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1Some {{webcomics}} [[BreakingTheFourthWall break the fourth wall]]. And some webcomics [[NoFourthWall smash the fourth wall to pieces, stomp those pieces to smaller pieces, and dance across the rubble]]. These are those comics.
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3''Feel free to add comics to the list in '''alphabetical order'''. All links should be Administrivia/{{Wiki Word}}s, even if we don't have a page for the comic yet, or you'll break the [[Administrivia/HowIndexingWorks new indexing system]]. If a page is added for a work, please remove the external link.''
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6* ''Webcomic/ZeroZeroZeroThisComicAppearsFirstAlphabetically'': A comic about the same comic being drawn, but from the inside. It was supposed to be a story about a bean-thing and a bat-thing as they search for a home, but that broke down very quickly once they discovered the author, who has been spying on them and drawing what they do.
7* ''Webcomic/OneOverZero'': One of the single most thought-provoking reality experiments ever to grace the web. NoFourthWall doesn't come close to describing what the author Tailsteak has done. Including physics. Not to mention that the characters are fascinating in their own right.
8* ''Webcomic/TwoGamerz'' A webcomic similar to ''VG Cats'', but also includes anime and many internet-related topics.
9* ''Webcomic/APTComic'' - The adventures of a [[RealityWarper reality-warping]] CatGirl named Ammika and her Franchise/SonicTheHedgehog [[OriginalCharacter fan character]] sidekick Inferno, [[SuspiciouslySpecificDenial who looks nothing like Shadow.]] Along the way, they go through places like [[Franchise/{{Kirby}} Dreamland]] and [[Manga/SgtFrog Pekopon.]] [[JustForFun/TropeOverdosed It's chock full of]] {{Tropes}}.
10* ''Webcomic/BobAndGeorge'': A ''[[VideoGame/MegaManClassic Mega Man]]'' parody SpriteComic. It earns a place on this list for introducing an avatar of Dave Anez, who interacts with the characters as the omnipotent Author of the comic.
11* ''Webcomic/BooksDontWorkHere'': Written by Kai Faydale, The story of a webcomic actress and the challenges she has to face. You know imaginary scripts, unreliable narrators, plot holes, meta walls, wacky physics, mad science, and convincing people to pay her for any of it.
12* ''Webcomic/CheckerboardNightmare'': Written by Kris Straub, the [[NoFourthWall self-referential adventures]] of Checkerboard Nightmare, and his never-ending attempts to improve the readership of his webcomic, ''Checkerboard Nightmare'' ([[ShamelessSelfPromoter starring Checkerboard Nightmare]]). This premise allowed the comic to reference (then-)current happenings in webcomics, and address topics like FanFiction and genre strips, always with a satirical edge. It ran from late 2000 to late 2005, and then some.
13* ''Webcomic/{{Circuit}}'': Is Luke Pola's philosophical adventure staring a computer processor and a computer fan.
14* ''Webcomic/ConventionalWisdom'': a webcomic about anime conventions. As the comic is about going to conventions, and the artists goes to conventions in order to draw comics, it's not uncommon to end up with comics about drawing comics.
15* ''Webcomic/CreativeRelease'': An interactive story (readers can input data that the author reacts to in her writing). Contains a lot of apples.
16* ''Webcomic/CrowCillers'': A surreal adventure in which fiction and reality struggle to stay apart.
17* ''Webcomic/TheCrossworlds'': By J. Powers, featuring two former webcomic characters who are now "free" of their former existence and find themselves in The Crossworlds, the city between comics.
18* ''Webcomic/TheDailyDalek'': Webcomic about the nemesis of ''Series/DoctorWho'' leading ordinary lives.
19* ''Webcomic/DandyAndCompany'': The characters often break the fourth wall, even interacting with the creator in early strips.
20* ''Webcomic/DummyDuck''
21* ''Webcomic/EndOfInfinity'': The author breaks the fourth wall repeatedly to order the characters around, and they are influenced directly by reader suggestion in the form of submitted Telegrams.
22* ''Webcomic/FilthBiscuit'': Public domain Golden Age comics rewritten to comment upon or parody the original comics' genres, tropes, and cultural shortcomings. Abounds with everything from puerile humor to political comedy.
23* ''Webcomic/FlyingManAndFriends'' [[http://www.flyingmanandfriends.com]]: Has a strange tendency to have characters interact with the panel as if it were actually the... face... of the viewer. In particular, sometimes characters press against the panel as if they were smothering the reader.
24* ''Webcomic/FontesRants''
25* ''Webcomic/TheFourthWall'': A gag-per-day comic about Ric, Greg, and their numerous fourth-wall-breaking adventures. Come on now, with that title, what else it could it possibly ''be'' about?
26* ''Webcomic/{{Framed}}'': [[http://www.damonk.com/]] By damonk. Characters are trapped in a comic and try to get out.
27* ''Webcomic/FredoAndPidjin'' [[http://www.pidjin.net/2007/03/12/catch-me-if-i-can/]]: Note how the old frames around the images subtly betray that the fourth wall was broken before a redesign of the website.
28* ''Webcomic/GirlsNextDoor'': A ''Webcomic/{{Roommates}}'' spin-off. Starring Sarah Williams and Christine DaaƩ with as many if not more crossovers than the parent series, and some characters, who read the this very comic, or threaten to brick up the fourth wall.
29* ''Webcomic/GreystoneInn'': A webcomic about the making of a comic, and the adventures of the comic's "cast" on and off the set.
30* ''Webcomic/{{HATEFARM}}'': Absurdist, obscene and sometimes offensive humor.
31* ''Webcomic/HelloEarthling'': Breaks the fourth wall for a good quarter of the jokes. It's pretty much a meta comic that's trying to be SliceOfLife, but just can't manage it without falling into the pits and perils created by the character design and style. Doubtless, if the author had given them hands, the comic would not be what it is today.
32* ''Webcomic/HowNotToRunAWebcomic''
33* ''Webcomic/IrregularWebcomic'': Specifically the "Me" theme, in which [[@/{{Dmmaus}} David Morgan-Mar]] tries to be as self-referential as humanly possible.
34* ''Webcomic/{{Irrelevator}}'': The fourth wall is nonexistant from the very first comic, but it's not often they pay much attention to it at all.
35* ''Webcomic/KarateBears'':is often very abstract
36* ''Webcomic/KurumisAfterHours''. Puns, nihilistic dogs, yuri subtext, fanservice, and more puns. It's awesome.
37* ''Webcomic/LetsBeFriendsAgain'': Has a fourth wall, but often takes as its subject the creation of the comic itself and the squabbles between the writers.
38* ''Webcomic/LifeOfWily'': The characters are portrayed as AnimatedActors, and the first story arc begins because one of the main characters is desperate to not get fired from the strip. A lot of the characters also engage in SelfDeprecation about the comic.
39* ''Webcomic/MangaGaga'': A comic author had to deal with all the incoherency of his own crazy comic.
40* ''Webcomic/AMomentOfPeace'': A [[AfterTheEnd post-apocalyptic]] [[BoyMeetsGirl romantic]] SliceOfLife that involves [[OurMonstersAreDifferent monsters]] and gods. Includes many [[MediumAwareness fourth-wall teasing]] moments including characters using the panel-borders as slides and a shy monster being frightened by the audience.
41* ''Webcomic/No4thWallToBreak'': The author gets trapped in the comic because, as per the title, he can't break the fourth wall to get out. Enough said.
42* ''Webcomic/NotQuiteDailyComic'': Doesn't even ''have'' a FourthWall...
43* ''Webcomic/{{Nyxkcd}}'': A StickFigureComic parodying xkcd, featuring frequent fourth-wall breaks and references to the [[AuthorAvatar author avatars]].
44* ''Webcomic/LasParidasDeLaGuarida'': a.k.a. ''Madness in the Lair'': A Spanish webcomic where the fourth wall is a revolving door and unnecessary cameos have become the usual thing.
45* ''Webcomic/ParticleFiction'': 'A monthly comic book that just happens to be online' which passes through a variety of genres, but recurring character Ideasman takes meta-concepts literally, getting him into difficult scrapes with the fonts of his comic and walls of text.
46* ''Webcomic/ThePeopleInMyHead'' [[http://splurd.com/comics/about.php?comic=5]]: Featured the artist and her characters discussing the comic about the artist and her characters.
47* ''Webcomic/PessimisticSenseOfInadequacy'': Has two main webcomic-aware characters, added a third (who didn't start as WCA, but became WCA during the Webcomic/CrossoverWars), plus the comic's author appears in the comic, and has more cameo strips than non-cameo strips.
48** Oddly enough, the actual author has said he wants to tone that down, and make it less of a fourth-wall breaking comic ... which might take at least 100 more episodes (or about two years ... 50/50 says it'll never happen).
49* ''Webcomic/{{Qxlkbh}}'': A {{Troperiffic}} {{Metafiction}} comic in which the [[AuthorAvatar authors appear as characters]] and get to exercise their authorial powers InUniverse.
50* ''Webcomic/ReelFiction'' [[http://splurd.com/comics/about.php?comic=8]]: Has four characters who jump from 'verse to 'verse, and are completely aware of it.
51* ''Webcomic/{{Reporterz}}'': A SpriteComic partly inspired by the aforementioned ''Bob and George'', where the characters have regular contact with their [[AuthorAvatar author]] and [[DimensionalTravelling explore different universes]].
52* ''Webcomic/{{Roommates}}'' Stars [[Film/{{Labyrinth}} Jareth]] and [[Literature/ThePhantomOfTheOpera Erik]] as roommates, with many other characters from fiction in the cast. The movies exist as both "real" past for them and actual movies, characters discuss tropes in their lives and fiction, and dead characters know they've died but suffer no effects.
53* ''Webcomic/{{Sire}}'': When split personalities Anna and Susan Enfield realize that they're descended from [[Literature/{{TheStrangeCaseOfDrJekyllAndMrHyde}} Edward Hyde,]] they find a haven of individuals who live and die by the rules of fiction. Turns out that knowing you're in a story can allow you to do some interesting things...
54* ''Webcomic/SketchComedy'': the [[{{Absurdism}} absurdist]] interactions of a cartoonist with his creation.
55* ''Webcomic/ThisAventureIsMyVeryOwnIntillectualProperty'': An [[Webcomic/MSPaintAdventure MS Paint Fanventure]] about copyright, where things and even ''people'' that aren't either fair use or made by the creator becoming pixellated to avoid an existential threat. The closest character to a BigBad knows about all of this.
56* ''Webcomic/ThisIsAShittyWebcomic'': A shitty webcomic. About shitty characters who know they're in a shitty webomic. The very first strip has the yet-to-be-named protagonist simply telling the readers that it is a shitty webcomic.
57* ''Webcomic/ThisIsNormal'' The characters know they're in a webcomic, discuss the webcomic, explicitly discuss breaking the fourth wall, and more.
58* ''Webcomic/{{Tile}}'' [[http://tile.comicgenesis.com/]]
59* ''Webcomic/TriangleAndRobert'': Long-running, now ended comic about two polygons, the fourth wall twist is that the presence of the cartoonist as narrator actually changes the nature of the world.
60* ''Webcomic/TropeOverdosedTheWebcomic'': It's a webcomic about tropes.
61* ''JustForFun/TVTropesTheWebcomic'': The original creation of the Website/TVTropes wiki. It doesn't get any more meta than this.
62* ''Webcomic/{{Voices}}'': The series is about people with PsychicPowers who can hear the forum posts of the readers as voices in their heads.
63* ''Webcomic/TheWayOfTheMetagamer'': Start with NoFourthWall, have your characters walk behind the panels and read each other's speech bubbles, then get them jumping out of the work entirely through {{plot hole}}s. Yeah. [[http://wayofthemetagamer.thecomicseries.com/comics/pl/32150 This example of]] InfiniteCanvas has received particular praise, as noted in the comments.
64* ''Webcomic/WebcomicsUnited'': The exploits of Zip and other webcomic characters in a webcomic world, living their webcomic lives.
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