Comics of the outside world. The UK has one, LICAF: The UK Comics Laureate, as does the state of Vermont, CCS: Tillie Walden To Be Appointed Vermont’s Fifth Cartoonist Laureate. [People & Pets]
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Transcript
(Each square is an hour, time indicated by clock faces.)
Marginalia: Hourly Comics Day, 8 Feb 2026
Hour: before 6 am
Timestamp: 9:15
Symbol: wavy lines
Words: –
Activity: asleep
Hour: 6 am – 7 am
Timestamp: 9:15 am
Symbol: hoofprints
Words: –
Activity: morning horse walk
Hour: 7am – 8 am
Timestamp: 9:15 am
Symbol: sad face
Words: omitting pic of toilet, yr welcome
Activity: not feeling well
Hour: 8 am – 9 am
Timestamp: 9:15 am
Symbol: bed with arrow
Words: –
Activity: back to bed
Hour: 9 am – 10 am
Timestamp: 9:15 am
Symbol: bed with arrow
Words: again
Activity: getting up
Marginalia: Forgot! Oh its Sunday! That means now.
(Despite preparing in advance, I forgot that today was in fact Sunday. Didn’t recall until I went to pack up for the day. Oops. Caught up on first five squares.)
Hour: 10 am – 11 am
Timestamp: 10:02 am
Symbol: steering wheel
Words: Driving to lesson
Activity: what it says
Hour: 11 am to noon
Timestamp: 12:44 pm, did with below
Symbol: ears
Words: Goldy!
Activity: lesson at Rosewood
Hour: noon – 1 pm
Timestamp: 12:44 pm
Symbol: steering wheel
Words: Back in Truck
Activity: again, as advertised
Hour: 1 pm – 2 pm
Timestamp: 1:44 pm
Symbol: camera, glass
Words: Cahaba Brewery, Film Walk, Ginger Beer
Activity: Bham Film Walk assembled at Cahaba Brewery. I tried a ginger beer (NA). Pretty good.
Hour: 2 pm – 3 pm
Timestamp: 2:40 pm
Symbol: food, small container, 4 happy faces, one sad face
Words: quattro cheese flatbread, provolone, garlic ricotta, mozzarella, Gouda. Could’ve happily lived my life not knowing about spicy honey.
Activity: Lunch, cheese bread came with hot honey, as in spicy not as in heated. 😦
Hour: 3 pm – 4 pm
Timestamp: 3:08 pm
Symbol: steering wheels
Words: Back in truck again, This is why we don’t get out much lots of (small steering wheel)
Activity: heading home
Hour: 4 pm – 5 pm
Timestamp: 4:15 pm
Symbol: showerhead, couch
Words: Shower, Sofa, That was a long day for us
Activity: home & rest
Hour: 5 pm – 6 pm
Timestamp: – (within hour but forgot timestamp)
Symbol: dog face & football, small bed
Words: Puppy Bowl, & maybe a small nap
Activity: (clearly I cannot let something go undescribed)
Hour: 6 pm – 7 pm
Timestamp: – (ditto)
Symbol: cat face, notebook
Words: Time to feed & Make plans for next week
Activity: yup
Hour: 7 pm – 8 pm
Timestamp: 7:11
Symbol: grid & place setting
Words: Nightly Waffle & Dinner
Activity: Waffle is a game
Hour: 8 pm – 9 pm
Timestamp: 7:50 (done early bc bedtime)
Symbol: Bed with book & audio book
Words: … and so to bed
Activity: What can I say, I live a narrated life.
Process Notes
This year was way more fun than the last time I did this, back in 2021. [#hourlycomicday]
It also happened to be a day that we had things to do.
Things That Worked
+ Pre-made grid. Anything in a thick black lines was drawn before. Last time I did this, I started to feel that my main activity was drawing. So, I set this page up to be able to make make short hourly cartoons and then get on with my day.
+ A square for each hour.
+ Clock visuals, even though I also put a timestamp, when I remembered.
+ An activity from the hour, not all activities. Not aiming for comprehensive also helped a lot. More day; less thinking about day.
Things to Change for Next Year
– Clock hours on both sides of all boxes, even though that means duplication on the margins.
– Bigger boxes, slimmer margins, especially horizontal, smaller headers.
– Accept that there will be words.
Sausage Note
Photographed bc no scanner.
Belated post because last week was Mardi Gras and I had already bought the colored papers for the Sunday post on the Mardi Gras weekend. [Masu Boxes]
Chose not to do live bc I didn’t want to spend the whole day in front of a screen. Notebook was more mobile.
It feels pretentious to call this post Art. I thought about using Visual Story Telling, but that way leads to a proliferation of subheaders. It is art as in, Not a Horse Post.
Coda & Link
Many, many artists participate in Hourly Comics Day. I invite you to have a searchfest.
Onwards!
Katherine
Virtual Brush Box 