [[OrphanedSeries abandoned]] the comic, he slowly deleted every trace of it from his web presence. The first thing to go was the online store, then the comic's site on Website/SmackJeeves, then the author's Website/{{Tumblr}} and Website/{{Twitter}} accounts, and then finally the comic's mirror on the author's Website/DeviantArt account. Fortunately for the fans, however, the large readerbase that the comic had gathered meant that for every time the author deleted something from the comic, a copy of it could be found somewhere around the web, so long as you looked for it hard enough. As of 2017, Webcomic/DoubleK can still be fully read through an [[https://m.imgur.com/gallery/ylMA7 imgur mirror]] as well as several PDF files. The comic's site has also been [[http://web.archive.org/web/*/http://doublek.smackjeeves.com/ thoroughly saved]] by the Website/WaybackMachine.

* ''The Ricky Ray Show'' went on a long hiatus in both its webcomic and its animated series, during which a test animation for a new style for the cartoons was shown but never ended up happening. The comic itself (as well as its companion series ''Becky and the Masters of Gaming'') was wiped from the Ricky Ray website and rebooted with an updated art style and new character designs, as well as new relationships. This reboot only lasted a few strips, however, as Ricky Ray soon started a new webcomic, ''Space City Heroes'' that would go on to overtake the site, leaving no traces of the original Ricky Ray Show comic. He also deleted all of the Ricky Ray Show animations from his Website/YouTube account, leaving Newgrounds as the only place to see anything related to the original series.

** This is what happened to the webcomics hosted by online comics syndicator Full Tilt Features. Notably ''Lamtoon'' by Matthew Meskel, which was syndicated via RSS to Website/LiveJournal at the height of its popularity. It went offline when Full Tilt Features went offline, and Meskel never continued the strip afterwards, so ''Lamtoon'' comics are now EXTREMELY rare (but still out there).

* ''[[https://everyday-cute.tumblr.com/ Everyday Cute]]'', the predecessor to ''Webcomic/PusheenTheCat'', is dead in the early 2010s, and currently all of it is gone from the Internet; all that remains on the Tumblr is a handful of gifs. A few strips (including Pusheen's first appearance) are uploaded very early on the Pusheen website's comics log, which necessitates a lot of clicking to reach the last pages. The only way to actually read the ''Everyday Cute'' comics is via the Web Archive.

* If a comic's name wasn't ''VideoGame/WonderMomo'', ''VideoGame/{{Bravoman}}'', or ''Webcomic/{{Katamari}}'', chances are it wasn't saved by Udon Entertainment by the time Website/ShiftyLook went down. One person luckily managed to save all the comics before its closure, but sadly couldn't do the same for the tie-in videos on the site's now-defunct [=YouTube=] account. Additionally, all of the ''VideoGame/{{Klonoa}}'' comic was saved and is readily viewable on another website.

* The homepage for the FurryWebcomic [[http://www.thewebcomiclist.com/p/13142/Mandy Mandy]] has been shut down, taking all the comics with it. The only extant strips are floating around Deviantart and Furaffinity.

* The comic Webcomic/TheArtistIsDead used to be a [[DoingItForTheArt hand-drawn comic]] available through [[http://theartistisdead.com/ this website]]. Unfortunately, however, as the site broke and desperate attempts by the author to bring it back failed (only resulting in the site being back but the pages gone), the original copy of the comic is now gone. That being said, of course, the author ''has'' made the best of this situation by remaking the comic with actual photography instead of scans and posting it on his [[http://farlee-wander.tumblr.com/ Tumblr account]], where it will hopefully stay forever.

* ''Webcomic/{{Omoriboy}}'', the original comic that inspired ''VideoGame/{{Omori}}'', was made private some time before the game's release. One of its companion comics, ''Omori's Story'', had a limited print run on the OMOCAT SHOP. While the pages can be found on archive sites, neither have been republished.

* ''Webcomic/{{Wendy}}'', the predecessor to ''Cute-Wendy'' and eventually ''Webcomic/{{Girly}}'', was disavowed by Jackie Lesnick and for a time it was impossible to find the comic online. She eventually relented after restructuring her website, albeit with a disclaimer at the front noting it as an OldShame.

* ''Webcomic/OmoriHikikomori'', the original comic that inspired ''VideoGame/{{Omori}}'', was made private some time before the game's release. One of its companion comics, ''Omori's Story'', had a limited print run on the OMOCAT SHOP. While the pages can be found on archive sites, neither have been republished.

* ''Webcomic/OmoriHikikomori'', the original comic that inspired ''VideoGame/{{Omori}}'', was made private some time before the game's release. One of its companion comics, ''Omori's Story'', had a limited print run on the OMOCAT SHOP. While the pages can be found on archive sites, the original pages have been lost.

* ''Amazoness!'' was a webcomic by Creator/XanthippeHutcheon[[note]] written under her deadname as this was years before she came out as transgender[[/note]] that ran from 2007-2011. However, the domain name for the website lapsed and was taken over by a squatter. Only a few strips now circulate as blurry JPEGs online, though Hutcheon is gradually re-releasing the strip [[https://www.patreon.com/comicsbyxan via Patreon]].

* ''Weird Bunnies and the Wilds'' by Glynn Mo. The comic, for anyone wondering, was about bunnies acting kinda like [[KillerRabbit killerbunnies]]in some funny antics but, for some reason, Glynn Mo wiped the records clean of the comics' existence around and suddenly vanished off the internet, aside from their Patreon page (which has them set as a patron, not a creator), around 2019. There was a compilation book released in 2017 but that was limited release and has since gone out of print. You could find some of the comics but mostly on meme sites.

* The webcomic Webcomic/DoubleK used to be a notorious parody [[FanWebComics Fan Comic]] of Anime/TengenToppaGurrenLagann that reimaged the show's setting by combining it with that of a BuddyCopShow. But unfortunately, as the author [[OrphanedSeries abandoned]] the comic, he slowly deleted every trace of it from his web presence. The first thing to go was the online store, then the comic's site on Website/SmackJeeves, then the author's Website/{{Tumblr}} and Website/{{Twitter}} accounts, and then finally the comic's mirror on the author's Website/DeviantArt account. Fortunately for the fans, however, the large readerbase that the comic had gathered meant that for every time the author deleted something from the comic, a copy of it could be found somewhere around the web, so long as you looked for it hard enough. As of 2017, Webcomic/DoubleK can still be fully read through an [[https://m.imgur.com/gallery/ylMA7 imgur mirror]] as well as several PDF files. The comic's site has also been [[http://web.archive.org/web/*/http://doublek.smackjeeves.com/ thoroughly saved]] by the Website/WaybackMachine.
* ''Webcomic/HannaIsNotABoysName'''s site has gone under and about 16 pages were posted to the Tumblr page back in 2014. To add to this, the blog implies that its current location is temporary and it doesn't seem to be available through the Wayback Machine.
* ''Webcomic/KidRadd'', a cult favorite among those who have been on the Internet a while, originally got [[ScrewedByTheNetwork screwed by the Internet]] with newer releases of IE and Firefox making the comic obsolete (the site was meant to work with [=IE5=] and the original Firefox). Dan Miller, the author, did have multiple methods of viewing the comic — either on downloadable archives or sites where you could find the older versions of IE and Firefox that work perfectly. Unfortunately, AT&T shut down its [=WorldNet=] Web hosting server, taking all of Dan Miller's wondrous comic with it. Luckily, a fan has saved the online version on his own site, but the fanbase was sweating for a while there.
* The webcomics British transportation artist Ruairidh [=MacVeigh=] created prior to ''Webcomic/WhenHeavenSpitsYouOut'' (the interconnected ''Webcomic/MaddieOnTheIslandHue'', ''Webcomic/MaddieInAmerica'', and ''Webcomic/{{Outsiders}}'', and the unrelated one-shot ''Webcomic/Red348'') have disappeared from the internet after he deleted all of them for reasons unknown, even making them unavailable to purchase on Amazon. ''Webcomic/{{Outsiders}}'' is particularly notable in this regard, as it was ongoing at the time, and its deletion left a lost of loose ends hanging. The last chapter of his first comic can still be found on [=DeviantArt=] though, as well as excerpts from the first three volumes of ''Webcomic/MaddieInAmerica''.
* The comic Webcomic/TheArtistIsDead used to be a [[DoingItForTheArt hand-drawn comic]] available through [[http://theartistisdead.com/ this website]]. Unfortunately, however, as the site broke and desperate attempts by the author to bring it back failed (only resulting in the site being back but the pages gone), the original copy of the comic is now gone. That being said, of course, the author ''has'' made the best of this situation by remaking the comic with actual photography instead scans and posting it on his [[http://farlee-wander.tumblr.com/ Tumblr account]], where it will hopefully stay forever.
* Any webcomic that's gone offline, for that matter. ''Webcomic/ShreddedMoose'' and ''Jungle Janet'' were two others. Clan BOB's ''Life of Riley'' was a fairly big long-running comic that disappeared as well.

* ''Webcomic/{{Wendy}}'', the predecessor to ''Cute-Wendy'' and eventually ''Webcomic/{{Girly}}'', was disavowed by Jackie Lesnick and for a time it was impossible to find the comic online. She eventually relented after restructuring her website, albeit with a disclaimer at the front noting it as an OldShame.
* Josh Mirman's ''Webcomic/{{Stubble}}'' ran from 2000 to 2006 with over 700 pages, [[http://stubblecomics.com/?page_id=2 as the author admits]]. The author just deleted everything from the site so fans can't read it anymore, because it wasn't up to his standards. Re-starting the series in 2010, it amassed only 71 pages by the end of 2011 and then halted. Now [[http://stubblecomics.com/?p=33 only two pages are viewable]], and the rest are just gone.

* The webcomics of Bengo & Pug, ''Scratchin' Post'' and ''Li'l Nyet'', disappeared in 2009 when they RageQuit the Internet over lack of donations. The ''Li'l Nyet'' website was reduced to a one-page piece of emotional blackmail, blaming a "mute audience" for their disappearance before the domain lapsed and became a filler page.
* ''Webcomic/TheHeroesOfMiddlecenter'' went offline in the early 2010s. Because of a "robots.txt" script disallowed crawlers, the original pages cannot be retrieved by the Internet Archive Website/WaybackMachine.

* ''Fireflower'', a retelling of ''[[VideoGame/SuperMarioBros1 Super Mario Bros.]]'', vanished from the internet a few months after its conclusion in late 2002. The Wayback Machine only has 3 strips preserved: two random installments from the middle of the story and the farewell strip.
* ''The Ricky Ray Show'' Went on a long hiatus in both its webcomic and its animated series, during which a test animation for a new style for the cartoons was shown but never ended up happening. The comic itself (as well as its companion series ''Becky and the Masters of Gaming'') was wiped from the Ricky Ray website and rebooted with an updated art style and new character designs, as well as new relationships. This reboot only lasted a few strips, however, as Ricky Ray soon started a new webcomic, ''Space City Heroes'' that would go on to overtake the site, leaving no traces of the original Ricky Ray Show comic. He also deleted all of the Ricky Ray Show animations from his Website/YouTube account, leaving Newgrounds as the only place to see anything related to the original series.
* For reasons the author explains [[http://rosalarian.tumblr.com/post/65353128180/its-with-extreme-sadness-that-i-announce-that-my here]], ''Webcomic/IWasKidnappedByLesbianPiratesFromOuterSpace'' is no longer available on its official site. Fortunately, there were full zipfiles posted for a while beforehand, and they're still floating around the net.
* The homepage for the FurryWebcomic [[http://www.thewebcomiclist.com/p/13142/Mandy Mandy]] has been shutdown, taking all the comics with it. The only extant strips are floating around Deviantart and Furaffinity,

* ''Roomies'', a furry webcomic by Dan "Flinters" Canaan, went offline in 2008. His [[http://us.vclart.net/vcl/Artists/Flinthoof/Roomies/ VCL page]] hosts strips up to 2003, and the compilation ''Death on the Omnibus'' contains the entire strip, but good luck finding ''that''...

* The animated series ''WesternAnimation/KipoAndTheAgeOfWonderbeasts'' was based on a short-lived 2015 webcomic, simply called ''Kipo''. The website was taken down in early 2019, before the first teaser trailer for the show was released. Some of the pages are still available to view on [[https://www.deviantart.com/radsechrist the creator's DeviantArt page]], but you'll need to fire up the Wayback Machine if you want the rest.
* ''Ichigomin'', a showcase of different original {{Shoujo|Demographic}} webmanga featuring Creator/{{Sanrio}} characters, went down in January 2020 after a run of five years. Aside from their flagship series ''Ichigoman'' (which had the virtue of being rescued by Young Jump Comics for collection into book format), no other series was saved.

* Creator/AndrewHussie tends to run into this problem a lot. Fan website [[https://homestuck.net Homestuck.net]] has archives of most of his early web work, at the very least preserving the ones that got made into {{Mythology Gag}}s.
** His original webcomic website, ''Team Special Olympics'', was eventually made defunct. The hyperlinked refrences on some of his ''Webcomic/MSPaintAdventures'' comics lead to empty pages, with the only surviving ones being the ones directly uploaded to the site.
** ''ComicBook/{{Whistles}}'' was initially hosted to the website as well, and eventually was put up for digital purchase by Creator/SlaveLaborGraphics. Neither of these collections survived. It was also printed into book format in 2007, but it had gone out of print in the years since.
** Speaking of ''Webcomic/MSPaintAdventures'', ''Webcomic/ProblemSleuth'' and ''Webcomic/{{Homestuck}}'' had commentated print runs that were published by [=TopatoCo=]. ''Problem Sleuth'''s five books eventually went out of print, as well as the three volumes of ''Homestuck'' that were made at the time (covering Acts 1-3). While similar annotations for ''Homestuck'' can be found in the later Creator/VizMedia collections, you're going to need to either track down an old copy of ''Problem Sleuth'' or check archive sites to read its commentary.
* ''Webcomic/SpikedMath'' disappeared when its websites finally went under after a lengthy ScheduleSlip. The comic has been preserved in the Internet Archive, however.

* Gigi Digi took down her [=LiveJournal=] and Photobucket account for her ''Webcomic/{{Hiimdaisy}}'' video game comics, since she wants nothing to do with them after starting her current comic ''Webcomic/CucumberQuest''. The most reliable source of her comics are fandubs. There are a few other places, in particular a [[http://sir-argues-a-lot.tumblr.com/post/49051606880/hiimdaisy-comic-archive Tumblr account]] that has a good number of her comics, though some of them are at a rather low resolution.

** ''Whistles: The Starlight Calliope'' was initially hosted to the website as well, and eventually was put up for digital purchase by Creator/SlaveLaborGraphics. Neither of these collections survived. It was also printed into book format in 2007, but it had gone out of print in the years since.

** Speaking of ''Webcomic/MSPaintAdventures'', ''Webcomic/ProblemSleuth'' and ''Webcomic/{{Homestuck}}'' had commentated print runs that were published by [=TopatoCo=]. ''Problem Sleuth'''s five books eventually went out of print, while only one of the three volumes of ''Homestuck'' that were made at the time (covering Acts 1-3) can still be bought from the site. While similar annotations for ''Homestuck'' can be found in the later Creator/VizMedia collections, you're going to need to either track down an old copy of ''Problem Sleuth'' or check archive sites to read its commentary.

* A CreatorBreakdown[[note]]And a ''huge'' one at that.[[/note]] led Janet Harbinger, the author of ''Webcomic/PicturesForSadChildren'', to wipe the website clean. The comic site was even excluded from the Website/WaybackMachine. The main comic and their work on various other websites have since been collected for underground distribution (though Harbinger has apparently been actively filing DMCA takedown requests against distributors). However, the extra AltText jokes are likely gone forever, and have been missing since a change of web hosts from back before said CreatorBreakdown.

* ''WesternAnimation/KipoAndTheAgeOfWonderbeasts'': The short-lived 2015 ''Kipo'' webcomic. The website was taken down in early 2019, before the first teaser trailer for the show was released. Some of the pages are still available to view on [[https://www.deviantart.com/radsechrist the creator's DeviantArt page]], but you'll need to fire up the Wayback Machine if you want the rest.

* ''Webcomic/TheHeroesOfMiddlecenter'' went offline some years ago. Because of a "robots.txt" script, the original pages cannot be retrieved by the Internet Archive Website/WaybackMachine.

* If a comic's name wasn't ''VideoGame/WonderMomo'', ''VideoGame/{{Bravoman}}'', or ''Webcomic/{{Katamari}}'', chances are it wasn't saved by Udon by the time Website/ShiftyLook went down. One person luckily managed to save all the comics before its closure, but sadly couldn't do the same for the tie-in videos on the site's now-defunct [=YouTube=] account. Additionally, all of the ''VideoGame/{{Klonoa}}'' comic was saved and is readily viewable on another website.