Hourly Comics - part 2

Lots of people have added their comics to the Hourly Comic Day Forums since I posted about it on Tuesday, including some old time favourites like Marc Ellerby, Adam Cadwell, Lucy Knisley and Box Brown.

There are 7 whole pages worth of links and so many good ones it's hard to pick favourites, but here's a few more that I really enjoyed:

Tim Carpenter


Rachel Weiss


Jordyn Bochon


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Hourly Comics

Yesterday was the Hourly Comic Day. The idea is simple (and a lot of fun): to get lots of artists everywhere to make a journal comic every hour they were awake and post the results online. Here's a few that stood out for me, but there are tons of other really good ones over at the tencentticker message board.
 
Vicki Nerino


Thorsten Sideboard


Britt Wilson


Ste Hitchen


Joe Hunter


Joseph Bergin III


And here's one from Lucy Knisley.  Even though she hasn't posted one for yesterday yet, she had been doing hourly comics every wednesday for the past month.




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Lucy Knisley's watercolours

I wish I could be this productive everytime I get the flu.

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Real life

The other day I was reading Anna Petterson's (one of the main characters of Marc Ellerby's comic Ellerbisms) comments about how weird it is to be parf of an autbiographical comic and have so much of your life shared with people you don't know, and I realized it's also kind of weird for us, readers, to see characters we are so used to, and whose life we know so much of, as real-life people.

I always find it strange and amusing to see a real photograph or video of somebody I know so well in the cartoon form... I guess that in my head, I almost expect them to be animated. Here's some of my favourite comic people, and the corresponding flesh-and-blood versions of themselves in all their glory.

James Kochalka - The American Elf

Adam Cadwell - The Everyday
  Natasha Allegri - Normal life
   Emi Lenox - Emitown

Marc Ellerby - Ellerbisms
Jacob Borshard - Creebobby
Lucy Knisley - ArtJournal

Paris Journal

Chicago based illustrator Lucy Knisley has just posted the last couple of pages of the diaries she kept while on holidays in Paris last week. I don't even like Paris, but this makes me want to go there too. So nice!

Check the whole Paris journal here.