Comicon’s Best Digital/Webcomics Of 2025

The following are Comicon’s 5 Digital/Webcomics of 2025.

Nap Comix by Rachael Smith

With Nap Comix, you can finally throw all those parenting ‘how-to’ books away, because Smith has made the perfect comic about all the highs and the lows of parenting. It’s a collection of everything you need to know, both the good and the bad, something absolutely essential for anyone who’s ever had kids, who’s thinking about having kids, or just wants to read a brilliant webcomic.

It all came about when the artist had her first child, Henry, and decided to document the trials and tribulations in a web comic, mostly done — as the title hints at — when Henry was taking a nap. More than 300 episodes later, plus a successfully crowdfunded collection, Smith’s done so much more than just chronicling the life-changing moment when you become responsible for a tiny little human you made. She’s given us something that’s a true reflection of what parenthood’s really like, full of all the realities of being a new mum or dad, all the joy and all the despair — not pulling any punches — yet full of Smith’s gloriously well-done comedy.

This isn’t one of those ‘everything’s wonderful when you have a kid’ books. This is something far more real, something that nails the parenting experience so well, all the joys and all the miserable bits, all the poop, all the pee, all the vomit, all the depression, all the doubt that you’re just not doing it right. And in doing that, Smith gives us a comic that’s just the perfect parenting guide, warts and all.

— Richard Bruton

Schroeder’s Ahoy by Paul Schroeder

Schroeder, aka Mooncat, was a comic maker from back in the 1980s/90s who I’d lost track of over the years. Then I happened upon his webcomic, Schroeder’s Ahoy, purely by chance. But what a marvellous bit of happenstance it was, as I discovered he was still making comics purely for himself. Simple, yet absolutely beautiful things that capture the day-to-day moments of a normal life so wonderfully well.

Schroeder’s Ahoy is his regular scribblings of life in Salford, UK, as a husband and father, just regular little catch-ups, slice of life things that burst with simple joy, celebrating the quiet moments, catching the beauty and wonder of those little moments, all done in Schroeder’s loose style. It’s truly the sort of thing that says nothing important, yet shows you everything that’s important for a life lived right.

— Richard Bruton

The Keluarga Cable Ship Company by Mereida Fajardo

Webcomics, by their very nature, should be so much more than just putting out a comic online. The very best of them push things forward, utilise the freedom from the confines of the traditional comics printed page, and do something different. And so it is with Fajardo’s Keluarga Cable Ship Company.

The story here is one continuous scroll, telling us of communication, both the modern-day, nuts-and-bolts of the technology behind intercontinental communications and the ages-old issues of the difficulties between fathers and sons. It’s something that’s impossible to do in traditional comics, making fine use of an online comic’s infinite canvas.

Taking place on a telecoms ship responsible for the upkeep of the global telecommunication network, we follow so many threads across (and down) the continual scroll: a tale of connections in all their forms, the story unfolding across three separate but interlinked threads of panels, inviting you to approach the story in whatever way you wish, yet every way always giving you something special, no longer tied to the page turn, perfectly utilising the potential of webcomics. But more importantly, beyond the innovation, there’s a heartfelt story that perfectly captures the sense of child-parent relationships, one that makes you reflect on your own relationship with your parents, and one that had me wistful and thoughtful by its end, one that has powerful emotion at its core.

— Richard Bruton

A Better Place, published on Tapas; written and drawn by Harry Bogosian

Sometimes, it feels like indie comics are stuck between PG-rated, all-ages graphic novels, and really gruesome HBO show derivatives. What’s really lacking is a comic series that can appeal to fans of cartoon dramas seen on Glitch Productions. This gap in the market is filled brilliantly by Bogosian’s A Better Place.

The series follows a brother and sister who are granted wishes by a mysterious entity … 100 years later, the older sister rules the world as an immortal god. The story is accessible to a youth audience, but never dumbs down the material or pulls any punches. Bogosian is clearly a fan of Akira and channels that bombastic energy into the fight scenes and epic world. A Better Place is thrilling, thoughtful, and charming from start to finish.

— Tito W. James