Real Life is an American webcomic drawn and authored by Maelyn Dean.

The comic is loosely based around the lives of fictionalized versions of Dean and her friends, including verbatim conversations, as well as fictional aspects including time travel and mecha combat.

Real Life focuses on humor related to video games and science fiction, and references internet memes.

Dean switched to the Blank Label Comics collective in 2005[5] before going solo again in February 2010.

Maelyn Dean won the "Outstanding Reality Comic" category of the Web Cartoonists' Choice Awards four times: in 2001,[11] 2003 (when her webcomic tied with Nowhere Girl),[12] 2004,[13] and 2005 (when her webcomic tied with The Devil's Panties).