Leonieblog: The 12 comic

Andy and I were asked to participate in theWaygood gallery ArtFayre and we thought it would be a good idea to come up with a new comic to sell at it. We decided, firstly, to do a 24 hr comic. However, due to time restrictions we couldn't do this. So we thought, let's do a 12 hr comic instead.
On 11th September 2005 at 11.00 AM, me, Andy Smith and Nigel Auchterlounie got together to make a comic from initial idea through to print ready product in 12 hours or less.

Each participant was asked to bring certain items to help with inspiration ( Up to 3 albums, 2 films, 5 images, 1 sentence from a book or magazine) To make sure no one had preplanned a story or idea, participants were asked to swap their inspirational material. The films and music were played together for everyone to use.

Andy brought:
Albums: Fantomas - Amenza al Mundo
The best of parliament
Cut Chemist - Rare equations
DVDs: Black Samurai
Casshern
Images: Sketch magazine, pg.22 Mitch Byrd image
A page from the book of bunny suicides
2 pages from DVD magazine Hongkong
Photo of Nigel
Sentence: 'I am not embarrassed to say that in a fight your tennis shoes are your best friend' (From JKD: Principles of a complete fighter by Ron Balicki)
I brought (pictured above):
Albums: Lightning bolt - Wonderful Rainbow
OST - A life Aquatic with Steve Zissou
Guitar Wolf - Jet Generation
DVDs: Das cabinet des DrCaligari
A matter of life and death
Images: Postcard: oil painting by Meredith Frampton
Postcard: Hoop de dooden do Stereograph 1860
Moving Image Postcard: Schloss Neushwanstein
Postcard:'Trailer Trash' pulp painting
Postcard: 53 stations of Tokaido: Station 13 by Ando Hiroshige
Sentence: 'Seems I'd knocked his front teeth out and they had stuck in my hand' (From 'Streetfighters' by Julian Davies)
Nigel brought:
Chemical brothers - Come with us
System of a down - Steal this album
Bill Hicks - Rant in E minor
Video: Assault on precinct 13
Images:
Cutie (Japanese fashion magazine for teenage girls)
Action! Cartooning by Ben Caldwell (book)
Sentence: 'For independent girls!' (taken from Cutie magazine)
I used Nigels material, Andy used my material and Nigel used Andys.

The movies were shown with no sound and the albums were played with them. Sometimes this worked out well, like Casshern went really well with Lightning Bolt, Assault on precinct 13 was great with Fantomas and Parliament suited Black Samurai.

It was interesting to see how everyone worked differently. Andy didn't start any drawing until about 2 O'Clock, Nigel did all his lettering first, then pencils, then inking and I just went straight in with a brush pen. I finished first at 5.15, so I did a pin-up as well and finished that at 5.45. I had to do all the scanning and layout etc. so it was good in a way that I finished so early. We had decided to do 7 pages of comic strip each, then Andy would do back cover, Nigel would do front cover and I would do the inside cover explaining about the comic. Since Andy was running behind we decided he should do 6 pages of strip instead (which is why I ended up doing a pin-up image to fill space.) Nigel finished at 7.15.
Andy finished at 9.00
I think the enforced inspirational material worked well. Personally, I ended up doing a story I would never have thought of otherwise. Nigel did a strip about himself ( I guess because he had a photo of himself to work from) My comic was frivolous and girly (due to the bizarre teeny fashion magazine I had to work with) Andys was a silent strip which seemed to be largely inspired by the postcard of an image from 1860.
All the scanning, layout etc. was done by 10 O'Clock .
Sending it to be printed this week, then it'll be ready for sale the following week!
More pictures with descriptions at flickr