Real Life (webcomic)

Real Life
Strip from 2005-08-01
Author(s)	Greg Dean
Website	http://www.reallifecomics.com/
Launch date	1999-11-15 [1]
Genre(s)	Exaggerated Reality

Real Life is an American webcomic drawn and authored by Greg Dean, begun on November 15, 1999. The comic is loosely based around the lives of fictionalized versions of Dean and his friends, including verbatim conversations, as well as fictional aspects including time travel and mecha combat. Characters regularly break the fourth wall. Real Life focuses on humor related to video games and science fiction, and references internet memes.

Real Life was originally part of Keenspot, joining the Blank Label Comics collective in 2005, before going solo again in February 2010. The Real Life website is currently self-hosted by Dean. As of January 2017^[update], the webcomic had not been updated since December 10, 2015.

Year one of Real Life is available in paperback. A German translation is available for parts of the website archive.

Some characters have not shown up more than a few times in the comic, whether it be that Greg never knew the person long enough for them to be in the comic for long, or that he never found a place for them to be in the comic. Ben, Cliff, and Lena, additions to the cast made in early 2004, are listed in here, and while they are still used from time to time, they are not as established as the above characters.