The final GCOAT comes courtesy of KC Green, whose stylings longtime readers will recognize. KC is the author of many comics including Gunshow, which is one of the funniest, strangest and occasionally grossest comics around. (Warning, Mom, it’s sometimes gross.) I also conducted an interview with KC recently for the TopatoBlog! I guess I did one with Chris Hastings too and forgot to mention it earlier.

KC has a new book up for pre-order now called The Blood Cloud and I suggest you get it. I have his previous volume, and I could read that thing all dang day. KC has a peculiar mastery over awkward glares, which are a fascinating recurring theme in his work.

Today’s GCOAT is by the inestimable Kate Beaton! Kate has one of the most lively and fanciful comics around over at Hark! A Vagrant. She’s also recently been in the New Yorker and she posts delightful diary comics on her Twitter. Kate is all-round THE BEST.

Today’s Guest-Comic-On-A-Theme (GCOAT) is by Evan Dahm. Evan is the author of a number of very elaborate, incredibly immersive long-form graphic novels. One that’s complete and can be read in its entirety online is Rice Boy, and it’s great. Currently Evan’s working on Order of Tales, another story set in the same universe, and it’s in progress presently.

Today’s Guest-Comic-On-A-Theme comes from Christopher Hastings, author of The Adventures of Dr. McNinja. Chris is a fine fellow and I endorse his work highly! If you’re not familiar with Dr. McNinja, may I suggest the beginning of the current story? It is an entertaining yarn indeed.

Also remember that these people did this work with pens on photocopies that I handed them so all things considered I think they fared quite well.

Today kicks off a week of guest comics all based on the basic template of strip #629! That comic came about because I knew I would be traveling and I was unsure how much time I would have at the computer — so I took printouts of the empty template on my trip and finished the comic by hand. But I also enlisted some of my friends to make comics of their own based on the same template!

This strip is by Anthony Clark of Nedroid, one of the most charming and friendly comics on the ol’ interwob. I recommend taking a hearty peek at it!