The Falmouth 24hr Comic

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Cally Gibson Mini Folio | Make Your Own Book

The Aftermath

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I thought I'd just post some of my thoughts after the fact.

All the work has been stripped from inside The Poly. All that remains is a smell of budget energy drinks and painful ink. I apologise sincerely to the artists who had to endure my slow descent into madness, but I see this as a light-hearted lifeline of relief. Much like Richard O'Brien in The Crystal Maze. It was humbling to see the artists still staring at paper after all those hours and they did us proud. Professional, committed and dedicated to the singular event. As if scribbling to save us all.

I would like to thank them all. Also The Poly, Feast, Martin Coote, Source FM, Cally Gibson, Sara Bowler and, of course, Philippa Rushworth.

All thats left to do is close the books and sort the legacy of this fine event. Keep checking this blog for more updates, as we have some ideas to repeat, but more presently, to collate the work in a publication. So three cheers for this particular brassy strut!

Regards,
Thomas Sharpe

West Briton Article

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An article about us in the West Briton.

Comic created in a day
Thursday, November 19, 2009, 14:56

A GROUP of illustrators have challenged themselves

to create a comic in just 24 hours at an event in Falmouth next week.

The Falmouth 24hr Comic takes place at The Poly on Tuesday

and will see each illustrator make a 24-page comic.

Throughout the day visitors will be able to see the artists

working, view the results and have a go at creating their own timed comic.

The 24hr Comic idea was the brainchild of American cartoonist,

Scott McCloud in 1990 and the challenge has since been taken up

by thousands of professional and amateur artists worldwide.
Organised by three recent University College Falmouth

graduates, Tom Sharpe, Phil Rushworth and Cally Gibson, the

event will be the first major incarnation of this project in Cornwall.

The artists are not allowed to prepare any work before

the event ensuring the comic is inspired entirely by the

story they will be given on the day about Falmouth.

Visitors will be able to challenge themselves to produce their

own timed comic from 10am until 10.30pm on Tuesday - space

and material provided. All of the results will be displayed at

The Poly and could even make it onto The Falmouth 24hr Comic blog.

The Falmouth 24hr Comic challenge begins at 10.30am in

the Daniell Room at The Poly, Falmouth, and open to the public

until 10.30pm on Tuesday.

The exhibition of final work is open until Saturday from

10am to 5pm, with a follow up exhibition at The Soup Gallery, Truro, in December.

http://www.thisiscornwall.co.uk/westbriton/falmouth/Comic-created-day/article-1529621-detail/article.html

Richard Dinnis Pages 21 - 24, Comic finished at 9.10am

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The thrilling conclusion to 'The Best Day of your Horsey Life' by Mr Richard Dinnis:

Page 21

Page 22

Page 23

Page 24, finished at 9.10 am

Hurrah!

Richard Dinnis Pages 17 - 20

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Richard finished all these pages sometime between 6.00 in the morning an his finishing time of 9.10am. This happened to co-incide with the period of 'no time recording' where all times where simultaneously one and none at all. Basically, I don't know when they were finished. Sorry.

Page 17

Page 18

Page 19

Page 20

100th post final photo dump

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looking fresh faced and smelling like roses at 10.30am on Wednesday
from l-r: Jenny Naylor, Marcel O'Leary, Amy Brazier, Faye Simms, Robert Fresson, Tom Sharpe, Jack Teagle, Phil Rushworth (myself), Josh Bone, Laura Elliot and Jake Rowlinson.

I can't believe how many posts we made during our mammoth 24hr + bloggathon. I know we've slowed the pace a little now but there are still more comic pages to come so don't despair.

I just wanted to share with you some images of our cast of characters at 10.30 in the morning, after working for 24 hours. Apologies to Laura Elliott, her picture has got lost in the computersphere somewhere. We'll find it though..

The first to finish: the comic making machine that is Jake Rowlinson

Hot on his heels, Mr. Jack Teagle.

The very dapper Robert Fresson

Jenny Naylor and her very awesome stamp (stamp not shown)

Introducing the talented Amy Brazier

The very funny Mr. Richard Dinnis

Ms. Faye Simms, with her sterling effort

The terrific Marcel O'Leary

And finally, the incredibly perservering Josh Bone and his table of paper. This was taken at 10.28am. It was very very close!

Bonus Jack Teagle Comic

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Jack literally couldn't get enough of drawing comics, he produced this gem for our community table during his four free hours...

Jake Rowlinson - Bonus Title Page

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Jake had time to have a nap and knock up this bonus title page. That's the way you rock a 24hr comic challenge.

Jake Rowlinson pages 22-24, comic finished at 5.45am

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Jake won the coveted honour of being the first to complete his comic, finishing at more or less 5.45am. He didn't win anything, just a chance to have a nap. We were all very impressed anyway.

Page 22

Page 23

Page 24, comic completed at 5.45am

Jenny Naylor pages 23 - 24 - comic finished at 8.06am

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Jenny Finished her last page at 8.06am. She was really churning them out towards the end.
Well done Jenny!*

Page 23, finished at 07.50

Page 24, last page, finished at 8.06am

*can you tell I've been working for 36 hours with only 4 hours sleep? I can. Words are starting to fail me, not out of lack of enthusiasm though, just lack of conscious brain cells.

Jenny Naylor pages 19 - 22, 6.25am - 7.34am

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I can't tell you how much I appreciate Jenny's oh so helpful time stickers. And very precise too. It makes my life so much easier.

Page 19, finished 6.25am

Page 20, finished at 6.47am

Page 21, finished at 7.10am

Page 22, finished at 7.34am

Faye Simms Page 10 (final page)

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Page 10

Faye spent a good few hours yesturday really thoroughly planning her story; after putting all that effort in she made the decision that sh'd rather finish it to a standard she's happy with then rush it and regret it. So, this is the final page Faye made in the 24 hour period, but it's hopefully not the last we'll see of this story... We'll keep you posted.

Marcel O'Leary pages 13 - 16 (plus teaser page)

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Page 13

Page 14

Page 15

Page 16

Teaser page (unofficial page 17)

Marcel didn't get to finish his comic. He did leave us with a page which gave us a clue as to what we can look forward to in the remaining 8 pages....

Amy Brazier pages 11 - 13, finished between 4am and 5am ish

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You'll notice by this point that the times start getting a little hazy. By Midnight out page times had started entering the world of guesswork. By 5 or 6 in the morning everyone was finishing pages so fast that even guesswork went out the window. It was enough to keep everything in the right order.
From now on you will probably see quite a few pages finished at 'who knows' o'clock or 'could be anytime' am.

Page 11, finished at 4am

Page 12, finished at 4.30am

page 13, finished at 5am

Page 14, finished 'some time after 5'am

Josh Bone pages 13 - 16, finished at 10.30am

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Page 13

Page 14

Page 15

Page 16

And that marks the end of the 24 hour challenge for Josh, 16 pages in 24 hours* which means you can only look forward to seeing the rest of the pages in the future... watch this space...

*or what seemed like 16 pages in 2 minutes

Josh Bone pages 9 - 12, finished at 10.30am

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Page 9

Page 10

Page 11

Josh Bone Pages 5 - 8, finished at 10.30am

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Page 5

Page 6

Page 7

page 8

Josh Bone, pages 1 - 4, finished at 10.30am

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Josh spent the last twelve hours of the challenge literally surrounded by a sea of different sized paper with drawings on them and occiaionally sitting on the sofa typing frantically at his typwriter. It was touch and go for a while, but out of nowhere, at 10.30am we were presented with 16 pages.
He may not have got them on the wall but he damn sure got them done. (they're totally on the wall now)

Page 1

Page 2

Page 3

Page 4

10.30am - no hours left!

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Well that's it then, we're done.

Everyone's quite relieved to be finished, but frankly I'm a little sad. Not too sad though, I don't know how much longer we would have lasted.

We have six completed comics, which, with my basic maths skills, means a 60% success rate.

Jenny Naylor finished and stamped her last page at 8.06am.

Amy Brazier mission it towards the end and finished at 9.52.

She was closely followed by Richard Dinnis who finished his last page 9.10am.

And there's still more to come, you can still look forward to finished comics by Faye Simms, Laura Elliott, Marcel O'Leary and Josh Bone.

You might have forgotten about Josh Bone, he's been working on all his pages at once, and you haven't seen any of his work yet. He's literally been racing against the clock to get some stuff to put on the walls. He got rained on. He's been through hell, basically.

We're very behind on scanning and posting, as you can see. I have to go and catch up and tidy up so you won't hear much for a couple of hours. Expect some major blogging this afternoon though as the rest of the work goes up.

Tom Barwick is also starting his challenge today in Plymouth. He dropped by this morning to say hi and pick up his copy of the story. Hopefully we'll get news from him at some point to.

Well, this is goodbye for now. Everyone is off for a sleep.

I can't say enough how pleased we are that everyone did such a good job. I'd like to just quickly thank all the artists, FEAST and everyone that dropped by. Especially the artists, they've been such troopers and professional to the end.

It's been a pleasure.

I'm going to go now before it gets emotional. More comic pages and badly resolutioned phone pictures to come ladies and gents.

Richard Dinnis pages 13 - 16, 4.45am-6am

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Page 13, finished 4.45am

Page 14, finished 5am

Page 15, finished 5.30am

Page 16, finished 6am

Marcel O'Leary pages 10 - 12, 4.30am - 5am

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Page 10, finished 4.30am

Page 11, finished 4.45am

page 12, finished 5am

Marcel O'Leary pages 10 - 12, 4.30am - 5am

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Page 10, finished 4.30am

Page 11, finished 4.45am

page 12, finished 5am

Jenny Naylor pages 15 - 18, 4.24am - 6.11am

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Page 15, finished at 4.24am

Page 16, finished at 5.15am

Page 17, finished at 5.44am

Page 18, finished at 6.11am

Faye Simms pages 8 and 9, 5am - 5.30am

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Page 8, finished at 5am

Page 9, finished at 5.30am

Robert Fresson pages 15-20, 2.15am - 4.59am

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Pages 15 & 16, finished 2.15am

Pages 17 & 19, finished at 3.58am

Pages 19 & 2o, finished at 4.59

Rob has also finished his comic, at 7am, which should be applauded (and was). We haven't scanned in the last pages yet though, which shouldn't.

I'd also like to take this time to applaud Rob for his dedicated and concise time keeping. It makes out lives so much easier, I'll be honest - apart from Jenny's, most of the other recorded other times are pretty ballpark.

Jake Rowlinson pages 19 - 21, 4,30am - 5.15am

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Page 19, finished at 4.30am

Page 20, finished at 4.45am

Page 21, finished at 5.15 am

Jake has actually finished his comic as of 6.30am, we just haven't scanned it yet, because we're letting the side down. Something to look forward to though.... the thrilling conclusion.

Jack Tagle pages 19 - 24, comic finished at 6.30am in 20 hours

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Page 19, finished at 4.30am

Page 2o, finished at 5.00am

Page 21, finished at 5.30am

Page 22, finished at 5.30am also

Page 23, finished at 6am

Page 24, finished at 6.30am

7.00am - 3 1/2 hours left - blimey

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Good morning, actual proper good morning when people are starting to get up, not just the early morning which is actually just very late at night.

As our exhibition opens later today and someone has to make sure it's all ready and sit there looking amenable all day we decided that those of us that aren't drawing would have a break at some point to get some sleep, or fresh air, maybe have a bit of a cry. I drew the long straw and got to go home for all of about four and a half hours sleep. I just got back over an hour ago, feeling reletively fresh faced and excited to see what I'd missed.

I'm absolutely stoked* that we've ended up with such great quality comics. It's also mind blowing how everyone has interpreted the Dick Williams character.

When I arrived everyone seemed quite bleary, but generally upbeat, if slightly manic - although it's that's mostly Tom. That's the result of drinking a lot of Kick I suppose.

Jake Rowlinson finished his 24 pages before I arrived, at about quarter to seven. That's 24 pages in an astounding 19 hours. He's like a comic making machine. When I arrived he was having a well earnt nap on the couch, despite the near-constant sound of out scanner.

Jack Teagle was only slightly behind, finishing at 6.30am, completing it in a nicely rounded twenty hours.

Both Jake and Jack studied aty illustration under Tom Barwick, who is taking the challenge on his own today. It's like Tom's training his own army of super efficiant illustrators. Or formulating a human comic factory - there's got to be something untoward and Marvel super villain like going on, how else can we explain it?

Following hot on their tails was Robert Fresson, who finished a few minutes ago at 7.00am. That's twenty hours and thirty minutes of solid drawing board and curves action. That really does take stamina.

It looks like a couple of people might not finish. We're okay with that though, part of challenging yourself is finding a way to work the system around how you usually work - and sometimes it takes a few hours to find a groove. Those hours can be precious when you've only got 24 of them.

What I'm saying is, we're not cracking the whip here, it's meant to be fun, kay?

Hopefully we'll get the finished comics in the next week or so. or maybe some will just end on page 17 with an almighty cliffhanger that will bug us for ages.

Anyway, I'm going to upload some of these comic pages now, we've got a bit of a back log.

Breaking News: Jack Teagle just gave me some awesome books he's published. I am pleased as punch. They're amazing, you should totally buy some - they're available on the internet somewhere.

By the way, my camera has run out of battery - someone left it on.... ahem. So that's why instead of some fun pictures you've just had me typing for ages. We're resorting to the camera phone - prepare for some pixels....

*only at 7am, after working for 12 hours and only 4 1/2hrs sleep is it acceptable to use the word 'stoked'

Elliot, 6 ,7 between 3 and 4am

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brazier 8,9,10 between 3 and 4am

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teagle! 14-18

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Dinnis 10,11,12

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personally, I think this man is one of the wittiest illustrators i have ever come across. I can't stop laughing at page 11...it is 4am though....

Rowlinson 17 and 18, between 3 and 4am

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naylor 14

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jenny Naylor 9, 10,11,12,13,14 between 3 and 4am

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Faye Simms 6, 7 between 3 and 4 am!

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Robert Fresson pages 13 & 14 completed 01:11

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Robert Fresson page 11&12 completed 22:40

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Laura Elliott pages 1 to 5, completed between 23:00 and 01:45

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Amy Brazier pages 5 - 7, completed 23:00 - 00:00

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Marcel O'Leary pages 7, 8 & 9 completed 23:00 - 00:00

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Jack Teagle page 10 to 13 2200 - 00:00

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Richard Dinnis Pages 5&9 - 10pm to Midnight

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Jake "The Machine" Rowlinson pages 11 thru 16, completed between 10pm and 1am

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The Long Dark - 02:30

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I knew this were going to happen. Our artists are gearing up into a new strength of page production. Our scanner bulb is soon to turn back into sand. The signs of tiredness are showing; a disdain for their previous kempt ways, a certainty anchored in normal creative foundations and an obtuse amount of bad-brand energy drinks (totally unsuited for the sedentary nature of the 24Hr comic). Despite all this, the time has gone from a blistering opening 6 hours to a speedy halfway and then to a final short-marathon to the end. The finish approaches. And our camera is out of gas, so I can't even capture the quiet confusion in the room.

The work, however, is building like an insane remake of Tetris. The exhibition is taking shape.

- Thomas Sharpe

Jenny Naylor Pages 7&8 Completed 23:52 and 00:45

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Faye Simms pgs. 4&5 completed 01:00 and 01:30

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Midnight

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Our good friend Martin Coote came in and did a 5page 5hr comic. A man living out a Pixies song. A good effort, we feel.

After a quick last run to the supermarket to get (frankly) audacious crisps, I came back to discover Laura drawing with a twig, Amy staring at her knees and Rob Fresson waiting angrily for aforementioned crisps.

We hope the next few hours will be just as facially entertaining. More updates to follow throughout the night.
- Thomas Sharpe

Faye Simms pgs. 2&3 completed 9.15pm

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Jenny Naylor page 6 - finished at 10.36pm

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Jake Rowlinson, pg 9&10. completed 9.21pm

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Richard Dinnis Pages 3&4 - 9.20pm

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Robert Fresson pages 7&8 completed at 6.41pm

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Robert Fresson pages 9&10 completed at 23.19pm and 1.47pm respectively

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Richard Dinnis 1 and 2 8.05pm

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Jack Teagle 8 and 9

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Page 8, finished at 7.52am

Page 9 - finished at 8.29pm

Jake Rowlinson 8.01pm page 8

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Marcel 6 (again!)

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Marcel O'Leary page1-6 submitted just after 6.47pm

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Jack teagle page7 - 6.38pm

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Jake Rowlinson 6.26pm page 6

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Jenny Naylor page 5 6.17pm...

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we're a little behind as reference gathering is taking plac on my laptop...as it is the only one that picks up the wireless from the studio... hi! it's Cally btw xx

Faye Simm Page 1 6.15

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7.30pm - 15 hours to go!

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It's incredible to think that everyone has been drawing for seven hours now. Ask yourself this, what have I been doing for the last seven hours? I bet you haven't produced 6 pages of a comic have you?

We've also had some people come and try their hand at narrative illustration, as we've been calling it when the word 'comic' doesn't really apply

The drawing above was done by The Poly's own gallery manager Alison. It illustrates a story one of The Poly's visitors had just told her. I'm going to leave it open to you unitepretation for now....

This is Christine, she was a bit scared to draw a comic at first but luckily she enjoyed contributing the beuty below:

She came with Ben who left us with this comic about an ant and a rock. There's probably a morel in there somewhere.

And, since a picture paints a thousand words and I'm quite tired I'm just going to leave you with a pic dump....

Jake Rowlinson, up close and personal

Our logo designer Martin Coote, whose been putting some solid comic hours in.

All the artists and a good peek at out lovely classroom arrangment. Also, check out the work on the walls. Yes!

I didn't take this, Tom did. Apparently someone brouhgt their own caffeitiaire (I got really lost spelling that word... shall we call it coffee plungey thing for now?) That's dedication.

Amy Brazier,'Carne the Cornish Giant' pg 4. Completed 6.15pm (ish)

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Page 1
Page 2
Page 3

Robert Fresson pages 5&6 completed at 5.57pm

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Pages 1 & 2
Pages 3 & 4

Jack Teagle pages 3 - 6

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Yes, you read that right, that's four whole pages at once!

Title page
Page 2

Jack Teagle page 2, finished at 5.55pm

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So this is what we've been waiting for, page two of Jack's comic. Mostly because as soon as we had page two we could bring you a whole four new pages afterwards.... see the next post

Title page

Jake Rowlinson, pg 5. completed 5.35pm

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Page 1
Page 2
Page 3
Page 4

Jenny Naylor page 4 - finished at 5.27pm

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page 1 & 2
page 3

Jenny Naylor page 3 - finished at 4.45pm

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pages 1 & 2

Amy Brazier,'Carne the Cornish Giant' pg 3. Completed 4.45pm

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Page 1
Page 2

Jack Teagle title page - finished ages ago

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As mentioned in one of our earlier blogs, Jack actuallu had this pretty much finished at about twelve o'clock, he's just been keeping fairly quiete about his amazing productivity.
There's loads more to come very soon, he's just finishing page 2 then you can see the rest..

Robert Fresson pages 3&4 completed at 4.24pm

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Two more wonderfully curve-mazing Robert Fresson Pages.

Pages 1&2

(By the way, I'm not sure if it's my moniter or my scanner is doing something strange, but everything looks quite pink to me, and in reality it's quite a tasteful cream colour. If anyone with a different computer wants to settle this debate once and for all, that would be awesome. Drop us a line)

Jenny Naylor Pages 1 & 2 Completed 3.57pm and 3.58pm

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Jenny gave us two pages at once, check out her stamp of authenticity.

Jake Rowlinson, pg 4. completed 3.50pm

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If this were a race Jake would be winning right now. But he's not so the most I can offer him is a cup of coffee or something.

Page 1
Page 2
Page 3

Amy Brazier,'Carne the Cornish Giant' pg 2. Completed 3.00pm (ish)

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Again, not sure about the time Amy finished this exactly, I was busy up here in my wi-fi hotspot, which is miles away from the action.

Page 1

Jake Rowlinson, pg 3. completed 3pm (ish)

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Jake is really churning them out now...

Page 1
Page 2
Page 4

3pm - 19 1/2 hours to go!

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My first thought for 3.15pm is that time is going very fast. Very fast, surely it was 11am a few minutes ago?
My second thought is that we have some pages on the walls!

I'm not actually sticking work up here, just some lovely name labels with everyone's biography. I was quite surprised there's wall space for everyone, but so far it looks good.

Also, Joel came in to do some drawing;

But he very shortly got a comic block and had to go for some fresh air. He left us with this quite amazing character sheet though, so I hope he comes back like he said he might.
Everyone is still beavering away, it's quite fun to look over their shoulder.

The view over Richard Dinnis' shoulder

If you do visit us today please don't feel awkward about looking over the artists shoulders. They like it. Honestly.

Marcel O' Leary's shoulder

Also, on more personal note everyone seems to have had some lunch. Which I'm happy about as I was getting a little bit mother hen worrying that they weren't going to have enough energy. I don't have any pictures of the lunch though, sorry.

Over Jack Teagle's shoulder

Jake Rowlinson, pg 2. completed 2.15pm (ish)

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So, that's two down for Jake. They're coming thick and fast now. Almost.

Page 1

Robert Fresson pages 1&2 completed at 1.05pm and 1.47pm respectively

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This is the first of Roberts double page spreads. He has a rather lovely set of drawing curves, as you can see.

Pages 3 & 4

Jake Rowlinson, pg 1. completed 1pm

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Another one that's possibly been ready awhile. Worth it though...

Oh! And in case you weren't aware, you can click on the image to view it bigger.

Page 2

Amy Brazier,'Carne the Cornish Giant' pg 1. Completed 1.00pm

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Although we've labeled this as being made at 1.0opm, I think it was actually made a lot earlier and was hidden away from our prying eyes.
It's good though.

13.00pm, 21 1/2 Hours Left

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The artists are all going strong. Hopefully. Nobody has broken yet. Had an exciting visit from the West Briton and Falmouth Navigator publications. Photographs were taken, quips noted down. It was like The Cook Report, yet less intimidating. Here is my attempt at reporting the reporters, Ben Perks and Bryonny from Falmouth Navigator:

I have perportrated the first community contribution. A small visual description of my first couple of hours. It is as thus:

The second public contribution was from local Postman and all round nice guy Scott James, who sadly had not the time to do any more than his title page, but it sure looks like a winner to me:

I can't wait. Here he his in the moment:

Of course, the comfort of daylight still hangs above us, and the true stresses of the challenge have yet to sink in. The participants are remaining quiet and concentrated:

Rob Fresson is working at a Dutch angle on his board, I hope this strategy pays off for him:

But of course the ever-present, almost blinding light of our super wall projecting clock behemoth will shine insistent on their efforts as they plunge towards comic inevitability:

We'll keep you updated.

- Thomas Sharpe

12.00pm, 22 1/2 hours left

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Well, it's been one hour now, and, unsurprisingly there's not much to report.

Everyone is here, sitting at round their rather charming school art class style tables and concentrating reasonably hard.

Clockwise l-r: Marcel, Amy, Robert, Jenny, faye and Laura. All very busy.

Except for Josh Bone who has left for a short while to brave the streets of Falmouth and sketch actual real things. It's very exciting, in a quite, studiously relaxing kind of way.

Josh, sketching in a picturesque way

The main thing to report is that at 10am everyone was given a copy of our Falmouth and Penryn based story as a source of inspiration. We've called it a story but, more accurately it's a character: Dick Williams. Dick lived in Penryn and was also known as The Cornish Strongman. He would tour local fairs with four other men performing amazing feats of strength like bending iron bars and supporting the weight of a piano and two men on his chest, long enough for them to play a tune. When Dick wasn't showing off his strength to the public he'd use it during his day job at the docks. Apparently local residents would visit him when they broke their bones or had a bad back so that he could reset them. We've also heard his called a 'gentle giant' as when he retired he turned his hand to massage and had an amazingly soft touch.

Finally, In breaking news, Jack Teagle has very nearly finished his title page. I wonder if anyone will beat him to producing the first page?

Jenny Naylor

2009-11-21T10:25:00.003Z

"I graduated this year from University College Falmouth studying Illustration. This summer I have been writing a graphic novel and following personal artistic projects and intend to move to Bristol in 2010 and continue to illustrate there."

Jenny Naylor will be joining us for the Falmout 24Hr Comic challenge.

Website: http://www.jennynaylorillustration.com/

Josh Bone

2009-11-20T10:44:00.002Z

Josh Bone will be joining us for the Falmouth 24Hr Comic.

Richard Dinnis

2009-11-20T09:42:00.004Z

Richard Dinnis draws mainly with a biro and mainly at night.

He will be joining us for the Falmouth 24Hr Comic challenge.

Website: www.richarddinnis.co.uk

Thomas Barwick

2009-11-20T09:31:00.002Z

Tom Barwick is an illustrator based in the South West.

He will be producing his own 24Hr comic remotely.

Portfolio: http://www.thomasbarwick.com/

Jack Teagle

2009-11-20T09:22:00.006Z

I am a freelance illustrator currently based in Cornwall. I specialise in creating characters that you want to feel sorry for. When I'm not working on commerical work, I balance my personal work between comics, sketchbooks and paintings. I try to adapt my style and sense of humour to anything I can, from graffiti to tshirts to action figures. I have exhibited paintings and action figures worldwide including, Germany, San Francisco, and London. I love collecting strange action figures, mutants and monsters and weird comics, which feed into my work. My interests and inspirations include: silver-age comic books, pulp fiction, lowbrow art, Hieronymus Bosch, Outsider art, Fletcher Hanks, old science fiction and horror imagery, megadrive games, David Lynch, Gary Panter, Henry Rousseau and Richard Scarry.

Jack Teagle will be joining us at the Falmouth 24Hr Comic challenge.

Blog: http://jackteagle.blogspot.com/

Faye Simms

2009-11-20T09:16:00.004Z

"First of all the basic stats: 20 years old, a girl and Irish. None of which lends itself promisinglyto the idea of a comic book nerd but regardless I started out drawingby making and self publishing comics. Mind you I was 15 and my friends and I were inspired after reading Johnny The Homicidal Maniac and Sandman and despite these gothic cult roots I'm a pretty cheerful person. I'm currently studying 2nd year Illustration."

Faye Simms will be joining us for the Falmouth 24Hr Comic challenge.

Gallery: http://tintreas.deviantart.com/

Joint blog: http://candyflameyeah.blogspot.com/

Marcel O'Leary

2009-11-09T15:04:00.003Z

Marcel O'Leary is currently completeing his 2nd year of an Illustration BA and is an aspiring comicer. He likes bumble bees and white russians (the drink).

Marcel will be taking part in The Falmouth 24hr Comic Challenge at The Poly.

Jake Rowlinson

2009-11-05T11:18:00.003Z

"Since I first saw Frank Frazetta’s paintings cover my dad’s Conan novels, I have wanted to be an illustrator. My dream has always been to work for 2000ad as that was the comic I most loved as a child. I have had some degree of experience creating a mini comic on Marxism for my sociology tutor in sixth form and countless birthday cards. I really think this competition will challenge my un-tuned skills at visual narration."

- Jake Rowlinson

Jake will be taking The Falmouth 24hr Comic challenge at The Poly

Robert Fresson

2009-11-04T12:02:00.002Z

Flag enthusiast and illustrator Robert G. Fresson has spent the last year and a half honing the usage of technical drawing tools and materials. He has his own drawing board and some French curves. He also has an inclination towards off-white papers and CMYK colour separation. Humour is an important aspect to his work, and he has been quoted as saying (probably to himself): “while it is difficult for me to be seriously funny, I find I have an aptitude for being funnily serious”. A shameful technophobe (perhaps a rarity among the youth) he still manages to stare at dancing pixels from time to time, sometimes managing to make them dance himself, through the use of Microsoft PowerPoint and other such software. He is a huge fan of his Grandmother’s and is interested in taking his time where possible. His lifelong dream is to own a cabin in Novascotia.

Robert will be participating in The Falmouth 24hr Comic Challenge at The Poly

Laura Elliott

2009-11-01T21:55:00.000Z

Laura’s illustrations are created using lively line work and watercolour, which lends itself to the lighthearted quirkiness she instils in her characters and images. Taking inspiration from colour and texture, she finds using the unpredictable line that sticks and twigs provide an important role in her drawing style. She also enjoys exploring other media and disciplines, such as textiles, jewellery and origami.

Now based in Bristol, Laura graduated from University College Falmouth in 2008. She has worked with a range of genres, from promotional posters and brand identity to private commissions and children’s literature. Laura has a published children’s book called Basil and Scraggs Go Underground at Geevor.

Laura will be taking The Falmouth 24hr Comic Challenge at The Poly.

You can find more information on Laura's website and more images here

Amy Brazier

2009-11-01T21:46:00.000Z

Amy Brazier is a 22 year old Illustration BA Hons graduate from Falmouth College of Art. She works primarily with ink and pencil to develop an organic linear style. Themes and influences can be seen from a variety of areas such as iconography, nature, old etchings and literature. She is currently based in London.

You can see more of Amy's work on her blog.