A guest comic (or guest strip) is an issue of a comic strip that is created by a different person (or people) than usual. The practice is especially common in

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Guest comics in webcomics

Guest comics are usually requested of other artists by the usual creator of a webcomic. This may be done for a variety of reasons: * The creators are friends. * The usual creator will be unable to update the comic for some length of time, so they use guest comics to fill in the gap. * The usual creator enjoys (or thinks the audience will enjoy) seeing how other artists draw their characters. * A major phase of the plot has ended and the creator wants to take a break but keep the audience entertained. Guest comics are usually not meant to be

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with the normal comic; their purpose is primarily entertainment. Sometimes, guest comics are not published as if they were regular comics, but instead exhibited on the comic's website in a separate section; e.g. ''

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''. Webcomic creators that are in the same webcomic syndicate (e.g.

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) frequently do guest comics for each other, sometimes simultaneously. Webcomics {{Webcomic-stub