History Main / GuestStrip

* ''Webcomic/SleeplessDomain'': The comic will often feature a guest page or two between chapters. Notably, many of these pages are written by regular author Mary Cagle, and as such most are still considered {{canon}}. There are, of course, [[https://www.sleeplessdomain.com/comic/guest-comic-ayme-sotuyo exceptions]].

** For more examples, [[CouchGag/TheSimpsons see this page.]]

* ''Webcomic/{{Avalon}}'' was once advertised in the Keenspot newsbox as featuring "the most comics drawn by other people."

* Webcomic/DinosaurComics has a guest week once a year or so.
* For some reason ''Webcomic/BillTheBarbarian'' has a '''truckload''' of these.
* ''Webcomic/FiveColorControl'' uses them occasionally.

* ''Webcomic/{{Femmegasm}}'' has had several due to the creator's health problems.

* [[http://www.anticscomic.com Antics]] by Stephen Gillian has had a few: [[http://www.anticscomic.com/?p=265 here]], [[http://www.anticscomic.com/?p=267 here]], [[http://www.anticscomic.com/?p=974 here]], [[http://www.anticscomic.com/?p=1025 here]], and [[http://www.anticscomic.com/?p=1082 here]].

* * ''Webcomic/TheKAMics'' does this occasionally.
* ''Webcomic/TheCallOfWhatever'' discusses the topic [[http://tcow.comicgenesis.com/d/20011224.html here.]]

* The April Fool's day 1997 ''ComicStrip/{{Garfield}}'' was drawn by Stan Drake the then current artist for the ''ComicStrip/{{Blondie}}'' strips which featured Jon and Garfield moving in with Blondie and Dagwood until the paint dries in their house, Jon and Garfield are also drawn in a different style to fit in with the other strip.

** Inverted in xkcd's [[http://xkcd.com/141/ Parody Week]], where Randall Monroe drew five [[TheParody parodies]] of some of his favourite webcomics and posted them as part of his own webcomic.

* ''Webcomic/TheCallOfWhatever'' discusses the topic [[http://tcow.comicgenesis.com/d/20011224.html here]].

* For a week in June 2014, Bill Watterson returned to newspaper cartooning by guesting on ''ComicBook/PearlsBeforeSwine''

* A television example in the form of ''WesternAnimation/AdventureTime'', which had four of its episodes written and directed by different guest animators, in addition to a special {{bonus episode}} that was co-produced by [[VideoGame/{{Minecraft}} Mojang]].

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!Non-webcomic examples

* ''WebComic/{{Precocious}}'':
** During the "Party crashers" arc, while Chrispy had a broken finger. The guest artists included Matt Dawson (''SometimeAlone''), Brooke Eggleston (''AlsoBagels''), Irene Pitcairn (''SunElves''), [[http://www.soulgamer.deviantart.com/ Robert McConnell]], Carl Sjostrand (''[[GingersBread Ginger's Bread]]''), [[http://ndunlimited.com/ Terrence and Isabel Marks]], John Peters (''GypsygirlPress''), and [[http://www.nox07.deviantart.com/ Roman Utkin]] (who does a [[http://furries.ru/precocious/ Russian translation]] of ''Precocious'').

* ''{{Drowtales}}'' uses this to not only lessen the work load on the main artist of the comic, but to use the different art styles to fully show off the current narrative. These strips are just as professional grade as the main comic and just as canon as art done by the main artist, advancing the story along in their absence.

* Inverted in the case of Webcomic/{{xkcd}}'s [[http://xkcd.com/141/ Parody Week]], where Randall Monroe drew five [[TheParody parodies]] of some of his favourite webcomics and posted them as part of his own webcomic.

* In the twelve or so year history of ''Webcomic/PennyArcade'', 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."

* ''WebComic/{{Precocious}}'': During the "Party crashers" arc, while Chrispy had a broken finger. The guest artists included Matt Dawson (''SometimeAlone''), Brooke Eggleston (''AlsoBagels''), Irene Pitcairn (''SunElves''), [[http://www.soulgamer.deviantart.com/ Robert McConnell]], Carl Sjostrand (''[[GingersBread Ginger's Bread]]''), [[http://ndunlimited.com/ Terrence and Isabel Marks]], John Peters (''GypsygirlPress''), and [[http://www.nox07.deviantart.com/ Roman Utkin]] (who does a [[http://furries.ru/precocious/ Russian translation]] of ''Precocious'').

* ''Webcomic/TheDailyDerp'' has on two occasions featured fan comics from DeviantArt. There was also [[http://dailyderp.tumblr.com/post/34218118360/tetrapony-late-daily-derp-provided-by-a-great a comic drawn by the author's friend]] and [[http://dailyderp.tumblr.com/post/37314419567/luna-thou-going-to-share-thy-muffin another drawn by Tsitra360 when the author was sick.]]

Usually, guest strips are [[CanonDiscontinuity Non-Canon]] and posted as FillerStrips. 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 [[FanConvention Con]]. Other comics, usually dailies, post a guest strip on Sundays in lieu of an elaborate SundayStrip.

* ''Webcomic/ElGoonishShive'' 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://litbrick.com/comic/rapunzel/ three]] [[http://litbrick.com/comic/gatsby-shive/ of]] [[http://litbrick.com/comic/gatsby-shive-2/ them]] himself for ''Webcomic/LitBrick''.