Looking for platonic based/family/friendship themed comics!

[indagold]

Welcome Back Is mostly relationships based on friendship and platonic closeness. It was made as a twist on the highschool setting with a surreal dystopian dreamworld underneath. It has a lot of light hearted moments contrasted with psychological/body horror, dark disturbing themes and a pink and purple rainbow backdrop. It's a two part comic, the original comic and it's sequel. I have a habit making my work strictly platonic being aro lol

[sarrowsmith10]

VSEPR doesn't have any romantic story in it. It's a straight up science super hero adventure!

Goblins of Razard is focused on a rogue wizard and a prince trying to get their lives back together after an order of mages is destroyed. The main characters become good friends, but there isn't any romance. There isn't any romantic story lines at all. (Although I know some readers who are shipping, haha) Now how many Fantasy/Action comics are out there, that don't have a romantic underlying story driving them?

[skyleekay]

Oh nice!! I think I actually first found out about your comic from APE con
one year!!

[UrMom]

Oh hey, I didn't know you were an ace. That's pretty cool!

[Michelle]

Oh nice!! I think I actually first found out about your comic from APE con one year!!

Oh wow! I was indeed at APE last year with the comic :> Glad you remember it!

@Bloomer Yup! Which is why I prefer telling/reading stories that focus more on character interaction than shipping (and why my eyes tend to glaze over at the romance-heavy front page... haha @u@;)

[WakaXO]

My comic Neon Rabbit ( https://tapastic.com/series/Neon-Rabbit ) is an action/comedy, superhero type comic that focuses on two friends coming to grips with one of them gaining the power of teleportation and their home being plunged into chaos as weird mutants start popping up around the city. As of now there is no romance in the comic.

[UrMom]

(and why my eyes tend to glaze over at the romance-heavy front page... haha @u@;)

Lol. Yeah... same here.

[shazzbaa]

omg thank you for listing Runewriters!! I saw the thread title and rAN ONTO THIS THREAD LIKE 'MY TIME HAS COME' but you already had me covered! xD

(A friend of mine recently described the tone of Runewriters as "Fantasy Voltron" and I actually think that's startlingly on-point. xD)

[spooktacularprize]

My comic, Between Hay and Grass, has pretty heavy focus on aspects of friends/family; it's about a girl who goes with her father to visit her grandfather at his seaside inn, and things kind of just unravel from there. (it's kind of a sci-fi/mystery/comedy with touches of other themes thrown in) A lot of family because a bunch of the main characters are related; and friends to come. : D

I myself really like Forever Autumn so far; since it's a little kid and a vampire there's sure to be some whacky friendship type stuff. (Also it's totally my aes so)!!!

[JessJackdaw]

@shazzbaa Oh my gosh, you need to put that in your comic description somehow. "Fantasy Voltron" is too perfect.

@skyleekay Thank you for making this thread! I've been looking for more ace comics too! : >

My comic, Pest Caravan, involves a family of outcasts struggling to hold themselves together running while an extermination business. No romantic themes, all about family and friendship ties.

https://tapastic.com/series/Pest-Caravan

[MinNCompany]

Wow I love this thread so much! Makes me wish I hadn't chosen to start a romance story, haha

[Emma]

My comic, despite getting labeled a romance by me, is actually more centered on friendship for the most part, with the romance part first becoming a thing later on (and even then, there's still a lot of friendship, and it's toned down a lot because the characters are pretty young).

[J.Lovelace]

If you like modern fantasy, my story I'm Mortal is about a reaper finding a human friend, but the reaper keeps his identity a secret from the human and pretends to be a mortal himself X3

[CHMsketches]

My comic Be Brave is free of romance and has ' fluffy' friendships. So yeah :DDD

[artsy_oleander]

Kind of late to the party (:P) but my comic Me and My Friend is a short story about friendship and growing up!

[Houndstooth]

My comic Laid in Lavender is focused around the journey of a brother & sister; the theme of family is pretty intergral.

[aquagorillabear]

I've just begun my new comic, The Adventures of Mr. Brick----only two episodes in---but it may eventually have something like what you're looking for.
The tagline is "a Zen historical romance," and a large part of the story will focus on the strong bond between a husband and wife team---someone famous from history (but no spoilers; those characters won't appear until Episode 6)

[KoreanTacos]

I would say my series JODDAS VAPD fits the criteria. I mean it's a slice of life/comedy about well life. It's about college life, work, and occassionally something goofy.

[brandiknudsen]

My comic Carnikids is full of families and friendship! It's got a spooky-cute style, and it's about a family of adopted children who all work together at a carnival run by their dads. It's just started, but the episodes will have themes of accepting yourself, family (even when family sucks), friendship, bravery/standing up for what's right, and sometimes just silly/weird stuff.

[MST3KFan]

Hmm.. Well, my comic POW! Right in the Nostalgia has family and friendship in it. The main characters are Charlotte and Chase, a couple that finally get their own house, but quickly end up having their best friends move in.

Eventually, Chase's niece ends up living there also, and then eventually Charlotte's younger sister.

Lots of other family and friends become involved over the comic as well in form of Charlotte's aunt, an ex-glamour model turned modeling business owner that also raised her through much of her childhood, Chase's younger sister, a up and coming young singer in a band called "The Death Kitties", and Charlotte's employees at her Comics and Collectibles store "Back to Action" that somehow all are named April, May, and Ji-yoon (aka 'The Months').

Lots of the comic is comedy, but it also has its family moments especially for Charlotte as she has a very troubled past with her own family, especially her parents.