Yesterday was Hourly Comics Day, but it would have been more appropriate to have it today, on Groundhog Day, so everyone could relive yesterday in comics form. Hourly Comics Day brings journal comics to their logical extreme: Every hours, creators stop what they are doing and draw a comic about it. There's an inherent flaw in the concept, in that the best artists are the people who draw comics all the time, which makes for a dull diary. Let's just say there's lots of messing around with social media and eating of ramen in these comics. It's not like anyone was rescuing people from the Tokyo underground or breaking up a crime syndicate yesterday. Still, some are quite well done, and peering at someone else's life in such detail has a certain voyeuristic appeal. What's more, the comics submitted to this year's archive page show an impressive array of talent, although most are from creators I have never heard of before.

Some creators posted their hourly comics at their own sites. Dean Trippe has a charmingly simple comic about a day that was apparently dominated by the letter D. Sarah Becan has a day of minor annoyances at work, and Jeph Jacques covers all the comics-creator bases: He plays video games, eats junk food, checks to see what people are saying about him online, and worries a lot. Check the Twitter hashtag #hourlycomics for more.