
So it is that time of year again. It is 24 Hour Comic Book Day this Saturday the 2nd of October. And again this year I am stepping up to the challenge. I will join four other esteemed
CLAW artists (as well as comic artists and cartoonists from across the country) in attempting to create 24 comic book pages in 24 hours. This year in Tacoma the challenge will be held at
Comic Book Ink's new location at 2510 S. 84th, Suites 15A-B Lakewood, WA. I will be there from 8:30 am on the 2nd for 24 straight hours until 8:30am on the 3rd (or until I am finished, throw in the towel or pass out from exhaustion).
This year, like last year, I am also requesting your help. Last year I unofficially asked for people to bring me food and caffeine to keep me going for the 24 hours and offered to literally draw them into the comic if they did so. Word spread around and the amount of edible donations was quite surprising. Now I'd like to officially harness that enthusiasm and good will for a higher purpose.
This year I am asking everyone to stop into Comic Book Ink any time during the 24 hours and donate whatever they can to the
Cartoonist League's Young Cartoonist of the Future Scholarship. Anyone that does so will be invited to help me literally write my 24 comic script by filling in deliberate holes I have left in the story MAD LIBS style. You need to be on site during the event to participate and CLAW will accept cash or personal checks (but not credit cards). If you make a donation you can claim one of the options below to make your own and either help create a super awesome story or complicate my challenge to the nth degree (or both). Am I crazy to even attempt to complete 24 comic book pages incorporating elements selected at random by onlookers in 24 hours? yes, I probably am... but the results could be awesome and the effort is for a good cause.
So I hope to see you at Comic Book Ink on Saturday. I'll be there... won't you be there too?
And for all of you planning to bring me food in hopes of appearing in my comic... I hear that
Mark Monlux is accepting food donations for his 24 hour comic book attempt and promises to draw you into HIS comic. Who knows, if you still want to bring me food I might try to sneak you into the comic anyway. It is that kind of event!
THE STOWE 24 HOUR COMIC BOOK CHALLENGE MAD LIB DONATION CATEGORY SELECTION TABLE_________________________________________________
TITLE1 NUMBER OR LETTER PAGE ONE2 TYPE OF ANIMALPAGE TWO3 COMMON SCHOOL CLIQUE STEREOTYPE4 COMMON SCHOOLYARD PRANK5 UNCOMMON ARTICLE OF CLOTHINGPAGE THREE6 FANTASTICAL CREATURE7 PLANETPAGE FOUR8 COMMON TEENAGE ACTIVITYPAGE FIVE9 EMBARASSING ITEM TO OWNPAGE SIX10 JOB OCCUPATION11 SITUATION SPECIFIC UNIFORM12 NONSENSE WORDPAGE SEVEN13 ANOTHER TYPE OF ANIMALPAGE EIGHT14 FACIAL EXPRESSIONPAGE NINE15 DESTRUCTIVE ACTIVITYPAGE TEN16 TYPE OF FRUITPAGE ELEVEN17 TYPE OF SUPERPOWER
PAGE TWELVE18 DANGEROUS PHENOMENONPAGE THIRTEEN19 ARTICLE OF WOMAN’S CLOTHING
PAGE FOURTEEN20 BODY PART OR ORGANPAGE FIFTEEN21 SCIENCE-FICTION ATTACKING DEVICE 22 SCIENCE-FICTION DEFENSIVE DEVICE23 SCIENCE-FICTION TYPE OF RAY BEAM DEVICEPAGE SIXTEEN24 GIANT MOVIE MONSTERPAGE SEVENTEEN25 ANOTHER BODY PART OR ORGANPAGE EIGHTEEN26 TYPE OF SCIENTIFIC EXPERIMENT PAGE NINETEEN27 ANY INANIMATE OBJECTPAGE TWENTY28 WHAT YOU HAVE IN YOUR POCKETPAGE TWENTYONE29 DEROGATORY SCHOOLYARD NICKNAMEPAGE TWENTYTWO30 A NONSWEAR WORD SWEAR WORDPAGE TWENTYTHREE31 ATTRACTIVE MALE CELEBRITYPAGE TWENTYFOUR32 ADJECTIVE