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For the most part each strip portrays one event that happened to Kochalka that day. These events are sometimes momentous and sometimes relatively trivial; for example, the entry from August 23, 2002 concerns eating a slice of cheese. Although the strips document real events, Kochalka's art style is somewhat surrealistic. For example, people aren't always represented as people; Kochalka and his wife Amy are elves, and Kochalka's friend Jason is represented as Jason X-12, a dog with a robot brain. This is a carryover from Kochalka's long-form works, many of which take place on the MoonFor other moons in the solar system see natural satellite. For other uses see Moon (disambiguation). The Moon is the only natural satellite of Earth. It has no formal name other than "The Moon" although it is occasionally called Luna ( Latin for moon to d in a magical duplicate of Kochalka's hometown of Burlington, VermontBurlington is a city in Chittenden County, Vermont of which it is the county seat. As of the 2000 census, Burlington has the largest population of any city in Vermont. The city is the core of one of the nation's smaller metropolitan areas. The urbanized a, and which feature versions of people from his life.
Kochalka considers these strips to be an attempt to document the rhythms of his life, and as such refuses to either edit the strips or publish a "best of" collection — according to Kochalka, the value of the strips doesn't lie in any individual strip, but rather in the totality.
American Elf is syndicated online as part of the Modern TalesModern Tales is a website featuring many free and subscription-based comics created especially for the web. It was launched on March 2, 2002 by Joey Manley, the Modern Tales publisher, and approximately 30 professional cartoonists, such as Dorothy Gambrel family of websiteA website or Web site (often shortened to a site is a collection of webpages, that is, documents accessible via the World Wide Web on the Internet. The pages of a website will be accessed from a common root URL, the homepage, and usually reside on the sams [1]. The webcomic version of American Elf is subscription based. It is free to read the daily strip, but the archives are only available to subscribers. As of this writing, the cost is $1.95 ( USThe United States of America also referred to as the United States U. America ¹ or the States is a federal republic in central North America, stretching from the Atlantic in the east to the Pacific Ocean in the west. It shares land borders with Canada in) a month, with no option for annual subscriptions.
The American Elf strips are collected and published in hardcopy as The Sketchbook Diaries.