Will you be in San Diego this year for Comic-Con? Stop by the 24-Hour Comics Day panel in Room 12 on Friday, July 23rd hosted by ComicsPRO.
Here’s the panel description:
2:30 – 3:30 The 24-Hour Comics Day Challenge — Can you create a full 24-page comic from scratch in 24 hours? Join us at the panel as Ryan Claytor (Elephant Eater Comics) and Trevor Mersch (Vendetta Comics) give out tips and tricks to help you complete the challenge this year and have your comic included in the international 24-Hour Comics collection. Or are you interested in hosting a 24-Hour Comics Day event in your area? Nat Gertler (Publisher of About Comics and founder of 24-Hour Comics Day) and Portlyn Polston (Brave New World Comics, Newhall, CA) can tell you how to create and advertise a successful event at your comic book store, school or library. Room 12
For more details about ComicsPRO retailer programming at Comic-Con, visit the ComicsPRO Blog.
We are looking for the best 24-Hour Comics Day flyer this year to use as our official flyer and we know you have the right design!
We will take submissions of flyer designs between now and July 31st and the winner will become our official 24HCD flyer. The designer will be credited on the flyer and on 24hourcomicsday.com.
All submissions to the contest will be considered art donations to ComicsPRO. You retain the rights to your artwork but you are donating the design for ComicsPRO’s unlimited use (and the use of event hosts around the world!) for promotional purposes. We will not sell copies of your artwork.
The contest does not have a paid prize but ComicsPRO will send a thank-you package to the winner filled with comics and other goodies! Your artwork will also be used around the world!
Details for the flyer:
–It needs to print on an 8.5″ by 11″ sheet of paper (you should leave some border space)
–We need a color version and a black & white version
–“24-Hour Comics Day” should be prominent and readable, and you can use the logo if you want to include it. It must also promote the event date: October 2, 2010
–This flyer will be used by event hosts to advertise the 24HCD event to artists in their local areas, so your flyer should have some text describing what artists do during the event. An example would be:
“Take the 24-Hour Comics Day challenge: create a 24-page comic, start to finish, in 24 consecutive hours!”
(You can use your own text for the flyer as long as it describes the event.)
–The flyer must have blank space at the bottom for the event host to include their location information and other details. We recommend leaving a box at least 2″ tall that runs the width of the flyer but the exact dimensions are up to you.
Please send your flyer to 24hcd@comicspro.org. Please do not send files that are larger than 1MB. Since many high-resolution, printable designs will be larger than that, please consider sending a thumbnail of your design and link to the actual file.
Thank you for creating the best 24-Hour Comics Day flyer!
About donating to ComicsPRO:
ComicsPRO is a non-profit organization (501c6) but not a charity (which is a 501c3). So donations to ComicsPRO aren’t itemized as charitable donations. However, if you work in comics or design and you itemize your business expenses, a donation to ComicsPRO can be considered a business expense–please check with your accountant for the correct way to record your donation!
24-HOUR COMICS DAY SET FOR OCTOBER 2
Host Registration opens June 2
ComicsPRO once again invites artists around the world to try the 24-hour Comics Day challenge! Can you make a 24-page comic in 24 hours?
October 2, 2010 will mark the 7th annual 24-Hour Comics Day (24HCD) event, where professionals and amateurs alike will meet at their local comic book store and try to produce a complete comic book in one day. Thousands of artists at hundreds of sites in the U.S. and around the world take part in 24-Hour Comics Day every year.
Are you interested in hosting a 24-Hour Comics Day event? Registration is now open.
Registration is for event hosts only; individual participants will register at their local participating venue.
24HCD 2010 is sponsored in part by comic book publisher BOOM! Studios. U.S. venues who register to host a 24HCD event by August 1st will receive a sketch cover and an art -negative cover of BOOM! Studios comics to giveaway as prizes or promotions! Registered venues will also receive a kit from ComicsPRO to help set up, advertise and run their events and will be listed on the national 24HCD directory at www.24hourcomicsday.com.
“BOOM! Studios is proud to sponsor this year’s 24 Hour Comics Day! This is a great way for artists everywhere to celebrate the art of comics all in one day!” said BOOM! Studios Marketing Director Chip Mosher. “Every year, I love seeing what my artist friends come up with. There is no cooler thing in comics than reading someone’s 24 Hour Comics day work.”
BOOM! Studios has also created a special gallery to showcase the comics created on 24-Hour Comics Day. Artists who participate in the 24-Hour Comics Day event will be invited to showcase their comics in a dedicated forum at www.boom-studios.com. “We’ve had an Artists Gallery on our forum since the very beginning of BOOM!’s existence and have hired a ton of people through this gallery. So, you never know!”
Artists who complete the 24-Hour Comics Day challenge are also invited to include copies of their comics in the national 24-Hour Comics Day collection hosted by The Ohio State University Cartoon Library & Museum. Submission details will be provided at the event on October 2nd.
ABOUT 24HCD: The 24-Hour Comic challenge was first issued by internationally renowned author and artist Scott McCloud in 1990. The 24-Hour Comics Day Event was created by Nat Gertler, publisher of About Comics. More information on 24-Hour Comics Day is available at www.24hourcomicsday.com.
ABOUT COMICSPRO: ComicsPRO is a 501(c)6 non-profit trade organization uniting independent comic book storefront retailers to share resources and to promote comics as an important part of popular culture and literature.
Further information may be found about ComicsPRO at www.ComicsPRO.org.
ABOUT BOOM! Studios: BOOM! Studios (www.boom-studios.com) is a unique publishing house specializing in high-profile projects across a wide variety of different genres from some of the industry’s biggest talents, including Eisner nominated Philip K. Dick’s DO ANDROIDS DREAM OF ELECTRIC SHEEP?, The Henson Company’s FARSCAPE, and the Eisner nominated original Mark Waid series IRREDEEMABLE. BOOM!’s children publishing imprint BOOM Kids! publishes titles such as Pixar’s THE INCREDIBLES, CARS, and TOY STORY, as well as Disney’s Eisner nominated THE MUPPETS, DONALD DUCK, UNCLE SCROOGE and WALT DISNEY’S COMICS AND STORIES.
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Oct. 2, 2010 will be the date of the 7th annual 24-Hour Comics Day! The date was announced by the 24HCD Committee at the ComicsPRO Annual Membership Meeting in Memphis, Tenn.
24-Hour Comics Day is an annual challenge for cartoonists to produce a 24-page comic book written, drawn, and completed in 24 consecutive hours. ComicsPRO, the comic book specialty retailer trade group organizes the day with the enthusiastic endorsement of the event’s founder, Nat Gertler, publisher of About Comics.
In 2009, more than 2,000 professional and amateur cartoonists participated in more than 100 venues.
Over the years, the 24-Hour comic book challenge has thwarted and rewarded such comics luminaries as Scott McCloud, Dave Sim, Neil Gaiman, Kevin Eastman and many others. On 24 Hour Comics Day, creators of all ages and levels of skill and experience gather at one of the participating sites to encourage each other in completing this creative comics marathon.
Venue registration for this year’s event will begin in June.
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[A note to participants: please don’t email your venue information! Registration will open in June and we will only be able to process venues who register at the 24-Hour Comics Day website. Thank you–we look forward to working with you this year!]
Hello!
My name is Daniel Larson and this year was my first experience with the 24 Hour Comic event. I’ve been drawing comics for several years and had heard of the event before, but was never able to participate. This year, my schedule allowed me to jump in. I decided to invite a filmmaker friend of mine to come along and document the experience. What we created was a 37 minute documentary about the event at Double Midnight Comics in Manchester, NH.
A few links to get you started:
My website: www.circlecomics.com
My 24 Hour Comic: http://www.comicspace.com/circlecomics/comics.php?action=read&file_id=307394
Because the film was so long, we had to break it into 2 separate parts for viewing online:
Part 1- http://www.dailymotion.com/video/xbehen_24-pages-pt-1-of-2_creation
Part 2- http://www.dailymotion.com/video/xbeht7_24-pages-pt-2-of-2_creation
Hope you enjoy it!
-Daniel Larson
Created with flickrSLiDR.
24 Hour Comics Day 2009 at the Harwood Art Center had a great turnout this year! We may have had the largest attendance of any location in the world, with 41 people making the attempt (including 2 who worked from home and kept in contact with us throughout the night).
We had 11 people who made the trek from Santa Fe, Ms. Webber-Bey and a big group of her Comic Club students from Albuquerque, and Mike Hanlon who came all the way from Alamogordo! Thanks, Mike. Most folks stuck with us at least until morning. In the end, 16 24-page comics were completed by 18 creators (2 were made by 2 people collaborating).
Check out the coverage from the event:
Thanks to the Harwood Art Center for their generous support, and to all of our sponsors:
We finished our work in Muhos County Library at Sunday 4.10.11.00 am. local time.
We had finally 31 participants . 26 of them finished all 24 pages . Three left an incomplete work and two did not leave work at all.
Most of the comics can be seen at our website and some photos here
We are going to arrange a 24 hour comics day at Muhos llibrary again next year.
Thanks for all who was with us and also thanks to our sponsors who made it possible to arrange dinner and breakfast.
Thank you to all of the hosts who have reported their participation numbers this year!
24HCD 2009 was a great event, taking place in over 100 venues around the world. Well over 2000 participants created comics, making tens of thousands of comic pages!
Congratulations to everyone who completed the challenge. Don’t forget: you can send your completed comics to the OSU Cartoon Library to be included in the official 24-Hour Comics Day collection. Include a cover letter for each comic and mail them to the address on the cover letter.
Thank you from the whole 24HCD committee and from ComicsPRO. See you all next year!
Tiina Eilittä
