The Big Draw at the Star and Shadow Cinema

As well as our 24 Hour Comic, other drawing events are happening this week at: The Big Draw at the Star and Shadow Cinema.

You can read all about it here: http://starandshadowbigdraw.blogspot.co.uk/. A number of members of the Star and Shadow and Paper Jam Comics Collective spent a few hours yesterday evening playing the Surrealist Exquisite Corpse game. Here we are at work:

Here are a couple of the results...

Postman to the Retailers - Minicomic day extra

As blogged on zine it yourself, I wanted to do something extra for International Mini Comics day this year, and had the idea to deliver postcards between different retailers in the neighbourhood of our friends at Travelling Man. Here are scans of the postcards before I stitch them into a minicomic.

Other participating outlets included Beatdown Records, Details (The Arts Centre), Mailboxes etc.., Mr Q, the headshop whose name I always forget, the Settle Down and, er, that Tattoo Shop on West Rd.

 

The nice background material, by the way, was borrowed from an unknown girl studying for her exams. Thanks! And the penguin shape was how I 'stamped' the cards for delivery, leaving the first contributor with a token, or 'receipt'.

Hourly Comic Day

Everyone likes a good creativity endurance challenge, right?

Well then, I believe that Hourly Comic Day is well within the remit of this blog and its membership.

What's that all about then? As it says on the http://www.hourlycomic.com/

hello! on february first a bunch of people make a journal comic every hour they are awake. and then they show these journal comics to other human beings, sometimes on the internet

we will see how different people actually spend their day. some people will make beautiful comics, some ugly. some boring, some exciting.

So if you're based in the North East of England and taking part in Hourly Comic Day, send scans and/or photo's of your hourly comics to paulxthompson@gmail.com and i'll put them up here with links to your sites. If you're already a member of the blog, you can do that yourself of course: label 'em "Hourly Comics".

Go to it!

Hi from a distant participant.

Hi, I was absent from Newcastle but chose to take part anyway, while walking around Helsinki, mainly because I miss the Newcastle comics crew so much. So I have done a very poor something. Comic may be too grand a word.

It took place over 24 hours, it is true, but I started almost a day late, and most of those 24 hours were spent doing the aforesaid walking around, with the only drawing happening during pizza and coffee stops, and a rather nice self portrait at night.

So I managed 23 pages, of drivel with illustrative accompaniment, to which I'll add some 'found art' (map of Helsinki? Whatever fluff I find in my trouser pocket) and print a few off when I'm back in the finest city between Tyne and Coquet.

If ever I find a usb slot I will add a couple of images from it.
Well done for your collective insanity everyone.