Tuesday, October 30, 2007

24 Hour Comic part 2














My evaluation of this project is pretty positive. It forced me to do a specified number of pages at one time. It may not be the best thing I've ever written or drawn, but it is complete, and no one can take that away from me, I guess.
Now you may have noticed that at the half way of this project the art style suddenly switched from being these big bold lines and thick inked frames to obviously just pencil. I also started working blue for no reason, which I told myself that I wouldn't do anymore.
Also, you may notice that this last half has six pages that could easily be taken out to make the comic tighter. You could pretty much not even show pages 19, 20, 21, and 22 and it would make it much tighter.
I think these pages are pretty fun, even if some of the jokes are a little easy, or slightly offensive.

Monday, October 29, 2007

It's about time














Here are the first 12 pages of my 24 hour comic. They work as it's own comic, and I don't really have much of a story about these first 12 pages. The second set of pages has a little anecdote to them, so I'll post that tomorrow when I finish these out.

I apologize for the frames looking sloppy. I'm not used to drawing with sharpie.
Check out a few posts below is a description of what exactly I did, though I figure "24 hour comic" is enough explanation, really.

Ian M.

Tuesday, October 16, 2007

Well OK then

One thing I am doing is a 24 Hour Comic. For those who don't know about the challenge here's a bulletin I did on it a bit ago:

This coming Saturday, October the 20th, is International 24 hour comics day, a day when over 1200 cartoonists, comic book artists, writers and ne'er-do-wells set aside a day to making a 24 page comic.

The description from the website:

- What is a 24 hour comic?
- It's a challenge: one cartoonist tries to create a full 24 page comic, normally months of work, in 24 straight hours.more info

-What is 24 Hour Comics Day?
-It's an international celebration of comics creation. Cartoonists all over take the challenge of trying to create a 24 page comic story in 24 straight hours. Many gather at special events in comic book shops, schools, and other locations.

it's not midnight to midnight, luckily, so I can do it after a good night's sleep. I may or may not be doing it around other people. Hopefully I will, but I'm fine if I'm just sitting around my room forcing myself to be creative.

As a side note, "Popeye Meets Ali Baba's Forty Thieves" is AMAZING. It makes me realize that animation has been missing barely coherent mumbling for a long time. Popeye making a joke, and then immediately making a joke about the joke he just made was "meta" before it was cool. You can seriously find that on like a 6 dollar "Cartoon Classics" DVD at a Walgreens, and it comes with a TON of other great catoons. It seems like they've all been downloaded from the Internet Archive, to be honest, you can download it here and do whatever you like with it. I suggest watching it. You can just as easily remaster it and release it on an expensive DVD set with tons of extras and make me want to spend money I don't have. If you're a giant corporation.

More updates forthcoming! Soon!
Ian M.