Comic Strips, Comic Books and Graphic Novels
- Adam Warren, Empowered
- Berke Breathed, Bloom County
- Rich Burlew, The Order of the Stick.
- John Byrne's run on The Sensational She-Hulk and Dan Slott's run on She-Hulk.
- Alan Moore, Promethea, Supreme and The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen.
- Grant Morrison's runs on Animal Man and Doom Patrol, Flex Mentallo, The Filth, and more recently, Batman R.I.P. and Final Crisis. Elements of metafiction can be found in a great deal of Morrison's comics work. Metafictional aspects are especially prominent in The Invisibles, a series Morrison has described as a hypersigil designed to effect positive change in the reader's (and writer's) life.
- Ryukishi07, Umineko no Naku Koro ni, Umineko no Naku Koro ni Chiru
- Claudio Sanchez, Good Apollo, I'm Burning Star IV, Vol. 1, first half of the fourth chapter of The Amory Wars presents a metafictional aspect to the story when The Writing Writer goes into the story to persuade the main character to accept his destiny.
- Dave Sim, chapters "Minds" and "Guys" from his six thousand pages graphic novel Cerebus.
- Kristofer Straub, Checkerboard Nightmare, portrayed as the workplace of several professional webcomic actors and marketers.
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