In October 2005 I did my first 24 Hour Comic Book Day challenge. That is to create a 24 page comic in 24 hours. I have since done it twice more with each one getting better and better (2008, 2009) and I would recommended all artist do the challenge at least once in their career.

The challenge was a great experience for me, not only because I could see what I was capable of doing, but also I met Doc Pop, Mike and Meredith and soon joined them as part of the Cartoonist Conspiracy San Francisco. The challenge allowed me to expand my world as an artist and to make some new friends, leading to more friends and artistic challenges.

I am not going to go into a lot of details about the process of 24 Hour Comic Book Day since I have done that with the other times I have taken the challenge. (note: 2009 is offline due to hacking and I am hoping to recreate it somehow.)

I will say I am happy to see how things have changed over time: my art style, my skill at telling a complete story, and lots of other important stuff.

So, let’s get reading. Click on the images to see them bigger on Flickr.

The second have, part 2 will appear in the next day or two. If you can’t wait, visit the Flickr set to see them all.

What is 24HCBD?

The 24 hour comic challenge is for a cartoonist to completely create a 24 page comics story in 24 straight hours. A “24 hour comic” is any comics story you make while facing the challenge, even if you take more than 24 consecutively-awake hours to make the comic or if you end after 24 hours with a story that’s shorter than 24 pages. For more details on the challenge, click here.

My first time I participated was in 2005 where I met members of the San Francisco cell of Cartoonist Conspiracy and soon joined their ranks. That comic is The Synthetic Owl which you can read HERE.

The second time was last year (2008) at Comic Outpost, which was really fantastic and I made some new friends. See Photos HERE and read the final comic TEAM SONIC X HERE.

So now we have less then a month till the 2009 challenge and I am eager to try it again (while I can stay awake that long) and I plan to use the event as an excuse to bone up on my skills which I will post samples of on-line.

Stay tooned to see what happens.

Thanks for Reading!

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