THE BIG LIST!
NOTE: THIS IS LIST IS NOW WOEFULLY OUT OF DATE THANKS TO THE AVALANCHE OF 24 HOUR COMICS ARRIVING EVERY YEAR ON 24 HOUR COMICS DAY. TO PARTICIPATE IN THIS INTERNATIONAL CELEBRATION, VISIT:
--Scott
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| Also check out these "spin-offs." The first three were directly inspired by the 24-Hour Comics, while the fourth was inspired by the Plays which were inspired by the Comics, so yes, you can prety much blame me for everything.
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Tobie Abad - Tick. Tick. Tick.
Tobie writes from the Philippines:
"Message: Started: January 14 3:45pm
Ended: January 15, 12:50pm
26 pages + 1 cover
Time is fleeting.. time is precious... time is pointless... what is time to you?
mature readers please"
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Sana Abbasi
See Jack Masters [below]
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Dylan Abbott, Reed Raymond and Joey Trimmer - The Tourist
Dylan writes:
"This ended up as an 18-pager completed in about 23 hours and 40 minutes. the three of us had wanted to do this ever since we first heard about it, and we seized a free day to finally go for it. We were originally going to use some randomizing devices to provide story when we ran out of ideas (a trivial pursuit set was one candidate for this job), but we discovered that our-sleep deprived brains were plenty random. The artwork goes from mediocre to just plain bad, although there's a nice panel here and there. Penciling was done by Dylan, inking and ink washes by Reed, and lettering by Joey. We all contributed to the'plot', which involves a Mesopotamian sacrifice ritual gone wrong, which causes the world's ducks to inherit the earth in the year 2001. However, they must face the mighty opposition of Radiohead's Thom Yorke, the last in a long line of Mesopotamian priests, the dreaded ninja/janitor Ikiryu, and a random tourist.
[Note: This one was collaborative. Dylan penciled, Reed inked and Joey lettered. (Most 24-hour comics are one cartoonist affairs as you'll see in the list below, though some like to do their solo efforts in the context of a larger group get-together). --Scott]
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Carter Adams - 2k
"Ethan and I were bored college freshmen in New York City, so we decided to do this. Ethan still needs to scan his Actually mine's only 23 pages if you don't count the title. 10:00 AM to 10:00 AM 2/22/2002 - 2/23/2002. I used a 60% Grey marker for the shading. Pretty obvious Chris Ware influence. The first comic longer than a page I've drawn since grade school."
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Chris Allan - A Life With Death
"24 pages in 24 hours, 40 minutes. The jury's still out on whether I would have made it or not if I hadn't taken a break in the middle of the night. My friends have already started pressuring me to get back on that horse."
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Jason Alderman - Museum
"Had to go for the Gaiman variation on this one, since I had just enough time to put a THE END on page 22 when the timer went off. Drawn between Jan 19-20, 2000, starting and stopping at 3:17am. I'm usually a very meticulous, methodical artist, so it was quite a challenge to draw simply and make it up as I went. I'd often flip open the dictionary to random pages and use the first word I saw for inspiration. It was fun, and I learned a lot of lessons from it."
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JC Alvarez - RPG
JC writes from Mexico:
"24 pages, finished in about thirteen hours inside a 24-hour-and-a-half timeframe.
This is a very weird, personal little piece of autobiographical surrealism. Actually what's depicted in it has never happened to me in real life, but I have no doubts that the guy on the first page is me. Whatever else happens after that, well... your guess is as good as mine.
All in all, the comic was finished exactly 24 hours and thirty minutes after it was started. I thought since I was oh-so-fast, I could sleep eight hours, have dinner and even play a videogame, and still finish the whole thing in less than 24 hours. But I was wrong, and had to go with the Eastman variation in the end (that's what happens when you ASS-U-ME...).
I hope that those who haven't played RPGs before don't think it's too obscure.
Oh, and I spent one of my precious 24 hours just developing characters so they DID NOT look as anyone I knew.
Hope you like it"
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Jason Arnett - The Landing
"I wanted to draw a comic for the first time in twelve years and so I thought a 24 hour comic would be a good idea. I like the sideways pages and need to practice if I want to draw sci-di again. It was also the first time I 'd used a brush to ink anything."
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Charlie Athanas and Marc Rettig - 24 Hour Comics Workshop |
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Greg Aubry:
- Last Night On Earth. "The first, and probably most instantly-accessible of the 24-hour comics I've done. It's sort a CLERKS-goes-to-hell scenario, combining irreverent humor with exsitentialist pondering.
And gum. Lots of gum.
(Alright, maybe not the gum.)"
- Life in the So-Called Space Age. "In the future, cities build upward, cars stick to walls, and skyway bridges make wonderful terrorist targets. Kate's having a bad day. She's a cop in this world, and after waking up to bad news, her day is only going to weirder. It's Life in the So-Called Space Age. Definitely not all fun and games. This is the second 24-hour comic I finished. Done in May of 2002, it is the most manga-esque of the comics on my site."
- Dirty Blood. "Gabriel's a creature of the night. Stronger than any man has a right to be. But he's just trying to get by like anybody else. Staying in the shadows, Gabriel meets his match-- or is he just hallucinating? The third 24-hour comic I've completed, and the best on an artistic level. Like the others, it's a full 24 pages squeaked into 24 hours. This comic's approach is somewhere in between the previous two's. And forgive the somewhat cheesy ending. When you've been going all night, things seem quite a bit more witty than they actually are. And so it goes."
[Also see "The Brotherhood of the Fin" entry below for more information on "Last Night On Earth".]
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Sean Azzopardi - Maltese History X
"Maltese history x was made as part of the 9th art 24 hour challenge. I completed 24 pages including cover.A very inspiring experience, made more so by being part of a group."
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John Barber - Cop Show
"3 seperate 24 hour comics, "Cop Show" isn't so much the subconscious-laid-bare-on-the-comics-page of most 24-hour comics--it's amphetamine mayhem with none of the usual mental stops in place; "Cop Show" is my subconscious, but by way of a Jim Thompson scripted "Hunter" episode.
The first was created in 28 hours (unfortunately) in December of 1996, the second (on time) in 1997, and the last (25 pages in 24 hours) in December of 2000--though on-line the pages become a little less relevant."
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Brian Bednarek - Mr. Danger |
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Ciaran Benson - Full Metal Date
"Midnight to Midnight, 12 June 2002. Throughout the first 6 hours of the challenge I felt like I was going to be able to make it - somehow, I felt that I would begin drawing faster and faster and would be able to complete the 24 pages in time. Unfortunately, I failed - only 7 finished pages when I lifted my pen after 24 hours. But WHAT pages! To my eye (and compared to my previous work) these are crisp, beautiful, and exactly what I have been STRIVING to create. THESE are the kinds of pages I have always WANTED to be able to draw but didn't believe I could! It's incomprehensible, but this was the most fabulous day of drawing I have ever experienced. Failure? HA! I wouldn't trade those 24 hours for anything. Thanks Scott! Now I'm gonna treat every day like a 24 hour challenge ^_^"
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John Berry - Banana Cream Pie Comics
"Banana Cream Pie Comics.
Daily Comic Strips and Panels"
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Nick Bertozzi - Crazy Sidewalk Stuff |
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Robert Bhatia - A Comics More Thing |
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Julie Bihn - Flying in Pajamas
"Started 9:25 PM April 3, 2002. Finished 9:15 PM April 4, 2002. (Scanning and such were later.) 24 pages plus cover. I doubt I'll do another since I'm employed now, but I'm glad I did one."
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Eli Bishop
[See "Comics Lockdown!" below.]
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Ben Bittner - Atomic Autobiography
"24 pages completed in a 22 hour span, december 29-30 2001. I stopped because I had been up for about 40 hours at that point. A group of four of us got together to do them. Two of us were successful, two of us were not (the other success can be found at http://www.gothhouse.com ). This was my first comic longer than 3 pages... Quite fun."
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Jeff Boyes - The Appointment
"This is an almost 24 hour comic. It was written and drawn in something like 15 hours followed by me collapseing. Followed by me waking up and inking it, killing a sharpie along the way. So 24 non continuous..or is that contiguous hours. Hope you enjoy."
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Jason Brightman
[See "Comics Lockdown!" below.]
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John Brooks and Jason Tocci - Ginger
John writes: "Started 1:40 AM, Sunday January 14th. We had to go with the Gaiman Variation because we spent most of the time plotting without drawing. Jason only ended up drawing about 8 pages. But we learned our lesson, and we will prevail next time."
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The Brotherhood of the Fin!
The Brotherhood of the fin is a Savage Dragon fan site. When S.D.'s creator Eric Larsen did his own 24-hour comic (along with Chris Eliopoulos) he publicized the event and in turn, inspired the following young cartoonists to give it a shot as well. All of the following can be read through the well-designed index linked to above. Check 'em out.
- Last Night On Earth by Greg Aubry
- Untitled by Chris Dakin
- Road to Nowhere
James Frail: Story, layouts, inking
Joe Shuler: Story, pencils, inking
- The Amazin' Adventures of Produce Boy! by Jason Green
- Thru the Looking Glass by Paul Little
- Detached by Kyle Morton
- Protector by Lee Napier
- The Great Shatsby by Juan Ruvalcaba
- Counterstrike by Joe Shuler
- Slay Ride by Mark Welser
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Jennifer Brown - Being a Romance Within the Realms of Lego
To my knowlege, Jennifer's 24-hour comic is the only one ever done entirely with photos of Lego Blocks. Very cool.
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Elijah J. Brubaker - Mint Julip
Elijah wrote in July of 2002: "Last month some Seattle Cartoonists hermited themselves away and worked furiously on their 24 hour comics... though at around hour 18 we were all cursing your name for coming up with this idea I think it turned out well."
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Patrick Brunet - The Engines of Survival: Welcome to the Jungle Baby, You are Going to Die. |
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Charles Hudson Cattell - Gaea
"Gaea" arrived with special instructions to read by candlelight and return. I complied, so I no longer have my copy. I'm pretty sure I remember liking it, but it's been a while!
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Phillip Chan - Latin Boy: Untitled
"24 pages in about 17 hours beginning at 9:30 AM July 24, 2002 and finishing up around 4:30 AM on July 25, 2002.
Originally, I presented the challenge to 3 other people... all but one other chickened out. (For some reason, he doesn't want to show his 24 hour experiment to the world...)"
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Charlie 3000 - Megalomania #1: What Is Going On?
"20 pages, written & penciled from 6 PM 9-11-99 to 6 PM 9-12-99 and inked the next day. Two pages were drawn and co-written by Renee Riddle."
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Noah Chenhalls - (Title Unknown)
This is a "noble failure" for two big reasons. One reason is that I didn't finish it in 24 hours (I spent less than 5 hours shy of Eastman). The other reason is that, when compared to the amount of information in a typical 24 page, 24 hour comic, my comic has hardly anything in it. Oh, well. I'm happy.
START: 10/18/2000 at 8:08 PM
FINISH: 10/20/2000 at 7:43 AM
TIME ELAPSED: 1 day, 11 hours, 35 minutes
P.S.
The Millard Fillmore postcard by Scott McCloud is at http://www.stas.net/2/simulacra/art/iryf/index.html
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CLIMAX COMICS - Jean Marc Lofficier's VERDICT 24H COMIC BOOK
Prior to it's creation, I received this note:
"Hi Scott, My name is Edmond TOURRIOL and I live in Bordeaux, France. I'm leading a small association of comic book artists : CLIMAX COMICS. We publish a lot of super-heroes fanzines and we're always looking for some fresh new ideas to get people know what we do and how fun comic books can be. At the end of this week, my team will go to an amazing place called "Café BD" where you can read comic books while you eat and drink comic themed goods. From 12:00 to saturday 12:00, we'll write, pencil, ink letter... and publish (!) our own 24 hours comic book. Yes, the book will be xeroxed and bound and sold on the shelves of the local comic shop on saturday 12:01. Well... that's the plan, and we hope we're gonna be able to do it for real."
And they pulled it off!
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Neil Cohn - Matilda's Dream
"Mine actually took about 22 hours, though in all I was awake for 36 (the photo below is taken after all 36). For inspiration I used an old family photo album and a book on world religions (mainly the Buddhism section, hint hint) Also, sorry that the text turned out so small, it wasn't intended for internet viewing when I wrote it. Enjoy!"
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Brad Collins - The Adventures of Artis the Spoonman
One of four comics appearing at The House of Vertigo (a Vertigo Discussion List).
- Brad Collins - The Adventures of Artis the Spoonman
- Rob Hackney - "Siberia... 1996"
- Alex Tam - Time... well, spent!
- Eric Simons - A Witch Lives in this House
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COMICS LOCKDOWN!
The most remarkable 24-hour comics event to date (at least, as of late April, 2002, when I added this entry) was this fifteen artist gathering in New York City, March 9-10, 2002.
The artists involved were:
- Eli Bishop
- Jason Brightman
- Amy Beth Dubin
- Eric Feurstein
- Jessica Fink
- Tom Hart
- Dean Haspiel (sort of)
- Stephen Hindman
- K. Thor Jensen
- Ellen Lindner
- Josh Neufeld
- Alex Rothman
- Tim Steier
- Jonathan Thayer
- Lauren Weinstein
- Sherry Wong
Check out the Pictures!
[And did somebody archive all the comments on the Comics Journal messageboard thread? I can't find it. Any additional info would be much appreciated.]
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Leighton Connor - Some Call it Flurg
"This was done alone, in one long stretch, and is a complete 24-page story (with only a few noticeable oversights in the drawing.) In other words, nothing strange or exceptional about it. You were right about it being a sort of pilgrimage, an "alone in the desert" sort of experience."
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Stephen Conway
See Jack Masters [below]
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J.W. Cornelius - Pride and Joy |
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Warren Craghead - 24 Hour Speedy
Written and penciled in 24 hours. Inked later. ("sorry. i tried but had to cheat." sez Warren on the inside front cover.) Like most Craghead creations, it's a cool formalist maze of evocative words and images.
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Warren Craghead - Triple Whammy Speedy
A terrific small press package including a "12 Hour Speedy" "Page-a-Day Speedy" and another "24 Hour Speedy."
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Michael Crouch - The Tale of Genghis Ken
"I started this at 9.45pm on 17 Nov 2000 and finished at 9.45pm the next day. The story started out as a kind of biography of Genghis Khan but quickly turned into the story of a man protesting against the building of a superstore on housing land - its surprising how when you are tired and hungry, two strands like this can suddenly run together! The actual comic runs to 16 pages although in the 24 hours I also completed the front and back covers, and an introduction. I added an advert for my web sites after the 24 hour period. Although I did not make 24 pages, I believe I kept to the spirit of the challenge."
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Chris Dakin - Untitled
[See "The Brotherhood of the Fin" entry above for more information.]
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Damonk - The Eye is In The Tooth of the Beholder
"(ATTEMPTED SEPTEMBER 30, 2001) Heh. I have always been a very SLOW artist, and I should have known better than to try and draw something with ANY amount of detail, especially if i would be sticking with pencil... Of course, it didn't help that I was undertaking this challenge with the love of my life, who is ALSO a cartoonist. Needless to say, we both failed (we kept, umm, distracting each other the whole time!), but she managed to pull off a 13-pager that was a complete story, compared to my measly *FIVE* pages of a beginning to the epic i had churned up in my head during the first hour of the challenge.
Oh well, I'll just have to draw the rest of it as my 2nd 24-hour comic, maybe?"
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Nathan A. Danilowicz - Killer Croc
"This is not a 24 hour comic, but it should be. After visiting Scott McCloud's website and reading about his invention of the 24 hour comic, I decided to take up the challenge and create my own 24 hour comic. I began on March 29, 2001 at 2:54 pm. By 8:31 pm I finished brainstorming, went to the library to do research and completed the panel to panel layout and dialogue. By 11:00 pm I finished the art for page one. A short time later at 2:35 am, I quit. I realized that I could never finish this comic in 24 hours at the pace I was going; so instead of continuing with the 24 hour guidelines I went to bed. To make a long story short, Killer Croc, for better or for worse, is a comic that was completed in about 48 noncontinuous hours, excluding the cover, printing and book binding; these steps took a considerable amount of time, probably more that the actual interior artwork."
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Al Davison - The Invisible Library
The author of The Spiral Cage showed me this comic in San Diego and my head is still reeling! I hope anyone who plans to do a 24-hour comic takes a look at this beauty first, to see just how high to set your sites.
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Mike Dawson - Death Row Junkie.
Published as a flip-book with Alex Robinson's Brilliant Mistake.
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Mike Desing - Untitled
"Completed, published and distributed all within a 24 hour time frame... started on 4/15/01 and completed on 4/16/01. Posted on line at http://www.tbpress.cjb.net "
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Barry Deutsch - Grace
Part of "the Bagel Sessions" which also includes Jennifer Lee's "The Flower Started it...," Paul Winkler's "Let's Call it 'The Squigglies'" and Kip Manley's "The Story I was Going to Tell on Halloween Night But Couldn't"
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Barry Deutsch - Selfish People
"This comic took me two or three mostly sleepless days, and in some ways was a textbook example of "how not to do a 24 hour comic." For example, I took the first four hours just to write a complete script, and only after that was finished did I even begin to draw."
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Barry Deutsch - The Incredible Phoebe
"Done May or June, 1991. 24 pages, but it took 43 hours to complete."
--Barry
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Barry Deutsch - Filling the Hole
"24 pages, done in 23 hours and 59 minutes, beginning on September 26 1998. The first 24-hour comic I've actually completed in 24 hours."
--Barry
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Hector Diaz - Death's Place |
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Jake Dion - Zen
"I want to say :THANK YOU SCOTT MCCLOUD!
I really liked the experience and will do it again!!!
I would like to have as many comments as you can give (not only Scott of course)
again
thank you for this great idea"
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Uva Beatrice Dolezal - bio-sketch for J.M. Clay / chronicle-o-graphy...
"This felt to me like one of those rights that one must do to find out who your spirit guide is.
I'm soo happy I made it, ....but.
It is funny, what comes out after 9 or 10 hours when you have to make up your mind if you are going to drink more coffee and eat a snack or take a nap, and then all this scarey smeg that hadn't said "boo" since Jr. High comes out onto the page and makes up your mind for you.
Yup,...that's not my spirit guide, time for a wee nap."
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Bryan Douglas - France Sucks
Bryan's is one of three 24-hour comics available online under the umbrella of Space Age Comics. (The other cartoonists were Mike Woodson and Jeff Young.)
Just added!: Bride of Jericho
Bryan sent the latest round from Space Age Comics with the following: "Actually, I quite like my friends' work... It's my own stuff I'd rather you not find out about. After you read the part with the laser guns that only kill pregnant women, I'm half-convinced there'll be a new 24 Hour Comics rule: Anything Done By Bryan Douglas Does Not Count. By the way, thanks for the brilliant invention... We love doing these things!"
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Amy Beth Dubin
[See "Comics Lockdown!" above.]
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Will Dudzinski - Old Times At The Drawing Board.
"Currently I'm going to Minneapolis College of Art and Design. I did the 24-hour comic to ease my soul. It is difficult to work on my comic AND do all my art school homework at the same time. "Hey," I said, "It's only ONE day!"
"At the moment, my school is working on getting all of the comic illustration majors together in order to do a mass 24-comic-a-thon. School sponsored, of course. Trying to promote the comic illustration program we are. I'm the only one to have done one so far. It is an excellent sense of accomplishment. Everyone should do one."
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Bill Duncan - Le Mouton Perdu
"I'm not really sure where any of it came from, and hopefully I won't have any Little Prince fans screaming for my blood, but it was fun, and well worth doing."
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Justin Ednie-Brown - Thanks from the Cosmos
Part of the Australian Anthology (sic)Bag which put out two editions containing 24-hr. comics.
This one looks like Beanworld meets Space Invaders. I like it!
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Justin Ednie-Brown - Discard
(See above.)
This one sports an interesting conceit. You can read it traditionally or vertically (i.e., Pg. 1 panel 1 to Page 2 panel 1 to Page 3 panel 1, etc.)
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Chris Eliopoulos - Image Two-In-One: "The Present"
Check out this Very Cool Write-Up of the day Chris "Desperate Times" Eliopoulos and Erik "Savage Dragon" Larsen decided to each do a 24-Hour Comic!
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"Emma" - The Bracer of Dan Dzing
Sent to me along with Gavin Thomson's [below].
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Garen Ewing - Agent 7 in 'The Stone'
"Took up just about exactly 24 hours on Easter weekend 2001. This was done for charity - raising just over £700 for the Imperial Cancer Research Fund. Each sponsor was allowed to submit one plot element that would appear in the story. Five of these elements, randomly chosen in the 1st minute, actually dictated the plot (such as it is!)."
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Dain Fagerholm - Orson Welles and the Zombie Kid
From Venice (California, that is) Dain writes: "It is an Eastman variation of a 24 hour comic. It is an autobiography of Orson Welles with comic interruptions from the Zombie Kid. It is made up of famous quotes and interview of Orson Welles as if he is taking you on a tour of his career. This comic remains, sadly, hurried and finished I would like to do more pencil work. "
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Jesse Farrell - Love on Mars |
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Jack Fear - A Bird in God's Garden |
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Jack Fear - Life in a Day |
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Sean Fear - Shadows: Once Upon a Time.
"My first comic and my first 24 hour comic was both a failure and a success. 15 pages in 15 hours... then sleep and then 9 pages in a month. Then I reinked it after photocopying it and... well I meant to get it done in a day... Anyhow I still like the final product so..."
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Jason Faust - Monkey See
"So, here is my 24-hour comic 'Monkey See', completed on May 27-28, 2001. Truly a unique experience and an illuminating exercise. Thanks for sharing yet another wonderful idea."
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Hector Fernandez - A Meaning of Life |
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Eric Feurstein
[See "Comics Lockdown!" above.]
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Jessica Fink
[See "Comics Lockdown!" above.]
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Nick Firth - Resident Nasty
Nick writes from the U.K.: "OK, so there it is. My first attempt, and I actually finished! 160 panels! Although some were very quick to do (the lights out ones). But anyway, finished within the 24 hours, and I feel very pleased with myself. My personal opinion is that the middle is better than the start and end, but that's just me.
Oh yeah, and 20-21st July 2002, from 11am-10.40am.
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Henry J. Fisher - Blue Skeye |
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Andrew Foley
- Out Side In
- Waiting for the Third Day
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FOZZLEBOT
A nice, quirky group site that includes 24-hour comics from:
- Marshall B. Smith
- Stephen Ingram
- "Kelsey"
- Brian Dooley
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James Frail and Joe Shuler - Road to Nowhere
[See "The Brotherhood of the Fin" entry above for more information.]
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Josh Frankel - 24 Hour Haole
This is 20 pages completed in 24 consecutive hours, 1/20/01 5:00AM - 1/21/01 5:00AM. I knew that I wanted to do a comic incorporating some of the Hawaiian history/mythology I'd read, so I made sure to have lots of reference books available during the 24 hours.
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Carol Geary - Be Tween
"Until I started it, I didn't fully comprehend the difference between a comic and an animation. Although I was using Macromedia Flash, I resisted multimedia temptations. I wanted at least two panels on every frame, 2*50=100 panels. It's a meditative exploration of color. See my comic collection on the last frame of the movie."
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Nat Gertler - Conspiracy
A particularly skillfull use of the motif of time—a motif which seems to be rather popular among 24-hour cartoonists for some reason. :-)
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Toby Gibson - The Day of the Lamb
Part of the Australian Anthology (sic)Bag which put out two editions containing 24-hr. comics.
Not a genuine go at it (only 3 pages) but he belongs with his mates so here he is.
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Ron L. Good - The Doug and Andy 24 Hour Comic
"It's 24 pages.
Started: 9:00pm, May 20, 2001.
Stopped: 9pm May 21.
I did not sleep in between, because I knew if I did I'd be finished. It was most difficult to create the story because I made no preparation at all. This one is strictly out of my head and literally plopped right onto the paper!"
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Daniel Merlin Goodbrey - Fever
Webcomics' leading mad scientist cooks up 24 hours' worth of weird and wonderful images. Great stuff as always.
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Alex Grecian - Little Remains
A great little comic with a bottomless pun of a title.
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Jason Green - The Amazin' Adventures of Produce Boy!
"When Erik Larsen and Chris Eliopoulos completed their 24 hour comics, they announced their accomplishment on the Savage Forum, Erik Larsen's message board. A number of us who frequent the board, going by the name "Brotherhood of the Fin", were so jazzed about the idea that we had to try it for ourselves! While several made it to the full 24 pages, most of these ended up as Gaiman variations. They all still came out nice, though."
[See "The Brotherhood of the Fin" entry above for more information.]
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Shannon Gretzon - The Disgruntled Avenger #10
8 and a half sort-of continuous hours for 16 pages.
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Veronica Grijalva (aka "Kuroneko") - No COOL Title For You!
"I did this on a whim. Yay me. It turned out decent. I have never drawn anything even vaugely resembling a comic. This was cool and I promise my next one will be better. Yes I am doing another one...Yes you should be scared. Of course I fear anything that is created by me when I haven't slept in a while. Like right now. I will write a Haiku in honor of this site.
Twenty four hours man
I must have been going sane
To take this challenge
Thank you."
An account from Veronica's live journal can be found here.
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Jeff Guarino - The Rumbling Underneath
Heard about this one third-hand. No further info at this time. (Jeff, are you out there?)
[thanks to Sean C. Duncan for the name and title]
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Rob Hackney - "Siberia... 1996"
One of four comics appearing at The House of Vertigo (a Vertigo Discussion List).
- Brad Collins - The Adventures of Artis the Spoonman
- Rob Hackney - "Siberia... 1996"
- Alex Tam - Time... well, spent!
- Eric Simons - A Witch Lives in this House
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Jeff Harris - When Insomnia Fails |
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Tom Hart
- Maria (image at left)
- The Most Powerful Gate
- The Ditch, The River, The Sea and The Snake
From the esteemed author of The Sands and Hutch Owen's Working Hard.. One of my favorite cartoonists of the decade.
[Also see "Comics Lockdown!" above.]
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Dean Haspiel (sort of)
[See "Comics Lockdown!" above.]
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Rick Hazell - 24 Wasted Hours
"This story pretty much wrote itself, so don't blame me if you don't like it.
Started November 17th, 9:15pm
Completed November 18th 6:53pm."
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Shane Hebert - Unintelligible
"I wished to do a 24 hour comic with all that I was. Really I did! But then this girl from down the hall knocked on my door. And she said, "Hey, what are you up to. Me and anonymous friend are going to see crappy musicians play crappy songs." I said, "Can't, drawing a 24 hour comic." "What's that," she asked. Then I had to show her where I was, and then an example I had found from your site. She said "Umm,, ok." And left. Then another person bugged me. And another.
"This went on and on until I had passed 12 hours and accomplished precious little. Went to bed. Woke up. Unplugged phone. Locked door. And tried to be as quiet as I could. 24 hours. Just not in a row, I'm afraid."
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David Hedgecock - Twenty-Four for Life |
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Ethan Heitner - Title Unknown
[See entry for Carter Adams, above]
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Pat Heinicke - The Shears of Atropos |
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Matt Heisler - Skeleton bachelor
"A 26-Hour Comic!"
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Billy Hessian
"Saturday-Monday of this week was a proud day for me. I along with 1 other friend that went the distance finished a complete 24-hour comic.
Not only is it one of the best things I have done creatively and artistically but it has been a great experience that is driving me in all new directions. I followed every rule. And I like it more than anything I would have imagined. Needless to say I was as tired as hell, and still went to work for 8 more hours after the thing was done, but that's not the big deal."
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Stephen Hindman
[See "Comics Lockdown!" above.]
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Ashley Holt - Mr. Snooze |
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Kurt Hothan - White Trash Knights
Kurt's 24-hour comic joins several others available online under the umbrella of Space Age Comics (with cartoonists Mike Woodson, Bryan Douglas and Jeff Young.)
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Max Jaeling - Starreporterin Olga Stark
"This is part of that German 24h-action last August (see Peter Triesberger's entry). It was done within slightly more than 24 hours (36, I think), and the cover was done the next day because (surprise) i was tired. I hope you don't mind it being in German. If I'm going to translate it, I promise to do it in 24 hours and tell you."
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K. Thor Jensen
"(no title, it has a picture of a dog on the cover) One of many 24-hour comics produced at what has been dubbed COMICS LOCKDOWN, a massive group of cartoonists in an apartment in Queens. Pictures are here:" http://homepage.mac.com/jasonbrightman/PhotoAlbum1.html
Great little comic from Mr. J.
[See "Comics Lockdown!" above for more info.]
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Levon Jihanian - I Hate Birds
"I gave you a copy of this when you visited Art Center in Pasadena about a year ago. This is based on my own variation of the 24-hour comic which I call "the 24-minute comic". At the time, I was on a deadline for a big project due the next morning and I neeeded to procrastinate in a way that somehow felt productive. And there you go."
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"Joe"
"An impulsive, failed attempt at a 24-hour comic, and my first stab at a comic of any sort. I began on July 13 at 3:17 am with only a ball-point pen and some printer paper and passed out at about 1:30 pm (having paid no attention at the beginning to how long I had already been up.) I awoke the next day to find that in all my feverish work I had only produced 5 measly pages. Despite my disappointment, though, I still feel a strange sense of gratification when I look at the crude, scribbly panels, which has finally led me to put what little there is online. (To compound my failure, I also cheated, adding the field of stars in the third panel later. Gooh.)"
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George Johann - She Wore a Yellow Dress |
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Rich Johnston - Soulless
"24 Hour Comics are for wimps. This is a 15 1/2 hour comic, done as part of the Ninth Art 24 Hour Comic Dare. Which meant I managed to get a good six hour sleep and then enjoy a luxurious breakfast as people frantically panicked over their pages. Smug me."
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Eric Jones - Untitled |
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Richard Jun
"This was done in the last days of 2000. I went an hour over, but more importantly I became completely delirious and incoherent. It was a beautiful experience and I have since done another.
Big props to Mister Scott McCloud for this challenging and insanity instigating invention. Also, a personal thanks to Mister McCloud, because I used his "Understanding Comics" extensively for my senior thesis to receive my Fine Arts degree. By the by, it impressed the pants off my profs!"
Richard also sent:
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Billy Kartalopoulos - Metal Fatigue
"Technically, MF isn't a pure 24 hour comic for three reasons. 1) It's 19 pages, not 24. 2) I ran out of paper in the middle of the night (I'd originally only figured on only doing 12 pages and was low on Bristol)... so I was forced to take a break. I stopped the clock, got a little sleep, got some paper in the morning and continued. And 3) I had a general (but very vague) idea for MF rolling around in my head (and my sketchbook) for a little while before I started. But the creation of this thing was very spontaneous and took place within 24 (unfortunately non-consecutive) hours. About halfway through I realized I knew exactly where the story was going, and it almost sort of works. Doing the 24 hour comic was fun, and useful. Thanks for the idea!" --Billy K.
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Michael Kelleher - Human Error
"I did this comic in just over 23 hours, between 10:00pm EST June 6, 2003- 9:25pm EST June 7, 2003. I did 24 full color pages directly onto the computer. No script, no layouts, no ideas. Each page was written as I drew it. I hope you enjoy it!"
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Jakob Klemencic - Untitled
Jakob sends his greetings from Slovenia, along with this excellent, understated story.
Asked about links, Jakob responded:
"It would be great if you would include my e-mail address (jakob.klemencic@ff.uni-lj.si) and perhaps also the URL for Stripburger (http://www.ljudmila.org/stripcore/com.htm) although none of my comics are there."
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Teddy Kristiansen - That's My Dad |
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Bill Kte'pi - The Secret Origin of Poe LeBear
"24 strips, 19 hours, on April 7-8, 2002. Originally I set out to do something completely different, but after four hours, it just wasn't working. I'm really not an artist, as the strip makes clear (the premise of Arctic: a polar bear and an albino in the Arctic.)
So I fell back on doing a 24 installment "miniseries" for my daily comic strip, instead. It's pretty self-contained; you don't need to know much about the strip to follow it.
There are some typos, and one glaring continuity error, preserved to stick to the spirit of the thing.
Someday I'll do a "real" 24 hour comic that doesn't use pre-existing stuff, but I'm happy just to have this done."
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Erik Larsen - Image Two-In-One: "Guy Talk"
Check out this VERY COOL WRITE-UP of the day Chris "Desperate Times" Eliopoulos and Erik "Savage Dragon" Larsen decided to each do a 24-Hour Comic!
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Kim Larsen - Evolution
"This is a comic I created in the beginning of marts 2001 (somehow I forgot to write down the exact date - stupid, huh?), according to the rules by Scott McCloud. It was all done in the timeframe of 24 sequential hours! Okay... I had to use 25 hours and 4 minuts... but then I also slept for seven hours in between ! :-) The comic was first texted in danish (because I'm danish... duh) - but because the vast majority of the world population does NOT speak the fine language of dansk, I desided to translate it... including lots of possible misspelling!"
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David Lasky - Minutiae
One of my favorites.
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Jennifer Lee - The Flower Started it...
Part of "the Bagel Sessions" which also includes Barry Deutsch's "Grace," Paul Winkler's "Let's Call it 'The Squigglies'" and Kip Manley's "The Story I was Going to Tell on Halloween Night But Couldn't"
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Jennifer Lee - 24 Hr. Gas
The fact that Jennifer Manley Lee (she's married Kip Manley since) isn't making comics professionally today is proof positive that this industry is screwed-up beyond repair.
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Jennifer Lee - Small Talk
(see above)
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Ellen Lindner
[See "Comics Lockdown!" above.]
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Jason Little - Plaid Slacks
Jason has since gained some well-deserved acclaim for his Xeric-winning comic Jack's Luck Runs Out. His new website is the bee's knees!
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Paul Little - Thru the Looking Glass
[See "The Brotherhood of the Fin" entry above for more information.]
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Troy Little and Meanwhile Studios:
- Smoked Fish
- The Wyrm's Treasure
- Bedtime with Boo
"This is a compilation of 24 hour comics created over the Winter Solstice (aptly the longest night of the year) December 21-22, 2002. Four people began, but only three finished... This is their story."
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Alec Longstreth:
Two comics from Mr. L.:
"This was my first 24 hour comic and I definitely plan to do more! I ended up finishing all 24 pages and a cover in the 24 hours of December 19th, 2001. It took me 23 hours and 41 minutes. Talk about cutting it close!"
And sure enough, Alec wrote back in September 2002 with a link to:
"I really think this is one of the most amazing artistic processes that exists. I plan on attempting one per year for the rest of my life! I think it will be an amazing series to read through."
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Jason Louv - King Mob
"I did this on Aug 6, 2000, and I was able to finish about an hour and a half early, but I felt like it had been about a week since I'd started it. It was a surreal experience--the comic was done almost completely stream-of-conscious, and turned into this weird postmodern stew of autobiography, commentary on comics, toilet humor, creepy horror, and a deconstruction of the process of creating a 24-hour comic inside itself. Goofy."
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Christopher Lopez - Sex
"24 pages .. from 9PM to 9PM in a 24-hour stretch.
Pencils & paper - Done sometime in April 2001.
This comic is for a mature audience only, so if you qualify, please come on in with an open mind."
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Matt Love -
The Gleaming Skull
Any Resemblance to Persons Living or Dead is Purely Coincidental.
Matt sent what he described as two "12-hr. Comics." He reports that he was already doing these "instant comics" when he first heard about the 24-hr. comics.
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Matti Lundmark - 24-hour landscape
"25 pages cyclic story which contains a happy(?) love-story, a tenacious snail, a devilish pyromaniac, fast-growing trees and flowers, a hot-air balloon, a giant grinning face with a striped cap and more. Completed between 4.55 pm July 5th and 3.15 pm July 6th 2001.
The comic will be displayed fram-by-frame in a total of 97 frames on the website linked above."
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Matt Madden - First Warning
A great little comic I stupidly asked Matt to send me twice!
Matt checks in from Mexico City:
"I talk (enthusiastically) a bit about the process of making one and what I got out
of it in an on-line interview:"
"I did a presentation on minicomics at a small convention here last week centering on a Spanish translation (mine) of Matt Feazell's "How to Make a Minicomic" mini. I brought samples of stuff, including "First Warning," and this group of young design students, who I had met previously, got really excited and promised they would get together and do one soon. I'll let you know if/when it happens."
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Kip Manley -
The Story I was Going to Tell on Halloween Night But Couldn't
Part of "the Bagel Sessions" which also includes Barry Deutsch's "Grace," Jennifer Lee's "The Flower Started it..." and Paul Winkler's "Let's Call it 'The Squigglies.'"
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Kip Manley - The Star |
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Kip Manley - Getting to 24 |
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Jennifer Manley Lee
[see "Jennifer Lee", above]
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Tero Mäntylä - Knight with the White Lizard
Tero sends his regards from Finland and adds:
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