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.

It was thirty years ago today, Steve Gerber taught the band to play

And it was 42 years ago today, that I was born.
(I made up the day and month, but not the year of Omega the Unknown by the way.)

NORMAL SERVICE WILL SHORTLY BE RESUMED

I've settled in at work, and have a week off next week for birthdaying,
and more importantly to set up sixty or more eBay auctions !

So watch this space, and expect an email next week.

Address any queries to just1page@aol.com

Ade

AUCTIONS APOLOGY

So, I made the decision to delay the auctions until the end of June.
Why? You may ask.

Firstly I have just come to the end of my first proper two weeks of holiday for a while, and am about to return to the new job I began at the start of May.

I've invested a lot of effort in the job, and I have four weeks to get ready for the full time, five days a week launch of the St Mary's Hospital A&E alcohol liaison work. That's what I do for a living. I know you thought I was a full time comics nerd. Or what Larry Young once flatteringly called an "internet ubiquity" (or was it ominpresence?).

I've realised in the last few days that although doing Just 1 Page is fun, it takes up time which I could better use to relax with Karen. And do selfish things that don't require me to do "stuff" for other people. And besides, no-one bought Just 1 Page, so I would have to find the time to promote it, and before that learn how to promote it.

So, I am putting Just 1 Page auctions on ice until the last week of June (when I have a week off work to have a birthday, see Patti Smith a few times and go up to Bromsgrove for a family barbeque.

This will enable me to set up all the auctions in advance and REALLY think about the running order (and it gives me a bit longer with all the lovely art).

email me if you want to help, moan or otherwise comment.

Three people did.

The Hidden Heroes of Just 1 Page

So, as you can see in the previous post, I got all the art in (and two folks pushed the wire over their heads and did the tongue-pulling dance - mentioning no names).

But the epic task of laying out the pages took a lot longer than anyone imagined.

Thanks to Sean Azzopardi for two evenings of me moping around his computer and glowering at his BIG FAT CAT. (And to Steve for what we will refer to as "programming assistance".)

Thanks to David Baillie for a couple of emergency sessions on the old photoshop.

And to Dez Skinn for "an hour" on Bank Holiday Monday that turned into SIX HOURS IN THE COMICBOOK MANSION OF DREAMS!

Now the book is at the printers, and I'll have to wait - like everyone else - until I get to Bristol next Friday.

Check out the art previews: http://members.aol.com/just1page/J1P3