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Historical Webcomics
aka: Notable Historical Webcomics
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Webcomics which are set in non-modern historical periods, often accurately following features and events of the time-period in which they are set.
Feel free to add comics to the list in alphabetical order. All links should be Wiki Words, even if we don't have a page for the comic yet, or you'll break the new indexing system. If a page is added for a work, please remove the external link.
- Afganisu-Tan: A comic that portrays the history of Afghanistan and its neighbors. If Aghanistan and its neighbors were a group of little girls.
- Amazoness: A Webcomic about a young amazon and her friends and the drama that goes on.
- Axis Powers Hetalia: A webcomic, now a manga and anime, set in the WWI and WWII era where the countries are represented by anthropomorphic characters. Historical, political, and military interaction between countries is represented in as social and romantic interaction between the characters; the webcomic version in particular depicts military and economic incursions using homoerotic innuendo.
- Baritarian Boy: A historical webcomic focusing on exploits and events from the history of a nevertheless entirely fictional Slavic country. Not quite an example for this reason, but drawing enough from real Slavic and European history to be weirdly convincing.
- Bite Me!: A humorous webcomic set during the French Revolution which is an Alternate Continuity sequel of sorts to Family Man (see below).
- Clockwork Game [1]
 : The story of the Hungarian Wolfgang von Kempelen and his most famous invention: "The Turk", ostensibly a clockwork chess-playing automaton.
- The Continentals: A webcomic set in post Jack the Ripper England where Continental Operative Jeffrey Tiffen Smythe and his gender bending partner the adventress Lady Fiona Fiziwigg investigating a series of brutal "mangling" murders uncovers a tangled web of intrigue, adventure—And murder!
- Dovecote Crest: A webcomic detailing the lives and adventures of a group of American Civil War reenactors.
- The Dreamer: A romantic webcomic in which the main character, Bea, is transported back to the times of the American Revolutionary War in her dreams.
- Dreamless
- Family Man: A beautiful, elegantly paced comic about a 18th century German scholar finding his place in the world, struggling with issues of identity, theology and faith. Oh yes, I think there are going to be werewolves at some point too. Dylan Meconis's other (now finished) historical webcomic. Bite Me! A Vampire Farce is set in revolutionary France, and has been praised by Neil Gaiman and Scott McCloud, among countless others.
- Flagland: Satirizes historical events. Each character represents a nation, as indicated by the flag on his belly.
- Founding Boys: An Alternate Universe retelling of The American Revolution as a Boarding School rebellion.
- Frederick The Great: The time traveling escapades of Frederick The Great, Isaac Newton, Peter The Great, and Abraham Lincoln. Turns Historical Villain Upgrade into an art form.
- Goodbye Chains: The tale of a thief named Banquo and his communist buddy Colin in The Wild West. A lot better than it sounds.
- Guttersnipe: The adventures of a street orphan and a sewer rat in Depression era America.
- Hark! A Vagrant: A gag-per-day historical comic written by historian Kate Beaton. Funny stuff.
- Hipster Hitler: Adolf Hitler as a hipster.
- How I Killed Your Master: Co-authored by Brian Clevinger, a kung fu webcomic telling the story of how the narrator killed his guest's master.
- Lackadaisy: A story about bootleggers, rumrunners, the mob, and other assorted scallywags in St. Louis, during the Roaring Twenties. (Also, they're cats.)
- Loud Era: Starting in 1917, Loud Era follows its characters as they finish high school and face the unwelcoming realities of adulthood. Can be read here.
- Lovecraft Is Missing: It is 1926. H.P. Lovecraft is not where he is supposed to be.
- Machiavelli [2]: A biography of the infamous Niccolo Machiavelli with great attention to historical detail.
- Mayonaka Densha: Set in Victorian London of 1888 (through time travel). A story about a girl who ends up in the Baker Street Irregulars under the command of Sherlock Holmes in a battle again London's many criminals, particularly Jack the Ripper
- Mirror Sense [3]: The story follows an episode of 17th century industrial espionage in which the French attempt to steal the secrets of mirror making from Venice.
- Rumors Of War: A Low Fantasy Sprite Comic set in the Late Bronze Age, sometime after the Trojan War but before the Classical Period.
- Scandinavia and the World: Like Axis Powers Hetalia, it uses anthromorphic versions of countries as characters. Unlike Hetalia, it chooses to avoid all forms of drama and character development in favour of simplified but historically-accurate comedy. The comic, as you can see by the name, focuses on Scandinavia, specifically the Power Trio of Denmark, Norway and Sweden. The author herself is Danish so if you ever wanted a glimpse as to the history behind the region and how people from each country view each other, it's worth a look. The author also gives explanations for the cultural and historical in-jokes so don't worry about getting confused.
- Shi Long Pang: The Wandering Shaolin Monk (the title should give you an idea of what it's about) features an extremely authentic rendition of 17th-century China. Find it here.
- SPQR Blues: A webcomic set in Ancient Rome. Find it here.
- Táin Bó Cúailnge: Iron Age Irish war story based on Celtic Mythology; Queen Medb of Connacht invades Ulster, opposed only by sixteen-year-old Cú Chulainn.
- Tales From The Middle Kingdom: A comic drawn in traditional Chinese brush painting style, based on the historical novel Romance of the Three Kingdoms.
- The Pirate Balthasar : a pirate adventure with plenty of comedy and romance, set in the XVII century on the Mediterranean Sea. Lots of details and the historical research, trivia behind the story, games etc. are available too, on the author's blog.
- The Second Crimean War: Alternate history about the breakup of the USSR. Find it here.
- The Thrilling Adventures Of Lovelace And Babbage: A hilarious comic that posing the ultimate question: What if Charles Babbage and Ada Lovelace teamed up to fight crime with their massive Difference Engine?
- The Water Clock [4]: Follows a would-be scholar and member of the royal family in ancient Egypt.
- Times Like This: A humor (and sometimes NSFW) comic involving time travel... and the occasional lampooning of historical figures.
- Witchprickers: A medieval Germany webcomic in which a witch and her familiar bat meet a pair of devils.
- The Word Weary: is USUALLY a slice-of-life comic, but many of the issues take place in the characters' Dungeons and Dragons game... that takes place during the Russian Revolution.
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