Today is Hourly Comic Day! How excit­ing is that?

I will tell you how excit­ing it is:

It is very exciting.

John and I are each going to try writ­ing hourly comics. That said, let it be known that there are some dif­fi­cul­ties involved:

1. I can’t draw.
2. John keeps telling me he’s “busy” or “has school­work to do” or “is going to fail out of col­lege if he wastes time doing hourly comics, really, so please stop bug­ging me about it, Greg” or some whiny thing like that. What a whin­ing whiner, right? We should totally start call­ing him “Sir John Whiny McWhines-A-Lot, Esq.” It would cer­tainly be an appro­pri­ate name for some­one who whines so very much!

At any rate, we shall see how it goes. I cer­tainly hope that between the two of us we will come up with some­thing worthy enough for you, our extremely intel­li­gent and highly refined readership.

Here it is! (I’ve linked to the file rather than embed­ding it in the post so that there isn’t a big image clog­ging up this space.)

You can see why John is the artist in this comick­ing part­ner­ship. I hope that you will be able to nav­i­gate and read the thing easily enough.

P.S. The time on the last comic got par­tially cut off—it orig­i­nally said “11:48 PM” and not “1:48 PM”.

Hey folks! Here is mine. (Be warned: huge image! That is one of the rea­sons why I’m link­ing it and not embed­ding it.)

(Also, don’t forget to check out Greg’s Hourly Comic if you haven’t already.)

Greg was right about my cease­less whin­ing, and I drew some hourly comics after all for all you all people. How about that? Sharpie on com­puter paper may not be the most refined medium, but at least it’s quick. Judge my daily affairs as you will. Now: what will tomor­row bring?!

Prob­a­bly some essay writing!

Readers may have noticed that we’ve added the Oh No Robot tran­scrip­tion ser­vice to our site. It’s a system for set­ting up a search­able data­base of comic tran­scrip­tions; one of the niftier fea­tures is that it allows read­ers to con­tribute their own tran­scrip­tions to the database.

The upshot? Now if you remem­ber a cer­tain line of dia­logue but can’t remem­ber which strip it was in and don’t want to go trawl­ing through the archives, you can try using the search box located at the top of the side­bar (imme­di­ately beneath the comic on the right side of the screen).

FOR EXAM­PLE: Here’s what I get if I search for “skeleton”.

Read­ers might also have noticed that not all the comics are in the data­base yet. John and I are work­ing on it, but we cer­tainly wouldn’t object to a little assis­tence. If you’re so inclined, you can click the little “Transcribe this Comic!” button on the archive page of any comic that hasn’t yet been transcribed.

In fact, just today I approved our first reader tran­scrip­tion! Thank you, reader! You are offi­cially AWE­SOME. Which is to say, I have reg­is­tered you with the National Awe­some­ness Bureau. They informed me that the paper­work should be through in three-to-five busi­ness days.