Go Get a Roomie! | |
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![]() Panel from "Pure Logic." | |
Author(s) | Clover [1] [2] |
Website | GoGetARoomie.com |
Current status/schedule | Mondays, Wednesdays, and Fridays |
Launch date | May 2010 |
Genre(s) | Sex comedy, LGBT |
Go Get a Roomie! (often abbreviated as GGaR) is a webcomic created by artist Clover. [1] [2] It was started on May 8, 2010, and ended on December 25 2020. The comic is described as following "the wild adventures of an upbeat hippie, living her life in love and joy." (Prior to 2012 this was "Life, Love, and Beer") [2] New comics were added three times a week, with updates on Monday, Wednesday and Friday, [2] until the comic's conclusion, having amassed 1461 pages.
Go Get a Roomie! primarily focuses on the titular free-spirited and sexually active young woman who goes by the nickname of "Roomie". Roomie lives on no apparent income by staying with various friends and partners, with most of the comic's material prior to chapter 14 stemming from such ventures, particularly in the first two chapters. [3] Her extroverted and sociable character is juxtaposed with the co-star of the strip, Lillian - an introvert whose preferred activity is sleeping/dreaming; though, since meeting Roomie this has somewhat changed to storytelling and writing. Over the course of the comic, the characters grow a fond relationship that goes from friends to lovers. As they do, they learn to live more complete lives, with Roomie developing a healthier and more domestic lifestyle whilst Lillian learns to be more social and outgoing.
Besides the two main characters, the comic also features a wide and diverse cast of characters that interact on a secondary level with each other, primarily at the setting of Jo's Bar (collectively dubbed "Jo Kids" by Lillian later [4] ). The tone of the comic is occasionally overtly sexual, but is not pornographic in nature. The story's focus is on personal growth through the relationships between the characters in a slice of life-type fashion. Individual chapters and story arcs are interspersed with "story time" or "dreaming" chapters, out-of-genre excerpts created by Lillian, and either presented as her dreams or as the stories she writes or shares with Roomie, Ram, and Richard; such as the recurring "Knight In Furs." [5]
Most strips are illustrated using little color, in a theme known as "French Grays", depending on line-work and shading to convey particular mood and character expression. The strips are normally presented in a traditional four-panel horizontal arrangement; some special comics, however, such as Lillian's dreams, will take a less confined style of portrayal. Such strips have been known to feature pencil sketches, or to deviate radically from the French grey color palette to denote them as dreams separate from the main story flow. [6] From October 2 onwards, the comic switched from digital drawings to handmade drawings.
The strip debuted online on May 8, 2010. In January 2013, building on the comic's growing popularity, the author held a Kickstarter campaign to create a book, which was highly successful. [16] After concluding the campaign with over $90,000 in funding (far exceeding her original $20,000 goal [17] ), the author began working on her first book, which is expected to be 175 pages long and printed in full color. Although the project was successfully funded and expected to be completed and delivered in either March or May 2013 (softcover and hardback, respectively), as of February 2014 the rewards had not been sent. On March 4, 2014, the books began shipping.
As of March 2021, chapters 1 to 23 have been released in print in partnership with Hivemill.
Go Get a Roomie! took top prize in the ComicMix Mix May Mayhem NSFW Webcomics Tournament in 2012, beating the well-known webcomic Oglaf and raising $500 for the Comic Book Legal Defense Fund in the final round. [18]
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