Alex Heberling

My third 24 Hour Comic is finished! This time, I tried to tackled the webcomic variation of the 24HC, which is mentioned on Scott’s website as 100 panels in 24 hours, since many webcomics don’t follow traditional full-page format or sizes. I didn’t achieve this, but got 24 total strips out of it, and my panel count was 61, so I at least got over halfway there!

Each strip illustrates a “life lesson” or thought I’ve had, many of the humorous, and at the end I decided to title it “Alex’s Guide to a Life Well Lived”.  Each comic was drawn directly in Sharpie and colored with Photoshop.  I learned that if I ever wanted to do a side comic, this would be a good style to use.  I really like the look of the marker drawings colored, and these comics remind me a great deal of my Jigworthy days.  Some of these comics are actually based on scripts I had tucked away in case we did ever start doing Jigworthy again!

I quite enjoyed doing this comic, and especially liked that I didn’t go with a plot so much as a premise.  My first two 24HCs had plots, and it was frustrating near the end of both of them when I had already drawn everything I had in mind for the stories, but I still needed to pad parts of it with pages to reach the 24 page goal.  That wasn’t an issue at all with this comic;  the worst was when I was up to 22 strips, and was trying to think of more ideas for the last two, but it’s an entirely different kind of frustration.

I finished this comic with only five minutes left, so I was literally working up right up to the buzzer with this one.