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stefgaines.bsky.social
Spooky Ghost Town
@stefgaines.bsky.social
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Currently secretary of a youth organization but this account is dedicated to my love of (and drawing) comics. Opinions expressed here are my own.
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Spooky Ghost Town @stefgaines.bsky.social · 19d
Hej tecknare i Sverige!

I och med 20-årsjubileet för HCD gör jag en liten tävling. För att delta:

1. Rita en Hourly Comic som beskriver ETT dygn - Make it in English!

2. Lägg upp den på BlueSky nån gång mellan 8 - 28 februari 2026

3. Tagga mig.

Läs mer om HCD här: hourlycomicsday.com
Texten lyder: Gör en Hourly Comic under februari 2026 och tävla om en bok som samlar sju omgångar av Hourly Comics day! Fotografi på Stef som håller upp sin bok ”Twenty-four SEVEN” som samlar sju omgångar av Hourly Comic hon gjort över lika många år.
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assignedmale.bsky.social
Give trans kids a chance to be kids.
4 frame comic. it reads, on top of each frame : Give trans kids a chance to be kids without having to fight for the right to exist. first frame shows a kid playing soccer, second shows two kids drawing dinosaurs at a table, third shows a group of friends sitting by a fountain drinking bubble tea and eating chips, fourth shows a kid with long curly hair holding a trans flag.
February 16, 2026 at 9:03 PM
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strflt.bsky.social
Jag kanske har låga krav men det finns så mycket vackert om man bara ser sig omkring.
En person halvt dold av skugga står och kollar mobilen bredvid en tjock betongpelare. På pelaren sitter en papperskorg som ser ur att vara upplyst.
February 12, 2026 at 9:09 PM
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swussian.bsky.social
Jag är en sån som blir personligen rädd när man börjar slänga sig med ord som migrationskuld och vill därför påminna om en grej jag tjatar om ibland.

I mitt fall harSverige sluppit betala: mödravård, förlossning, vaccinationer, all sjukvård jag fick som barn, förskola >
February 8, 2026 at 10:11 AM
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clynn.bsky.social
Apropå Tidölagets senaste förslag på skärpningar av kraven för att bli medborgare så kommer ett par exempel på hur de nu gällande kraven påverkar folk i min omgivning
February 9, 2026 at 3:41 PM
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jayeatonart.bsky.social
Happy #HourlyComicsDay, you're probably gonna get most of these tomorrow because I am busy and out of house most of today.
February 9, 2026 at 1:33 AM
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awcomix.com
It’s hourly comics day. Still feeling tired today, but I can do this!
#HourlyComicsDay #HCD
Four panel comic one for each hour. 1-I’m sitting in a chair falling asleep. HOURLY COMICS DAY 2026 12:30 AM - WE WERE WIPED AFTER HAVING GONE OUT TO WATCH ELLIOTT'S POLTAVA CONCERT. IT'S HOURLY COMICS DAY TOMORROW, I SHOULD GET TO BEEDDD...222 * A UKRAINIAN ORCHESTRA THAT ELLIOTT PLAYS TRUMPET IN... WERE NOT UKRAINIAN. 2- I’m waking up and my dog can be seen on the bed half dead looking. 8:40AM - I WAKE UP TO THE SOUND OF OUR DOG REESE SMACKING HER LIPS. IM RELIEVED THAT AT LEAST I GOT 8 HOURS WHICH IS RARITY. 3- in the kitchen making breakfast with Heather. . 9:30 - ON SUNDAY MORNINGS I LIKE TO MAKE A SPECIAL BREAKFAST. TODAY IT'S FRENCH TOAST AND A LATE! FRENCH TOAST? I'LL STICK TO MY USUAL PORRIDGE. 4- Heather zoey and me sitting on the couch. 10:35 — WE SIT IN THE COUCH AND TALK ABOUT THE CONCERT LAST NIGHT AND OTHER TOPICS ARE WE A FART ASHAMED OR FART PROUD HOUSEHOLD? I THINK IF YOU FART YOu SHOULD EXPECT OTHERS TO COMMENT ...BUT NOT GO ON ABOUT IT.
February 8, 2026 at 6:12 PM
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ethanmaldridge.bsky.social
It's #HourlyComicsDay! Finally catching up
8:30 AM My husband, Matt, heads to work. Kitsu and I decide to sleep in a bit more. It's hibernation season, after all. 9:30 AM Brooklyn has been in a deep freeze for a couple weeks. It feels bad to be outside. 10 AM Work Out. I'm trying to grow my small cartoonist muscles. I'm making progress!
February 9, 2026 at 3:48 AM
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humblegoat.bsky.social
tomorrow is #hourlycomicday! (well, technically, in 10 minutes it’s hourly comic day). doing some late-night tests for what supplies i wanna use before i hit the hay. #scoutdraws #dailysketch
my test comic for hourly comic day. in it, i exclaim HERE WE GO! as i brandish a pen in each hand. beside me lays a sketchbook and three pens.
February 8, 2026 at 7:53 AM
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natalienourigat.bsky.social
Just finished up my hourly comics…from last year 😅🎉 Here’s the thread! Featuring @bouletcorp.bsky.social ❤️

#hourlycomicday
#hourlycomicsday
#hourlycomicday2025
#hourlycomicsday2025
#hcd
#hcd2025
February 5, 2026 at 9:05 PM
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monkiponk.bsky.social
Hourly Comic Day! Let's start with page one..

#HCD #hourlycomicsday #Comic
February 8, 2026 at 6:39 PM
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eiffel.art
well well well #hourlycomicsday

9am
comic: my bagel lands peanut butter down on the floor and I say "this had better not be an omen"
February 8, 2026 at 6:37 PM
stefgaines.bsky.social
I know I’m mostly just encouraging participation right now but yes this is also very important to remember 💖 only do things like this if you’re up for it. You’re awesome either way.
matthewdowsmith.bsky.social Matthew Dow Smith @matthewdowsmith.bsky.social · 8d
This is your occasional reminder that not taking part in a social media drawing/writing/comic making challenge doesn't make you any less of an artist/writer/comic maker.

If you don't have the bandwidth to handle it, don't put the extra burden on yourself.

Protect that creative brain, please.
A drawing of me smoking my pipe with the words "Comic Book Dad" in the smoke.
February 8, 2026 at 6:37 PM
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mgillman.bsky.social
Hourly comics day begins!! #hourlycomicsday
February 8, 2026 at 6:17 PM
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kajotko.bsky.social
Dang it, you caught me! #hourlycomicday #hourlycomicday2026 #hourlies
February 8, 2026 at 10:18 AM
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lucyknisley.bsky.social
You can read my Hourly Comics here! Updating throughout the day. www.patreon.com/posts/150244...
Hourly Comic Day 2026 | Lucy Knisley
Get more from Lucy Knisley on Patreon
www.patreon.com
February 8, 2026 at 3:07 PM
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viktormon.bsky.social
My first hourlies for #HourlyComicsDay #HCD #viktormonart
Doodled comic for Hourly Comics Day 2026 by Viktormon First panel, labeled 08:30-ish, Viktor wakes up. Second panel he takes out yesterday's laundry. Third panel is of his breakfast! Knäcke with gouda, an apple, water and a protein shake. At the bottom he looks at his phone, realize it's hourly comics day! Oh yeah! Doodled comic for Hourly Comics Day 2026 by Viktormon First panel, labeled 09:30, Viktor is watching TV while folding laundry. On the TV is a video by Funkyfrogbait on people posting their horrible husbands, Viktor is visibly angry. Second panel text says "half of my apartment is barely heated so I got a space heater! Wow! So cheap! Currently heating up the bathroom for a shower." Pictured is a simple space heater standing on a floor. Third panel Viktor is under a blanket on a sofa, in front of the TV, drawing hourlies on a screen tablet. Doodled comic for Hourly Comics Day 2026 by Viktormon First panel labeled 10:50, Viktor is thinking with his tablet drawing pen on his lips, thinking: "I have to cook dinner and lunch for the week... but nothing in the fridge inspires me... Guess I'll go shopping, and might as well pick up a package across town..." Second panel, test saying "After finishing some hourlies" labelled 11:26, Viktor is walking on a snow covered street as more snow is falling. Doodled comic for Hourly Comics Day 2026 by Viktormon Panel one is labeled 11:36, "Realize I went to the wrong bus stop" Viktor is looking annoyed at his phone, he went to bus 11 when he planned to go to bus 5. Panel two is labeled 11:41, "Critical role on the bus", Viktor is watching Critical Role on his phone, doodles of the characters appear around him. Panel three labeled 12:10, "Service location has moved..." Viktor stands looking at a sign in front of a closed down location.
February 8, 2026 at 2:49 PM
stefgaines.bsky.social
Ok, here’s my own #hourlies2026 #hourlycomicday #24hcd
I knew I wouldn’t be able to do them February first this year, which is why I started them a week in advance. The date was moved after that 😅
Part 1/2
Hourly comic in greyscale. 00:00 Me and (my partner) Linus cleans up after a late tv dinner and I start drawing this hourly comic. This year I’m making them not digital and being a bit worried about being rusty. 01:00 Tea and watching the tv-show Malcolm in the middle. A short comment about how we usually stay up late even though we now have 9-5 jobs, but tomorrow’s Sunday. Hourly comic in greyscale. 02:00 I brush my teeth and my partner gives me a kiss despite it. 03:00 Not the best sleep of the year. I wake up groggy and take a Tylenol. 10:00 Waking up and not snuggling up against Linus as I usually do since I unfortunately feel sick and need to lay on a tower of pillows to avoid a stuffy nose. Hourly comic in greyscale. 11:00 we are drinking coffee in bed. I’m using my phone to cancel plans with friends and read the news. As I’m drawing these hourlies January 25th the news cover Palestine, Iran, deportations in Sweden (the country I live in) and ICE killing people in the USA (where some of my family and friends live) 12:00 we take a short walk through the snow to our local bakery. To buy bread. I also order two semlor (an explanation of what that is will arrive on the next page) 13:00 Brunch. Leftovers from yesterday’s dinner with today’s bread. I eat a sandwich while explaining that I was planning to make scones but it felt like too much work. Hourly comic in greyscale. The explanation of “semlor” comes now. A semla is a Nordic sweet cardamom pastry sold around shrove Tuesday and lent. This one is my third semla of the season. It has roasted almonds with its almond paste, which I enjoy. But the bun is made with sourdough and mostly just taste like bread by the end. 14:00 I make a big pot of tea and draw hourlies. 15:00 I take some more Tylenol and keep drawing at the sofa table as I’m sitting on a floor pillow. Linus is sitting in the sofa with a laptop and coding. I say: “Ugh, lame ~ (being sick)” and Linus answers: “but also kinda cool (that you’re drawing comics)”
February 8, 2026 at 2:50 PM
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nikismithcomics.bsky.social
hourly comics day!! 1/?
February 8, 2026 at 1:55 PM
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letsgorodrigo.bsky.social
I guess it’s #Hourlycomicday2026 again!!!

12:00 am and it’s too late for me to be up. That’s crazy

@nuditosciegos.bsky.social and @kurisquare.bsky.social are there to keep the fomo machine running, tho
February 8, 2026 at 4:36 AM
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annikcomics.bsky.social
Heyyyy let’s go #hourlycomicday !
Photo of a sketchbook page and the start of hourly comic day comics. They show me waking up at 9.30 and scrolling through social media in bed. After 10 am I got up and took a pizza dough ball out of the freezer. (A panel showing a pizza ball in a tound plastic container.) Next is a narrow panel of me tired in the shower. Lastly before 11 am I made coffee and washed the dishes.
February 8, 2026 at 9:35 AM
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kurisquare.bsky.social
LET’S DO THIS GAMERS 🗣️🗣️🗣️

(feat. @letsgorodrigo.bsky.social & @nuditosciegos.bsky.social)

#hourlycomicsday2026 #hourlycomicday2026
February 8, 2026 at 3:58 AM
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annalandin.bsky.social
It's Hourly Comic Day! Let's hourly comic.

Insomnia sucks, as always.

#hourlycomicsday2026 #hourlycomicday2025
A comic, titled Hourly Comics Day 2026. Four panels. First panel, labelled 1 in the morning: a woman lying awake in the dark in bed. Her phone is playing rain sounds. The text reads "I took a nap earlier today". Second panel, identical to the first, reads "... that was a bad idea." Third panel is entirely black. Fourth panel: an alarm rings, waking the woman at half past six in the morning. The text reads "... a very bad idea". Comic. First panel: a woman opens the door into a darkened kitchen. Someone can be vaguely seen sitting at the table. Second panel: A young boy, his face lit by the light of his phone screen. It's the artist's nephew, aged 10. He says "Oh hey good morning Anna. What I'm awake for is that my throat hurts and I couldn't sleep." Third panel: the woman looks at the boy, who keeps staring at his screen. She asks "Did you take a cough drop?" He says "Nope". She says "Do that" and he replies "Mhm, okay". Fourth through sixth panel: three identical panels of a woman letting a large white and tabby cat in and out through the same door. They are labelled "Let the cat out" and "Let the cat in" over and over.
February 8, 2026 at 7:17 AM
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sagaholmgaard.bsky.social
A low-energy #hourlycomicday
I could tell from the beginning that this wasn't going to become particularly fun, but I decided to join the challenge anyway.
I like looking back at these and remembering what I was doing, I think it was worth documenting regardless
@stefgaines.bsky.social #hourlies2026
February 8, 2026 at 8:25 AM
stefgaines.bsky.social
HOURLY COMIC DAY
✨💖Let’s gooo💖✨

It’s the 20th anniversary 😻 I’m holding a small contest for artists in Sweden who participates (see my pinned post) so I’m hoping to repost more hourlies this year, at least during the rest of February. 💓

Read more about HCD here:
hourlycomicsday.com
Hourly Comics Day
Hourly Comics Day is yearly event every Feb 8th where participants draw a comic every hour.
hourlycomicsday.com
February 8, 2026 at 8:57 AM
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nsousanis.bsky.social
Make your own damn work! Make mistakes, struggle. Be surprised by your own work - “where did that come from?!” The experience is what makes you who you are - everything else is just product. Refuse to be robbed of experience, of what makes you human.
nsousanis.bsky.social Nick Sousanis @nsousanis.bsky.social · Jan 6
In case anyone needs it for their syllabi, my statement in gen-Ai from the minicomic I made as a syllabus for class last semester. All online and printable here spinweaveandcut.com/fall-2025-sy...
a snippet of a mini-comic, at top - straight line stretches from point A to B. Immediately below, same dot at A, then becomes a curving, meandering line that winds through the page and ends at a point with rays and a question mark emanating from it. Text reads: "Nothing can do this for you - for that robs you of experience and conflates answers with learning. Rather, it's all the decisions you make along the way, the mistakes, struggles, and surprises! These pathways you create - this is learning. https://spinweaveandcut.com/fall-2025-syllabi/
February 7, 2026 at 2:54 AM