Welcome to WebcomicQuest, a webring for long-form adventure-themed webcomics! Navigate the ring to find new comics to read–or add your comic to increase traffic to your site.

What’s a webring?

In the early days of the web, similar sites would exchange links in a way to share traffic. Each site in the ring displays a link to the next site (as well as the previous one), forming a great circle of content. It’s visible to the left, there.

The improvement of search engines made them fall out of fashion, but search engines have gotten terrible once again!

WebcomicQuest is powered by OnionRing.

Why only long-form adventure comics?

It’s not personal! We love all comics. However, newspaper-style short humour comics do very well when posted on social media. Longform comics need context: a reader needs to know who the characters are, why what’s happening has meaning, and you don’t get backstory like that on a quick social post. Longform comics are a journey.

And we prefer that the characters be on a journey, as well, even just an emotional one. For one thing, a webring should share a theme or else there’s no point, but also slice-of-life comics where nothing ever changes for the characters also do pretty well on social media and don’t need the help.

Can my comic join the ring?

Yes! If your comic is:

  • Long-form. Your comic must have a continuing story. It doesn’t necessarily have to have an ending planned.
  • Active. Your comic should make regular updates, or be a completed story that has come to its planned ending. Comics that are stuck in the Dreaded Hiatus are welcome to have their links on this site in that section, but will not be part of the ring. It happens, we get it, please feel free to drop us a line if you have to take a break, and when you pick it back up.
  • Self-hosted. Your comic must have a website that can display the webring widget, and Webtoon and Tapas don’t let you do that. We prefer that it’s on webspace that you own, but if you’re able to display our widget on someone else’s hosting service, that’s all right.
  • Drawn by a human being. Wholly AI-generated comics are not allowed. Some limited AI assistance is permissible, but you have to have drawn and written your comic yourself–or gotten another human to do it for you.
  • Safe for work. Adult content is allowed, but your site must put up an 18-or-older warning before showing anything unsafe for work, or for minors. People will be suddenly finding themselves on your site without prior warning, so use discretion.
  • Kind. Racism, homophobia and hate are not welcome. Certainly they can be depicted if the point of your comic is to speak out against such things, but cruelty for its own sake doesn’t have a place here. This will be at the discretion of the organizers.

WebcomicQuest will not be hosting your comic ourselves, so we make no claim of copyright over it, or responsibility for its content.

But I don’t think my comic is very good…

Listen. You deserve respect for making your comic to the best of your ability. We all learn by doing. And who’s to say what’s good—just because one person doesn’t like a given comic doesn’t mean the next person won’t think it’s great, so that’s not a valuation we feel we need to make for people. Let readers make that decision for themselves, because they will.

Yes, but how can my comic join the ring?

First, please fill out the request form on this page. We’ll be in contact with you.

Once you’re accepted, add the following code somewhere on the front page of your site:

<div id='webcomicquest'>
<script type="text/javascript" src="https://webcomic.quest/onionring-variables.js"></script>
<script type="text/javascript" src="https://webcomic.quest/onionring-widget.js"></script> </div>

If you’re using WordPress, this works well as a Custom HTML widget.

Our site will generate a screenshot of your comic for our links list, but you are more than welcome to submit your own 768×575 (or 1200×900) cover image.

I have other questions?

Feel free to contact us on Bluesky or by email at guide@webcomic.quest

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