Oy™ - a daily comic

Exciting news! Okami is coming to Wii! If you don’t know what Okami is, read up on it here.

Basically, it’s like the game was designed for the Wii; it features a virtual paintbrush that you use to control certain parts of the game. In fact, the whole game looks like a painting. But it was released for PS2. Then something happened and the company that made it had some, um, legal trouble and an obvious Wii port looked unlikely.

Now, according to Kotaku, it’s slated to come out for Wii in 2008!

I’m up, I’m refreshed and ready to have at it. I will begin by scripting out all 72 strips. I normally don’t write The Crow’s Nest ahead of time, but I believe it will be easier if I have the words ready to go and can draw like a madman the rest of the day.

I’ll try to blog each hour to update my progress, but I may get too focused on the comics and forget. I will be using military time as it counts up easier than normal time (13:00=1:00 PM, etc.) for a 24 hour marathon, and it matches my WordPress clock. Okay, it’s midnight now, see you in about an hour….

One hour in and I’ve prepared the lettering and panel template files for all 72 comics and am as far as scripting strip #12; only sixty to go… See you in an hour.

Two hours in and I have scripted 31 strips; 41 to go. If I keep up the pace, hopefully I can commence drawing by 4 AM. I’ll probably take a snack break when the script is done and then go to town on drawing! See you in yet another hour

I just completed scripting the 53rd comic. I’m on the home stretch here: only 19 to go, then I can start drawing. Hour.

That’s right the script is complete! That’s 72 individual comic strips, all related to the same story. I’m going to take a short break and commence drawing in a little while. I estimate I’ll need to draw about 4 comics an hour to meet my goal from this point. More updates as they come…

I just finished the lettering on comic #24; 48 to go.

Six hours in, here’s my progress update:

72 comics scripted!

48 comics lettered!

I just need to finish lettering 24 more comics, and then I can finally, finally start drawing. See you in an hour.

Time for another, theblogComics.com 24 Hour Comics Day hourly update! I took a 20 minute break this hour and completed the lettering through strip #64. That leaves eight more to letter!

See you in an hour!

Just a quick note that all 72 strips are now lettered. I’m going to take another break, and officially commence drawing when I get back! Yeah!