Previously : March 2010 : Martin Newman

Unlike must normal human beings, Martin started in a fairly stoic frame of mind and gradually became more cheerful as the sleep deprivation kicked in. Instead of leaving the day with the words 'never again', he was saying things like 'we should do this again, very soon!'

This is not because he's mad, it's because he had actually hit on the best possible approach to a 24 hour comic... come up with a decent engine for driving short sketches featuring the same characters rather than sustaining a single story for 24 pages.

By the end of the evening, he'd constructed an ending which tied the whole thing together in a bow made of solid PATHOS, and called this tale of one robot's interactions with mankind: Evolution and Beep.

You can obtain this fantastic comic at Travelling Man Newcastle. Do it. Martin is currently chief of the Project Z, due to launch at Thought Bubble in November.

Previously : March 2010 : Paul Thompson

For my second 24 hour comic, I decided to basically make it up as I went along, and experiment with dialogue free storytelling. I think the first half probably works quite well.

The girl with the eyepatch is called Gudrun, and at this time I didn't really know much about her. I'm now planning quite a few stories with her, and possibly she'll end up in something this weekend too.

The comic doesn't make a great deal of sense after the middle portion, but some bits of it are nice to look at, and it helped me figure out the kinds of ideas I liked working with in comics: contrasting fantastic occult and the mundane. Themes that cropped up in my Story a Day for May project too:

• Restructuring
• The Plumber
• Mr Roberts New Friends 

Previously : March 2010 : Jack Fallows

Back in March members of the Paper Jam Comics Collective and many others did a 24 hour comic organised by P.R.E.S.S. and Learning Revolution at the Tyneside Cinema.

One such member was Jack Fallows, who became increasingly and entertainingly terse as the evening became morning:

Jack ultimately went native within the cinema, hiding in the spaces between the walls, where, it was rumoured, beanbags could be found and potentially used to sleep on.

Nonetheless, Jack managed to produce the fantastically beautiful John Henry Split My Heart, which can be obtained, by YOU, from the Crumpet Time Shop for four of your United States Dollars.

It's lovely, look:

Previously on 24 Hour Comics Day : October 2008

My first 24 Hour Comic was in 2008 when myself and Ben Clark made comics in our respective homes, staying in touch with 24 Hour Comics community via the internet and phone.

It was a bleak and lonely experience in many ways, as reflected in the lighting in these pictures, but I was amazed to find that by 9am on Sunday I had a small selection of characters and a really nice story, but had completely ran out of felt tips, markers and every other means of producing marks on paper.

I'd originally intended it to end fairly badly for my cast, but the actual ending turned out to be quite romantic. Sleep deprivation I tells you. Ben has completed and published "The House on Murder Street", but my comic remains unfinished - mostly needing tidying up and lettering. I'd like to finish it some day. It was quite cute.