24 Hour Comics Day 2008

24HCD website blips

2009-06-03T10:41:00.000-07:00

Hey guys!

Don't worry--you will still be able to register your 2009 venue, we're just having problems with our online registration form.

The venues that are currently listed on the site are from the 2008 event, and we'll be replacing those when we can finally start registration for 2009, which will be as soon as possible!

Thank you!

24HCD 2009 will be held on October 3rd!

2009-05-05T10:26:00.000-07:00

The 24HCD committee has announced this year's 24HCD date: October 3, 2009!

Registration will begin on June 1, 2009 at the 24-Hour Comics Day Website.

ComicsPRO, the trade association for comic book retailers, will continue to administer and advertise the event--we look forward to another successful year! Stay tuned for registration and more details.

24HCD to 288HCD?!

2009-04-21T09:17:00.001-07:00

Nat Gertler, founder of 24-Hour Comics Day, sent along this comic strip by Kevin Cannon:

http://www.powells.com/blog/?p=5949

24HCD wrap-up

2008-12-03T14:35:00.001-08:00

Event reports from around the world give us a total 2008 estimate of over 2000 participants in 34 U.S. states and 20 countries. Congratulations, again, to all of the 24HCD host venues for a very successful event!

One thank-you, sent to Brave New World in California, sums up many of the participant emails we've received since mid-October:

Just wanted to say thank you very much again for the amazing experience that was the 24 Hour Comic Drawing Challenge. I had never participated in one before and didn't know what to expect. You guys were wonderful and made the evening and subsequent morning very enjoyable indeed. What's more, I came away from it much more confident in my artistic abilities and also more excited and inclined to draw whenever I can.
So THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU!!!!

-Andy

Congratulations to the 24HCD participants this year--great work! See you again next year!

24 Hour Comics DayExhibit at Warehouse 21

2008-11-30T16:20:00.000-08:00

Santa Fe's 24 Hour Comics Day 2008 Exhibit | Warehouse 21 | Santa Fe, NM

Twelve of the comics produced during Santa Fe's 24 Hour Comics Day event are now on display in the gallery at Warehouse 21. Some comics are hung from the wall in sequence, some are presented to page through. The exhibit runs indefinitely.

Read about the day as it unfolded: — Underway; Snacktime; We're Into the Coffee Now; Works In Progress, Pizza; Morning, Bagels, and a Newspaper Article; Just About Wrapped up

Hellenic Event Final Report

2008-10-30T11:03:00.000-07:00

Here are 30 photos and five more videos from our event.

http://www.comicworld.gr/forum/viewtopic.php?t=3043

24HCD Hellas Event report

2008-10-25T15:31:00.000-07:00

Here is our first video from the Greek 24 Hour Comics Day. 42 participants. Its 20.30 three hours have past from the start time.

In the second video its 00:55.

24HCD in France

2008-10-23T10:29:00.000-07:00

Pictures and comics from the 24HCD event held by L'Association 'La bande déchaînée'

Les photos ce trouvent au lien suivant : http://idameck.free.fr/24HCD2008/24HCD2008PHOTOS
Les comics au lien suivant : http://www.webamag.eu/

24HCD in Oregon

2008-10-22T09:19:00.000-07:00

Links from the Pacific Northwest College of Art:

http://nealskorpen.wordpress.com/
http://trillobite.blogspot.com/2008/10/24-hour-comic-challenge-live-blog-2008.html
http://www.flickr.com/photos/nskorpen/

24HCD Coverage in Massachusetts

2008-10-22T09:10:00.000-07:00

The Worcester Art Museum was covered by local press:
http://www.telegram.com/article/20081020/NEWS/810200341/1007/NEWS05
http://www.worcestermagazine.com/content/view/3323/

And they have pictures! Check them out at
http://www.flickr.com/photos/ktnmunchkin/sets/72157605815592583/

24HCD in Arizona

2008-10-22T07:59:00.000-07:00

24 Hour Comics Day was a lot of fun. My plan was to update my blog (http://www.azcentral.com/members/blog/Spazdogcomics) every hour, but the store was actually pretty busy. I was able to update it every two hours with artist profiles. We were able to video tape a portion of the event and the first video is up on YouTube (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rmJFVDxZQbw).

I addition to my blog several of the participants updated their blogs during and after the event.

Glenn Wichman's Blog http://7dayquest.blogspot.com/
Glenn Wichman's 24 Hour Comic http://www.babelsphere.com/7dayquest/comic/page.php
Ryan Cody's Blog http://www.babelsphere.com/7dayquest/comic/page.php
Daniel Davis' Blog http://steamcrow.com/
DJ Graham's Blog http://apcomic.com

Shawn Demumbrum
SpazDog Comics

24HCD in Mexico

2008-10-21T12:49:00.001-07:00

We have over 200+ pics that we took and are already posted at our myspace account... Here's thelink if you want to see all the craziness that was 24HCD!!!

http://viewmorepics.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=user.viewPicture&friendID=123629099&albumId=2174579

24HCD in Colorado

2008-10-21T12:43:00.000-07:00

Check out the comics made in CO:

We have pictures of the event and links to some of the comics that have been uploaded to the web on the Squid Works forums thread beginning here: http://www.squidworks.com/forums/index.php?topic=424.msg3740#msg3740

Stan Yan
Squid Works Comics

24HCD Coverage in Michigan

2008-10-21T12:29:00.000-07:00

Check out the coverage of the 24HCD event at Clem's Collectibles in Lansing, MI:

http://statenews.com/index.php/article/2008/10/comic_quest

24HCD Coverage in Santa Fe

2008-10-21T09:36:00.000-07:00

From Warehouse 21, Santa Fe, NM:

We got some nice coverage in the Santa Fe New Mexican --
http://www.santafenewmexican.com/Local%20News/Artists-lose-sleep--get-creative
-- that actually appeared in the Sunday morning edition, while the event
was still going on.

Great work, guys!

The whole story

2008-10-20T14:15:00.000-07:00

I have uploaded all the scanned pictures. You find them here: www.vargie.deviantart.com

Enjoy and see you next year!!!

Anna

New Moon Comics: Little Falls, NJ Report

2008-10-20T09:08:00.000-07:00

From The
New Moon Comics, LLC
Newsletter

The 24-Hour Comics Day Challenge was going to start at 11:00 AM on Saturday, but due to a NJ Transit delay our two participant-artists started just before noon - no fear, the challenge was to create a 24-Page comic in 24-Hours so the clock started a bit late for them. Once settled in, Jesus Marquez (long-time friend of ours from the faith-based comic book Megazeen) and his friend Daniel Ramirez dug right in and began working. Taking a few small breaks throughout the day. The real challenge came in the early hours of the morning.

I can say for myself, when I was younger, staying awake all hours of the night was a cakewalk. However, at over 40 years now, my body and mind just can't do it without a fight. The paunchiness hit all three of us at about 4 AM, and the crashing an hour or so later. In an effort to stay awake, and after reading the 24-Hour Comics Day Blogs, I rushed to get our Blog up and running, since somewhere along the line I did not realize that we could post all on the official 24-Hour Comics Day Blog itself (with an invite), oh well, next year to be sure!

To give those of you not too into comics an idea of the magnitude of this events; a few years ago, New Moon Comics participated in the comic-challenge event "Comics Jam War" (you can see the CJW Photo Album here; and signed copies of the book are available in the store for a limited time!) which Jesus and the guys from Megazeen (Joe, Tom, and Keith) all took the bronze. That event called for an 8 page story to be completed in 12 hours, based off of a specific theme. At noon, we were given a picture of a guy in a comic shop with the caption "There's An Alien In The Comics Shop" - our guys had to develop an 8-Page story, and complete all art and lettering within 12 hours.

24-Hour Comics Day is a SOLO project. You can work with others, but it defeats the purpose of the endurance-based challenge. The story, art, and lettering must be completed with a 24 consecutive hour period. Although this seems easy, it is not. During the CJW, the guys finished the 8-Pages with few seconds to spare, and that was a whole team of creators!

I am proud of Jesus and Daniel! They fought hard to get their work done, and make it professional and worthwhile. In the end; sadly, Jesus was unable to complete the challenge of a full 24-Page story, but did make a creative ending to his work; and Daniel, although finished, felt his work could have been better (every artist feels their work could be better, for what it's worth). But, in the end, they fought through the fatigue, the late-night laughter over the poor dialog in the Star Wars prequels, and the need to scream to stay awake. And, they both dragged their tired selves' home determined to do better next year, learning from the experience they just endured.

For me, and for the store - it will be nice to have more creators in the store for next year. We, at one point had 7 creators scheduled, but due to work or other obligations, all but two had to withdraw. However, we expect them and many others next year!

A Call to the 2008 24HCD Venues!

2008-10-20T07:27:00.000-07:00

If you ran an official 24-Hour Comics Day event this year, will you please email us with:

Your venue name, the total number of participants and (if you have it) the total number of participants who completed the challenge. Thank you!

Great work, everyone! Congratulations!

Digital 24HCD in Denmark

2008-10-20T07:25:00.001-07:00

SLEEPLESS IN DENMARK

In Denmark, the 24 Hour Comics Day became an online event hosted by www.Seriejournalen.dk. Starting out on Saturday Oct 18th at 10 AM GMT+1, nine amateur and pro comics artists worked on their individual 24 page comic from different locations all over the country (and neighbouring countries - Anna worked from Norway!). Every one or two hours they uploaded their pages to a special thread in the discussion forums of the website, giving the audience an opportunity to watch and comment the work in progress.

Link: http://www.seriejournalen.dk/debat/viewtopic.php?f=21&t=10261

Individual links to the finished comics:

PHOENIXX
http://www.seriejournalen.dk/debat/viewtopic.php?f=21&t=10324
FRANK MADSEN ("Kurt Dunder and the Nazi Gold")
http://www.seriejournalen.dk/debat/viewtopic.php?f=21&t=10325
THOMAS NØHR ("Bread")
http://www.seriejournalen.dk/debat/viewtopic.php?f=21&t=10323
ANNA GENTILI
http://vargie.blogspot.com

THOMAS "THOP" PEDERSENhttp://www.seriejournalen.dk/debat/viewtopic.php?f=21&t=10328
RIKKE LINDSKOV LOFT
http://www.seriejournalen.dk/debat/viewtopic.php?f=21&t=10261&p=89172

KIM LARSENhttp://serieland.dk/forum/index.php?topic=19.msg70#msg70
TORE SÆDERUP
http://www.seriejournalen.dk/debat/viewtopic.php?f=21&t=10261&p=89202
PEDER RIIS
http://www.seriejournalen.dk/debat/viewtopic.php?f=21&t=10261&p=89229

We plan to be back in 2009!

Venlig hilsen/Kind regards,

FRANK MADSEN
Editor
Seriejournalen

24HCD at the Coffee Cat, Indonesia

2008-10-20T07:17:00.001-07:00

After-action report: http://coffee-cat.net/c2o/2008/10/after-event-24hc/

Papillon Studios 24HCD pictures

2008-10-20T07:12:00.000-07:00

(Mailed on Sunday)

Hallo, there.

We have done 24 Hour Comic Day here, please check our artwork on:

http://papillonstudio.multiply.com/photos

Thank you for visiting us.

Best regard,
Bowo

24HCD Coverage in UT

2008-10-20T07:09:00.000-07:00

Fox News takes a look at 24HCD at Night Flight Comics, Utah.

http://www.myfoxutah.com/myfox/pages/Home/Detail?contentId=7669003&version=3&locale=EN-US&layoutCode=VSTY&pageId=1.1.1

24HCD Coverage in MT

2008-10-20T07:06:00.000-07:00

(Have links to local coverage? Email them to us!)

The Missoulian stops in at Muse Comics to check in on this whole 24-Hour Comics Day thing.

http://www.missoulian.com/articles/2008/10/19/news/mtregional/news06.txt

24 Hrs in Q-Town: Hours 23 and 24

2008-10-19T11:23:00.000-07:00

Hi Kids!

Parents are showing up to collect their kids and things are winding down.

Michael finished "Stray Dog" and Paul has 13 pages in the can. He's saying it has something with the hard uncomfortable chairs and Jake is backing him up. Michael says that he had to stand up a lot. That helped. Pete has six pages done but he has assured us he'll finish it onaccounta he likes it.

BIG NEWS! Jeff has finished at 11:59! We are all in awe of his awesomeness in finishing so close to the deadline.

Michael and Jeff looking somewhat ethereal, no?

That's it! We're OUTTA HERE!

See youse next year!

Your pal,

Chuck

Santa Fe: Just About Wrapped Up

2008-10-19T10:21:00.001-07:00

Just a few minutes left here before the cleanup begins. Folks have been wrapping up and heading home all morning, though a few were still sticking it out and trying to finish their comics. The rest of us are just reading them. We also had a visit from a photographer for the Journal North, so check out tomorrow's edition.

We're figuring that we had 25 "official" participants, with plenty of friends, family, and other assorted hangers-on throughout the event. Since the last post, we've seen the completion of Tony's Enjoy the Show, Kirstiann's Black & White (in color), Rafael and Conseulo's Aliens and Heroes (Consuelo also finished four pages of her own story), Caitlin's At the Edge of the Lake, Julie and Tonya's Cowan's the Best Character…, and Katie's Marquis (pencilled, though not all inked). Dale and Chris left with their mostly-completed comics, and Jett, Ethan, Benjy, Emily, Evan, and Vanessa are still plugging away.

Thanks to 7000 BC, True Believers Comics and Gallery, and Warehouse 21 for the use of their awesome new space. Also, thanks again to our food donors: Upper Crust Pizza, Walter Burke Catering, Java Joe's, and La Montanita Co-Op.