{"id":1299,"date":"2011-10-02T02:43:26","date_gmt":"2011-10-02T09:43:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.dresan.com\/blog\/?p=1299"},"modified":"2017-04-08T20:59:44","modified_gmt":"2017-04-09T03:59:44","slug":"24-hour-comics-day-redux","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dresan.com\/blog\/2011\/10\/02\/24-hour-comics-day-redux\/","title":{"rendered":"24 Hour Comics Day, Redux"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.dresan.com\/blog\/?attachment_id=1300\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-1300\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.dresan.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/blitz-sunnyvale.jpg\" alt=\"24HCD at Sunnyvale\" title=\"blitz-sunnyvale\" width=\"600\" height=\"450\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/dresan.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/blitz-sunnyvale.jpg 600w, https:\/\/dresan.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/blitz-sunnyvale-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>No, I&#8217;m not doing 24 Hour Comics Day 2 weekends in a row &#8230; but my buddy <a href=\"http:\/\/main.nathanvargas.com\/\">Nathan Vargas<\/a> is. He&#8217;s the other half of <a href=\"http:\/\/blitzcomics.com\/\">Blitz Comics<\/a> and through an odd set of circumstances involving the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.comic-con.org\/ape\/\">Alternative Press Expo<\/a> we ended up signing up for a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.24hourcomicsday.com\/\">24 Hour Comics<\/a> event at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.missioncomicsandart.com\/\">Mission Comics<\/a> 1 week before today, the official 24 Hour Comic Day. (And I completed mine!)<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.dresan.com\/blog\/?attachment_id=1311\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-1311\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.dresan.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/24hcd-victory-lap.jpg\" alt=\"my 24 hour comic ... in my lap\" title=\"24hcd-victory-lap\" width=\"600\" height=\"800\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1311\" srcset=\"https:\/\/dresan.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/24hcd-victory-lap.jpg 600w, https:\/\/dresan.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/24hcd-victory-lap-300x400.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I owe too many people too many things (fixing my wife&#8217;s computer, finishing edits of &#8220;Steampunk Fairy Chick&#8221;, finishing a draft of STRANDED, doing an interview, scanning last week&#8217;s comic, etc) to do 24HCD again, but after tonight&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/The_Wedding_of_River_Song\">Doctor Who finale<\/a> I did drop by around midnight tonight with <a href=\"http:\/\/krispykreme.com\/home\">donuts<\/a> and good cheer.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.dresan.com\/blog\/?attachment_id=1304\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-1304\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.dresan.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/IMG_20111002_022348-600x450.jpg\" alt=\"Krispy Kreme (and Pizza)\" title=\"IMG_20111002_022348\" width=\"600\" height=\"450\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-1304\" srcset=\"https:\/\/dresan.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/IMG_20111002_022348-600x450.jpg 600w, https:\/\/dresan.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/IMG_20111002_022348-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/dresan.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/IMG_20111002_022348.jpg 1600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>We hung out, gave donuts to the security guards, and watched some Batman fan film. Then, while the toiling artists toiled, I spent some time cleaning up the images from last week&#8217;s 24 Hour Comic Day (which I had scanned while watching Doctor Who). I just finished, it&#8217;s only been two hours, but it already feels like another 24HCD!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.dresan.com\/blog\/?attachment_id=1301\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-1301\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.dresan.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/Photo-on-2011-10-02-at-02.15-600x450.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"Photo on 2011-10-02 at 02.15\" width=\"600\" height=\"450\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-1301\" srcset=\"https:\/\/dresan.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/Photo-on-2011-10-02-at-02.15-600x450.jpg 600w, https:\/\/dresan.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/Photo-on-2011-10-02-at-02.15-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/dresan.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/Photo-on-2011-10-02-at-02.15.jpg 640w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>However, I&#8217;m happy with the results, and will do 24HCD again next year. I particularly like the dual page spread from Stranded, but I&#8217;ll hold it back until I get the whole comic uploaded to Dresan.com and will instead tease you with the first page of the novella:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.dresan.com\/blog\/?attachment_id=1305\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-1305\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.dresan.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/Small-Stranded-001.png\" alt=\"The first page of the adapted STRANDED novella.\" title=\"Small Stranded 001\" width=\"600\" height=\"782\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1305\" srcset=\"https:\/\/dresan.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/Small-Stranded-001.png 600w, https:\/\/dresan.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/Small-Stranded-001-300x391.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Onward! Upward! Homeward, for me! <\/p>\n<p>And best of luck to the toiling comickers here in Sunnyvale!<br \/>\n-the Centaur<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>No, I&#8217;m not doing 24 Hour Comics Day 2 weekends in a row &#8230; but my buddy Nathan Vargas is. 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