24-hour comic

A 24 -hour comic is a comic, which comprises 24 pages and is made ​​within 24 hours.

As the inventor of the term applies Scott McCloud. He introduced the first 24 -hour Comic completed on 31 August 1990, in a kind of creative competition with Stephen R. Bissette, who completed his first 24 -hour comic on September 5th of that year.

Regulate

McCloud certain rules for the 24 -Hour Comics as follows:

• It may be only 24 hours between the start and completion of the whole project. This includes both the actual drawing and the writing of history with. Required materials such as canvas, paper, color as well as any reference may first be provided. A food or sleep break is not deducted from the 24 hours.

• Only one person may be involved in the process.

• The scope must be 24 pages. If the comic created in the form of computer graphics, which is not the usual, uniform arrangement of a printed page, so 100 frames (panels) shall be used.

• Lapse of 24 hours without the comic is completed, so, there are two variants, with the work to proceed further. You will immediately stop work without completing the work, follow the " Gaiman " variant, named after Neil Gaiman's first 24 -hour comic. If work is continued, so head to your the " Eastman " variant, named after Kevin Eastman's first 24 -hour comic.

From McCloud both variants are recognized as " honorable failure", and even those failed projects will be published on his website.

• In order to be officially recognized as the author of a 24 -hour comics, you have to forward a copy to McCloud.