Real Life Comics

Real Life
Strip from 2005-08-01
Author(s)	Greg Dean
Website	http://www.reallifecomics.com/
Current status / schedule	Not updated since 2015
Launch date	1999-11-15
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 launched in 1999 and became part of Keenspot shortly after. Dean switched to 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 April 2017^[update], the webcomic had not been updated since December 10, 2015.

Year one of Real Life was published as a paperback by Starline Multimedia Inc. in 2004, and a second book published by Lulu was released in 2008. A German translation of some portions of the webcomic has been made available on the website's archive.

Greg Dean has won the "Outstanding Reality Comic" category of the Web Cartoonist's Choice Awards four times: once in 2001, once in 2003 (when his webcomic tied with Nowhere Girl), once in 2004, and once in 2005 (when his webcomic tied with The Devil's Panties).