Just 1 Page & Comica 2007

Two more items of Just 1 Page business:


1. Wrapping up the charity stuff.


Copies of the mag will be given away to attendees at the Birmingham International Comics Show, and you will be able to buy some of the original artwork there, with the eBay auction happening in October- Early November this year.


This Shaun of the Dead statue will be auctioned in time for Halloween (yes I said that last year)

Also at BrumICS will be the second Kryptonite Factor Quiz.
Unfortunately it looks like Budgie cannot attend so there will be another co-presenter for me (we are calling him The Budgie of whatever Earth was the evil one).
I have last year's quiz uploaded if anyone is interested. (It's a big file if you're on slowband.)

2. Comica 2007 at the ICA - 20th & 21st October.

Once again, Paul Gravett is hosting ComICA including a 24 Hour Comic at the ICA
(overnight accommodation at the ICA has not been forthcoming however, so please let me know if you'd like somewhere to stay.)

Here's the full agenda for the weekend:

24 Hour Comic starts at 3pm Saturday in the BRANDON ROOM.
See last year's report here:
Please email me if you think you'd like to take part in this.
Anyone not able to commit to the full 24 hours is welcome to come along during the weekend and draw Just ONE Page for a great big huge megacollaboration, in fact if you cannot get to the ICA but can draw and scan one page and email it to me during the 24 hours you can still take part.


Subject to confirmation, 24 Hour Contributors will be on the guest list, so places are limited.
Megacollaborators won't be able to get in for free, but buy a ticket for one of the talks f0r £^ or a day pass and you will be taking part in a historical event !

Talks
Saturday 20 October
Lingua Comica (3.30pm - 4.30pm)
Where Asian and European comics meet, the language of comics bridges cultures. Comica director Paul Gravett introduces the Lingua Comica comics lab, a cultural exchange gathering 14 young creators from Asia and Europe.

Between Angoulême and Hanoi (4.30pm - 5.30pm)
Mixing reportage and romance, acclaimed French auteur and tutor Gérald Gorridge shares his passion for Vietnam, where he has discovered a fresh generation of comics geniuses.

Indian Comics From Calcutta to Brick Lane (5.30pm - 6.30pm)
Sarnath Banerjee talks about his path to becoming India's premier graphic novelist with Corridor and The Barn Owl's Wondrous Capers from Penguin, and his plans for the ambitious follow-up, Route.


Sunday 21 October
Make Mine Manga (2.30pm - 3.30pm)
Why are creators everywhere so inspired by Japanese comics? Award-winning Paul Duffield, artist on The Tempest from the Manga Shakespeare range, and other contributors to the latest Best New Manga volume join editor Ilya to suggest possible answers.

Comica Collaboratories (4pm - 5pm)
Webcomics wizard Daniel Merlin Goodbrey (Last Sane Cowboy & Other Stories) guides you through experiments in online comics, including cutting-edge blog collaborations by Lingua Comica's participants.

Manhua: China Comics Now (5.30pm - 6.30pm)
East beats West? Learn why Chinese comics are on the rise, at home and abroad, from China's Yishan Li (Spirit Marked), Hong Kong's Mr Clement (Yeah Kou Phobia) and other artists and guests. Presented in association with the Asia-Europe Foundation.

Talks to take place in the NASH ROOM
Individual talks: £6 / £5 Concessions / £4 ICA Members.
Special package: all three talks on Saturday OR Sunday: £14 / £11 Concessions / £9 ICA Members.

A new year, A new start for Just 1 Page

Total disillusionment with the whole Just 1 Page business is behind me know, so here's this year's plan.

1) No more Just 1 Page publications from me.
If anyone wants to take over with a more commercial approach - ie £1500 corporate sponsorship to pay the costs rather than my pocket (or any one else's pocket) - I'll be glad to hear from you.

2) Clear the backlog of auctions.
The auctions will start after the Birmingham International Comics Show, where I will be giving away as many copies of Just 1 Page as I can carry up there. (We will have no table, so this probably means putting them into the Freeby Bags.)

3) At least one 24 Minute Comic.
I've proposed three: Caption, in Oxford on Sunday 12th August; Brum ICS in October (tbc) and one other subject to the next point. If anyone wants to have a go at one elsewhere, let me know and I'll help if possible.

4) The 24 Hour Comic at the ICA.
Hopefully now they can let us stay in the venue overnight, or at least find a venue where we can.

Please let everyone know that there's a Just 1 Page page on Comic Space www.comicspace.com/just1page/ and when I have finished (slowly) converting the old Just 1 Page website to this blog, I'll start uploading the images to include contributor biogs etc. which of course will be open to your own comments.

24 Hour ComICA last weekend

spent most of the weekend at the ICA, talking comics to a combination of comics people (marshalled by Paul Gravett for international 24 Hour Comic Day) and people who wandered up from the gallery below lured by my sign that artists were drawing upstairs ;-)

I missed all of Paul's talks because I was mostly selling comics for the people who had attended to take part in the 24 Hour Comic, but I got to meet Frank Skinner who turns out to be as nice as all the other Baggies fans I know. And has been expanding his knowledge of comics that (like many of the ICA regulars) he'd left behind years ago.

The 24 Hour collective came from the spectrum of indie comics in the UK (ie not The Beano), and I currently have half a dozen of their comics waiting for scanning over the weekend ...

Contributors were:

Steven Appleby "Rejoice, this comic is the ghost of a tree"
Matt Broersma "The Black Book"
Matilda Tristram "Vikram"
Dave Simmonds (New Statesman) "Evolution" ... ?
David Baillie "Doggie"
Douglas Noble "WHat it is and what it was not"
Dan Fish "4 3 2 1"
Christian Jensen "The Harvest Has Failed" - 7 pages A2 size - ie 28 pages A4 ;-)

Umisen-Yamasen manga studio:
Chie Kutsuwada, "When I Fly"
Inko, "The Clock"
Hepi-Ichiko, "My Name is Otomeko"
Ochi-bo "Crouching Wolf & Hidden Red Riding Hood"
Yuki, "The Gift"

John from Gosh! "START" - 24 pages in one hour !

Le Gun: GROUP JAM, WORKING GIANT SIZED!
Neal Fox, Leigh Fox, Bill Bragg, Chris Bianchi, James Graham , Steph Von
Reiswitz, Alex Wright, Tobias Tak, Emma Rendel ,Cecelia Lindgren, Carl
Waters, Harry Malt, Luke Frost, James Unsworth, Echao Jiang
(We should post this as a video !)
"The Life and Death of Shit Boy and his muscular friend" - 24 large pages !

And my nephew, Carl helped me film the whole event so we can promote next years (hopefully the ICA will sanction a 24 HOUR overnighter ?)

Pictures here: http://flickr.com/photos/just1page
Movie to follow.


Who wants to take part next year?

ComICA - 24 HOUR comic & Just 1 Page

Yes, you heard me !
(Well okay unless you read out loud you didn't)

I am helping out at the 24 Hour comic at the ICA on Friday Night/Saturday all day
and there's a Just 1 Page table to come and talk to people about doing comics
(If any Just 1 Page contributors want to come along and do some talking, email me NOW)

I now bring you the plagiarised email of David Baillie who has taken up the challenge.

>>>
Hi everyone

As some of you will already know, this weekend is the official global 24
Hour Comics Day.

I will be taking part in the event being held at the ICA on The Mall:


(http://www.ica.org.uk/?lid=12135)

Official UK 24 Hour Comics Day Kick-off
6 October 2006
This one-day worldwide phenomenon of comics creativity, brainchild of
Amercian comics guru Scott McCloud, author of Understanding Comics, hits
the UK. Be there when the Comica team of cartoonists including Steven
Appleby from The Guardian and Telegraph, David Baillie, Matt Broersma,
Umisen-Yamasen Studio (Chi-Tan, Inko and Hepi Ichiko) and Le Gun crew
start creating their spontaneous 24-page 24-hour comics.


In case you’re not familiar with the concept – the participants each
have 24 hours to write and draw a complete 24-page comic (minus all the
time spent eating, weeing, brushing their teeth etc.). Just to put that
in context my last 24-page comic took me just over a calendar month.

While I’m very much looking forward to the challenge, I think it would
make it much more worthwhile if I could raise some money for a good
cause in the process, so I am seeking sponsorship.

All donations will go to the comics based charity Just One Page, helmed
by the tireless Adrian Brown, which for the last four years has raised
funds for a variety of causes through comics related activities and
publications. This year the worthy recipient is Childline UK.

I’ve included a handy guide for those whose maths skills have failed
them this morning.

10p – 24 pages completed - £2.40
20p – 24 pages completed - £4.80
50p – 24 pages completed - £12.00
£1 – 24 pages completed - £24.00

So if you were to sponsor me 10p a page, your final donation (assuming I
complete the challenge) will be £2.40. Of course you can donate whatever
you want, or can afford to, and any amount at all will be very
gratefully received. All supporters will, of course, receive a copy of
the comic I finally produce after the 24 hours.

Also anyone who feels like coming down to the ICA (it’s just off
Trafalgar Square) to cheer us on is more than welcome. (I think it’s
being filmed, too – so you might get some screen time).

Please feel free to pass this on to anyone you think may be inclined to
help.

Many thanks
David Baillie

--
www.davidbaillie.net

Just 1 Page apologies

Due to very poor sales of the magazine, and very busy times at work, I have not yet organised the auctions.

I am planning something for December, and the Shaun of the Dead statue for Halloween.

Thanks for any interest.

Ade

World news

http://www.universohq.com/quadrinhos/2006/n27042006_03.cfm

With fourteen Brazilian pages (about 20 artists and writers joining in), it is perhaps fitting that the first news coverage comes from Brazil !

Hopefully, ashcan versions will be sent to a few choice publications next week.

See you at Bristol !

More team news !

Most of the art I've received is online here
members.aol.com/just1page/J1P4art.htm

Several of you have promised to try and get some art in - I desperately need a pic of Raven on the Wing (otherwise I have to draw him myself !)

Deadline day on 18th April !

The squad for Just 1 Page 2006 (so far)

Please let me know who you intend to draw, and remember, any comics character in any of the World Cup countries is still an acceptable theme for your contributions !

Hellblazer/Hellraiser (Stu.Art Tipples) England
France V England (Roger Mason) "France"
Master of Kung Fu (PJ Holden) N.Ireland
Godzilla & Giant Robot!(Dan Fish) Japan
Billy the Fish (Adrian Bamforth) England
Human Torch V Iceman (Cabral) Brazil

Victoria and David Beckham (Bevis Musson) England
Midnighter/Batman as Jones/Gascoigne (Cath Tomlinson) Republic of Ireland
Hulk V Pierluigi Collina (Graeme Reid) Scotland
Ninja 9 (Dave Windett) "Japan"
Collina (Tim Seelig) "Italy"
Look Out for Lefty (Douglas Noble) Scotland
Luke Cage (Leonardo Aragao) Brazil
Doom, Zenith & others (Hector Lima) Brazil
Wonder Woman cheers Brazil (Sandro Castelli) Brazil
Dredd vs American Football (Sam Hart) "Team USA"
Rooney V Predator (Barry Renshaw) England
Galactus & Mr Fantastic (Al Ewing) England
Galactus with the World (Indio) The World
Socceroos (Australian World Cup team) and the 300 Spartans (Nick Ellis) Australia (and Greece!)

Ronaldinho, Sting, Alfred E.Newman (Délio Freire & Jean Diaz) Brazil
KABBALAH FC Alan Moore, Aleister Crowley et al (marcio massula junior and antonio eder) Brazil
X-Men in training for the world cup (Rafa Gallardo) Brazil

Sven's Saturday Comes (The Lad Done Brilliant) England & "Sweden"
Doctor Who and the history of the World Cup.

Ready to start one more time ?

The Wond'rous Mr Jesse Farrell has come up with two superb statues for Just 1 Page, and they'll be auctioned in April, so be there !


Okay everyone ?
Thanks to the 30 or so people who have been in touch - an abundance of Brazilians, which is only appropriate for a World Cup issue.

The Just 1 Page itinerary is as follows:
March 31st - Deadline for your contributions (of course some of you will miss this, PLEASE start now !)

April 1st - Final weeks of Just 1 Page 3 auctions - including the remaining artwork, plus a very nice extra one of Batman & Poison Ivy by Bevis Musson, plus the most excellent statues you can see above.

May 12th/13th/14th - Just 1 Page 4 on sale at the Comic Expo in Bristol. This time it will be something of a football fanzine effort to encourage cross over customers !

June some time,
THE WORLD CUP.

World Cup J1P - inspirational artwork !

Cruyff




I realise (thanks to your feedback guys!) that football is not everyone's cup of tea, and so I provide the following links to actual World Cup highlights for purposes of inspiring.

Also check out Roy of the Rovers comics !

Just 1 Page 2006

I've had less than a dozen people say they will do a page for the World Cup themed Just 1 Page 4. (UPDATE: Now there are around 30, thanks for the response)

The football theme for the final edition of Just 1 Page seems to have scared off a few people who've contributed before. But never mind, all the more room for reprinting my old football fanzine gags.

Any way, as ever, the invitation is open to any reasonable artist to donate a one page comic strip or pin up on the theme of Football and Comics.

That means any of the following:

Direct tributes to (or parodies of) the classic football comics of days gone by. (Roy of the Rovers, Billy's Boots, Hotshot Hamish, Billy The Fish)

Combos of comics characters and football.
(The Hulk will be appearing as a goalkeeper, Captain Marvel may well be Bryan Robson once more, Ronaldo as Plug, Robbie Fowler as Zenith, Tony Rollinson's ADVENTURES OF PEOPLE WHO LOOK LIKE ARSENAL PLAYERS, John Motson as The Watcher, What if Escape to Victory had featured The Invaders, Ashley Cole as Sub-Mariner.)

Actual cartoons of footballers which I will use as "cigarette card" fodder.
I need some of these for all the teams involved except for England, whose squad is spoken for. These pics can be quite small, 9 on an A4 page would do nicely.

Anything else.

And you know, you could always just add a football into a sketch you've already done ...

Oh, I want someone to write short parody team summaries like you always get in the run up to the World Cup.
The deadline will be 31st of March, and at this rate there won't be enough to be going on with, so I don't want to waste anyone's time. Please let me know if you can't take part (or don't want to) in what will be my final Just 1 Page.

Some of you know that Andrew Wildman's Drawing the World Together charity is going to be prominent at Bristol and while the two projects have different emphasis - J1P is the magazine prepared in advance, plus ebay auctions - there's not going to be room for two such projects (and not enough pencils in your pencil case I hear busy artists cry).

Hopefully you've seen the photos of Jess Farrell's beautiful statue of League of Extraordinary Gents ? http://www.comicbookresources.com/columns/index.cgi?column=litg&article=2366

Finally, a reminder of that theme, which as always is open to very liberal interpretation.

Any comics characters in a football related scene or story.
(You know, if you have any images lying around, you could just draw a football in a corner.)

A4 art preferred. Black and white or colour.
And as the theme is the World Cup I am looking for people to represent each country in the tournament (Ghana, Brazil, Netherlands and USA are already added to England, and yes of course I will accept contributions from Wales, Scotland, Eire and Northern Ireland :-) or any other country that is not playing in the world cup.

Feel free to pass this on.

Thanks,
Ade

PS apologies to those who have replied with their intention to take part.
Just 1 Page Charity Comic 2006
http://members.aol.com/just1page/J1P4.htm
This year's theme is the World of Football

JUST 1 PAGE - WORLD CUP - FINAL

I am only doing one more of these, so hopefully everyone can help me go out with a bang?

The theme is THE WORLD CUP, with any tenuous link to football that you want to include. I'll be using this thread to come up with ideas, and you're welcome to chip in and discuss the obscure subject of football and comics here too.

If you're struggling with the theme, here's a link to the BBC's webpage with info about the teams taking part - you could always take an obscure one !
http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/football/world_cup_2006/default.stm

Here's some more ideas for you.
http://www.urban75.org/comics/bjonesintr.html
http://www.garenewing.co.uk/ind/comics/comicsfootie.html
http://www.royoftherovers.com/
http://www.wsc.co.uk/articles/206rotr.html

The 2nd Twenty Four Minute Comic

Not to be confused with the minute 24 second comic.

See it here

Everyone did a cracking job.
Any comments ?

Would you do it again ?

Oh, nearly forgot the link for the photos of the Expo, including the 24 Minute comic.
Hey, how about a six-a-side comic at Bristol ? Four teams of six artists, 24 minutes to produce a six page story ...
see what happens with coffee ?

Just 24 Minutes update

The half an hour for this activity has been booked for 12 noon until 1pm on Saturday, in the gallery area of the Expo.

We've allowed an hour because it'll be tough to wrangle all them artists together at the same time !

Currently we have the following volunteers - please let me know if you want to join in.

David Baillie
Shane Chebsey
Andy Richmond
Roger Mason
Sean Azzopardi
Jenika www.neptunefactory.com
Jamie McKelvie
Dan Fish
Andrew Luke
Bevis Musson
Rich Johnston
Lorenzo from www.studioblinktwice.com
Seiriol Davies
Glenn Fabry
Kev Hopgood
Henry Flint
Rufus Dayglo
Beatgirl Comics
Paul @ Doodleshed
Dave Kendall
Gordon "Big Angry Rabbit"


Places still available !

email just 1 page +at+ aol +dot+ com to take part.

24 Minute Mini-comic #2 invites contributors

We can now confirm the date for 24 Minute Minicomic #2.

At The Comic Expo
Brighton, Saturday 19th November 2005 all contributors welcome.

All you will need to do is draw for less than half an hour !

Here is the online version of the first one, with cover by Roger Langridge and a host of web comic and small press stars,

Once again we'll have a story written by Mike Carey, similar format to the first one - ie 24 pages scripted in advance with two lines of rhyming couplet each.

Each artist will be given an A4 page with a time of day and two lines of the story. In order to aid story-telling, this time we will try and seat everyone in page order so you'll be sat net to the folks who are drawing the pages before and after yours.

It's free to take part, first 25 people who contact me will take preference, but there's a good chance that we'll need reserves, so if you turn up on the day, you'll get to draw something.

The plan is to find a local photocopy shop so that limited copies of the finished comic will be on sale by the end of the day. The story will then appear on-line and in the next edition of Just 1 Page (due May 2006).

If you missed the last one, you can find out more about the rules, about the first event and about The UK Web & Minicomix Thing where the event took place earlier in 2005.

This is hoped to be an event that in future will be linked with the annual Drawing Power campaign that is being waged during October, AND with annual 24 Hour Comic Day.

Please email me just1page +at+ aol +dot+ com if you are attending the Expo and can join in (even for just half an hour). Actual start time subject to other events on the Expo calendar.

If you know someone who might be interested in taking part, please pass this on.

24 Minute Minicomic, original art on sale and on the web

The 24MMC is now a 24MW&MC
http://members.aol.com/just1page/J1P24minutes/00.htm

And the artwork is for auction here:
http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=6566472161

Pat Findlay has just announced the date for next year's "THING" and all UK web comic and small press comics fans in the UK should consider going along.
Check http://www.ukwebcomixthing.co.uk/

Just 1 Page #4 & Draw The World Together

Overlapping with the end of the Just 1 Page #3 auctions will be this project, which deserves everyone's support !

http://www.drawtheworldtogether.com/

The aim:
To create a body of work that expresses who we are as a comics community and by doing that raise funds for the children in the world who will probably never have the opportunity to grow up in the comics world that inspired us as children and enabled us to express that as adults. A way of uniting the whole global comics community in a virtual event that will raise funds for those children less fortunate than ourselves.

The Structure:
There will be two simultaneous virtual events that will coincide at a given time. One will go out to the creative community with a request for artists (and possibly writers) to produce a piece of work. That piece of work will then be emailed back to me where it will be placed on a website. The original plus 5 signed copies will be posted to me. The other part will be a viral email campaign that will go out to the fan community. This will be to raise awareness of the project in hand and to spread the word/create a buzz. Online newsgroups and websites will publicise the project. These two campaigns will then align with two events:
On Monday 26th September pieces of work submitted will start to appear on the 'Draw the World Together' website where it will be available to view by way of potential viewers making a donation to a given charity.
On Monday 17th October a one week auction will begin (through eBay) of all the pieces of original artwork and the 5 signed copies. All funds will again go to the given charity. All news and results will be available on the site in the last week of October.

The Charity:
The designated charity for this global event is EveryChild. EveryChild is an international development charity that works with the most vulnerable and marginalised children in many of the world's poorest countries to enable them to grow up free from disease, poverty and exploitation as valued individuals within strong communities.
EveryChild. Registered charity: #1089879 www.everychild.org.uk

info@drawtheworldtogether.com
www.andrewwildman.net


The theme might well be confused with the Just 1 Page #4 one of "ANY COMIC CHARACTER, ANYWHERE IN THE WORLD", should I change it ? I didn't intend to play up the football connection that I mentioned previously, but do you think I should ?
Will that put anyone off ?

Just 1 Page 3 auctions and announcing J1P4

Please go to the Just 1 Page auction site and either spend money or make other people spend more money !
members.ebay.co.uk/aboutme/just1page
Full list and running order here:
members.aol.com/just1page/J1P3auctions.htm

You would be correct in thinking that I am barking mad.
Because I am going to do it again next year.

This is mostly due to the support of everyone who has asked me to, and the kings of the British Expo scene - Mike Allwood and Dez Skinn.

However, it is also because I just had a great idea.
You may have noticed that the theme I was suggesting was ANY CHARACTER, ANYWHERE IN THE WORLD ?

Well next year is the Football World Cup in which England will not be competing.
(They may yet be playing in it, but recent trends suggest they will not compete.)
As Just 1 Page features artists or characters representing all the top footballing nations (check the list - Brazil, France, Northern Ireland, Greece, Birmingham, and that other one where they play good footie).

So your theme is now ANY CHARACTER, ANYWHERE IN THE WORLD,
DOING SOMETHING LINKED TO FOOTBALL.

This being Just 1 Page, we're quite flexible with the rules, so you won't have to draw football players, but the first person to bagsy Shaolin Soccer gets a special mention. Use as wide a berth as you need (eg newspaper headline, football in the background, Wonder Woman as a Brazil fan, Sven Goran Erikson as a Turnip etc) but please, will someone do Roy of the Rovers, and Hotshot Hamish, and Eric Cantona, and You Are The Ref.

Just 1 Page auctions launched (MK2)

Today I have posted the first batch of six Just 1 Page items.

You can see the full list here, http://members.aol.com/just1page/J1P3auctions.htm
and keep an eye on the auctions here, http://members.ebay.co.uk/aboutme/just1page

PLEASE spread the word.

To the one dissatisfied Just 1 Page customer.

Thankyou for accepting your paypal refund, ignoring the magazines and extra postage that I paid in an attempt to redress the delay in receiving your magazines. I note that you did so without ever contacting me to ask about the delay. I further note that you took longer to acknowledge receipt than my delay in sending the magazines. I hope that you get some enjoyment from the magazine that has cost you nothing and can be satisfied that the investigation almost certainly resulted in the delays to the charity auctions because of eBay action that followed your complaint.

To everyone else, you should now have received your copy of Just 1 Page 3 with complimentary copy of #2. Those of you looking for the auctions, please bear with me as I await written confirmation from Childline to comply with eBay's new charity auction rules.

Those auctions will begin at the end of August, but I may not be allowed to mention the word "charity" in the eBay listings, so you'll have to remember that this is for a good cause.

No, there probably will not be a Just 1 Page #4 next year.