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


(click on the images for the full comic)

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

Ellerbisms

Over the past few months Ellerbisms (the comic diaries of Marc Ellerby) became one of my favourite webcomics - it's funny, clever, full of pop culture references and, as what you’d expect from a diary, it chronicles every day life situations. Just like real life, they’re sometimes fun and sweet, and sometimes a bit less so, but either way, they are always good to read. Incredibly personal, these strips slowly made me feel like these characters are old friends of mine - I want them to be ok and happy… and to keep being awesome!

www.ellerbisms.com
www.marcellerby.com