Doctor Popular says,
Image: snapshot from 24HCBDay in New Mexico in 2006, by baaadasssscomics. Also, here's a Flickr pool.Today is 24hour Comic Book Day. Cartoonists all over the world will be taking part in the challenge of creating an entire 24 page comic book in just one day. Robots Don't Know Anything About Twitter, which was featured on BB a few weeks ago, was created as part of last years 24HCBDay!Here are some links: Nationwide, in SF, in Minneapolis, in Albuquerque
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What does this mean?
Buddy66 @1, it means just what it says.
Way back in 1990, indie cartoonist Scott McCloud invented the 24-hour comic. The idea is a cartoonist sits down and creates a 24-page comic story -- concept, writing, art, everything -- in one 24-hour stretch.
He printed up copies of his 24-hour comic as minicomics and gave them away (I've got a copy somewhere), and various other cartoonists started picking up on the idea. In 2004, he put together an anthology of 24-hour comics, and Nat Gertler came up with the idea of having a regular day when cartoonists would make 24-hour comics.
I accidentally published the headline without the post body at first, buddy66 prolly saw a naked headline and was confused before i unpublished and republished with the body intact.
aww man, this snuck up on me and now I'll have to do mine next weekend, if at all!
i highly recommend trying this, for anyone at all curious. you can always to a six- or twelve-hour version. my last attempt took 30 hours, but so worth it...
I have a live stream running at http://www.ustream.tv/channel/doctor-popular-does-stuff
and will be twittering via http://www.twitter.com/docpop if anyone wants to follow.
The comic starts in 30 minutes.
Actually, I think most Twitter hash-spamming is done by robots.
Avram- They use twitter... they just don't get it.
12 hours in and totally high on Sharpie fumes. :)
Sharpies are tools, Andy Gates, not recreational drugs.
mayanmargret- If you aren't seeing underground comics in a comic book store then you probably aren't looking very hard.. or you just don't want to see them.
After all, the above post is about a large number of artists all over the world staying up for 24 hours passionately creating their own comics, and your comment is complaining about a lack of Crumb comics. If all you want is Crumb, his new book came out a few weeks ago. Your comic shop will have it.
If you want indie comics and indie spirit, open yourself up to it, it's right in front of you.
You can follow Scott Kurtz, Kris Straub, KC Green, and others, live on their 24 hour epic here.
Very entertaining stuff, IMHO.
@Mayanmargaret:
What Doctor Popular said.
The comics scene has never been better in my opinion, with comics now covering a lot more genres now than they did in the past. Sure...superhero comics still form a majority of the market but bemoaning that would be akin to bemoaning the sales of Pop music. Also, remember that just because something is 'pop' doesn't necessarily mean it's bad...the same applies to comics.
Also, why would you even comment on this article if you have "...no comment" for the subject in question? You could do with researching 24 hour comics and seeing for yourself that some fantastic content has been created worldwide over the years.
Superhero comics are only the market majority in the USA in numbers. In sales$, they are already passed by Manga (Japanese translated comics) which are bought massively by girls.
In the rest of the world, superhero comics are only a small fraction of the total sales, with humor and fantasy leading genres.
24 hours comics day is now worldwide. See a list of some of the events at http://www.24hourcomicsday.com/sites.html
@ #11 mayanmargret- If you aren't seeing underground comics in a comic book store then you probably aren't looking very hard.. or you just don't want to see them.
Believe me, Doctor Popular...I'm looking for underground comics at my local comics shops (3 in our area), and I don't see them. You must live in Seattle or a better part of San Francisco
One of the amazing things I do see are Walt Disney "Donald Duck" comic reissues, which I find fascinating because I had some of these as a wee small child. The illustrations and stories are very good
But try and find a copy of "The Fabulous Furry Freak Brothers Go to Jupiter" and I'm up Comic Creek without a paddle
Once in a while our area shops will slip in an expensive bound R. Crumb sketchbook collection or perhaps a ZIPPY compendium (a strip that never was underground in spirit or scope) - but I assume the big money is in moody Goth superhero zines or in any number of Japanese imports
Has anyone read "THE 99" which contains Muslim superheros?
Heh, years ago BoingBoing posted a link to a story I made in seventh grade, and scanned in:
http://www.boingboing.net/2003/06/10/kidmade_graphic_nove.html
For 24 Hour Comics Day this year, I redid and deconstructed the piece a bit, and recognized it for the kind of horrendous war story it is, despite the whimsical setting...
http://kisrael.com/features/sloths/
I think it came out ok, my crappy doodly style let me actually get sleep in!
Ah 24hr Comic Day. As an alumni of the Minneapolis College of Art & Design I had quite a few comic major friends who celebrated this holiday religiously.
Gotta say I enjoyed clicking the Minneapolis link and seeing at least one person I know in those pictures.
Some pretty crazy stuff comes out of this day, it is amazing how creative people get in a crunch.
#15 The 99 isn't around here so I torrented a few episodes out of curiosity. It's your standard teen super fare - very Marvelicious - and nicely done. Not preachy or inaccessible. I'll probably spring for a TPB once it gets collected.
Alas I'm going to score a 'noble failure' for 24HCD after a Power Nap Malfunction (super-saiyan slumber powers: activate!). 15 pages inked, the rest just barely roughed out.
Great fun. There's something about pressure that forces you to stop dithering and perfecting and just get it on paper: it's the NaNoWriMo effect (or for professionals, the Angry Agent effect?).
Greeting from the other side of the country on 24 hours comics day.
Little video from Pittsburgh!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9jQkpyVQjWQ
I used the opportuniy of 24HCD to accomplish a 24 Hour Comics Day first: a 24 Hour Comic made entirely on an iPod Touch/iPhone; writing, research, art, uploading and Tweeting updates.
The happy (and successful!) result of piling one challenge on another begat "Daruma Every Day" and can be seen here:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/divalea/sets/72157622508030458/
The art was created using Steve Sprang's badass Brushes app, with apps like cool fx and Photo Finish for textures and finishes. My 24hc is also the first made with Brushes.
I was hosted by Dragon's Lair San Antonio, and I'm the point person for next years' event.
Where did they get that Red Dragon Head from Jeff Smith's Bone?
That photo's taken at the old location of Santa Fe's True Believers Comics and Gallery. The dragon head's been there for years, and even the owner I asked couldn't remember where it came from.
Photos from this year's New Mexico event are being gathered at the 7000 BC Flickr stream.
It was a good event this year! Here's mine:
http://megatexas.livejournal.com/196424.html
I did it a little different this year. I used Zach Taylor's idea -- instead of writing a new book, I "covered" an older book, and spent twenty-four hours reworking and redrawing an old Gil Kane issue of Superman. I don't know if it's "original" or "publishable" but I'll tell ya what, I learned a ton and it was fun.