This weekend I did 24 Hour Comics Day at Jim Hanley’s Universe alonside seven other participants, with six of us (yes I did!) completing the 24-page challenge. Everyone had a swell time staying up, eating greasy food and getting to know each other as we pushed ourselves to the outer rims of our cartooning limits AND getting to let our proverbial hair down with Scott and Ivy McCloud in the process, who are absolutely top notch people.
Personally, I took 24HCD as a challenge to work against my own style, creating my whole comic BEFORE YOU WERE HERE in a very oversimple cartoony line with a fountain pen and a sharpie on typing paper. I spent the first 2 hours working on the script and then completed all 24 pages of inks by the 10-hour mark, giving myself the remaining 14 hours to scan and color my pages in Photoshop. I’ll be posting it here in its entirety tomorrow; see you then!
I can’t wait to see what you produced.
I too survived the challenge. This year, I teamed up with a friend for 24 Hour Comic Day. We did a comic jam of two different stories that would be bound in a flip-book style comic.
The trick was that the stories had to relate and every half hour, we would trade our half-finished page and let the other finish it.
Since we were going to end up with 24 pages between the both of us, we did the challenge in 12 hours instead of 24.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/mrblank/sets/72157602590173470/
Yeah man, congrats! Nice looking work too!
It was like joining the army for 24hrs with Scott McCloud as your cheerleader.