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  • Thanks for your contributions to the 2016 BL Webcomic Rec List!

    If you haven’t read the 2016 BL Webcomic Recs, now (or maybe the weekend) is the perfect time to do so!

    While I’ve had my list for this year, I was so happy to receive an awesome set of recs from other folks! Thanks to them, we’re still basking in the feels of all these amazing titles. In gratitude, I’m giving one of them a chance to win Mirror, the illustration collection book of Takarai Rihito!

    Winning contributor is @PhoenixTerran

    With the power of a general online lister, the winner is Ash (@PhoenixTerran) from twitter! He’s been a great supporter of many works and this site for years so it’s great that the fujojo gods are in your favor this year!! Do send me an e-mail (punkednoodle-at-gmail) for your contact deets!!

    To everyone who contributed, thank you so much! Let’s continue to track amazing BL webcomics over the next year! Super thanks!

  • 2016 BL Webcomic Rec List

    2016 BL Webcomic Rec List

    Whether it’s raining or I’m burning under the summer sun, I will not miss out on this year’s rec list!

    The contributions this year are amazing and diverse. I took out some recs  because they’re quite young narratives which still needs some time to brew. For most, well, I did my best to list them down below.

    If you’re looking for a steamy summer read, then you can get started with these BL webcomics! 

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  • It’s time for the 2016 BL webcomic roll call

    Yes gaiz. It’s almost August. If you stalk me well enough, you know that August is the time when this site goes crazy. This year, it’ll be wilder for reasons that I will only reveal on the 801. 
    For now, I’m calling all you fujoshi and fudanshi to lend me your awesome powers in finding the best BL webcomics you’ve read in the last year! Share with our fellow fujojos the BL webcomics that made you squee, crai, and loved dearly n the last year! Make sure that the comic you shared has not been listed in the 2012, 2013, and 2015 BL webcomic lists. 

    As for what counts as a BL webcomic, any comic that highlights some form of romance between boys or men counts. BL does stand for ‘boys love’ but I’m not strict when it comes to the genre. Over the last few years, the BL webcomic recs have been pooling a diverse set of works that explores amazing representations male homosexualities as written by various creators from all walks of life. So I’ll take every rec granted it’s a BL comic that is easily accessible online. 

    In return, this year, I’ll be giving away to a lucky contributor a copy of Takarai Rihito’s illustration book: Mirror! 

    If you want to contribute, you can leave a comment below, send me (@khursten) a tweet of your rec with the hashtag #801blrec, or e-mail me (check my About page!) with the subject [801BLRec]! Contributions will be entertained only until 31 July 2016 23:59, US Eastern time. 

    Looking forward to your recs, fujojos!! 

  • Hot 2015 BL Webcomic Rec List!

    Hot 2015 BL Webcomic Rec List!

    Hey guys! Happy 801, Yaoi no Hi! /o/ 
     
    As a gift to all of you, I’ve finally compiled the 2015 BL Webcomic Rec List from all you amazing people. Super thanks! Had I done this alone you’d probably get a handful but I got tons from you guys which means you’ve got tons of things to read this 801 weekend!  

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  • Winners for 801BLRec!

    Winners for 801BLRec!

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    People have spoken and Random.org has done the hard work of pick out the winners. Congratulations to PotatoeOverlord, Trenna Schram, and Kawaii_Mess!! If you guys won and want to claim your prize, send me an e-mail and let’s talk about how I get some BL to you!

    As for everyone who contributed super super thanks!

    I also want to give a shoutout to Sparkler Monthly for answering my silly question and making it possible that I can give this prize. No, Sparkler Monthly did not provide the prize, but they do have so many amazing titles in their mag which I want to share to winners of this contest.

    Again, congratulations to the winners and give me a few minutes to post the 801 BL Webcomic Rec List!

  • Calling for recs for the 2015 BL Webcomic Rec List

    Calling for recs for the 2015 BL Webcomic Rec List

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    SO! Another year has passed. What happened to 2014? I was doing research shenanigans and I missed celebrating 801 as well as updating this lovely BL list. That made this fujojo sad so I’m making up for it this 2015 and to get the party started, I’m doing my annual roundup of BL Webcomics online!

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  • #801MMF – 2013 BL Webcomic Rec List

    I called and you delivered!

    You never disappoint me, fujoshi. And here are your recommended BL Webcomics for this year.

    It’s a really great mix from people all over the world, so have fun ladies! Make sure you keep your web browsers busy!

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  • #801MMF Giveaway No. 1: We want new webcomics!

    I’ve done this last year and we’re doing this again! 😀

    Last year was so much fun and with all your recs, all of us spent some sweet time reading those awesome BL recs.

    But we know that that there’s more out there. And there’s more that we haven’t read. As such, I’m putting up the polls again and pooling all your powers so that we can make a 2013 BL Webcomic Rec List! 😀

    How to join?

    Simply reply in the comments section below or tweet @khursten in twitter with the hashtag #801BLwebrec. You can also use the same hashtag in tumblr (or you can reblog my tumblr post with your answer) 

    Like last year,  I’ll be giving away a copy of my favorite comic from last year’s list: Tripping Over You’s The Blue Book & Love Bites to a randomly selected contributor to this list! The contributor can write down as many webcomics as he/she likes however he/she will only receive 1 entry in the raffle. 

    The contest will run from today, 24 July 2013 until 5 August 2013 at 12:00 a.m. (EST/NEW York). That would probably be 2 p.m. in Sydney on 6 August or 12 p.m. in Manila.

    So bring in your recs! Make sure that they haven’t been recc’d before! Check the previous list!

  • [801] The Ultimate BL Webcomic Rec List

    Can you believe that Boy’s Love comics has been around for more than 40 years?

    One would think that Shounen Ai, Yaoi, Boy’s Love is just a passing fancy among girls but its continued influence not only in Japanese otaku subculture but in the global subculture shows the power of the genre.

    Yes. Yaoi is all over the globe. There’s a book on Boy’s Love that speaks about Yaoi fans in Indonesia, Germany, Italy, and Chine. And there are scholars in Japan who study other fujoshi subcultures in the Philippines and even Latin America. The internet has made yaoi accessible and day by day, girls like you and me become aware of their fujoshi goggles.

    In the last few years I’ve become more and more aware of emerging BL artists outside of Japan. What was once amateur efforts in writing BL have eventually involved in a BL that’s quite mature and very different from Japan’s. It’s fantastic how many of these artists are yet unpublished and find the internet as the space for their works. If I had money, I’d get these artist to publish in an anthology because they all deserve a shot in getting their stories more available to the public.

    To pull this list of BL Webcomics, I asked fujojos and fudanshis to give me their recs for a prize! Many gave the same recs which proves that there are those who have made a name out there. The prize I’m giving away is also from an artist who made a name drawing BL for Suikoden and Devil May Cry, Jo Chen. In These Words was a comic she drew for her doujin circle Guilt|Pleasure. Initially a webcomic, Guilt|Pleasure’s efforts eventually gave them enough fan base and chapters to make a volume before it was published by DMP and now published in Japan under Libre’s BeBoy Gold. Isn’t that fantastic?

    But I’m quite sure outside of here there are many BL webcomics online. Here are your recommendations (in alphabetical order)!

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