On Dec. 31, James Kochalka ended his 14-year run on his diary comic American Elf, but others have taken up the baton, at least temporarily: A number of webcomics artists have created homages to the strip, and Kochalka is re-posting them on his Tumblr.

They include comics more or less in the style of American Elf by Lewis Trondheim, Superf*ckers director Fran Krause and a host of others, expressing a range of emotions from grief to gratitude. Also included in the tributes is a giant picture of every American Elf strip and another that averages the 14 years' worth of the strips to produce an "eigencomic."

It's really interesting to look through them and see how a single (albeit long) comic inspired such a range of responses — and how much people seem to enjoy drawing themselves in Kochalka's unmistakable style. And, as Kochalka remarks on one of the posts, "Quitting American Elf has kind of been like being able to die and go to my own wake!"

Tribute comics are by trumpetflower (above) and Brainbooger (below).