Webcomics which have achieved
notability and are set in non-modern historical periods, often accurately following features and events of the time-period in which they are set.
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- The Cattle Raid of Cooley
: Iron Age Irish war story based on Celtic Mythology; Queen Medb of Connacht invades Ulster, opposed only by sixteen-year-old Cú Chulainn.
- Clockwork Game: The story of the Hungarian Wolfgang von Kempelen and his most famous invention: "The Turk", ostensibly a clockwork chess-playing automaton.
- Family Man A beautiful, elegantly paced comic about a 16th 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.
- Goodbye Chains: The tale of a thief named Banquo and his communist buddy Colin in The Wild West. A lot better than it sounds.
- Hetalia Axis Powers: 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.
- How I Killed Your Master: Co-authored by Brian Clevinger, a kung fu webcomic still early on in the story.
- Lackadaisy Cats: A story about bootleggers, rumrunners, the mob, and other assorted scallywags in St. Louis, during the Roaring Twenties. (Also, they're cats.)
- SPQR Blues: A webcomic set in Ancient Rome.
- 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.
- 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.
