The Chimera Comics Collective is an organization of webcomic creators working across a monstrosity of different genres, styles and influences. Our aim is to lift the titles we catalog, provide a supportive community, and share resources among members to maximize everyone's chances to succeed. Much like a chimera, we embody a multitude of characteristics and abilities. Romance, horror, adventure, YA or adult—we celebrate what makes us unique, while working as one to build a supportive comic community. We'll be sharing resources, promotion and championing inclusivity and creativity.
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    The story follows Edith after breaking a canopic jar open and finding-- an animal inside?? That's alive??? Even crazier, the animal claims to be Anubis and tasks her with retrieving his missing 8 Ba to return him back to his true form. She fights the monsters protecting his ba, and the rest of his divine family drama.

  • The Automan’s DaughterThe Automan’s Daughter

    An adventure story set in an alternate-historical dieselpunk world, The Automan’s Daughter follows military-school dropout Aisha Osman and her industrialist uncle Siddig as they outwit bikers, spies and kidnappers while gearing up for a tournament showdown with the formidable Widowmaker mecha.

  • Ghost Junk SicknessGhost Junk Sickness

    Trigger Elliot is a bounty hunter who travels around the galaxy with his not-so-fully-licensed-and-technically-illegal-hunting-partner Vahn Gavotte. They’re lousy at what they do and often resort to petty tactics just to get a bounty, this is their life.

    Their home planet, June 7, is a world rebuilding itself from an inexplicable catastrophic phenomenon that destroyed 75% of the planet’s surface. It has been 5 years since the destruction of June 7 and the planet now thrives on the transient and growing population of bounty hunters. Trigger and Vahn’s routine changes when a ambiguous huge bounty surfaces; an alleged bounty hunter killer named the ‘ghost’ with frightening abilities and an unknown motive. When Trigger’s past catches up with him, there begins a strain on his and Vahns hunting dynamic, forcing them to become further involved in chasing the elusive and unpredictable ghost.

  • Tigress QueenTigress Queen

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    …Or does it?

    While neither is interested in a political marriage, both this graceful scholar and ferocious warrior find more common ground than they expect. Is it possible for mortal enemies to join hands before scheming opportunists take advantage of the mounting uncertainty?

  • White NoiseWhite Noise

    When Hawk's brother Emry is killed and his half-sister Liya stolen away by otherworldly soldiers, Hawk is determined to find the only family he has left, no matter what it takes...even if that means crossing a country that wants creatures like him snuffed out.

    Liya, meanwhile, finds herself alone on another planet populated by monsters. Full of grief over her lost brothers and anger at the enemy now surrounding her, she struggles to understand this new world she's been forced to take part in--and slowly begins to realize that all the things she thought she knew about it were wrong.

  • Lies WithinLies Within

    Lysander lacks direction in his life… though he seems to be the only one who doesn’t mind. He’s content to live rent-free under his sister’s roof, get high, watch monster movies, and canoodle with Simon, the new neighbour who moved in a few months ago.

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    Monsters are real, and they’re tired of living humanity’s shadow.

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    Thistle is a masked mage with a mysterious power, an enigmatic past, and, of course, the great burden of Destiny on her shoulders.

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    Who (or what) is Thistle? Where did she come from? Will these unruly, uncultured, rough-around-the-edge fighters be the ones to help Thistle realize her sense of self-worth in time to stop the shadows of her past from overwhelming and consuming the world?

  • LIFT (Living in Future Tense)LIFT (Living in Future Tense)

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  • In Blood We RiseIn Blood We Rise

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Posted June 22, 2014 at 09:00 am

Hawk leaned forward slowly, carefully, peering through the saw palmetto. The source of the purple light was a gas station on the other side of the bushes; an emblem on the overhang above the pumps and a sign on the far side by a dark road drowned out any light left from the sun. There was an RV parked at one of the pumps, but otherwise the place was car-free.

Between the RV and Hawk, at the curb, stood two women. One was taller, skinny, with dark skin and many tiny braids swept back from her face by a spotted kerchief; she was taking a drag on a cigarette, the smoke winding up into the evening. The other was paler, rounder, with a shock of short, thick hair. She stretched.

"Did they think we'd just lie down and take it forever?" she mused. The other woman turned very slightly, exhaling smoke. The light played over her very strangely--Hawk thought she had stripes, faintly imprinted on her arms.

"Humans used to tell stories 'bout hunting our asses," she said, almost shrugging. "No one wants those days to come back."

"My mom says it isn't fear, it's all these centuries we been living with humans," the second girl said dismissively. Hawk chose that moment to move forward, uncrouching some. "It's made us all too genteeEEEAAAHHH!"

She'd suddenly noticed Hawk, and shrieked in surprise--the other woman, too, wheeled around. They stared at Hawk, whose eyes and nose streamed a hazy blue noise that was now forming patterns around a now very quiet and still Teige; Hawk stared back, because the woman with the cigarette now had large, furry, diamond-shaped ears where her human ones had been, and the other woman had developed very black smudges below her eyes and dark markings on her cheeks that were not unlike whiskers.

Hawk hesitated, then hissed, "Y-you guys are monsters, right? Y'gotta help me."

He blinked and missed it--both women suddenly looked entirely human again, all though the shorter of the two had screwed up her face in disgust.

"Y'smell like low tide," she started to say. The other woman's eyes had fallen, suddenly huge, on Teige.

"Oh my God," she interrupted, "is that blood?!"

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