24 Hours Comic day
Saturday April 23 was official 24 hours comic day. A neat comic marathon idea started by Scott McCloud, which certainly shares similarities with SketchCrawl. The idea in short: without any preplanning, or prewriting draw a comic in one day, non stop. So … I gave it a try! I figured I’d make a bit of a hybrid: a “ComicCrawl” day. I set outto go around the city all day and record the experience in comic format … and so I did and it was a ton of fun … I ended up with 24 pages of a silly biographical comic. Interestingly enough I found out only later that one of the main rules of the day was to make exactly a 24 pages comic in 24 hours … strange to hit that number by chance!? Anyway, I am sure I broke more than a couple of rules … especially since I ran over the 24 hours time limit, slept regular hours and then restarted coloring the next day … to be precise I finished watercoloring the whole thing around 27 hours after I had started drawing it. The day went something like this: I started just past noon on saturday. Finished drawing the 25th page around 8pm and then started watercoloring. Around 1:30 am I was pretty beat and went to sleep (half way through watercoloring the whole thing). In the morning I got back into it around 11pm and I finished a little before 3pm. So there you have it … not quite a 24 hour comic perhaps … but almost. It was a lot of fun and I am eager to see what people might think of it … it’s quite a silly comic, I think I channelled some old style Toriyama (I love Dr Slump). Anyway I figured I’d serialize it here on my site and you can find the first 3 pages HERE, Ill post 3 pages everyday this week! Cheers and let me know what you think.
