hourly comic day 2023

prompt:
draw a short comic for every hour of your day from the time you wake up to the time you go to sleep

12:00am

digitally drawn comic panel captioned “12am: throwing a fit.” my girlfriend and i are lying in bed. she is trying to sleep and frowning dramatically as i am appearing to yell into the air at nothing. she asks me to “please do that more quieter, my head ache”

1:00am - 8:00am

caption: “1am - 8am: every night, oakley army-crawls out from under the bed to sleep on top of it (ideally, on top of me).” i am asleep in my dark bedroom as oakley the black lab/blue heeler mix oozes her way out from under the bed with a grimace and a loud “HNNNNN.” there's not really enough space for her to fit there but she sure tries anyway
caption: “but last night, there was no more room in the ark.” this diagram shows how crowded the bed is: i'm curled up to make space for my brown tabby cat named nald, while sarah is in a straight line between nald, our black tuxedo cat burger, and burger's favorite toy, a teaser wand with a fuzzy worm on the end. oakley has her paws up on the side of the bed, looking for space, but there's not quite enough for her to fit.
caption: “back under she went.” in an equal and opposite manner to the first panel (and with a similar, if more dejected battle cry of “hnn.”), oakley oozes back under the bed again. apparently i've not noticed any of this as i'm still sound asleep in this panel.

9:00am

digitally-drawn comic panel with the caption: “9am: IT SNOWED. but only a little bit.” i'm drawn standing in my backyard in my faded old sweatshirt, ratty jeans and basic socks, on the paving stones next to a snowy and dirty outdoor dog bed. behind me is my screened-in latticed porch. i'm smiling a little as i look at the tiny pile of snow on the ground (already mostly melted back into dirt) and say “WOW, that is not impressive but it is still appreciated.”

10:00am

digitally drawn comic with the caption: “10am: muffin man is wearing burger like a backpack.” muffin man is a big brown tabby cat with curly white chest fur and a huge white mustache, as well as massive yellow eyes. he is standing with his legs akimbo. his pupils are enormous and his tail is puffed up. clinging to his back with her claws in his shoulders and her teeth in his neck is burger the tuxedo cat, looking like a crazy freak. oddly, muffin doesn't really seem too upset as much as surprised that this is happening to him

11:00am - 5:00pm

digitally drawn comic with caption: “11am to 5pm: work.” that appears to be a loose definition of “work” as i'm slumped in my computer chair with my face down on my desk, not appearing to be accomplishing very much. this panel is very sparse and sketchy compared to the others and i clearly did not have much time to draw it.

6:00pm

digitally-drawn comic with caption: “6pm: put naldy's stories on while taking a final crack at getting SOME work done today.” naldy is a light brown tabby cat who is depicted watching her “stories” (a youtube video of a squirrel eating seeds) on a computer monitor

7:00pm - 8:00pm

digital comic with caption: “7pm-8pm: doing a stupid little training for my stupid little job.” i'm sitting on a couch in my basement, looking annoyed and plunking away at a laptop while kissy (a fluffy white samoyed) and oakley (a black and gray blue heeler/lab mix) bark incessantly at each other. they are drawn very loosely and look ridiculous as they have a playfully-agitated conversation consisting of “BAR BAR BAR” “ABAR BAR BAR”
digital comic with caption: “7pm-8pm: sarah has opera lessons.” i'm sitting on my couch in the basement with my roommate cole, who is drawing on their ipad. my dogs continue to beat each other up (in play). oakley has a mouthful of kissy's fluffy white fur, to kissy's apparent surprise. as the sound of sarah's voice rises, i comment to cole that “she's taking off&rduo;

9:00pm

digital drawing with caption, in layered orange font with elongated letters, “9pm: THE OWL DEMANDS HIS SACRIFICE.” pictured is the owl mascot of the duolingo app, except the owl is black with enormous pupils. it seems to look through you rather than at you and it radiates a black aura like smoke.
drawing of my roommate franklin! he says “got my spaghetti shirt on, i'm ready to eat!” his so-called “spaghetti shirt” is a university of maryland hoodie with a terrapin on it

10:00pm

digital comic with caption: “10pm: bluey” i'm sitting in my living room in front of my wall-mounted tv and on the screen is the titular dog bluey, along with the text “a dog! hooray!”
digital comic with caption: “who said this little blue mfer was allowed to get me blubberin like a wean?” i'm sitting on the couch with pumpkin, the brown tabby selkirk rex cat. she has curly fur and a big white patch on her chest. she is sitting on the back of the couch by my shoulder and looks calm, but kind of fed up with me. i'm choking back tears and looking very emotional.

11:00pm

(sorry for posting about morrowind)

digital drawing with the caption “11pm: thinkin about that guy in the bottom of that volcano again.” pictured is a cross-section of red mountain, the volcano from the game morrowind. on top of the mountain is nerevar, seeming to yell down into it. nerevar is an elf and he appears quite chipper as he cups his hands around his mouth to yell. inside the volcano is dagoth ur, sitting cross-legged with a big frown on his face. he is emaciated and creepy-looking, wearing a giant gold headdress with the sad-face apparently sculpted into it. nerevar shouts, “heyyy good buddy how ya doin' down there? still got my tools? k i'm gonna be another millennia or four so hang in there bucko” dagoth replies, seemingly only to himself, “i am beyond saving.”
a basic digtal pencil drawing of the word “GNITE.”