Imaginary Friend / Webcomics

• Alice (1999): Alice has, or rather, had one of these named Little Miss Perfect. However, little Miss Perfect returns and is not glad at how Alice abandoned her. Played for Drama when it turns out that Alice created Little Miss Perfect because her mother isn't part of her life and her parental substitute (Miranda) died in a crash.
• 8-Bit Theater. King Steve's Right Hand Man Rodney the Coffee Stain.
• Count Your Sheep. The twist is typically Katie's mother Laurie can also see her imaginary friend, because he was the mother's imaginary friend when she was a child.
  • The boy Laurie hated could also see him, and grows up to marry her and be Katie's father... and then gets sick and dies, but not before leaving Ship a whole bunch of messages to give to Katie and Laurie at the appropriate times.
  • Laurie's parents can also see and hear the imaginary friend, but actively deny his existence. By contrast, Laurie's sister believes he exists, but can't see or hear him.
    • Until she got pregnant herself. At which point she became able to see him. Her new baby can see him as well.
    • When Laurie was going into labor she asked Ship to call the ambulance, implying that the ambulance crew could hear him over the phone.
    • It's a Weirdness Censor thing. Ship's had conversations with people over the phone before; the trick is to keep them from figuring out they're talking to a sheep. (Laurie's parents seem to be in the position where they have to rationalize this away consciously rather than unconsciously.)
• Mr. Pingoo of Star Bored is strongly hinted to be Ham Luca's imaginary friend.
• The Imaginaries is about new residents of the extradimensional limbo that imaginary friends go to when their creators don't need imaginary friends anymore.
• When Minus could not play with the other children, she took their suggestion.
  Go make a magic friend to play with.
• Lucy and Ruby from A Day of Lucy have an interesting case. You may know Japan (Dad) and Lithuania (Liet) from Axis Powers Hetalia. The twist? They have no idea that they are really countries.
• Jodie from Loserz kind of, for a while... hard to explain. See this strip.
• Garfield in Garfield Minus Garfield is portrayed as Jon's imaginary friend who we the viewers can't see, making Jon often appearing to be talking to and arguing with himself.
• Drowtales creates the unusual case where the audience is an imaginary friend of one of the characters! This makes it some sort of subversion?
• Dreamless Eleanor is upset and wonders why she can't have imaginary friends when her mother is allowed to. The thing is, Eleanor's friend is a real person. He just happens to live in Japan and have a psychic connection to her that she can only see while sleeping. The same was true for her mother but her mother rejected rather than embraced the connection and had a breakdown as a result.
• Kay And P Kay has an imaginary friend, a skeleton by the name of Peaches, or just P. Thing is, Kay is now in college.
• Stairwell has an imaginary friend as a main character. The roll is filled by a manifestation of main character Norman's brain.
• In Rhapsodies Peaseblossom, a pixie who shows up in the strip's annual Christmas story, moonlights as an imaginary friend to Shilo's daughter, Bonnie.
• In Homestuck, Jade's imaginary friend is Her own dead grandfather, who she is aware is dead. We are led to believe this is the case with Rufio, but he's not an imaginary friend, just an imaginary backbone.
• Precocious has an arc in which Jacob starts hanging out with an imaginary friend, and the others follow suit, leading to a series of imaginary incidents that end with everyone's imaginary friends leaving them.
• Sandra on the Rocks: The adult Lavali has the Goddess of Clothing. (Aania's view is apparently that Lavali may have some kind of shamanic potential, but that may just be an excuse to propose tantric sex.) She first appeared at a rather difficult time for Lavali.
  I'm not so much a "goddess" as a "stress-and-dehydration-induced hallucination."
• If: This is the main focus of the comic as the main characters have them as "Companions" and use them to battle against each other. Heck the title is an acronym of "Imaginary Friend".

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