“In the witch kingdom Hyalin, the strength of your magic is determined by the length of your hair. Those that are strong enough are conscripted by the Witch Guard, who enforce the law in peacetime and protect the land during war. However, those with hair judged too long are pronounced enemies of the kingdom, and annihilated. This is called a witch burning.”
Do you like stories about LGBTQ witches of colour navigating their complex relationships with a semi-authoritarian military government? Then do I have the comic for you!
Nominated for multiple awards, including an Ignatz, a DiNKy, and the Danish Pingprisen, Witchy is a comic that you can read for free, online, right now, with more than 250 pages to stuff down your metaphorical gullet! Sound interesting to you? Cool!
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Thank you so much for reading, and if you can, please reblog!
The Witchy anime opening looks pretty cool huh
In the witch kingdom Hyalin, the strength of your magic is determined by the length of your hair. Those that are strong enough are conscripted by the Witch Guard, who enforce the law in peacetime and protect the land during war. However, those with hair judged too long are pronounced enemies of the kingdom, and annihilated. This is called a witch burning.
Witchy is the story of a young witch named Nyneve. Terrified of the Guard, and of being enlisted, she hides her long hair from everyone but her mother.
Hey, do you like fantasy stories but wish for more diverse casts? Witchy is about queer witches of colour from all over Asia and Oceania, also written by a queer asian person, me, Ariel! It’s very good and currently reaching the climax of its first arc - plus it’s only about 110 pages right now - that’s only like, an hour or so of reading!!! and if you don’t trust me, here are some features on it that might change your mind:
io9
mental floss
autostraddle
women write about comics (also includes an interview)
CBR
And of course, you can read it here, or sponsor me on patreon!
Thank you so much for your support, I especially appreciate reblogs!
NEW WITCHY UPDATE + SITE LAUNCH
You can go to the start of this week’s update here. That’s it for chapter 1! chapter 2 (which is the first proper chapter and as opposed to an epilogue) will start next week.
The offical site is up over at witchycomic.com, and i IMPLORE you to go take a look. the start of the update can be found on the site here. there are still a few things my web guy and friend Huw is fixing up, and some under-construction pages that I need to work on, but what you see is more or less what you get!
A reminder that Witchy will be updating every Wednesday (and that is to say, Australian Wednesday – so probably Tuesday for a lot of readers) but you can follow its updates on the twitter. I’ve been absolutely floored by the reception so far, the witchy tumblr got 160 followers within the first week! It would mean a lot to me if you shared this comic and got the word out!