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24-Hour Comic Challenge Comes to Philadelphia!

08/24/10

  Ever wonder how long it takes to make a comic book? Your average monthly comic book can have as many as five different people working on it: a writer, a penciller, an inker, a colorist, and a letterer.   And if all these tasks are performed by just one person, a 24-page comic can take three months to produce.   But that’s for sissies. Because on Friday, August 20th at 2pm at Atomic City Comics on 640 South Street, seven brave (and quite possibly insane) local comics artists will attempt the impossible. Each one will endeavor to create his or her own complete 24-page comic book, from scratch, in just 24 hours.
  Creative sparks will fly as the store remains open all night long for this cartoonist’s crucible. There will be laugher, there will be sweat, there will be caffeine, there will be sugar, and there may very well be tears. What there will not be is any sleep whatsoever for the following seven intrepid 24-Hour hopefuls:
  · Pete Stathis, the organizer of the event, and the writer/artist of the graphic novel series, Evenfall. www.evenfallcomic.com
  · Raphael Tiberino, local painter and cartoonist, of the ever-popular Ellen Powell Tiberino Museum in Powelton Village. www.tiberinomuseum.org
  · Steven Peters, creator of Awakening Comics, and contributing writer/artist to Cerebus Readers In Crisis. www.awakeningcomics.com
  · Brett J. Hopkins, creator of ill!, and co-head of the Philly Comix Jam, featured in the tabloid, “What Makes a Man Dress Up Like A Bat?!” www.TVsBrett.blogspot.com
  · Andrea “Dre Time” Grigoropol, Philly Comix Jam co-head, illustrator, and artist for the Secret Prison #1and “What Makes a Man Dress Up Like A Bat?!” tabloids. www.dretime.org
  · Jason Clarke, local cartoonist and blogger, Philly Comix Jam staple, and contributing artist to the Secret Prison #1 tabloid.  www.thisisjason.com
  · And newcomer and intern Colleen Groh, who not only will have to crank out 24 pages in 24 hours, but will have to do it while serving coffee and snacks to the other six artists.
  Atomic City Comics owner Daryll Jones and employee Joe Turner have been very enthusiastic in their support of the 24-Hour Comic event. Select items will be on sale during the Challenge, (including the artists’ own prints, zines, and comics), and a portion of all sales will be donated to Kids Need to Read (www.kidsneedtoread.org), a charity which provides inspiring books to underfunded schools and libraries across the nation. “It’s all about getting kids to stick their noses in books. And this is a great way to make sure that happens, and have some fun at the same time,” said Jones.

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