Guide to Dark Souls based comics

Dark Souls has fan-made comics/doujinshi, that relatively few people are aware exist.
I've made this "guide" to inform people of what exists, and where to find it.

As of now, there are three doujinshi, four comics and two artists' sets of miscellaneous comic strips/pictures in this guide. This will be expanded upon if I find more, or if people suggest new ones.

(All rights to the original mangakas/cartoonists/artists who made these).

Priscilla! [Doujinshi]

Link: http://bato.to/comic/_/comics/dark-souls-priscilla-doujinshi-r8256

This is a 4-koma chibi-style doujinshi which jokingly depicts Priscilla's life in The Painted World of Ariamis, made by the artist Serizawa Enono.

It currently has 3 chapters, and was last updated on the 30th of January 2014.

Poka Poka Dark Souls Life [Doujinshi]

Link: http://bato.to/comic/_/comics/dark-souls-poka-poka-dark-souls-life-doujinshi-r8240

Poka Poka Dark Souls Life is the author's own first experiences in Dark Souls, depicting how she was quite roughly introduced to the game.

Other than the original author, Miyasumi (possibly an alias, I don't know Japanese so I cannot confirm or deny), another artist participated in making it, going by the alias of Fantasy.

It only has one chapter (making in a One-Shot, I believe), and it was added on the 7th of February 2013.

Dark Souls Theatre [Doujinshi]

Link: http://danbooru.donmai.us/pools/4594

This is a set of sketches featuring various characters from Dark Souls, and occasionally some from Demon's Souls, drawn by 'Nameless (rynono09)' (unsure if that's the actual alias of the author). To see the english translations, hover your mouse over the square boxes surrounding the symbols. A few boxes haven't been translated.
I couldn't find any information about the author, unfortunately.

Rynono09 also did one about Demon's Souls:
Demon's Souls Theatre








Link: https://danbooru.donmai.us/pools/4586

Karniz's Many Deaths In Dark Souls [Comic] (also 'Ask the Xanthous King' & 'Twelve days of Dark Souls')

Link: http://darksouls.noizmaker.net/comic/torcens-redecorating-services-2/

This is a comic series done by the DeviantArts cartoonist/artist Karniz, depicting her first playthrough in Dark Souls, starting from the first comic page which I believe was supposed to be standalone, then was later expanded upon.

The art naturally becomes less rough and more clean as it progresses towards the more recent pages.

At the time of writing, the most recent page was uploaded on the 8th of April 2016.
(Turns out there's some problem with a few of the pages, making it so that you can't go to the next page in the line. I've missed a few updates due to this, and I'll just have a link to the latest chapter to make it all a bit easier: http://darksouls.noizmaker.net/ )

Link: http://ask-xanthous-king.tumblr.com/

Karniz has also made a Tumblr based comic featuring the Xanthous King Jeremiah answering questions. As the more recent ones will be near the top of the page, one will have to start from the bottom-most comic strip to read them chronologically. It was last updated on the 28th of June 2014.




Link: http://karniz.deviantart.com/art/12-Days-of-Dark-Souls-344619198

And a Dark Souls version of the "Twelve days of christmas" song. As a comic, naturally. It was made in 2012 between the 13th and 24th of December. Presumably also released at that time.

The Dark Souls Adventures [Comic]

Link:http://clockworkpandas.com/comic/the-dark-souls-adventures-1/

This is a set of comics depicting the cartoonist Ken Mahon's full first playthrough of Dark Souls. It has been entirely finished, and the last page was added to his site on the 15th of December 2013.

Occasionally there will be some intermissions of other comic pages, if you just go through all them chronologically.

Dork Souls [Comic]

Link: http://danbooru.donmai.us/pools/6874?page=1

This is a series of small comedic comics by the artist Setz, which occasionally feature Dark Souls 2 characters and a few characters from different franchises altogether. I could not find any particular order to the gallery. Although they are technically comics, the artstyle appears to be more eastern than western.











There is a bit more to be seen in his full Dark Souls related gallery:
Link: http://danbooru.donmai.us/posts?page=1&tags=setz+dark_souls

Namely, a couple more comic style Priscilla pages, the 'Paper Souls' series of theatrically themed scenes from Dark Souls and a page with vacation scenes showing Souls mascots and their respectful level-up waifus (as well as Priscilla in the original Chosen Undead's case).

Lordran and Beyond [Comic]

Link:http://www.lordranandbeyond.com/stories/

Lordran and Beyond is a series of short webcomics made by various artists (list of artists here[www.lordranandbeyond.com]), managed by Zach Sharpe. it currently features 4 (and an 'Ask Solaire' segment) Dark Souls based comics, 4 Dark Souls II comics, 1 Dark Souls III comic and 4 Bloodborne comics.

At the time of writing, the latest update was on the 18th of May 2016.

Havel's Job by Doodley/DoodleyMan [Comic]

Link:http://doodleyman.deviantart.com/art/Havel-s-Job-355898650

A series of a few short comic strips showing Havel's journey through various jobs, drawn by the artist on DeviantArt, Doodley (or DoodleyMan, I am unsure of which is the correct alias).

Assorted works by Charleian [Comic]

Link:http://charleian.deviantart.com/gallery/46675332/Dark-souls?offset=24

The link above leads to the Dark Souls gallery of Charlei Brown. He has made various Demon's/Dark Souls themed short comics often featuring a female character named Nino.
He has uploaded them to deviantart in a reverse chronological order, so one needs to start from the oldest uploads and browse towards the newer ones.
(They contain some semi-erotic content, although there are no exposed genitals or anything beyond that.)

Feel free to suggest more content for this guide!

I may even include other forms of literature if suggested.

[Crombell]

I do not know how much I can really spoil, but I will confirm that it is indeed a character from Dark Souls 3.

[zero hope >:(]

Oh, I see, nevermind then. I don't know much about DS3 and thought it was dediucated to Solaire and the expunged god of war

[Crombell]

@Dearth >:( Thank you for letting me know about that one, but I only add stuff about or related to Dark Souls 1 specifically, as this is a guide for Dark Souls 1.

[zero hope >:(]

Check out this. http://ds.reactor.cc/post/2641154 It is not an original sourse afaik tho

[Crombell]

@ultramage I thank you for your assistance once more!

[ultramage]

Dork Souls - http://danbooru.donmai.us/pools/6874 - by Setz, a finnish artist with distinct art style. Also check out his artwork - http://danbooru.donmai.us/posts?page=1&tags=setz+dark_souls - including the Paper Souls miniseries.

[Blyats For Days]

So good.

[Crombell]

@ultramage Upon closer inspection, this is actually translated! I was being slightly idiotic and failed to notice the squares around the text boxes, which provide a translation when you hover over them.

[Crombell]

@ultramage No worries, can't really succeed at finding a translation if none exists.

[ultramage]

I failed to find a hard translation for that one, sorry.