Annotations Every Day - Written by T Campbell & Flo Kahn - Illustrated by John & Jason Waltrip
Guilded Age
The Saga of the Working Class Adventurer – New comics every Monday, Wednesday, and Friday!
Stand Still, Stay Silent
Minna Sundberg
A few generations after the end of the world, a small, poorly financed research crew is sent out to rediscover whatever is left of the forbidden old world in the south.
Headless Bliss
Clover
A story about story-telling, and other metaphysical themes such as Nightmares! (Failed) Teamwork! Comedy! And more!
Love Not Found
Gina Biggs
Abeille is on a quest to find someone who wants to do it the old-fashioned way in a time when touching has become outdated.
Little Tiny Things
Clover
What are the little things that move us? The simple joys that warm our bodies and hearts? The micro life of insects that influence our world more than we think? The tiny steps we make everyday to have a happier tomorrow?
Goodbye to Halos
Valerie Halla
Cuddles, gay flirting, weird feelings, and magic-fueled knife fights - it's an adventure across the queer multiverse!
Sleepless Domain
Mary Cagle (Cube Watermelon)
In a world where magical girls and their battles are commonplace, loss has become all too common as well.
Alexander, The Servant & The Water of Life
Reimena Yee
The 21st century retelling of the life and legends of Alexander the Great.
ARISE, YE SKELETON KING
Brian Clevinger, Escher Cattle, Lee Black
A troupe of wandering "adventurers" down to their last silver "acquire" a map only to find the real treasure was the fiend they dug up along the way.
Trying Human
IntroducingEmy
Two women separated by over half a century are brought together by an alien-filled conspiracy involving murder, mystery and romance!
Within
Verena Loisel
A young hitman meanders between a reality that seems to happen without him, and his dreams where he is lost in an endless house. When he makes an accidental friend, his world is shaken up and he realizes there are things he can't remember about himself.
Blindsprings
Kadi Fedoruk
Tamaura, wrested into a world 300 years in the future, must find a way to save the magic fading from her country.
The Substitutes
Myisha Haynes
What happens when three roommates accidentally acquire otherworldly and powerful magic weapons destined for someone else?
The Weave
Rennie Kingsley
A young woman pursued by bad luck is witness to the murder of the Fairy Queen of Summer. Can she get to the bottom of this mystery?
Sister Claire
Yamino
In the troubled aftermath of a great war between Witches and her fellow Nuns, novice Sister Claire just wants a purpose.
Saint for Rent
Ru Xu
Saint Halliday runs an inn for Time Travelers. Unfortunately, he seems to attract other supernatural "guests," too.
Monsterkind
Taylor C
Wallace Foster, a young, bright-eyed human social worker, has his entire world view rocked when he's suddenly relocated into a city primarily inhabited by monsters.
Namesake
Isa, Meg
There's ghosts at your heels and fairy tale worlds ahead. What do you do? Jump down the rabbit hole!
Nigh Heaven & Hell
Scotty
Heather Vodihn is on a simple mission: find her father. However she becomes entangled with two strangers with mysterious powers being stalked by a group with bizarre demands. Heather must learn to trust her new traveling companions, even if she is untrustworthy herself.
Darkling Bright
Chris Hazelton
Kieran Bright is a college student home for the summer and roped into an online reunion with his old neighborhood friends in the most recent update of their favorite childhood MMORPG.
At least, he was, and that was the idea...
Join Kieran and his friends as they are pulled into another reality that may or may not be real and are forced to confront their own identities, the nature of simulated universes and reality itself.
Alice and the Nightmare
Misha Krivanek
Alice finally attends University to learn to collect the dreams of humans, meet new friends, and deal with a pesky reflection along the way.
Scape
Lauren
Sula has always preferred to forge her own path, but before she knows it, she is pulled into the middle of a civil war between man and monster!
How to be a Werewolf
Shawn Lenore
Malaya Walters was bitten by a werewolf as a child. After being raised by her human family, she faces the chance to learn what being a werewolf is really like as an adult.
Freakshow
Scotty
A festival of broken people, blood flows in the center ring. Come one and come all, to the greatest show in all of Paris.
Gzhel Guardian
Atla Hrafney, nushanchel
The Railway World is a complex, mysterious network of trains, towns and mechanical monsters. Leo is a Guardian of one of these towns, and although their burn-out and depression has taken hold of them, they have one last job to finish.
Cyanide & Happiness
Explosm
Satire, dark humor and surreal humor.
Guilded Age
T Campbell, John Waltrip, Florence Machina
Welcome to the saga of the working-class adventurer! Enjoy the complete story with new annotations daily!
Widdershins
Kate Ashwin
A series of light-hearted Victorian-era adventure stories featuring grumpy bounty hunters, accidental thiefkings, and more, in England's magical capital city Widdershins!
Beeserker
TJ Cordes
This comic is about a robot powered by bees, but it's also about the kind of people who think filling a robot with bees is a good idea, and why they're wrong.
The Last Diplomat
Cat Farris
Samma and Tark didn't ask to be stuck together, but now they're partners on the adventure of a lifetime.
Augustine
Winter Jay Kiakas, Windy
August and her ragtag group are just like everyone else, simply surviving in the treacherous Crater... When they stumble into what may be an artifact of the ancient past, their lives are thrown into a much bigger loop as they trifle with bounty hunters, monsters and gods.
Empowered
Adam Warren
A sexy superhero comedy (except when it isn't) about the never-ending struggles of a plucky but very unlucky young superheroine.
The Forgotten Order
Christy
A young witch for whom every spell is a misfire finds solace and friendship in her new companion - a cursed doll.
Dumbing of Age
David M Willis
Joyce has been homeschooled her entire life until now, when she's suddenly a freshman in college! Things don't go well.
Nerf Now!!
Josué Pereira
A cute webcomic about fanservice, video games, and... love. Mostly video games, though.
Star Impact
Jack McGee
A young, energetic woman fights her way up in the world of super-powered boxing after discovering the mighty gloves of her missing idol!
Kochab
Sarah Webb
A YA F/F fantasy comic about Sonya, a lost skier trying to survive a snowy wilderness and find her way back to her village; and Kyra - a fire spirit trying to fix the home that she let fall apart around her.
Sakana
Mad Rupert
Our heroes must navigate a hazardous dating scene, overcome personal anxieties, and wrangle unruly seafood in order to find love, peace of mind, and a paycheck.
Edison Rex
Chris Roberson
The adventures of the world’s greatest villain who, after defeating his superheroic nemesis, decides that he’s the only one left to defend the world.
Missing Monday
Elle Skinner
Two girls fall in love through a magic door connecting their worlds. When Monday suddenly goes missing, it's up to Foyle to find her. How she's going to navigate an entirely unfamiliar world is another matter.
This is Not Fiction
Nicole Mannino
What do you do when the person you're in-love with is an anonymous romance novelist? Get your best friend to hire your worst enemy for help!
Not Drunk Enough
Tess Stone
Logan Ibarra is possibly the unluckiest repairman in the world. A late night job should not have landed him in the middle of a mad scientist's squabble, but he soon finds himself surrounded by monsters and further madness with little tools to get out.
Astral Aves
Moon Cabal
A fantasy coming-of-age following the adventures of Astra The Black and friends, as they navigate the mysterious world around them. It's politics, adventure, and the supernatural; oh, and crazy hair.
Ride or Die
Mars Heyward
Ride or Die is an LGBTQ webcomic about two street racers who team up with a demon-possessed muscle car in the search for a missing woman, while being hunted by a deadly religious cult.
Aquapunk
Lo
In an underwater world of unknown coordinates, inhabited by aliens, ghosts, and robots, a young member of a warrior underclass is framed for a crime and goes on the run. Little does he know he is part of a grand design that only gods and ancestors could choreograph.
Lies Within
Lacey
Lysander's aimless and carefree life is turned upside down when he accidentally discovers that the cute boy next door, Simon, is a literal monster
Barbarous
Ananth Hirsh, Yuko Ota
A crummy wizard and an anxious monster have to get over themselves and bring order to an apartment building full of misfits.
The Golden Boar
Magnolia Porter Siddell
A young woman joins a group of summoners who call forth Guardian Beasts to protect their isolated magical island. Unfortunately, her Guardian Beast is nothing like she'd imagined, and he's about to change her life, and everything she thought she knew about herself...
Quick$ilver
Crypto
The flirtatious, directionless, and ever disastrous Luci searches for excitement in a life of crime, and finds himself caught in a web of messy romance and bad blood.
Cassiopeia Quinn
Gunwild, Psudonym
A cute, pantsless thief is pursued across the stars by a buttoned-up military officer in the spacey, laser-filled future.
The End
August Brown, Cory Brown
Two aliens crash a sci-fi convention and accidentally take seven nerds on an adventure that spans the galaxy!
Guilded Age is co-written by T Campbell & Flo Kahn, and illustrated by John Waltrip. Site design by Samantha Kyle. Fonts by Blambot.com.
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Awww poop. I didn’t realize till now this could get very sad. This one’s already a bit feels and it’s story one!
Oh hey look, that’s recognizable chunks of my life… :(
You call that a bad holiday? Meh.
Disappointing, but nothing bad happened.
Yeah. The first five random people she happened to meet were not instant chums? A socially awkward situation didn’t pan out? That’s not a bad Christmas, that’s an important learning experience, even for the most Hughesian introvert.
That seemingly having been the end of her social exploration suggests she learned the wrong thing.
I’m suspecting the story continues on the next page. Plus its only the first salvo in a series of potentially five increasingly more depressing stories.
Lets see if anyone can top Phoebe Cates’ story from Gremlins.
The proximity of Christmas tree to cat tower in that apartment has got to be drawing some funny looks from Murphy.
I was just thinking that Cat Tree was magnificently decorated.
I spent last Christmas in a rehab hospital, having broken my leg a few icy days earlier. Rest of my family was gathering 350 miles away as was our yearly custom. Meanwhile I was getting an open wound on my ankle picked at and dressed 2x/day, and 5 shots a day. Christmas dinner was dry chicken breast, limp green beans and yellow jello. I was pretty lonely.
I had for the last few years grown weary of decorations and carols and the ilk. I got none of that last year. This year, I welcome that stuff with open arms. Merry Christmas, all!
Merry Christmas, Internet friend! I’d link you some delicious pictures of food to make up for it, but the site doesn’t seem to like that.
Hope this year involves less unwanted bodily damage :)
Absence really does make the heart grow fonder. It does sound like, even if it sucked completely in its own right, that shitty Christmas rekindled your ability to enjoy the holiday. So… yay?
The “worst” Christmas I’ve had wasn’t that bad at all. One friend wanted a driving buddy down to San Francisco, and I had a college friend there I thought it’d be neat to visit. It went fine aside from being on a bit of short notice and I forgot how much I hate being a guest. The buddy’s parents were the “oh no don’t get up we’ll run around doing everything for you” (but not passive-aggressively, sincere) type that drives me a bit nutty, I didn’t really click with them and the college buddy dynamic I expected to be back with my friend didn’t work in his parents’ house. It was nice enough, but it wasn’t the awesome idea it had seemed like when I came up with it.
Now if we expand to *other* holidays, then I can nominate the Thanksgiving where my friend invited me to her home, her entire extended family had been mistakenly informed by an overzealous mother that we were dating, one of their cats threw up on me the first night there (waking up covered in cat vomit is not fun), and I spent the whole week feeling like a seventeenth wheel in a too-crowded house.
Life lesson. What happens at school stays at school :)
When visiting other people for a short time be gracious and let them do whatever it is they want, such as catering to your every need. Just say thank you, and hit the bar on the way out.
I love visiting my parents, they always have plenty of chores to keep me busy. The best part is that as they get older and feebler there are more things for me to do.
are we going to have our own game of “Bad Christmas” in the comments? well, let the games begin.
Though i don’t think any of my Christmases have really been personally bad yet. all the awful seems to happen to other people around me, still affecting me, but not enough that I can really complain.
If we are doing that, I want to join! I was studying for an exam by my lonesome and trying to convince myself that working for Christmas night wasn’t at all depressing, when the accumulated snow on my roof broke it. I spent the rest of the night frantically putting buckets under leaks and unsuccesfully trying to get in touch with my owner.
Oh, and I failed that exam, too.
Some of the previous strip’s comments were real winners.
Well… my family are good people, and we’re all on good terms, but we’ve also all spread out to live in different cities after reaching adulthood, as did both my parents’ families of origin, plus my parents themselves divorced, so they relocated too. Finally the young adult generation (including myself) works desperate hours (with extreme difficulty booking off time) to meet the every-rising cost of rent (our baby boomers all bought their houses before the prices quadrupled, and had these strange things called “raises” that I’ve never experienced in my lifetime… until I started my own business and raised my prices). Suffice to say, ALL holidays involve a lot of driving, postponements, rescheduling, and “wish you could have made it here”s.
But that’s not “worst Christmas”; that’s now “all holidays”. :( My Worst Christmas would have to be the year we arranged a week-before get-together with a fragment of my family that has three young children. Adorable little germ-farms they are! I spent most of the actual Christmas days writhing around in bed moaning as a horrid flu kicked my ass for three solid days. T_T
Ho ho ho HURKKKK!
I stopped enjoying Christmas when I got old enough that I had to start giving gifts to other people. Up until then it had been great.
Hmm, well the second panel does show three male and three female apartment-complex-mates. So at least Friends got that right…
From left to right, I’m thinking Ross, Monica, Joey, Phoebe, Chandler and Rachel. Not sure if i got those all correct but might be a bit depressing if I did since I haven’t seen that show in ages.
LOL! Get on my level. She is definitely not the winner. This is barely scratching sad.
If she’s in a position to put on a meal like that, yeah, it’s barely scratching the surface. Social awkwardness or no.
Unless she has more to add to it, this one’s just awkward. But I can see where if she had mostly good Christmases right up until that point how that one could stand out.
That’s it? that’s her sad story? Look I can see how that can hurt but it’s no way the worst I seen. Try to be the child of divorced parents with all your cousins also with divorced parents. It has been years since I seen all my family together and trying to organize yourself to see them is a fucking nightmare. Oh and let’s not forget the looks and the arguments when they tell you why you shouldn’t visit this or that relative or blaming you for being insensitive even if you are the only one who bothers visiting them. I gave up on Christmas being a family thing a long time ago. Now I celebrate with a family of my choosing, my friends, and it is the best thing I ever done.
Not to belittle what you were talking about (after all we are talking about a fictional character So any sympathy is skin deep), but i guess the phrase would be “at least you had someone to make you unhappy”.
I’m sure someone like that would eventually learn to be content with having no one love them or be there for them. But the fact is that story embodies what many of us who feel socially awkward go through. Getting up the courage to actually try and then seeing that no one cares, even if you gave them everything.
Of course that is making alot of assumptions on details we can only vaguely assume. For instance she didnt reference only being alone cus family went to Europe or something, thus Implying that she didnt have anyone else.
Of course that is just an assumption.
You have friends?
Embarrassing but I don’t think this tops three relatives dying on three consecutive Christmas days. Including my grandmother having a stroke in the car with a 13 year old me. My opinion of Christmas hasn’t been improved much by working ten years at the U.S. Post Office and now eighteen years in retail.
Pfft! Wanna talk about Bad Christmases?
Last Christmas I gave you my heart. But the very next day, you gave it away.
Regifting is the worst.
Worst Christmas. I was about 14. My parents, sister (9 at the time), and I were visiting my grandparents (mom’s parents) in Arizona. I loved them, but didn’t know them that well as it had been years since we seen them and they were heavily religious (Mormon). it was Christmas Eve, we had flown in from the East Coast, and my sister and I started feeling sick the second day we were there. We both had fevers and just wanted to rest. Mom was more concerned about appearances in front of her parents instead of her kids’ health, and forced us to go sped the day at this huge mall together which (as anyone could guess) was hellishly crowded. My sister and I spent Christmas Day violently sick (puke and all) while my mom and stepfather tried to make light of it all—making jokes and forcing us to stay up and open gifts.
This is going to be a depressing week isn’t it?
Do introverts really act like Kaye says she did? I mean, as a young adult, she had to have been aware of her social awkwardness; wouldn’t she have given up trying ineptly by that age? Doesn’t it usually take an outside influence to get them to try, let alone rush into hosting a pre-Christmas party for complete strangers?
An introvert wouldn’t have invited that many people in the first place, especially strangers.
A socially awkward introvert might still make attempts to become better at it if they view it as a problem. I’d even say it’s more likely they’d try later in life at an age when they feel more confident with themselves, while more outgoing people would’ve been trying since their teenage years. Personally I made no attempts to get better at socializing until well into adulthood when I began to understand the value of networking (and simply having people to talk to). An introvert wouldn’t have been put down by the failure as much though.
Or perhaps she was never an introvert at all, just shy or something.
Ooh! Ooh! I want to play!
Must’ve been six or seven years ago when I (stupidly) brought a significant other to the Christmas celebration of the family that had basically adopted me over the years. ‘Cept that… that family contained my ex. By whom I’d been dumped two or three times over the years, gotten back together with, moved in with, and then dumped one final time. I got along with his parents and brothers magnificently, though, and they invited us. Ex’s grandparents hadn’t gotten the memo Ex and I were no longer together and kept giving me the stink eye and not speaking to me. Ex unhappily moped, and my mother complained about the food and kept trying to give diabetics sugar. It was a marvelous holiday…
All right, I appreciate the pun in the alt text, but I have no sympathy for Kaye. This situation is merely the result of terrible taste in television. >:|