They're not long-running because they're complete, which is rare for webcomics, but here are two mildly interesting specimens to scrutinise:
Serenity Rose by Aaron Alexovich, who is probably well known in /co/ for working on Invader Zim (or so his website says, I don't know anything about it). I picked up the archived comic some years ago, presumably because of the description implying a shortstack goth MC. It has remained, half-read, in my collection of links ever since. So maybe not that good?
Last Blood by Bobby & Chris Crosby, who may or may not have some mild notoriety for being absolute hacks, serial idea guys and pathetic clout chasers, or something. It's been twelve years since the last update on the comic's site and all it was was cope about how the thing would soon be adapted into an epic movie.
The comic itself is a fairly by-the-numbers vampires and zombie survival setup, complete with dastardly nazi zombie vampire supervillain evil scientists and so on. Engaging enough to kill time with.
Zombies reminds me of one currently (glacially) updating and one abandoned undead nightmare; Dead Winter and The Zombie Hunters, both by female artists and started in the mid 00s. Was that when The Walking Dead got popular or something?
Dead Winter got infected with lesbianitis and updates so slowly that although it's been running since 2007 it has less than 700 comic pages and pretty much no overarching plot. Nonetheless, a fun one to go through.
The Zombie Hunters ran from 2006 to early 2018 and is similar to Dead Winter in that it's a mix of comedy and zombie survival. Despite a similarly sluggardly output to DW, the plot manages to go much further, but the whole comic was abruptly dropped when the highly-strung, presumably drugged up on anxiety medication white woman author had a mental breakdown over losing her pet bird (why did you take it outside then retard? Or out of it's cage if you had windows open?). Existing mental illness also ensured she caught the libtard disease and can currently be found on bluesky with pronouns and dyed hair.
It was pretty good and did some zombie tropes well. Worth a read before the website dies completely- already a lot of the extra content is disappearing due to lack of maintenance.
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I finished catching up after writing that post and it definitely still takes itself too seriously, the latest multi-year arc is doing the same thing as previous, all over-explained magical bullshit wordy lore (the main difference is now there are magic space whales and ascended ancients like from stargate but cringier, or something) culminating in "here's another character with a convoluted backstory who is basically the same as every other character and will just talk about feelings and relationships while doing magic sex changes" etcetera
One doesn't really expect anything different of course but it's definitely not a series I'm invested in enough to check up on more than once every three years or so