The first and last panel from my comic from 24 Hour Comic Day, ‘Secret Technology.’ It’s the first comic I’ve drawn in almost a year or two, and the longest comic I’ve done yet to date. It’s a bit amateurish in its paneling, but, I’m pretty proud of myself that I managed to do it.
These two panels side by side illustrate how absolutely grueling and painful 24 hours of straight drawing can be, and what kind of effect it has on one’s work. My pens ran out of ink, my knuckles were swollen and discolored, I was growing dizzy and anxious and crushed by the silence of everybody in the room ducking nose-deep in their work.
But, I am going to keep it that way, because, I think it’s better to loop people into what I was feeling when I was drawing it. That’s kind of the point of 24 Hour Comic Day.
Though, I do want to go back and re-ink the whole comic. I love the story and the pencils, but, the ink isn’t really up to par with what I would have liked. But, perhaps for the book.
