Oy™ - a daily comic

I will be getting up at 12 AM this Saturday, October 20th, to participate in this year’s 24 Hour Comics Day. For more info about 24 Hour Comics Day, check out the official rules at the official site.

The basic gist is I will be attempting to create a 24 page comic book by midnight. That’s it. All day Saturday I will be drawing my butt off. I will be utilizing one of theblogComics titles and creating an extended story. One of the rules is that the story must be written on the day, so no writing ahead of time.

What’s handy though, is the title I’m using is “The Crow’s Nest”, which is an on-the-fly, improvisational comic as it is. I haven’t seen any rules about using or not using existing characters, but I’m doing it anyway. My goal for the day will be to complete 3 comics per page, resulting in 72 Crow’s Nest comics!

Now, what am I going to do with those 72 comics, assuming I complete them? Well, that many comics would take almost a year and half to cycle through on the current weekly schedule! The solution (for now): January will be declared The Crow’s Nest Month, and I will post only Crow’s Nest comics every weekday.

That’s roughly under 25 comics, so that still leaves me with quite a few to fill out the rest of 2008 (as well as the rest of this year.) While those comics are cycling through, I will be working on the other theblogComics.com series on my normal schedule. So, come February, I should have a better lead time than now.

The complete comic book must be sent in to Scott McCloud. He and his helpers pull out the best work and publish an anthology, so you may see my comic in print if they like my stuff.

Also, on Saturday, I hope to blog roughly once every hour about my progress, so if you happen to be able to swing by the site every so often this Saturday, you can see portions of the work in progress. But I may get too busy working and forget, but here’s hoping.

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I’ve never done anything like this before, but a philosophy I adopted shortly after starting theblogComics.com was, “just jump in and do it”. I started out trying to plan out every detail and would get overwhelmed. But once I started pushing all that aside, stopped making excuses about not having time, etc. and just focused on creating the work, things went better.

I’m not going to go into this with many expectations. I’m just going to have fun and create the comics.

*yawn*

Editor’s Note: I’ve been informed that they won’t be publishing an anthology this year. So, unless I take it to print myself, the comics will be online only.