About Hobart, Ohio

And the surrounding Hillside Arrangements

The Comic

Hobart, Ohio is a weekly webcomic about a village of 999 people in the Ohio River valley – the kind of place where everyone has an opinion, a grudge, and a half-finished project in the garage. It follows Dale Bob Adkins Jr., a raccoon named Stevie, and a revolving cast of locals who keep the village barely functional through a combination of stubborn pride, bad decisions, and sheer refusal to acknowledge that things have gotten weird.

New comics post every Sunday. Bonus content, civic notices, and occasional emergencies appear on social media and the other Hobart websites throughout the week.

This comic sometimes deals with difficult and adult-oriented topics. See Content Notes.

Where Is Hobart?

Somewhere along the Ohio River, south of Athens and a few miles past the point where GPS stops being confident.

Hobart borrows pieces from real towns across southern Ohio and western West Virginia – places where the hills swallow cell signals, Dollar Generals multiply, and football rivalries outlast marriages. It’s a fictional village, but if you’ve spent time in the Low Counties, you’ll recognize the furniture.

If you want coordinates, there’s a map here.

About the Creator

I’m Josh. I’m from West Virginia, and I make comics, strange websites, and occasionally coherent art.

Hobart, Ohio started as a side project and became a universe. The comic is the window. The websites are the house. I handle the writing, drawing, coding, and general structural chaos myself, with help from people I trust and coffee I don’t deserve.

Think of the comic as a view of Hobart through a dirty window. Pay attention. Read what you can. And ignore my mistake

Getting Your Bearings

Start from Episode 1 – A word of warning: the first episode is objectively bad. But that’s the nature of webcomics – you get to watch someone’s skill evolve in real time. Here it is, in all its muddy glory.

The Hobart Herald – The village newspaper of record since 1893. Civic updates, editorials, and things that probably shouldn’t have been printed.

Village of Hobart – Official statements and public notices from the municipal government. Sometimes informative. Occasionally alarming.

PAL-TV – Local television for people who probably shouldn’t have access to broadcast equipment.

Stay Awhile

Everything in Hobart connects – the comic, the newspaper, the notices, the websites. You don’t have to read all of it. But the deeper you go, the stranger it gets.

If something on these sites feels too real, it probably isn’t. Probably.