Currently Reading:
ARCO by Evie (WC) | Completion: Caught up!
彼方のアストラ | Kanata no Astra (Astra Lost in Space) by Kento Shinohara (P)(WC) | Completion: 17%
サザンと彗星の少女 | Sazan to Suisei no Shoujo (Sazan and Comet Girl) by Yuriko Akase (P) | Completion: 10%
Soul to Call by Katherine Lang (WC) | Completion: 30%
Id: Invaded #Brake-Broken by Yūki Kodama (P) | Completion: 67%
Gods Spirits Beast and Men by Claine (WC) | Completion: 77%
Hellblazer: Original Sins by Jamie Delano, Brett Ewins, Alfredo Alcala (P) | Completion: 16%
On Hold:
Unstoppable Hayeong by woo_eong (WC)
Bicycle Boy by Jackarais (WC) | Completion: 5%
Caelum Sky by ALRadeck (WC)
Time Zone by TawnySoup (WC) | Completion: Caught up!
Soil That Binds Us by Tess Thompson (WC) | Completion: 13%
My To-Read
Thunderstryke by socksofargyle (WC)
O Human Star by Blue Delliquanti (WC)
Ride or Die by Mars Heyward (WC)
Kochab by Sarah Webb (WC)
Earth in a Pocket by Helen Greetham (WC)
Banished by R. Smith, Brandon Zuckerman, Jessica Silvia (WC)
Petrol Head by Rob Williams and Pye Parr (P)
Give Me Liberty by Frank Miller and Dave Gibbons (P)
The Secrets of the Majestic by various authors (P) (I'm very biased about this one, I want to grab it at its debut at Thought Bubble!)
In my effort to find more indie webcomics, I have compiled a list which you may peruse. They are mostly sorted by vibe, genre, or subject matter, and then alphabetically. Most here are webcomics, but I'll also point out small indie publications, presses, collectives, and events (focused on the UK, where I'm from). If you have any of your own recommendations, please put them in the comment box so that I can add them!
This list is and always be a work in progress; I haven't read every comic under the sun... yet.
(WC) = Webcomic
(P) = Print
Superpowers
BRZRKR by Keanu Reeves, Matt Kindt, and Ron Garney (P): Half-god, half-man B is 80,000 years old and a force to be reckoned with. The one thing he wants? Mortality. And the answer may be found with his origins... Read my review here!
Inhibit by Eve Greenwood (WC)(P): Victor is a resident at a home for kids who haven't proven they can control their powers. With his window to prove himself closing, Victor's life grows more complicated until he is wrapped up in the plots of friends and enemies.
Recoil by Spire Eaton (WC)(P): Our protagonist, Kalo, discovers he has powers in a deadly accident and is taken to an institution that may not be what it seems...
Timezone by TawnySoup (WC): Time does not move, except around Indicators, who are obligated to stay in the same general place to keep the towns and cities of the world from freezing. Riley, an Indicator lined up for this role when they come of age, unleashes a catastrophic glitch and a girl from a frozen town. With their assigned caretakers, they must learn to master their skills from other Indicators and find a solution before it is too late.
Robot(ic)s
ARCO by Evie (WC): By putting your brain in one of Cornello's mechanical bodies, you can live forever. Angel is a clone of Cornello a co-founder, and she's found ARCO in one of these bodies. ARCO is not supposed to be there.
Descender by Jeff Lemire and Dustin Nguyen (P): After the titan Harvesters decimate the Core Planets, sparing only the machines, robots are outlawed and destroyed across the galaxy. Only TIM-21, a young android who has lain inactive in the ten years since, can uncover the answers to the mystery of the Harvesters.
Mega Robo Bros by Niell Cameron (P): London. The future! Monday. Alex and Freddy are normal brothers, except for the fact that they are superpowered robots! Also available from Niell's shop.
Serious Engineering by Roman Jones (WC): Corelle is 16, brilliant with machines, and working in a chicken processing plant. When an illness spreads through the workers and puts her hands in danger, Corelle is spurred to travel to Polaris Robotics in search of a better lot in life.
Space
Cato's Apprenticeship by Joey Ballast (WC): Cato is struggling with his new implant, his drill exercises, and fitting in with his friends. Life on a spaceship is harder than you might think, especially when a heavily armoured figure clomps its way onto the ship...
彼方のアストラ | Kanata no Astra (Astra Lost in Space) by Kento Shinohara (P)(WC): A group of high-schoolers are set to go on camp to the nearby planet McPa. It doesn't take long for the trip to go awry, and they find themselves free-floating in orbit... Team B5 must survive space and find their way back home, but can they also find out why this happened at all?
The Space Between by Wave and Squimoo (WC): Ferelith is an employee of an interplanetary conservation agency, and Vexen is a never-before-seen alien. Surely their colourful space-romp will go entirely to plan. Well. Once the space-traffic has cleared up...
Starchild by Leo (WC): Gal needs to get to the radio tower, but her former quartermaster has made it clear that if she catches up, Gal won't be able to get anywhere at all. With the help of a new, mushroomy friend, Gal is set to climb this alien mountain or die trying.
Sentient by Jeff Lemiere and Gabriel Walta (P): As the seeding ship passes into the communication blackout, a seditionist's plans come to pass. Within minutes, only the children of the crew remain, having watched the ship's AI kill their attacker. They must grow up quickly, learn how to run the ship themselves, and may come to love their new parental figure...
Near-Future Sci-Fi
Id: Invaded #Brake-Broken by Yuuki Kodama and Otaro Maijo (P): There are serial killers on the loose and a new technology to stop them. The brilliant detective Sakaido must tackle broken brakes on a highway while solving the mystery of Kaeru's death, while the investigators in the real world pursue the killer. Read my review here!
Anthologies
Tilt: Six Tales by various authors (P): From the pastoral to the technological, from fantastical pasts to speculative futures, Tilt collects six comics into 153 pages that spans the breadth of new British indie comics with a focus on Scottish comic creators.
Small and indie press
David Fickling Books, a larger UK indie book publisher, responsible for the comics I grew up reading in the Phoenix.
Koguchi Press, a small-press comic publisher from the UK.
Quindrie Press, an Edinburgh-based independent comics publisher.
Events and Places
Gosh!, a London comic book shop, active in the industry, stocking small press.
The Lakes International Comic Art Festival, a comic art festival in the Lake District (Windemere), this year taking place from 27-29th September 2024.
Thought Bubble, the Yorkshire Comic Art Festival, featuring the largest comic art convention in the UK. Usually in November in the Harrogate Convention Centre. I am determined not to miss it next year.
Shortbox, a digital comics fair selling PDFs in October.
Other Resources
Broken Frontier, a web-magazine focusing on indie, small press, self-published, micropublished, and alternative comics.
The Creator's Guide to Comics Devices, Reimena Yee's excellent resource for every tool in a comic-creator's toolbox!
Webrings and Collectives
KnifeBeetle, a curated webring for longform, narrative-driven webcomics.
SpiderForest, a webcomic collective.
Web/Comic/Ring, an indie webcomic webring.