2010 24HCD event will be held on October 2nd

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

Contact: Amanda Emmert

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!]

24HCD Documentary

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

24 Hour Comics Day in New Mexico 2009 Wrapup

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:

• We've got photos from the event posted on our Flickr site;
  
• Our 24 Hour Blogmaster Chuck kept us up to the minute at 24 Hours from New Mexico, as well as posting updates to this here blog;
  
• Kathy from the Harwood tweeted us.
• The Alibi's Devin O'Leary liveblogged his experience;
  
• while the Alibi's Erin Adair-Hodges Culture Shocked us;
  
• Albuquerque, along with our friends in San Francisco and Minneapolis, got mentioned on Boing Boing (featuring a photo from Santa Fe 2006);
  
• See the work completed by Ralph Contreras, Elizabeth Wilkinson, who were each working from home, and Kervin Bolts and David Castillo's joint venture.

Thanks to the Harwood Art Center for their generous support, and to all of our sponsors:

• 7000 BC
  
• SolArts
  
• Winning Coffee Co.
  
• La Montanita Co-Op
  
• BAWLS Energy Drinks
• and ComicsPro, the international organizers of 24 Hour Comics Day

Summary - Muhos, Finland

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.

24HCD 2009 wrap up

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

24 HOUR COMICS DAY 2009

Mirko Arkimaa