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A '''Guest Strip''' is a [[Canon
Usually, guest strips are posted as [[Filler Strips]], and entire "Guest Strip Weeks" are often invoked by webcomic authors when they need back surgery, a week in Tahiti, or a chance to attend a [[Fan Convention|Con]]. Other comics, usually dailies, post a guest strip on Sundays in lieu of an elaborate [[Sunday Strip]].
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* One special event in the history of guest strips occurred on September
** And guess what? He did it ''again'', on September
* Inverted in the case of [[
** XKCD did a guest strip week in November 2010, when Randall was struggling with a family illness.
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* ''[[Avalon (
* In the twelve or so year history of ''[[Penny Arcade]]'', the need for a guest strip has only come up once, after a PAX convention where the artist came down with swine flu (and then only because he was physically incapable of lifting a pencil to draw). The illness was incorporated into some of the strips.
** And again half a year later when "There was a point after PAX East had come to a close and the second leg of our book tour was underway that we began to understand we had fucked up."
* [[
* For some reason [[Bill The Barbarian]] has a '''truckload''' of these.
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* ''[[
* Inverted on ''[[The Word Weary]]'': After weeks of asking for guest comics and presumably getting no replies, John Kossler, the author, made three guest strips for himself and posted them under different names. At the end of the week, he [http://wordwearycomic.blogspot.com/2011/10/9-october-2011.html admitted as such.]
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* ''[[Even in
== Non-webcomic examples ==
* The [[wikipedia:Comic strip switcheroo|Comic Strip Switcheroo]] of April 1, 1997, where 18 pairs of cartoonists drew comics for each others' strips as an April Fools' joke.
* ''[[Dilbert]]'' had [http://search.dilbert.com/comic/Guest%20Cartoonist a week of guest strips] in 2003.
* ''[[Fish Police (
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