{"id":2548,"date":"2010-10-11T07:22:04","date_gmt":"2010-10-11T12:22:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/2010\/10\/11\/24-hour-comics-day-in-amsterdam\/"},"modified":"2025-02-09T08:59:46","modified_gmt":"2025-02-09T13:59:46","slug":"24-hour-comics-day-in-amsterdam","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/2010\/10\/11\/24-hour-comics-day-in-amsterdam\/","title":{"rendered":"24 Hour Comics Day in Amsterdam"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\nI missed it again this year, but the first weekend of October was <a href=\"http:\/\/www.24hourcomicsday.com\/\">24 hour comics day<\/a>, when cartoonists worldwide take the challenge to produce a full length comic (24 pages) in 24 hours. In Amsterdam it&#8217;s traditionally held in <cite>Lambiek<\/cite>, the world&#8217;s oldest comics shop still existing and <a href=\"http:\/\/lambiek.net\/24hourcomics\/index.htm\">2010 was no exception<\/a>. The idea for 24 hour comics came out of a conversation between Steve Bissette and Scott McCloud, the idea being to do a completely spontaneous comics. It&#8217;s a good exercise to losen up the drawing muscles, forcing you to not to think, but draw. Over at <a href=\"http:\/\/remcowetzels.blogspot.com\/\">Remco Wetzels&#8217; blog<\/a>, you can see what one participant came up with.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nThe video below was made by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.michaelminneboo.nl\/2010\/09\/dit-weekend-weer-24-hour-comics-day-bij-lambiek\/\">Michael Minneboo<\/a> and shows how this day went two years ago (only in Dutch, sadly):\n<\/p>\n<p><center><br \/>\n<embed src=\"https:\/\/blip.tv\/play\/AdT3YAI\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" width=\"480\" height=\"390\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" allowfullscreen=\"true\"><\/embed><br \/>\n<\/center><\/p>\n<p>\n(I almost had a heart attack watching this, as one of the artists seen in the background almost could be my twin: same build, similar face and such.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I missed it again this year, but the first weekend of October was 24 hour comics day, when cartoonists worldwide take the challenge to produce a full length comic (24 pages) in 24 hours. In Amsterdam it&#8217;s traditionally held in Lambiek, the world&#8217;s oldest comics shop still existing and 2010 was no exception. The idea [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[335,7],"tags":[1185],"class_list":["post-2548","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-amsterdam","category-comix","tag-24-hour-comics-day"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2548","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2548"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2548\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11104,"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2548\/revisions\/11104"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2548"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2548"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2548"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}