Wanting to restart my Webcomic. Any alternative to Wordpress that I could use on my website?

What format are you looking for? Something like a comic layout?
- Just a way to post my comics on my website and people can click through them. Like how Comicpress worked back in the day.

Hugo is nice if you want extensive customization and you’re okay fighting with Go code and templates, a little bit.

Wordpress as a framework is kinda federated, you can host your own server if you want to.
You can look into wysiwyg website editors, self hosting a website with aws and s3 is wicked cheap, and other providers like netlify are also inexpensive to a lesser degree.
- I will look into that. Thanks. And WordPress doesn't let you tinker with the base code like they used to.
  
  They do if you host it yourself. I've done a fair bit of WordPress development. You can add your own plugins that override base functionality, and if that isn't enough you can just modify the base code directly (but you'll have to reconcile it with updates if you want to update).

Idk if this would work but bearblog is a nice platform for releasing stuff. You can customize it a lot and the UI is pretty nice.

I'm hosting writefreely with picsur as the image host for my blog. They're pretty lightweight. Otherwise a static site generator like others suggested.
- Do you find that Writefreely federates well? I've tried hosting it a couple of times but my accounts weren't discoverable on many other Fediverse instances. I never got to the bottom of why. I really like it though and would love for it to work out.

The answer is probably "no", but.... Any interest in rolling your own? I once wrote a webcomic engine for a friend, and it was pretty trivial: a simple mod_perl script that grabbed a template and substituted a codeword with the picture the client requested.
Nothing fancy and pretty lightweight. My friend uploaded any new comics via FTP and made some minor changes to the template from time to time. It did the job well.
- I can do badic html and css and thought of doing that way but it would look very early 2000. Besides not looking to code and do the artwork. Already do that for one website and its not pretty.

Faircamp is great for this for music - I wonder if it could be pretty easily adapted for art, too.
- Nice but not sure how to fix for art.
  
  It would be something to discuss with the Faircamp devs. If Faircamp seems like what you want except you would just plug in images instead of music, then maybe it would be worth pursuing.
  If Faircamp doesn't quite seem like what you want, it's not.

You need to follow it, but the thing is, you're probably just as well off posting a link from your own account. It comes up as a separate account for me. I don't think the federation there is really worth it