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* One special event in the history of guest strips occurred on September 17th, 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, 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 (Webcomic)|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.
* ''[[And Shine Heaven Now (Webcomic)|And Shine Heaven Now]]'' has never missed a day in part because every break on the author's part is filled with guest strips. This has the interesting effect of limiting the length of any hiatus to the number of filler strips the readership can be coerced to produce.
* ''[[Avalon (Webcomicwebcomic)|Avalon]]'' was once advertised in the Keenspot newsbox as featuring "the most comics drawn by other people."
* 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."
* [[Dinosaur Comics (Webcomic)|Dinosaur Comics]] has a guest week once a year or so.
* For some reason [[Bill The Barbarian]] has a '''truckload''' of these.
* ''[[Five5 Color Control (Webcomic)|Five Color Control]]'' uses them occasionally.
* ''[[El Goonish Shive (Webcomic)|El Goonish Shive]]'' had [http://www.egscomics.com/index.php?arcid=61 a week of them] after the Painted Black arc and [http://www.egscomics.com/?date=2006-10-02 another] after the Birthday Party arc. Dan has done [http://www.litbrick.com/comic.php?date=2011-01-08 one] himself for [[Lit Brick]].
* 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.]
* ''[[Femmegasm (Webcomic)|Femmegasm]]'' has had several due to the creator's health problems.
* ''[[Even in Thethe Deepest Heart of Chaos... Aa Glimmer of Order Can Be Found (Webcomic)|Even in The Deepest Heart of Chaos A Glimmer of Order Can Be Found]]'' has a lot of these, since any random person can create one, as the comics are an auto-generated selection of photos found on Flickr with captions written by the enterprising author.
 
== 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 (Comic Bookcomics)|Fish Police]]'', while under the publication of Comico, had guest strips in the back called "Fish Shticks". These were still written by Steve Moncuse, but drawn by guest artists.
 
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