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Line 1: {{trope}} A '''Guest Strip''' is a [[Canon ~~Dis Continuity~~Discontinuity\|Non-Canon]] episode of a webcomic that was not drawn or written by the current authors of said webcomic. Due to the communal nature of the Web and webcomics culture, this is much easier to organise than in other media. It is, perhaps, ascended [[Fan Art]]. 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]]. Line 7: {{examples}} * One special event in the history of guest strips occurred on September ~~17th~~17, 2007. During the previous month, webcomic author Ryan Estrada drew an entire 48 guest strips for 48 different webcomics - by itself an impressive feat. What's more, he contacted all 48 authors of the 48 webcomics and got them to post each of his guest strips ''on the same day''. So it was that, on a bright sunny morning in September, many webcomic fans woke up to find Ryan Estrada's artwork on dozens upon dozens of their favourite webcomic sites. ** And guess what? He did it ''again'', on September ~~18th~~18, 2008 - but with ''70'' guest strips this time. Seventy guest strips. One of those guest strips was for a [[Show Within a Show\|Comic Within A Comic]]. One of those guest strips was for a ''news blog''. * Inverted in the case of [[Xkcd]]'s [http://xkcd.com/141/ Parody Week], where Randall Monroe drew five [[The Parody\|parodies]] of some of his favourite webcomics and posted them as part of his own webcomic. ** XKCD did a guest strip week in November 2010, when Randall was struggling with a family illness.