Oglaf

• Title — Oglaf • Author — Trudy Cooper and Doug Bayne • Website — https: www.oglaf.com/ • First — 2008

Oglaf is produced by Trudy Cooper and Doug Bayne, though this is not stated anywhere on the comic's website; reviewer Shaenon Garrity said in 2012 that the comic was "technically anonymous but instantly recognizable" as the work of Cooper and Bayne. A 2013 Sequential Tart article said that "the site... doesn't tell who creates it", while a 2016 Paste Magazine article credited the comic to "Bodil Bodilson". In 2025 The Comics Journal interviewed Cooper and Bayne as the authors of Oglaf, with them attributing this ambiguity to themselves being bad at self-promotion. The Patreon page for Oglaf states that the comic is made by "Trudy & Doug" and the printed books are credited to them. Cooper and Bayne had previously worked together on Platinum Grit and had also animated a music video together for Violent Soho. According to the website, the comic "started out as an attempt to make pornography [and] degenerated into sex comedy pretty much immediately." A new comic is released online each Sunday. The first two collections have been published in book form by TopatoCo, and a third book was crowdfunded on Kickstarter in July and August 2020. A fourth book was crowdfunded in September 2023.

The comic takes place in a medieval fantasy realm; a reviewer for ComicsAlliance described it as "a world created by shoving every existing fantasy world into a blender and setting it on puree." Oglaf has no overarching story, though does have many recurring characters and storylines. It features many explicit sex scenes; reviewers have called it "really REALLY pornographic" and "extremely, extraordinarily NSFW." The initial story is about a man named Ivan who is apprenticed to a sadistic sorceress who forbids him to masturbate, or else his ejaculations come to life and report him. Comics have included shapeshifters, interspecies romance, fountains of youth, enchanted body parts, magical sex toys, and "bedroom injuries with a literal ice queen". The archive notes which comics are less explicit. Cooper has noted that many of the early Oglaf strips have material that "we'd never do now", due to issues regarding sexual consent.