The Alcoholic / Webcomics

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• Lyle Gabriel from Achewood is nearly always drunk and usually blitzed well beyond the point of coherence. It gets less comedic as time goes on; later strips depict him as being unable to function if he doesn't drink constantly.
• King Hippo in Captain SNES: The Game Masta has been Drowning His Sorrows for a long time thanks to a combination of the horrible things he'd witnessed toward the end of Mother Brain's reign of terror, and the fact that since that time, his tenure as a villain and general oafishness has made him unable to hold down a job or any measure of respect for long. When pressed on why he was being so helpful and escorting Alex to the Queen of Videoland:
  King Hippo: Okay, so it might have been less good citizenship... and more the nine hundred bucks she offered to grab you and Marle. That's like nine hundred one-dollar beers. That's almost enough for one sitting!
• In Crankrats, Jack, the not-quite-Psycho Electro with Dark and Troubled Past like you wouldn't believe. Doesn't help that his job is serving drinks.
• Merno from Dragon Sanctuary is one of the Drowning Their Sorrows variety. He's seen so much tragedy and trauma across his life that it's easier for him to be drunk than deal with it sober and head-on. Not that it stops him from joking about how much he intakes.
• Elf Blood has Shanna, who was constantly depicted drinking alcohol in the earlier sections of the comic. She doesn't appear to suffer any deleterious effects from her condition though, or at least none that have been shown yet.
• Baek Seol-A of the Korean Webcomic Fluttering Feelings will empty the pockets of many of a man sad enough to take her drinking.
• Hazel from Girls with Slingshots is often drinking or drunk. She writes all of her articles smashed. Occasionally Lampshaded when she gets so drunk she forgets what happened, or realizes how common intoxication is for her. Such as when she "levels up" her faux sober threshold to nine beers.
• Doctor Henry Jekyll in The Glass Scientists opens a bottle of wine instead of having breakfast. This is not the worst of his problems, though. Edward Hyde probably cannot be counted as an alcoholic, even if he does binge on absinthe, because, well, he's Hyde.
• Roomie in Go Get a Roomie! is initially depicted as a Hard-Drinking Party Girl, but as the strip goes on it becomes increasingly clear that her drinking is pathological.
• Edison Lighthouse, in Groovy, Kinda, rarely appears without a drink in hand. At 39, she's old enough to be a Lady Drunk, but she's far too cheerful.
• Apollo from The Guide to a Healthy Relationship insists that he's only drinking for fun and could stop anytime. Except he never does stop. The few times he's in the process of sobering up, he's miserable, and while his friends seem to be aware that he has a problem, they tend to rather enable than care to help him.
• Detective Noir of Hero Material drinks nigh-constantly out of his flask. He never gets too drunk to do his job, though.
• Homestuck: Roxy Lalonde spends the first three parts of Act 6 hammered. And she's a teenager. By the fifth part, she admits that she had a problem.
• Kyotoshi Lypha from Inhuman, starting after his parents were killed in a planet-wide massacre. His fridge contains only vodka and a clean, folded towel.
• In Knights of Buena Vista, Adriana bases one of her in-character actions on "Aunt Felicia after two bourbons". Her brother Bill says that's a mean comment, but a true one.
• A major character in Mountain Time is Chimneyfoot, who drinks much more than humanly possible (owing at least in part to the fact that he isn't human).
• No Need for Bushido has Ken, who, after running out of sake in the middle of a battle, decides to go maul an enemy camp and take their supply. He then proceeds to do this several more times until he gets so drunk he falls unconscious, and when he regains consciousness, he finds he's run out yet again and goes out for some more.
• Out There: One of the most common settings is Sherry's bar, but only Clayton fits the trope. Miriam is more accurately described as a Hard-Drinking Party Girl, and none of the other characters seem particularly dedicated to the task.
• Almost everyone in Questionable Content drinks frequently (like a lot of 20-somethings) but some take it to more extremes than others.
  • Faye's drinking habits make her friends fear that she's an alcoholic, though she improves with therapy and some healthy relationships. A bad breakup leads to a binge that gets her fired and hospitalized, which motivates her to sober up for good.
  • Steve goes through a long binge-drinking period following his breakup with Ellen. He is drunk so often that the US Government hires him as a spy, knowing that anyone he broke secrecy with would dismiss it as an alcohol-induced hallucination.
• Golgo in Rice Boy. Played for Drama and portrayed surprisingly realistically, although he's addicted to the black spirit made by an apothecary, which is much more addictive than normal ethanol and will make you evil. Also, TOE and Calabash drink whiskey as if it was water.
• Taisei from Sakana is "drunk 50% of the time". When having a hangover is also pretty much the only time he is depressed.
• Schwarz Kreuz, another webcomic with noir-fantastic vibe, has an even more Dark and Troubled Past-addled male lead, Nick, who drinks because he's a vampire and hates the fact.
• Starslip Crisis has Cutter Edgewise, space pirate!. Well, former space pirate, anyway. He's nearly always at least semi-drunk, though he's still likely to be more level-headed than Vanderbeam.
• String Theory (2009) has the alcoholic Dr. Schtein. He's also an avid user of a large number of other drugs.
• In SwordCat Princess, Officer Jack Dawson is often seen drinking at Zora DaiQuirides bar. He sometimes drinks while on duty. He has bottles of alcohol around his apartment, including a 40 of Pabst in his living room.
• Graham in Wizard School is abducted to the Academy after a drunken bender — and is immediately asking small children to summon alcohol for him.
• Nitrous Blight of Zokusho Comics could head this way if he's not careful. He is a powerful telepath and alcohol is one of the few ways to dull the volume of the thoughts of others.

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