Wuffle: The Big Nice Wolf

Created and illustrated by Piti Yindee, Wuffle: The Big Nice Wolf is a series of satirical web comics featuring the titular character, Wuffle, is a nice wolf that is a skilled mechanic and cook that works as a farmer. He goes around fixing and later supporting his friends throughout Gingerbread Village. The comics were meant for everyone, much in the same vein and inspired by classic cartoons, and have a comedic tone.

Although they are split into three in-universe years, the actual production time lasted nearly half a decade, with Leonard Kirke and Guts writing the stories while Kirke did the proofreading. While the first featured a standard four-panel layout and was largely episodic, the final two saw significant character development, with each comic being split into literal episodes that formed an arc, some tackling rather mature subjects, which all spanned to the comic’s conclusion.

Although inspired by Disney, Yindee subverts them in one crucial way: they are dedicated to the public domain under the CC0 (Creative Commons Zero) waiver. This extends not only to web comics themselves, but also to the publications. Yindee argued that he didn’t want to deal with the stress of potentially saying what people, especially his fans, could or couldn’t do.

Publications

All three years were individually published into a collection in both physical and digital forms. The former was published by NinjaKnight Comics, while the latter is presumed to be by Fast Books. The physical form is rare, with only Year 1 available on Amazon. The latter saw a limited release and was later published on Archive.org. Both have the same public domain dedication notice. However, NinjaKnight claims copyright to their version of the collection, while Fast Books does not. This discrepancy is what likely caused the eventual pull of the Fast Book version from Archive.org over TOS violations.

Syndication

Tony Bark was able to grab the Fast Books version from Archive.org, and share the address with his friends. He instantly fell in love with the stories, characters and setting. Bark was even more excited to see that they were copyright-free, allowing him to adopt them into his universe, filling in the void left when old DeviantArt parted ways. He later discovered that the original website where the comics were first published was archived on the same website in near-perfect condition. Only a few were added to image boards, so Bark decided to begin uploading the comics to those sites, sourcing back to the archived website as the original no longer exists.