Webcomics Long-Runners

"There are people who are good at stuff and then there are the people who just stick around long enough."

—Cat, Cat and Girl

Webcomics as a medium are fairly new. The first known webcomic began in 1985 ("Witches and Stitches"), but the medium didn't really take off until 1993, making it one of the oldest types of New Media, but still incredibly young compared to something like Literature or even Film. Running for over a year is still a pretty good chunk of webcomic history; running for 10 years means you've been around for good chunk of it.

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Naturally, webcomics this old are a prime source of Archive Panic, so beware.

Since webcomics are prone to long hiatuses, please use common sense when adding an example: if the webcomic has not actually been running for at least 10 years, then please don't add it no matter what the start date is. Webcomics are sorted within folders, first by start year, then alphabetically. Discontinued/finished comics have a different set of folders organized first by how long they ran, then alphabetically.

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Ongoing:

Since 1995

• Kevin & Kell

Since 1996

• Help Desk
• Sabrina Online - ^note Original run was a continuous 20-year span with strips published monthly from September 1996-September 2016. After a three month hiatus, it went back into production in January 2017.

Since 1997

• Bob the Angry Flower
• Dela The Hooda
• LCD
• Nukees
• PHD
• Sluggy Freelance

Since 1998

• The Bobbinsverse^note A complicated case, given creator John Allison’s habit of taking strips down, putting them back up, running continuations, sequels, reboots, and interquels under different titles, and changing his mind about whether he’s finished with something or not. But Bobbins Classic goes back to 1998, and Bobbins.horse is still going as of 2020 and referencing the same continuity...
• Freefall
• General Protection Fault
• Jerkcity
• Penny Arcade
• Pokey the Penguin
• PvP
• S.S.D.D

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Since 1999

• 21st Century Fox
• Dan and Mab's Furry Adventures
• Alex
• Cat and Girl
• College Roomies from Hell!!!
• Funny Farm
• Real Life Comics^note Was on hiatus from 2015 to 2018.
• Sheldon
• Superosity

Since 2000

• College Catastrophe in 2000-2013^note on hiatus in 2004-2008 with only 5 strips in 5 years, continued as Nine To Nine since 2014
• Diesel Sweeties
• Megatokyo
• GUComics
• Sinfest
• Little Gamers
• Sacred Pie

Since 2001

• Akuma's Comics
• The Cyantian Chronicles
• Captain SNES: The Game Masta
• The Devil's Panties
• Dragon Mango
• Drowtales
• Full Frontal Nerdity
• Faux Pas
• Jack (David Hopkins)
• Minimalist Stick Figure Theatre
• Outsider
• The Perry Bible Fellowship
• Planet Zebeth
• Something*Positive
• TRU-Life Adventures
• Wapsi Square

Since 2002

• Ctrl+Alt+Del
• El Goonish Shive
• Girl Genius
• Irregular Webcomic!. 2002-present^note The main story finished in October 2011, with weekly essay-like pages being run after that. It still updates daily as it's rerunning the entire archive and adding new annotations to the strips. In April 2015, the comic started again with two new strips a week, and now runs new strips five times weekly.
• Legostar Galactica
• Phil Likes Tacos
• Sam & Fuzzy
• Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal
• Unshelved. 2002-present^note Stopped updating with new strips in November 2016.
• The Whiteboard

Since 2003

• Castlevania RPG
• C'est la Vie
• Cross Time Cafe
• Dinosaur Comics
• Least I Could Do
• The Mansion of E
• Wondermark
• The Order of the Stick - ^note The comic's final volume began in February 2020 with a projected publishing time of five years, giving a projected end date for the comic sometime in 2025.
• Questionable Content
• Station V3 - ^note Has not continuously published, but as of early 2020 is still active.
• TwoKinds
• VG Cats

Since 2004

• Carry On
• Charby the Vampirate
• The KAMics
• Kaspall
• Las Lindas: Detailing Mora Linda's ongoing efforts to run a dairy farm.
• Magellan
• Maliki
• Requiem
• Rhapsodies
• Slightly Damned
• Two Lumps

Since 2005

• Caribbean Blue: Cats and Cat Girls in adventures in the tropics.
• Cyanide & Happiness
• Daily Grind
• Flaky Pastry
• Gunnerkrigg Court
• Exiern
• Goblins
• Kuro Shouri
• Life On The Fourth Floor
• Planescape Survival Guide
• Sequential Art
• xkcd

Since 2006

• Awkward Zombie
• Carciphona
• Doc Rat
• The Eyeof Ramalach: Adventurers searching for a buried treasure, they find an Eldritch Abomination.
• The Inexplicable Adventures of Bob! (originally in print, 1993-1997)
• Lackadaisy
• New Adventures Of Queen Victoria
• The Non-Adventures of Wonderella
• Survivor: Fan Characters ^note  It started in 2006, and began updating daily in 2008.
• Yet Another Fantasy Gamer Comic
• Weregeek

Since 2007

• Darths & Droids
• Simply Sarah
• Skin Horse

Since 2008

• At Arm's Length
• Cerintha
• Dragon Ball Multiverse
• EarthBound: The Chosen Four: A Web Comic adaption of the titular game.
• Housepets!
• Knighthood: Detailing Joy's adventures to becoming a knight.
• Nerf NOW!!
• Sandra and Woo
• Square Root of Minus Garfield (Of interest: Has been updating daily since 2010, with more than 3500 strips as of January 1st, 2019)

Since 2009

• Addictive Science: The adventures of mad scientists.
• Bug Martini
• Hero Oh Hero: started as A Path to Greater Good, stopped in 2011, restarted in 2013.
• Mountain Time
• Rascals: A slice-of-life involving a group of 20-year-old anthros and the Usagi family.
• Terra
• Uh-Oh, It’s a Dinosaur

Since 2010

• Dumbing of Age
• Maximumble
• Rain (2010)
• Selkie: A webcomic about adoption, family, friendship, betrayal, and forgiveness... with a supernatural twist.
• Spinnerette: A lab accident leaves a girl with spider-man-like powers, including 4 extra arms.
• A Tale of Fiction
• Tower of God
• Paranatural

Since 2011

• Beyond the Western Deep
• Blonde Sunrise
• Educomix
• Friendship is Dragons
• Monster Soup
• Swords And Sausages
• Transmission
• White Noise (2011)

Discontinued:

20 years

• Schlock Mercenary 2000-2020

18 years

• Walkyverse 1997-2015^note with spinoff and reboot
• Zebra Girl 2000-2018

17 years

• Newshounds: 1997-2014

16 years

• Gene Catlow: 2001-2017 (creator's death)
• Melonpool: 1996-2012. Rebooted in October 2014; the original strips are now only available in print collections.
• Namir Deiter: 1999-2015

15 years

• Achewood. 2001-2016
• Misfile. 2004-2019. Succeeded by Misfile Universe: Hell High.
• Zortic. Zortic classic: Mar 2000-Jul 2008 + Zortic: Oct 2008-Jan 2016

14 years

• Breakpoint City. 2000-2014
• Chopping Block. 2000-2014

13 years

• Argon Zark. 1995-2008
• Crimson Flag. 2008-2021
• Doctor Fun. 1993-2006
• Exterminatus Now. 2003-2016
• Goats. 1997-2010
• Unlike Minerva and You Say It First. 1999-2003 and 2004-2013
• User Friendly. 1997-2010

12 years

• The Adventures of Dr. McNinja, 2005-2017
• Archipelago. 2005-2017
• A Softer World. 2003-2015
• Darkbolt, 1999-2011
• Dominic Deegan: Oracle for Hire. 2002-2013

11 years

• Bruno. 1996-2007
• Girls with Slingshots, 2004-2015
• Chirault, 2007-2018

10 years

• 8-Bit Theater. 2001-2010
• Errant Story. 2002-2012
• Octopus Pie. 2007-2017
• Ozy and Millie. 1998-2008
• Surviving The World. 2008-2018 ^note Ran for exactly 10 years and 1 day so the author could say it ran for "More than 10 years."
• Theater Hopper. 2002-2012
• Think Before You Think 2009-2019 ^* Ended just after its 10-year anniversary.
• What The Duck. 2006-2016 ^note syndicated to newspapers as "W.T. Duck" from 2009 to 2011; continued as a webcomic for five more years
• Yamara. 1996-2006 (started in print 1988)

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