Comic styles

This is posted on my comic, but it's more of a filler so I figured I'd post it here.

Being kind of bored and frustrated with my current comic style, my boyfriend suggested that I take other people's looks and just directly copy them once or twice to get a feel for drawing it. By doing this, I can think about integrating certain techniques into my own comic that are based on others - rounded elbows or shading style, for instance.

A lot of these are just for fun. It was a great exercise, and (according to my friends) I nailed a couple of the styles, which was exciting.

For Octopus Pie (top left), I wasn't really referring to it directly and wish I had been. I love that comic and would love to emulate their styles.

Anyway, the list of comics/people I referenced are as follows (in order from left to right):

Meredith Gran's Octopus Pie
Dave Olsen's And Id
James Kochalka's American Elf
My friend Manny
Caroline's Coed
Liam Ramsay's Just Liam
Allan Wood's Allan
Warren Ellis and Paul Duffield's FreakAngels