12 Hours In! 24 Hour Comic Day!

Things are going wayyyyyyyyyyy too slow for my liking, but I'm too deep now!

This is what I said earlier, that my comic will have a main story interrupted by featurettes like in Archie or Harvey or Disney or Dell comics of olden times.  Here's the third page of the feature...

Followed by the first of a two page featurette.  One that was funnier when I wrote it than when I drew it.  No time to go now though...and there are some running gags that work with the main story in it, so I'm leaving it be!

Kind of what Paul McArtney said.

Still 20 pages and 12 hours to go.  Getting nervous, but why look back now?

Talk to you soon!

10 Down, 14 To Go! 24 Hour Comic Book Day!

OK...hour 10 down and only 2 pages done!!!!!!

NOT panic time, but surely "gittin' down to BIDNESS" time!

Lost 1/2 hour because I wanted a different kind of pen...NOT something you do on 24 hour comic day!

I've just got to get some momentum going...like I said...no panic yet!

Talk to you soon!

Cartooning Begins at Hour 8! 24 Hour Comic Book Day!

Ink finally hits the page!!

I can't be that tired yet, perhaps the adrenaline rush hit me, but you can see I've already made a typo which I'll have to fix.  "The Rise and Fall of WESTEN Civilization!"....ugh!

You can also see my excuse of why it took so long to script...that's a pretty hefty topic to tangle all at once.

Cartoonists are brave!

Talk to you soon.

Hour 6 Comes to a Close - 24 Hour Comic Book Day!

Hour 6 has come to a close and STILL scripting and blocking.

annnnnnnnnnd being distracted by Twitter and Facebook about the progress of others.

annnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnd whatever shiny object I see.

Never fear though...I am feeling more and more confident on the way the comic is going.  For me writing is half (if not more of) the work...drawing comes easy.

In the meantime...Colonel Bleep roots be on from the TV.

The TV is behind me...keeps the distractions down.

slightly.

Talk to you soon.

Hour 4 Coming to a Close!

Hour 4 coming to a close and STILL no drawing getting done!

Storyboarding and script are about 1/2 way there physically though.  The concept is locked in and SOLID, something I would have doubted 4 1/2 hours ago!  This won't be a solid 24 page story, but rather multiple stories on the same theme.  A Walt Disney's Comics & Stories anthology but with a subject line of more gravity.  But funny!  Hard to explain, but the pages will show you when I get them going in a couple of hours.

Like I said before...I am a quick drawer and I'm not sweating having not put pen to paper yet.  In 2 more hours I may change my tune, but for now I am feeling good and feeling (probably) on schedule but more importantly, feeling good about the story!!!

And that's the toughest spot for me.

Oh, and Richard Greene in "The Adventures of Robin Hood" is keeping me company now.

Talk to you soon.