Well, it’s all over, everything is packed out and swept up, and I’m sitting right now at Winning Coffee, having just returned the urn, and waiting for some breakfast endchiladas red.  If you don’t know what that means, you ain’t from here, New Mexico, land of the Lobo.

A big thank you again to Lobo Anime and Comics, and to Winning Coffee!

In the end we wrapped up with me finishing at a little past 11:30.  Charles had officially finished before that.  Only Paul and Max remained.  Mike and Olive kept up at home, in spite of the break for a roller skate party on saturday.  They joined Emily, Kyle, Gabe, and others in getting a huge amount done but not quite finishing.

A huge thank you to all our sponsors, and to Nathan and Paul for being my cohorts in running this event.

See you all next year!

Nathan has finished his second volume of Minions, Delving Deeper.

And Charles is in a cartooning daze.  He’s technically been done with his 32 page story for a while, but he’s still tweaking.

Gabe, Emily, and Kyle have taken off, leaving Nathan, Winter, Paul, Max, Charles and myself to watch the sun come up.

We have our first completed comic!  Sara has completed her Pokedex Shenanigans, a randomly selected (using 10 sided die!) illustrated Pokedex!

We’ve been cruising through here in Burque.  We’ve had about 25 participants total, and we’re down to 10 still wrangling the pen and brush.  There has been much drawn, and there is much still to draw.  Here’s some of what’s happened.

Gabe won The Amazing Spiderman #666 courtesy of Astro-Zombies, with an Astro-Zombies exclusive cover!  So far he has not developed any hives or had his head spin around.  We’ll keep you posted.

Zac won Avengers Undercover, written by Hopeless.  This was not a good round for raffle prizes.

Winter won a copy of the first volume of 7000 BC’s Jams.

Julie won a Wonder Woman 24 Hour Comics Day blank to fill in next year.

Paul won the Supes blank book.

Here’s a page from my still unnamed comic, inspired by an email this afternoon.

Antonio is out after a handful of very productive hours.  His comic is rather transcendental.

Matt is out too, having finished a few pages of his ongoing Duckville, and winning a Munny donated by Nathan.

Nathan won THE coolest prize – a Batman The Animated Series Crime Squad Triple Attack Jet, courtesy of Age of Comics.

Speaking of Nathan, here’s a few more of his pages.

Here’s some of Sara and Winter’s work.

Paul’s doing some serious drafting on his homemade portable light table.

Emily has transitioned from her fantastic post it thumbnails to the fantastic final pages.

Kyle is zipping through his pencils.

Charles is filling in the art between the lettering.

And from home, Mike has some fascinating characters.

As does his daughter Olive.

As for myself, Dave Grohl is quite mysterious.

See you in a few hours!

Thank you to all our sponsors!

We the organizers are 7000 BC, but we certainly don’t put this together without a whole lot of help.  First there’s Henry, Eric, and the gang at Lobo Comics, who gives us the walls and roof.  And second there’s Chris and the gang at Winning Coffee, who provides us with the fuel to do this.   Without these two, we’d be struggling.

But we also have a huge amount of other help.  Thanks go to Laurie and everyone at TEDxABQ for providing most of the non-coffee drinks, snacks, and food.

We got raffle prizes from Astro-Zombies, Age of Comics, Comic Warehouse, SRB Studios, Oops… I Just Arted, and Wonder Funders.  That’s Natalie Peavy’s artwork on the flier, and we’ve had assistance making it all happen from Kristen Loree, Eli Bartlit, Laura Metzler, and Shana Morris.  Next weekend Shana will be lecturing on the history of the Ernie Pyle Library, Albuquerque’s first branch library.  Nathan Rackley, Paul Ziomek, and I are running the event.  Paul is also buying all of us dinner!

And last but not least, we have to thank Marco, Todd, and everyone at ComicsPro, who puts together 24 Hour Comics Day internationally every year.

Thank you all!