Nathan Vargas and myself are facilitating a
24 Hour Comic Boot Camp at
Kaleid Gallery in downtown San Jose tomorrow, September 24 from 7pm to 11pm.
For those that don't know,
24 Hour Comics Day is a challenge held each year to create a 24 page comic from scratch in 24 Hours. Nathan and I have tried this five times between the two of us, and we've been discussing techniques to succeed over the last year.
Then a drunk guy manning a comics booth at the
Sub Zero festival overheard us saying that and said we should put on a tutorial. And since we have a policy of always following the advice of random drunk guys when it sounds like they are serving as a hotline for God, we said OK!
Our work has produced a pretty nice
24 Hour Comics Day Survival Kit which is now
getting distributed to a lot of 24 Hour Comics venues. And it's free under a Creative Commons license! So you can download it and use it on your own.
But we're going one step further and providing a "Boot Camp" where we'll help participants create a 2 page comic, involving discussions of comic theory and 2 hours of drawing exercises. So please show up and enjoy ... or at least check out Blitz Comics and our survival kit if you want to survive 24 Hour Comics Day.
-the Centaur
I've a guest post up at Reader's Entertainment News blog: Rebel Magicians of the Urban Jungle.
