700 Hoboes all hoboed out

Back in November we wrote about the 700 Hoboes project in which illustrators took it upon themselves to create illustrations of every one of John Hodgman’s 700 hobo names. The participants have finally fulfilled their promise and all 700 hoboes are accounted for over at E-Hobo.com.

Did you miss your chance to participate? No worries — there are already multiple versions of several hoboes, so pick your favourite name and make your own. Plus, the paperback edition of Hodgman’s The Areas of My Expertise promises 100 new bonus hobo names to add to the mix (and check out that hilariously hideous cover!)

Worthy of note are the too-numerous-to-mention contributions by Adam Koford, aka ApeLad, who apparently is an android and never sleeps.

  • I'm more of a simulacra than an android. And as for sleep, it is for the weak. And tired.
  • Idunno, it kinda looks like ApeLad farmed out the submission for "Edwin Winnipeg" to some chap named "Damon". And although he nailed the Winnipeg fashion sense, our town has no known groundhogs or mountains.

    I keed, of course, because I'm from here.
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