Awesome Chinese Webcomics

[feihong]

Awesome Chinese Webcomics is a curated list of Chinese webcomics for language learners. I have some more work to do on this project before I can consider it "finished", but I think it's already useful enough in its current state. I would appreciate any feedback on it, especially if you find any links that are broken or incorrect. If you end up reading some of the comics on this list and take issue with my difficulty rating, genre classification, criteria for inclusion, or anything else, please leave a comment and let's discuss.

 

This is not meant to a be a static list. To be honest, I think that some of the series on this list are not that approachable to language learners, but they are the best that I found in a particular genre or category. I expect that as higher-quality choices become available, some of these selections will be replaced with series that are in the same genre but score higher in the criteria for consideration.

[feihong]

A few comments about putting together this list. 

 

I read a crazy number of comics to make this list, but probably my favorite individual chapter so far is episode 41 from 黑色放映机. This strip features a classic horror set-up (don't open that suspicious-looking door), but the twist at the end seems completely random unless you happen to be a fan of very old-school Japanese anime.

 

It is much harder to decide on what my favorite series is. For me, there is no doubt that the best completed series is 魔女. A very well-done mystery/thriller, and also the only fictional work I've encountered where data science and statistics play a major role in the plot. The most promising series is probably 山海戮, which combines lush, Miyazaki-inspired fantasy art with some fairly impressive world-building.

 

I would be very appreciative of solid recommendations in the 古风 (historical) category. Personally, this is the most valuable category for my own language learning goals, but it is very difficult to find a suitable series in this category since most 古风 comics contain little 古文, i.e. the characters wear historical garb but the dialogues are mostly modern Chinese.

[imron]

3 hours ago, feihong said:

but the twist at the end seems completely random unless you happen to be fan of very old-school Japanese anime.

So random I didn't even realize there was a twist, or get what it was about.

[feihong]

4 hours ago, imron said:

So random I didn't even realize there was a twist, or get what it was about.

The twist is 多啦A梦

[imron]

I suppose you'd have to have read 多啦A梦 to know the door was a thing for him (which according to Wikipedia it is).  TIL.

[roddy]

Excellent work!