Alex Heberling

I completed my 4th 24 Hour Comic on December 4th, 2008 at 7:17 PM.  This piece was done on the premises of OSU’s quarterly Art & Tech show, Locovore Bot, in Haskett Hall on Ohio State campus.  I began it the night before the opening reception, on the 3rd, in order to complete it during the show’s opening.

I had my setup on a granite platform on the second floor of Haskett, complete with my computer and a cot to sleep on.  For the first 12 hours or so, I was sitting directly on the granite slab, sometimes on a blanket, which believe it or not is not particularly comfortable.  The whole experience left my legs and back extremely sore.

(Photo credit: Amy Youngs)

I had a few false starts with this comic, initially intending to do an artist statement in comic form, summarizing my college experience.  After a couple pages of that, I got bored with it, so a few hours later I started a really stupid comic about unicorns being turned into jerky.  Which I recognized was a completely terrible idea.

Chris suggested I write these false starts into the overall comic, and do something more meta, so I ended up basically documenting the things that happened during my performance piece, such as an encounter I had with the vending machine on the first floor in the wee hours.  This was a much more successful approach, since after three 24 Hour Comics, I’m pretty dry on ideas for short form story comics.

So it’s basically the documentation of my performance in comic form, with some small embellishments.  This will probably be my last 24 Hour Comic until 24HC Day next year, so I have some time to generate more ideas.

Read It.