24 hours comics day

[Turi]

October the 1th it's once more time for the comic version of Le Mans - 24 hours to make a complete 24-pages comic.

Do any 'genners plan on taking up the dare?

In Denmark, a group of us will gather and encourage each other at Fagskolen in Odense, and other hosts across the globe can be found at http://www.24hourcomicsday.com/, while yet others prefer work from home. It's an exhausting, fabulous, coffee-demanding, hand cramp inducing, self-esteem boosting, fun experience.

If anyone has comics from the previous years, I'd like to see them. Mine can be found at my signature link.

[MixedMyth]

god, I have always wanted to do 24 hour comic day. But first I couldn't do it because grad school interfered, and now I can't because it would aggrivate my hands. Bah!

[VeryCuddlyCornpone]

Me too, MM!! I've been wanting to do this since I was maybe fourteen years old, but it never works out. I want to do it with friends, although making the trek alone may prove to be a spiritual, cathartic experience. Someday I'll get there.

[McDuffies]

Since I'm unemployed I might as well do it this year.

[robotthepirate]

Always on the 1st? Count me out forever then. That's my wifes birthday and short of her gaining a passionate interest to make her potential-comic "Flame Heads" a reality she'll probably want to be doing other things.

I could probably do 24 RTP pages in 24 hours if I had the attention span and all the pages were talking, 'cause anything else requires actual planning and often finding reference material and me becoming obsessive with a ruler to measure things into perfect preportions.

[Turi]

No, the date changes slightly each year, but it's October-November-ish.

And to the ones with hand problems: have you tried inking with a brush (or brush pen)? I find it much kinder to the wrist, and faster also, by the way. Or perhaps just do a 12 hours, 12 pages series. I do that semi-regularly, and while it is easier on the body, I actually find it more of a challenge to meet the time. Taking half an hour dinner break suddenly means more, and gearing up the brain takes just as long, regardless of the time at hand. A friend of mine once lost an argument with a door and a bottle of schnapps, so his hand can't take the strain. He does what he can, then finishes up another day. I find that just as valid. The point is not as much to "make it" as to challenge oneself.

[VeryCuddlyCornpone]

It always makes me think of back in high school when I did a comic for an English project that was about 25 pages long. I drastically overestimated my drawing and coloring speed and didn't start the production process until about a week before the due date. I realized how slow I was going and worked on the comic before school, after school, and after dinner, staying up really late for many of the nights. The night before it was due I stayed up until 4:30 in order to copy all the pages and bind the book together. It was a real rush when I finished it, laid it down, and went to bed, and then got to look at it afresh in the morning, and see my completed product all together in one booklet.

[McDuffies]

And to the ones with hand problems: have you tried inking with a brush (or brush pen)? I find it much kinder to the wrist, and faster also, by the way.

I never learned to ink with a brush, that's a mystical skill that completely eludes me. I have zero control with the brush.

Hm, I knew how to do a 24 hour work was in university, on projects with steep deadlines... I remember I would intentionally take a nap in the chair because I knew that falling out of the chair would instantly wake me up. But the expreience was always kind of... psychedelic.,,

[DLM X-13]

No, the date changes slightly each year, but it's October-November-ish.

I've said this over and over: I really wish they would just pick a goddamn day and stick with it. Makes for easier planning ahead if I can ever convince my boss to let us do it at his store, you know?

Anyway, I did one once back in 2005. It was a terrible comic, but great fun!! I recommend it to anyone. Even people who have never drawn anything in their lives.

[Ti-Phil]

While it may be fun, I don't have much free time. =_=

[Turi]

Translated my comic. I pulled the key words "zombie", "dismembered foot" and "tunnel" out of three piles of inspiration words.
Used too much time on sketching - didn't have time to ink it all, or make good shadows. Must ballance it better next year. about 25 minutes for each should be the goal. That leaves time for storyboarding, eating, and toiletting.
Spend 23 hours, 59 minutes and 50 seconds on it, so stress was present.

[McDuffies]

Hoho, you did it!

[peterabnny]

While it may be fun, I don't have much free time. =_=

Ditto, that. This, for me, is crazy talk...