24 Hours of Making COMICS

Now in Winooski!

Winooski Welcome Center will host the 6th Annual 24-Hour Comics Day on October 20th-21st 2012. 

The event is being co-produced by Artists’ Mediums, Rick Evans, and the Winooski Welcome Center.

24-Hour Comics Day, the fun and possibly grueling challenge for comic artists and writers worldwide is back! Artists of all abilities and styles are invited to push themselves to their physical and creative limits in the singular artistic challenge of creating an entire 24-page comic book in one 24-hour period.  

 

Rick made a mini-comic to help newbies figure out how to tackle the challenge.  It's a good refresher for everyone, seeing as how it only comes once a year.
Check it out on the info page here!

  

Ready to sign up?  

There are a few things to be aware of first:  

1. Be sure to arrange a ride to pick you up at the end of the event.  When you've been awake and drawing for 24 hours, it is not safe to be operating a vehicle.  
2. The event is open to participants 16 years and older.  Permission slips for those under 18 must be signed by a parent or guardian the day the event starts.  
3. You're going to be in one place for 24 hours.  Dress comfortably, bring food (or have friends visit you with food), a pillow, etc.  Read the guide for more suggestions from Rick, who has been leading this for us from the start.  
4. When you're ready to join in*, contact us by email at 24hcdvt@obscurius.org  or call Artists' Mediums at (802) 879-1236 
5. If you want to drop in and check the progress we're making, please do.  We'll be there from 10 a.m. Saturday the 20th through 10 a.m. Sunday the 21st.  Come watch the artists push their stories through to completion!

*Call soon, space is limited!

Kristin takes a break from her comic, a wordless story that ends with apples, sticks and rabbits

Emcee Rick Evans carefully plotting out his panels

Gregg Giordano (in black) and Geoff Glore (in red) keep coming back for more

24 HCD in Williston Vermont is ROLLING!

Seven of our group here in VT have begun their comics, and I'm about to join them. Excpecting a few more participants to trickle in soon... especially now that the coffee has arrived :)

It's a cold dreary day, perfect to be inside making comics and consuming hot beverages!

art by Rick Evans

Many thanks to our 2011 sponsors:

Phoenix Books (BEST indie bookshop around!)

Rocky's Pizza (we are all looking forward to DINNER!)

Sweet Clover Market (AWESOME snacks!)

Canson Papers (PRIZES!)



And, of course:

all my fellow staff at Artists' Mediums for making this possible

for one more crazy, crazy year.

--Kristin

Year #5 at Artists' Mediums in VT!

Let the creative output begin!

Our event this year is open to comic artists of all abilities, ages 16 and up (younger participants are allowed with an accompanying parent.) Anyone interested in participating with us at Artists' Mediums should email their name, address and telephone number to info@artistsmediums.com
or call (802)879-1236 or (800) 255-1290

You can find Rick's handy "Tiny Beginner's Guide" as a pdf here!

Many thanks to this year's sponsors,

we couldn't quite get through the 24 hours without you!

Phoenix Books --Essex

Rocky's NY Pizza -- Williston

Sweet Clover Market -- Essex



Bam! Pow! Comics Demo (free)

Bam! Pow! Comics Demo!

with Greg Giordano

Saturday, September 24th

from 11:00 a.m. through 1:00 p.m. (FREE)

BAM! POW! HUMOR! DEEP FEELINGS! NO LIMITS! Comic books are the new “great American novel”; everyone reads them, many want to make one and have the talent and drive to learn the skills! Do you? Learn some basic concepts in the art of sequential storytelling and inking with Burlington artist Greg Giordano. Students will review basic theories or comic book storytelling and inking. Various supplies and techniques of comic illustration will be demonstrated and students will get to try them out! Motivated attendees will get space to draw and/or ink a comic page! W00T!

http://www.flameape.org/

Not on our Mailing list?

Not on our Mailing list?

No Problem!

Just click here to get the latest list of Classes, Demos and Events!

http://www.artistsmediums.com/includes2/artists-mediums-news.html

24HCD half-way point has been passed!

Here's some work by Henry that says it all...
I'm probably not going to finish mine, but I'm on page 17! Still hoping to ink all of them too...

But here's the link our most recent post on the international blog!

--Kristin

Vermont 24 Hour Comic Event in full swing

We're here at: Artists' Mediums Inc. In Williston Vermont USA.

Artists' Mediums Inc.
http://www.artistsmediums.com/

The artists have begun,

Everyone has coffe, snacks and Chocolate!

With a flurry of paper and pens they begin drawing.

Many Thanks already to our sponsors:

Sweet Clover Market

Rocky's N.Y Pizza

Phoenix Books

The 24 Hour Comic Event

The 24 Hour Comic Event is about to start here at Artists' Mediums Inc. in Williston Vermont!

If you're in the nieghborhood anytime between 9 a.m. this morning, and 9:00 a.m. Sunday morning, stop by and show support for your local comic artists, or at least watch them draw.

24 HOUR COMICS DAY

24 HOUR COMICS DAY(2010 EVENT)

Saturday October 2nd, 9:00 a.m. through Sunday OCTOBER 3rd - 9:00 a.m.Join an international cartoon drawing event! The Challenge: to draw 24 pages of Comics in 24 hours! Please pre-register if you are interested in participating, or stop by and visit the artists anytime during this 24 hour long event! http://www.24hourcomicsday.com/

If you like the POSTER art, and want to support the Williston Community Food Shelf, we're raffling off the original hand-painted poster at $3 per ticket.

24 Hour Comics Day is around the corner...

Rick Evans came up with this fantastic design for our 2010 event. We are hoping to raffle off the hand painted version off during 24HCD, to support the local food shelf here in Williston VT.

Looking forward to October with excitement and a bit of trepidation (this year, I'm finally going to sit and draw, not just help with organizing.)
--Kristin
Artists' Mediums Inc.
Williston, VT

Artist's Mediums 24 Hour Comic Day 2009!

24 Hour Comic Day 2009 Is all finished.
Several brave Artists drew 24 pages of Comics in LESS than 24 hours:
The last few folks left at 5:30 a.m. (Pretend they are blurry because they are so tired.)
(click here for videos from the last two years of our participation.)
Many thanks to:Bawls energy Drinks, Rocky's Pizza and Vermont Sandwich Company, for keeping the comics well fed, and comic characters from falling asleep.
24 Hour Comic Day 2009!

24 hour comic day '09 winding down in Vermont

at Artists Mediums Inc. in Williston Vermont....
With only hours left to go, the last few blurrily exhausted artists finish the final inking of their comics.

Many thanks to:
Bawls energy Drinks,
Rocky's Pizza
and
Vermont Sandwich Company
for keeping the comics well fed, and comic characters from falling asleep.

Artists' Mediums 24hcd is just past the 12-hour mark...

Pizzaaaaaaahhhh.....

Thank you Rocky's NY Pizza!

Geoffrey waiting for me to finish snapping pictures...

Here's Rick, the one who asked if we'd host this. It's his fault.

It has begun! Year 3 of 24 Hour Comics day at Artists' Mediums in Williston, VT

These pictures were taken around 11:30 a.m. EST, and everyone is working hard.

It is so quiet!!!

In the foreground is one of our veterans. And a few last minute sign-ups have filled out our group nicely...

Another veteran on the lower-left there, plus a mother-daughter team (mom draws, daughter is doing the script.)

We'll check back in a while...

24 hour comic event, about to begin!

Artists' Mediums Inc.

http://www.artistsmediums.com/

1-802-879-1236

Williston, Vermont,

USA

24 Hour Comic Day 2009!

Artists Mediums Inc. proudly presents:
24 Hour Comic Day 2009- Our third year participating in this world wide event!

The a challenge: to draw 24 pages of Comics in 24 hours!

From 10 a.m. Saturday October 3rd all through the night until the morning of Sunday October 4th at 10 a.m.

All abilities welcome, call for details and sign up, or come and visit the artists at work anytime during the event!

Halloween is coming

Are you ready for fall? We are getting ready for some fall events...First up is the:
24 hour comics From 10 a.m. Saturday October 3rd all through the night until Sunday October 4th at 10 a.m.

New Comic supplies.

COMIC ARTISTS:

24 Hour Comics Day is starting on OCTOBER 3rd. Planning has only just begun, please call with any questions about participation.

Only a touch over four months, until we are once again participating in another 24 hour comic event.
To see what was done last year: check out this blog entry...and this you tube video.
To find a description of what the 24 hour comic event actually IS: click here.

We now carry Maxon brand comic supplies! This includes comic pattern adhesive films, bubble templates -for speech balloons, burnishers, tweezers, comic ink and nibs, and even kits.Come in to see the full selection!

Get ready, the comics are coming!

24 Hour Comics Day is starting on OCTOBER 3rd.

Planning has only just begun, please call with any questions about participation.

Did you ever get to see the wonderful comics that were made during the 24 hour comic event here at Artists Mediums last year?

24 Hour Comics Day has started!

We have BEGUN! Well, at 10 past 6 p.m. actually. Pictures will follow soon, but here again is our lovely poster, designed by Rick Evans (also a participant)







So far we have:

Robert Waldo Brunelle, Jr.
Christopher Burns
Karen Casper
Rick Evans
Mark Gonyea
Michelle Harshbarger
Benjamin Paulsen
Lauren Scheidegger

And later arrivals:

Ryan Cohen
Evan Cook
Ben Paulsen
Miriam Wells

This 24 Hour comic event is made possible by:
Pizzas generously donated by:
ROCKY’S PIZZA
Sandwich platter generously donated by:
VERMONT SANDWICH
Water, cups and napkins donated by:
HANNAFORD’S GROCERS
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Supplies generously donated by our vendors:
Canson papers “Fan-boy” drawing papers
C2F Distribution Pentalic and AquaBee papers, drawing markers.
Holbien Screens, Nibs, and Inks
Sanford/Prismacolor Prismacolor fine line pens
…and, your host: ARTISTS’ MEDIUMS INC.