HomestuckΒ is anΒ Internet fictionΒ series created by American author and artistΒ Andrew HussieΒ in the latter half of the 2000s. The fourth and best-known of Hussie's fourΒ MS Paint Adventures, it originally ran from April 13, 2009 to April 13, 2016. Though normally described as aΒ webcomic, and partly constituted by a series of singleΒ panelΒ pages,Β HomestuckΒ also relied heavily onΒ Flash animationsΒ andΒ instant messageΒ logsΒ to convey its story, along with occasional use ofΒ browser games.