THE 24 Minute Mini Comic

A World Record Attempt

A comic conceived, written and drawn .. THEN PRINTED ... during the day.
24 artists (or artist and writer teams) attending the "UK Web & Mini Comix Thing" will each spend less than half an hour during the day drawing a page of minicomic. The 24 pages will then be assembled and photocopied and be available for sale by the final hour of the event.

The finished comic will also appear as an insert in Just 1 Page 3 to be published in May 2005 - which will also feature web address & contact details for all 24 Minute Mini Comic contributors.

The approximate itinerary will be as follows
(subject to the UKW&MCT events timetable)

PHASE 1
From opening time (10am) until noon, visitors and exhibitors are invited to fill in a form with key plot elements for the story.

Suggest a location (type of building, a room in the house, geographical place etc)
Suggest an object. If you cannot attend before noon, please email me for a "suggestions form".

These suggestions will be placed into three "hats" and drawn out so that each contributor has four random things to work into their page.

There will be a "protagonist" character to appear in every page linking the story in some way. Hopefully, we'll be getting an archetypal character design sent in.

The theme of Just 1 Page 3 is Battles or Team ups, so I reckon our character should go from page to page interacting with the "guest" characters. The contributors will be able to include a character or person of their own choice. (Any comics character, including their own.)



PHASE 2
Noon to 12.24 - The Draw and everyone assemble.
First 24 names are drawn from hat 1 to decide who draws which hour/page, there will be 24 pages each with a rhyming couplet prepared by professionals. The rhyme will have a very open description of what our character might be doing at that time of day. It is not meant to tell you what to draw, but to be a bit more interesting than "12 noon - dinner"


NEW RULE: Other than any sound effects, the only words on each page will be the rhyming sentence describing the activities of the hour - rather like in Rupert cartoons.

Then each of the suggestions are drawn - like the game consequences - so that contributors know what two things they need to fit into their page.

eg
Page 14: 6pm-7pm, "A sandwich full of pickled jam, what a lucky chap I am!", "SPATULA", the Moon. Roger Langridge.
Page 15: 7pm-8pm, "I'll read before I go to bed, to refill the dream stuff in my head", "POSTBOX", A tool shed in The Hanging Gardens of Babylon. David Baillie.

The layout, format, content of their page is completely up to each contributor. Perhaps the protagonist should be shown walking in at the top left and out at the bottom right of each page - unless someone can think of a better "framing device" :-)




PHASE 3
12.24pm to 12.48pm - THE 24 MINUTE COMIC
To be started by official event starter : then everyone draws their page.
I reckon A4 size would be good enough, but if anyone insists they can do it larger or smaller.

I think this'd be good to do all sat around the central stage area, so that you can discuss events with those doing the hours either side of the one you are drawing. But it could just as easily be done at the contributors tables.
Hopefully we can get someone to film it.



PHASE 4
12.50pm
I will collect all the art, run off to a quiet room to paste it up and then go to a local photocopy shop which has agreed to take part



PHASE 5
By about three o'clock, the 24 minute mini comic should be on sale.

All put together in less than four and a half hours !



If you want to discuss any of this with the group, please go
here

J1P3 - 24 Minute Mini Comic contributors

On Saturday March 19th, at
the UK Web & Minicomix Thing
we will be attempting to produce a record-breaking comic.

The 24 Minute Mini Comic to be completed and published on the day.

Each artist or art team will have 24 minutes to draw a page based on certain keywords or phrases, contributed by the audience at the event, like a comedy improv night. At the end of the 24 minutes the pages will be collected, collated & printed and will be on sale before the end of the event.

The final effort will be on sale by 3.00pm and will also appear as a pull-out supplement in Just One Page 3, the charity comic magazine. The final comic will also feature the names and contact details of the creators, their web sites etc.

You do not have to be an exhibitor to take part, all you have to do is pay the entry fee and come and join in - by contributing suggestion to be included in the pages.

Artists will be asked to draw one page (minimum size A5, minimum 4 panels) in just 24 minutes at The Thing. The only other rules will be:
- their page will be allocated to a time of day and the finished collection will tell the tale of a day in the life of our featured character.
- they should feature another character of their choosing.
- they must feature an object and a location suggested by the audience, and randomly drawn from a "hat"
- the only words will be a rhyming couplet loosely describing the events.

All proceeds will go towards the Just 1 Page charity (Childline), and the finished item will be reprinted in Just 1 Page (members.aol.com/just1page/J1P3.htm)


We have 24 people (or teams) lined up, but need a reserve list.

Currently, unless I've forgotten anyone, this is who we have taking part:


1) Kat & Dave www.twosideswide.com

2) Roger Langridge www.hotelfred.com

3) "vented spleen" (who is already halfway there with) www.ventedspleen.com/onehour.html

4) Roger Mason roger.phatcatz.org.uk/pages/main%20page.htm

5) Sean Azzopardi phatcatz.org.uk/

6) David Baillie www.davidbaillie.net

7) Eddie 'Eddache' Bowley www.bolloxcomics.co.uk

8) G Douglas www.vduinc.cc

9) Caroline www.localgirl.co.uk

10) Chikin www.greatvagueness.co.uk

11) Zoe Stead www.drunkduck.com/Earthbound

12) Shane Chebsey www.smallzone.co.uk

13) Dan Fish fish1000.blogspot.com

14) Willie Hewes http://www.williehewes.tk

15) Bridgeen Gillespie www.koniption.blogspot.com

16) Joff (possibly Darren & Wes too) www.gfbowl.com

17) Titch (& assistant & computer!)
www.drunkduck.com/ChaoScape

18) David Goodman www.bahala-na.co.uk

19) Arthur Goodman www.favouritecrayon.co.uk

20) Ali Graham www.housd.net

21) Marc B www.automaticfreestyle.co.uk/

22) James Morris jampotcomics.blogspot.com

23) Ping Teo www.thejaded.co.uk

24) Gary Northfield stupidmonsters.blogspot.com

Plus: Patrick Findlay (subject to him being VERY BUSY organising The Thing !)


If your name is not on there, remember that we may need "reserves" and that people can team up.


Let's make it a visual event with everyone frantically crayoning, painting, etching or keyboarding (if you can print your contribution out or maybe copy it onto a floppy disk at the event then why not?)

Meanwhile, whether you are taking part in the 24m mc @ UKW&MCT or not, you can still do a full page strip or art-page for ...
the Just 1 Page Charity Comic 2005


See previous item for more info about how the event will happen.

Just 1 Page 3 - pages and promises so far

It's not too late !
Deadline for contributions is 31st March.

Here you can see who has delivered.
I asked them, do you deliver and they said, "The butcher's shop is next door".

* Adrian Bamforth - Superman & Obelix
* Alex De Campi - Wonder Woman & Tank Girl
* Aris Iliopoulos
* Bevis Musson - Storm V Wonder Woman
* Bobby Vala & Michael Karpas - The Authoritah!
* Brian Crowley - Constantine & Hellboy
* Bridgeen Gillespie - Cerebus & The Hulk
* Carl Brown
* Cath Tomlinson
* Charlie Adlard - Thor VS Asterix & Obelix
* Dan Fish - Ambush Bug V Animal Man
* Daniel Lundie - Batman & Superman
* Dave Windett - Totally Spies meets Danger Mouse
* David Baillie - All of Comics Vs. Dr Frerick Wertham
* David Hitchcock - Satan & Gabriel from Constanteen Vs John Constantine
AND The Hulk VS The Thing
* Drashko Roganovich
* Eddie Robson & Simon Logan (or is it Penter?) - WE3: Woodstock, Snoopy, Garfield
* Felipe Sobreiro - Lobo/Ranxerox
* Frazer Irving
* Futurequake - Monster Squad (& "friends")
* Gary Northfield
* Gene Poonyo - The Minx V Alice (from Resident Evil)
* Graeme Reid - Punisher V Tintin & co
* Graham Hill - Supermen
* Grant Cross - Judge Dredd & Hellboy VS Judge Death (or is it Judge Death & Hellboy VS Judge Dredd ?)
* Grant Springford - The Defenders and co
* Hunt Emerson - Plastic Man and the Mighty Atom
* Indio - The Menace V The Thing
* Jason Sobol - Daredevil V Elektra V The Hand
* Jim Whelok
* Joacy Jamys - Best Battle?
* Jock
* Joel Meadows
* John "Swampgas" ? - Spider Man V The World
* Johnny X - Grant Morrison V Alan Moore
AND another to be confirmed
* Lee "Budgie" Barnett V Jamie McKelvie
* Lew Stringer - Aunt May VS The Sub-Mariner
* Mark Peyton & Mal Jones - Planetary V The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen
* Martin Eden - The O Men versus The Xmen
* Mike Carey - 24
* Mike Collins - Lobo vs. The Littlest Hobo
* Paul Palmer
* Paul Ridgon - Deadpool / Snake Eyes
* Phil Winslade - Wolverine vs Killraven
* Richard Elson - Sagat (Streetfighter) Versus Tetsuo (Akira)
* Rob Croonenborgh - Maximortal V El Guano
* Rob Williams
* Roger Langridge
* Roger Mason
* Roxane Grant - Optimus Prime and Bender from Futurama
* Sean Azzopardi
* Sam Hart - Batman V Lobo
* Simon Penter (Futurequake) - WE3
* Simon Perrins - The Watcher & Phantom Stranger
* Stuart McCarthy
* Stuart Tipples - MONKEYS GO APE !
* Tim Seelig
* Warren Pleece

Just 60 pages ??? C'mon !!!

Oh, and there's the small matter of Jesse Farrell's statue and a possible BONUS STATUE !

And the 24 Minute Mini-Comic makes 6x4 ! Or more likely 6x 4/4 or something similar.

How I roped Plastic Man ...

Hunt Emerson steps up to the plate !

Just 24 Pages

I suppose that's HALF WAY.

A message for the best possible comic artists in the world.
We need sixty pages here.
Where are you? Where are you? Let's be having you! Come on!

Meanwhile, here's the latest art.

Charlie Adlard


Bridgeen Gillespie


Dave Kendall


Monstersquad


Dave Willacy


Felipe Sobreiro


Graeme Reid


Dave Hitchcock

J1P3 Advert

Click to download printable version.

Animals and Women - latest art previews

Dan Fish
http://fish1000.blogspot.com


Bevis Musson



Phil Winslade

Higher Authoritah !

So, I have fifteen pages in my possession, with another twenty five or so promised.
And of course eight pages that will be taken up by the 24 Minute Mini Comic.

There quite are a few people who have not replied to the invitation to take part this year, and I cannot help but wonder if they are put off by last year's charity "business" - I hope not.

If you know anyone who would be willing to take part, please send them to me via just1page@aol.com

meanwhile here are previews of two more pieces that arrived this week.


from Michael Karpas and Bobby Vala.


from David Hitchcock (and this is a very early sketch, because I am keeping the full thing back for special!)

Minx Cat: Latest art

Gene Poonyo pitches Minnie The Minx against that one from Resident Evil.




Futurequake have a twist with Grant Morrison's WE3

Art update ... Oh I thought it was Mxyzptlix !!

One from Adrian Bamforth.



One from INDIO.



Oh, and there's the small matter of Jesse Farrell's craftmanship:

Another J1P work in progress ...

Hi Ade,

Just to let you know I’ve started posting my sketches for J1P on my blogsite if you’d like to see the work developing. You can get to it through my website or go straight to http://gnreid.blogspot.com

Cheers

Graeme

Graeme Neil Reid
Illustration

UPDATE ! (inc. new art pages)

And you may see some other improvements in The Just 1 Page website.

J1P previews: Monkeys, Men and Magicians

Three previews of unfinished art for Just 1 Page 3.

New publishers are welcome to contribute, especially if you are going to Bristol's Comic Expo, where Just 1 Page 3 will be launched.

Monkeys Go Ape from Stu.Art


I am always happy to see people stretching the theme, and Joacy Jamys from Brazil, brings a more thoughtful side of the "Battles" theme.

Playing of War check his website for more of his wide range !

And, in case anyone had not noticed, the best way to endear yourself to me is to feature John Constantine.

Well done Brian Crowley !


Other art promised so far:
Sagat (Streetfighter) Versus Tetsuo (Akira), by Richard Elson.
Silver Surfer & ????, AND Captain America V Captain Britain, by Tony Rollinson
Punisher V Tintin, by Graeme Reid
The Thing versus Dennis the Menace or maybe Galactus versus the Godzilla, by INDIO

Bridgeen Gillespie
Frazer Irving
Gary Northfield
Len O'Grady
Roger Langridge
Tim Seelig
Warren Pleece
Alex De Campi
Bobby Vala & Michael Karpas
Dan Fish
David Baillie
Drashko Roganovich
Jamie McKelvie
Jim Whelok
Lee "Budgie" Barnett
Mike Carey
Rob Williams
Roger Mason
Roxane Grant
Sean Azzopardi
Sam Hart
Stuart McCarthy


And ... one for the sculpture fans ... League of Extraordinary Gentlemen by Jesse Farrell, who did that lovely Jack Staff statue. Previews of his production art coming soon.

The new Just 1 Page website is launched today.

READ ME !


Click the top link on the right to see what's happening.

I've tidied up some of the old files from the 2001 and 2004 projects so if you find any dead links around the Just 1 Page site, please let me know. Also if you have any questions, updates or complaints, you can post them as comments by clicking that orangey # at the end of each post. Don't be shy !

I have two contributions arrived already - everyone who leaves it until the last moment, please take note !



Spider Man versus them all by John Bishop


Classic Superman meets Christopher Reeves
by Graham Hill

Just 1 Page didn't get an Eagle.

I hate you all.

Only joking !
Back to business.

JUST 1 PAGE 3

In this update:
0) paper view
1) don't just sit there DRAW something
2) what do with your spare tenners
3) the 24 minute comic


0) Thanks to the League of Extraordinary Mikes
(Allwood and Conroy) for the mention in the latest CI.
Also, keen-eyed comics fans in Wandsworth
may have seen me in the South London Press...

As I presented £800 to the Trinity Hospice
(plus £200 worth of comics to sell at events and in their shops)

1) In case you missed it, Just 1 Page is a magazine featuring comic art donated by a range of pros, ams and hamfists - in my case. The original art is auctioned for charity via the magic of eBay, and any profits from the magazine also go to charity.

Just 1 Page 3 will be launched at the comics expo in Bristol 13th-15th May 2005

The theme for next year will be BEST BATTLES and TOP TEAM-UPS.
Any variation on the theme will be welcome.
(Don't wait for an invitation!)

This year's charity is Childline.

2) To allow more profit from the magazine this time, we are inviting people to sponsor a page for just a tenner. You get to put your name, website or shop address on the page.
And you get your copy of the magazine at no extra cost.

Additional schemes are available:
(£20 if you want to choose which page your ad goes on, £50 if you want a colour page)

3) Extra special event for J1P3 - THE 24 MINUTE MINI COMIC
At the second ever UK Web & Mini Comix Thing, 19th March in Stepney, London
http://www.ukwebcomixthing.co.uk/
an attempt will be made on the World Record for fastest comic collaboration.

A minimum of twenty four artists will each produce a page of mini comic in 24 Minutes !
Attendees at the event will be invited to be story suggestions into a hat, which will then be randomly assigned to the brave contributors ! (The suggestions, not the hat.)
The finished story (which will be coherent, funny and "interesting") will be printed and sold during the day, making it the world's fastest ever comic anthology.

You should go to the UK WCT, and so should your friends.
If you do a comic yourself, you want to book a table now !
If you want to take part in the 24 minute comic, let me know.

There will be a facsimile of the 24 minute comic in Just 1 Page 3, but the only way to get the original is to Get To Stepney.

Just 1 Page 2 - The Brits

Just 1 Page: Heroes was a charity comic published for the UK's comic festival in Bristol during the year of 2001. This year, it is back for another issue - this time the theme is British comics characters, and that includes creators. We will be selling the comic at Bristol and auctioning original art to raise funds for the Trinity Hospice charity.

Before I tell you about the process of putting together this comic, I'd like to say why I chose that charity.

In 2002, three of our neighbours were taken ill with various unrelated illnesses.
Within a year, two of them had sadly died, and both were cared for in the Trinity.

Guita was a lovely lady with a life you would not believe ! In her nineties, she felt she had lived beyond her years and was suffering various ailments brought on by her age. She was very low before she went to the Trinity Hospice. The last time I saw Guita, she was battling her way to the local shops, despite not feeling well. She declined any help, although she would welcome us in for a chat and a few odd jobs around her flat. She had been a lively soul in her younger years, a despatch rider during the War, a Soho club girl and then manager of her own club in the Fifties.
She had been to hospital and received treatment, but she was reluctant to accept the home help she needed.
Once she went to the Trinity, she was given a more dignified, comfortable time than she had at home.

She died in April last year.
At her request, her funeral was to be a quiet, secular occasion, and Karen had to make all the arrangements because I ended up with a broken arm that very same week. I got to choose the music, but not to attend and due to my accident, I didn't get to say a proper goodbye.

So, Just 1 Page 2 is a way to say thankyou to the staff of the Trinity Hospice for giving our friend a comfortable farewell. And for me to say farewell to Guita, who I hope is with her loved ones in the heavenly version of that club of hers !

J1P2 contributors list

Artists participating in Just 1 Page 2

My plan was to give people fliers at the London Festival, perhaps even get some sketches.
BUT it soon became clear that there was not room to move in the small convention hall, and the bar became much more alluring.

Erm, I was side-tracked your honour.

Actually, I did give a lot of the fliers out, but whether any new contributors will come forward is another matter.

On a brighter note, the London Festival was a great experience.

I hope that the positive response to the event allows for an even bigger show next year (not just in terms of size of venue, although that was my only grumble this year). As the traditional comic mart (literally a hundred yards away from the Holiday Inn) today did not seem as busy as usual. It is a shame that certain other organisations could not dovetail their events into what Kev F Sutherland laboured hard to set up on Saturday.
Mentioning no Maus signings.

Jonathan Ross was an absolute gem. And I intend to tell him so by the magic of old-fasioned mail - may have to deliver it by hand to the BBC though.

The Viz talk was not as well attended as I expected, but there were a fair number of people who only attended the con for them judging by what I overheard.

I've just thought of another grumble. Directed at the hotel or possibly gents with bladder problems. The flooding of the one toilet that was available in the function area is rather annoying. It was still out of action today.

In 2001, I put together Just One Page an art contribution-driven charity comic book, where each page began with the same three panels: an alien comes to earth looking for a hero and mistakenly ends up at a comic convention. More of that later (or earlier ?), but this is the story of the second Just One Page.

I missed the final UKCAC, which used to be the top comics event in the UK, where Vertigo would hunt and trap British writers and comics artists from far and wide would supplicate themselves at the feet of Tharg.

But a few years later, Kev F Sutherland came on the scene with his Comics Festival near the beautiful spa waters of Avon, in Bristol. Having a passing interest, I took a day trip to the event, where I met Marcia Allass of Sequential Tart and Lee "Budgie" Barnett (named after the Adam Faith character ?). Each year since, I have made a weekend of it, and highlights have included Bryan Talbot's talk on One Bad Rat (so good I've seen it twice since), Al Davison's autobiographical talk (coming to Caption this year), meeting lots of Norwegians, and the annual chance to meet up with friends and new comics folks alike.

Last year, there was a second "annual" comics festival in London, which was JUST SO CONVENIENT !
This got me thinking again. If I could just collect the sketches at London and compile another Just 1 Page at Bristol ...

Well, that was the original plan.

CHARITY COMIC BOOK COLLABORATION 2001

A Charity comic featuring a range of people from the whole spectrum of comics.

Artists, writers and EVEN fans.

See the "unfinished" page template at http://members.aol.com/adeheathen/c2000.htm
FAQ for contributors http://members.aol.com/adeheathen/c2000faq.htm

UPDATE May 12th 2001

Here's the latest page count (with my official deadline now passed) in order of arrival

Intro and Outro by Ade & Arthur


Simon Perrins - Alan Moore as Swampthing
Natalie Sandells - Morbius the living Vampire
Paul Holden - Lord Peter Flint, Warlord
*Jim McGee - Mike Allred

*Kevin Garnett - Sin City
*David Goodman - Stan Sakai
*Lisa Jurucich/Xyzandra - Katchoo and Francine
*Bobby Cheung - X-Men.
*Arthur Goodman - various !
Al Davison - variouser and variouser
Tatiana Gill - Tintin
Espen Jorgensen/ Geir Moen - Maxx & John Constantine
Jens Altmann (script) - Groo (drawn by me after Aragones)
Peter Hogan (script) - Alex Toth (drawn by Tony Rollinson)
Mike Carey (script) - Little Nemo (drawn by me)
Dylan Horrocks - Charlie Brown
Howard Cruse - Lulu Moppet
Hunt Emerson - Wimpy from Popeye
Larry Young, Chris Staros, Jamie Rich (answers) illustrated by Rich Johnston & Ade Brown
Sam Gaffin - The Anomalies
Brian Laframboise - Captain Marvel
Dave West - Hellboy
Steve Pugh - Rabbit & Lois
Steve Yeowell - Jack Kirby (&Ian Kennedy)
D'Israeli - Thor
Mike Collins - Spiderman
Darren Clarke - Elastic Man/ Fantastic Four
Andi Watson - Mitsuru Adachi
Steve Gerber/ Phil Winslade - (it's a secret !)
Bjorn T Boe/ Lise Myhre - Wolverine
Duncan Fegredo - Alex Toth
Mal Jones - Footsoldiers
Brian Wood - Buddy Berkley (from Hate)
Lawrence Rider - Hewligan's Haircut
Warren Ellis - (art by Steve Pugh)
Adrian Brown - "Lloyd MacAdam"

SOME PREVIEWS ARE AVAILABLE HERE
http://members.aol.com/just1page
http://www.maljones.com/art/images/i_charity.jpg


Some of the above pages will be available for Auction on behalf of the CBLDF.


There will be blank pages in the book, so people can get sketches from
artists at the festival, making every edition a collectible !
(Bill Jemas eat your heart out !)

So it looks like being a 48 page book, and subject to costs of a colour
cover, will sell for £3. Proceeds of sales to Comic Relief.

Adrian Brown