24 Hour Comics Day Is Over In Albuquerque

All done in Albuquerque — another great 24 Hours Comic Day in New Mexico has successfully concluded.

 
 
 

Thanks to the 7000 BC members who worked so hard to put this all together; Media Arts Collaborative Charter School for hosting; Winning Coffee Company and Downtown Java Joe's for their food donations; Astro-Zombies, Comic Warehouse, and the new Kaboom Test Labs for their prize donations. And, of course, to all the participants who made this such an amazing time.

 
 
 

Chuck was liveblogging the day; check out hour-by-hour updates and photos at:

HOUR ONE: And So It Begins…

HOUR TWO: The Wheels are Turning…

HOUR THREE: The Fun Continues…

HOUR FOUR: Moving Right Along…

HOUR FIVE: Raffle Winners!

HOUR SIX: They Say a Picture is Worth 1000 Words…

HOUR SEVEN: And a Few Thousand More

HOUR EIGHT: PIZZA!!!

HOUR NINE: Some Words of Thanks!

HOUR TEN: Still Cookin'

HOUR ELEVEN: Still More Raffle Winners!

HOUR TWELVE: We're Halfway There!

HOUR THIRTEEN: And They Say the Arts are Dying in America?

HOUR FOURTEEN: The Kids!

HOUR FIFTEEN: Getting Closer…

HOUR SIXTEEN: We're Still Here…

HOUR SEVENTEEN through NINETEEN: Z-Z-Z-z-z-z…

HOUR TWENTY: Almost at the Home Stretch

HOUR TWENTY-ONE and TWO: The Final Raffle!

HOUR TWENTY-THREE: The Finish Line

HOUR TWENTY-FOUR: It's All Over, Even the Shouting…

Into the home stretch in Albuqurque

That's Chuck, the documenter of the Albuquerque 24 Hour Comics Day event. After the power nap, he's got plenty of updates at the blog, and pictures of completed comics.

Albuquerque Underway!

24 Hour Comics Day in Albuquerque is well underway at Media Arts Collaborative Charter School, with around 40 participants hard at work on their comics as of about 3 hours ago. Regular updates are posted at Chuck's liveblog of the event; in a spectacular bit of poor planning we haven't quite worked out how to share content over here.

Liveblogging 24 Hour Comics Day in Albuquerque

Once again, Chuck will be blogging Albuquerque's 24 Hour Comics Day. Follow New Mexico's only event at 24 Hours From Q-Town and 7000 BC: 2011 Edition

24 Hour Comics Day 2010 in Albuquerque

24 Hour Comics Day 2010 in Albuquerque | Sat. Oct. 2-Sun. Oct. 3 | 10:00 am-10:00 am (note new times this year) | Harwood Art Center | 1114 7th Street NW, Albuquerque, NM

Once again, 7000 BC and the Harwood Art Center present New Mexico's only 24 Hour Comics Day event. As he does every year, Chuck will be blogging as it happens at 24 Hours in Q-Town 24 Hour Comics Day from 7000 BC.

To register, send Jeff an email or call him at 505-262-2952.

Thanks to our sponsors: Harwood Art Center, Winning Coffee Company, and Comic Warehouse

24 Hrs in Q-Town: Hours 23 and 24

Hi Kids!

Parents are showing up to collect their kids and things are winding down.

Michael finished "Stray Dog" and Paul has 13 pages in the can. He's saying it has something with the hard uncomfortable chairs and Jake is backing him up. Michael says that he had to stand up a lot. That helped. Pete has six pages done but he has assured us he'll finish it onaccounta he likes it.

BIG NEWS! Jeff has finished at 11:59! We are all in awe of his awesomeness in finishing so close to the deadline.

Michael and Jeff looking somewhat ethereal, no?

That's it! We're OUTTA HERE!

See youse next year!

Your pal,

Chuck

24 Hrs in Q-Town: Hours 20 through 22

Hours 21 and 22

Now I ask you, does this look like the face of an old man who has been up for 29 hours?

Here we are at hour 21 and Gwen has finished her comic, "Lola".

The sun is up and shining. The sky is a beautiful blue, not cloud in it and the temperature is a lovely, oh, I don't know, somewhere around 70, 75. Not that I want to boast or anything, but to those people who, like my friend, Chuck, from Chicago, when he got off the plane in Phoenix, saw all the sand, and said, "Where's the beach?", that's just the way it is almost every day here in the Land of Enchantment. I think the weather is the greatest thing about New Mexico. Unlike Phoenix, which is a blast furnace in the summer, we here in Q-Town enjoy mild, sunny winters and warm summers, the temperature rarely topping the century mark. And, it's a dry heat so you don't really even perspire all that much.

And you may wonder why I'm going on and on about all this. Well, the truth is Jake's camera battery died on us so I'm waiting for it to charge up enough so we can get Gwen's pic so the poor girl can go home and start the recovery process from this grueling ordeal. She's being so patient, bless her heart...

The battery has charged enough and we can now bid a fond and grateful farewell to Gwen.

And not only that, but while I was in the bathroom performing my morning ablutions, Stu finished his comic, too.

Here's Stu with his comic.

And Paul has gone for Starbuck's (the BAWLS is long gone, but you know, BAWLS is a proud sponsor of 24 Hour Comic Day).

Bless his heart...

A lotta heart blessin' goin' on here, but then again, it is Sunday.

Hour 20

Sun's up and Aliina has finished her comic at 8:26. Here she is with her comic, "Roll".

24 Hrs in Q-Town: Hour 19 or The Sun Also Rises

And so sunrise comes to Harwood Art Center (boy, do I suck at photography, or what? This one's blurry, too.)

24 Hrs in Q-Town: Hours 17 and 18

Hi Kids! Still enthusiastic--whatta trooper, eh?

Anyway, Courtney finished. As I recall, she finished about this time last year, too, except last year she finished first.

Sorry about the blurriness. The ace photo snapper is asleep...

24 Hrs in Q-Town: Hour 16

Well kids, we've lost a few more to the Sandman. But not me. No sir. I'm still wide awake, er, sorta...

Here's Heron proudly displaying his finished comic.

24 Hrs in Q-Town: Hour 15

Here's Nick playing with his DS. I can't tell what game he's playing.
Can you?

We have another finisher. His name is Heron, and he didn't gave it a title. But it's finished!

24 Hrs in Q-Town: Hour 14

Hi Kids!
We're still here, although we lost a few folks. Happens every year (like I know what I'm talking about--this is my second year!).

Jeff's cover. Dontcha love the dancing dog? Me too.

Paul is snoozing. Check out the STAR WARS blankie. The light sabers look like they're glowing! Cool!

Michael takes a snack break and looks pretty serious about it.

24 Hrs in Q-Town: Hour 13

Hour THIRTEEN

We're still plugging away...

Here's Jeremy, hard at work.

Michael's "Stray Dog"

Paul is working and playing with army men!

Gabe is coming along nicely.

Gwen is working it!

24 Hours From Q-Town: Hours 10 through 12

Ladies and gentlemen, we have a WINNAH! At about 10:15, Brooklyn was the first to finish her comic, "Galaxy Breath"!

Tell them what she won, Chuck.

Well Chuck, Brooklyn has won a BAWLS t-shirt and a BAWLS messenger bag and a little orange BAWLS super ball!

BAWLS is a proud sponsor of 24 Hour Comic Day and folks are pinging off the walls here at the Harwood.

Oh, we are so excited!

Your pal,

Chuck

HOUR(s) SEVEN through NINE

Hey, I've been busy! It ain't easy trying to decide which pix get posted and then I've gotta download them from Jake's uber camera, resize them onnaccounta they can't be too big, and then upload them to the blogs, which takes forever...

Blah, blah. Woof, woof. Whatever...

Here are some more pix...

Courtney still @ work

Dirk at work

And now we're into HOUR TEN!

24 Hours in Q-Town: Hours 3 through 5

Hi again Kids!

Here's what we've been up to...

HOUR THREE

Mostly pix this time. After all, they are worth a buncha words, eh?

More of Da Harwood Gang

Jeff and I at Q-Town Blog Central

HOUR FOUR

More of Da Harwood Gang

Da Place

We are behind the upper left window

HOUR FIVE

This is Jeff. He's the one who did the most to get this project going.

Thanks, Jeff!

This is Pete Z. (one of the Z-Boys)

This Paul Z. (the other Z-Boy and President of 7000BC)

Pete and Paul have also been very influential in the making of

24 Hours From Q-Town...

Q-Town- HOUR TWO

Hi Kids!

We got Jake here to do pix and I'll be posting every hour on my 24 Hours From Q-Town blog (I really have no idea how you get there from here but I'm sure somebody will figure it out--might be a link or something...) until it's over.

Think of me as a young Jerry Lewis (too young to remember who he is? One of the greatest slapstick comedians in history whose creativity and comic genius flows in the blood of everyone that has come since him. But I digress...) and his labor day March of Dimes Telethon, except not from Vegas and with no really famous guests or musical acts.

Hmm... Come to think of it, maybe I'm not really like Jerry Lewis after all, eh? Might wanna rethink that...

Oh well, I'm kinda new to this blogging thing so you'll hafta bear with me, or not. It's up to you. This is America, after all...

Back soon,

Your pal,

Chuck

24 Hours in Q-Town--Hour One

Hi Kids,

It's me, your ole pal, Chuck, and it looks as if things are up and running here in Albuquerque, AKA; Q-Town and while I was hoping for a group shot, it seems that already folks are feeling the pressure and don't want to disengage from their respective projects to gather together for a group hug. Alas...


Your pal,

Chuck

More From 24 Hours in Q-Town...

Hi Again Kids,





Thought you might enjoy our flyer for 24 Hour Comic Day and I get a chance to post a pic to see if I can. I'm new to this stuff so bear with me, eh?

Jeepers, I sure hope the pics come out bettter'n that!

Ah well, practice makes perfect, eh?

Your Pal,

Chuck

24 Hours From Q-Town!

Hi Kids!

It looks as if I may be able to post here after all. Who says that tenacity is not its own reward? Not me, I'll tell ya!

So who knows? Maybe we'll show up here from time to time during the event.

Bye Kids!

Your Pal,

Chuck