Twokinds

Twokinds is an ongoing fantasy webcomic created by Tom Fischbach. The first page of Twokinds was released on October 22, 2003 but the origins of the comic itself go back even further than that. After originally writing a book during his mid-teens, Tom decided to make his idea of Twokinds into a webcomic instead, this was because it was a more accessible format for him. An earlier short webcomic resembling the ideas of Twokinds but set in the modern day titled "The HalfKind" had been made by Tom beforehand, though he decided to move his focus away from that and began Twokinds officially soon after (The HalfKind is considered a non-canon side comic of Twokinds.) The inspiration for the comic was primarily racial discrimination Tom had experienced in his school since the majority of the students were white.

The main Twokinds comic consists of 21 chapters of varying length, as well as a short Prologue that takes place immediately before the events of Chapter 1 and a 10th Anniversary Chapter that takes place between Chapter 16 and Chapter 17. A 32 page side comic titled "The Dragon Masquerade" was also created during the comic's run which chronologically takes place a few years before the Prologue's events. The main comic itself, coupled with The Dragon Masquerade, currently stands at 1130 pages as of Chapter 20's ending. Various individual side sketches are produced by Tom, one per day for the most part, alongside the comic on his Patreon as supporter requests. Though most of the side sketches are considered non-canonical and made for just for fun some can be seen as canon, serving to show aspects of character backstories or expand on Mekkan's world building.