Widdershins is a webcomic by Kate Ashwin, the artist behind the now completed webcomic Darken. The story start with the adventurers of Sidney Malik, a failed magician and wizard who is cursed with a kind of magical kleptomania which results in him being kicked out of university. He also has difficult getting/keeping a job. Later, the story focuses on other characters within the same universe. The author summarizes it thus: