24 Hour Comics Day is coming up!

October 3rd to be precise...

... technically there are 48 global hours for this, so not everyone is going to start and finish at the same time.

What is 24 Hour Comics Day?

Well, it's basically a challenge. The general rules is to create, from start to finish, a 24 page comic in 24 hours. From concept to finished product. You are not even supposed to have anything more ready other than art supplies, and hopefully SOME sort of idea in your head.

What I want to know is, who is planning on getting in on this, and are you going to be LiveStreaming, or Ustreaming this live?

The Webcomic Beacon is planning a 24 Hour Broadcast to cover the event as it takes place while people start, create, and finish (or fail to finish) their 24 hour comic.

This means that we'll be sharing stream links, checking in on people, and hope that people call us on the show to tell us how things are going!

So let us know if you are going to be apart of this!
(More info about the 24 Hour Broadcast can be found here)

the 24 hour comics days sound interesting, but I fear them. I allways worry I'd screw up my hand or something drawing for that long.

I have missed two years of this.
Not this year!!!

I THROW MY HAT IN!

I have done , and failed twice! But I did finished each story, that's called the Eastman variant.

I am doing the deal again this year. We have a comic store sponsoring us and there are 15 or so (so far) of us getting together to do some comics!

Our Facebook group is http://www.facebook.com/home.php?ref=home#/group.php?gid=114756950475&ref=ts . The Facebook Event is http://www.facebook.com/home.php?ref=home#/event.php?eid=105944467995&ref=ts.

If any of you live in Pittsburgh, or will be here then, come on bay and take the challenge!

We are now Live

http://webcomicbeacon.com/2009/10/03/th ... omics-day/

This was my first year doing this and it was AMAZING!
I can't wait for next year!

My local comic book store, "4 Color Fantasies", hosted the event and it was way too much fun.
The owners of the shop had planned on putting up a 24hr webcam of the whole thing, but that idea fell through. Hopefully next year.

In the beginning of the day, 24 hours seems like enough time to get done with a 24 page comic with time to spare. So I worked really hard on the backgrounds of the first few pages and as the night wore on the backgrounds of the panels had less and less detail in them.

Some people went in with a ready-to-go plot like this guy (who I have to thank for helping me and sharing tool and tips) http://julian-aguilera-art.blogspot.com/, some people had no idea what they were doing, and others (me) went in knowing that they had a general idea of a beginning, some middle gags, and an end, but wanted to wing the rest.

Food and drinks were supplied and we watched a bunch of movies.
People who weren't even participating came to the comic shop to hang out and party until the wee hours of the night.

It was a blast.

It only slowed down as the sun threatened to rise.
My detailing was definitely lacking by this point. The Aguilera brothers finished before everyone else and I had my first Monster drink to give me a pick me up. Which actually did wake me up with the help of the Jim Gaffigan dvd that we threw in thanks to Michael.

I started at 11am and finished at 10am the next day.

And while coming with a prepared story would mean that I would be able to fly through the pages with time to work carefully and put as much detail as I can, but it wouldn't be the same.
When I was finally finished with the comic, I read it, and could remember every moment that went with the drawings. What movie we were watching, what kind of conversations were going on, and which pages were just thrown in to add an extra page. I plan on doing it the same way next year. But I plan on having more tools with me.

As soon as I can get the pages of the comic on my comp, i'm going to scan them and post them on my site. In the original form and in the computer edited format. I just really want to color a lot of those pages. It was really time consuming to color Michael's hair in the comic opposed to when I click his hair black on the computer.

I can't wait for next year!

This was the second year I've done it. Last year, for my independent study at school, I made it my goal to complete at least one 24HC. This year's 24HCD was actually the anniversary of the first one I completed last year!

The first one was on October 4/5th. The second, October 18th, last year's 24HCD. The third was on November 8th, and is my favorite of the four 24HCs I did. The fourth and last one, I did as performance art on the premises of my art show on December 3/4th.

I was officially tapped out of short story comic ideas after that quarter. x_x These can be read at http://alexheberling.com/24

Anyways, this year, I used the day to do a buffer for Garanos. I've been in and out of town for the last month, and what buffer I was maintaining was eaten up, and I really needed a buffer again so I wouldn't have to kill myself getting pages done in time. I listened to the Beacon's broadcast for as long as they stayed on, which was pretty fun, and I got 5 out of 6 pages completely done when the 14 hours was up. ^_^