With a good night's sleep behind me I'm now starting to recover from the marathon. What an amazing experience. The not-sleeping part, of course, was hard, but that's not very interesting. The part about writing and drawing more or less continuously for 24 hours was what was cool. I took an idea I had kicked around for a week or so last year (but never could figure out how to end), and just started working it. I just wrote and drew a page at a time until I got to the last ten, at which point I blocked out the beats for each remaining page lest I unintentionally produce a 23 or 25 page comic. It all worked surprisingly well.

Major learning experiences:

• I can be creative for 24 hours straight. Mind you there were about two hours there when I was just out of juice, and it shows, but I got my second wind and perked up.
• Dialog that sounds funny at 3am isn't.I got a little too clever with some of my writing, but all in all the actual situations that I thought were funny do hold up.
• I am a competent artist surrounded by greats. No complaints here. I can draw more than well enough to tell a story. But I was sitting next to Phil Foglio, a true great. Put me right in my place

All in all, I can't wait to do it again next year!

It's on the way. Sometime Tuesday I promise. Still recovering from a major sleep outage.

Whippersnappers is the tentative name for the book I produced at the marathon. I'll get around to scanning it in in a few days, then I'll post it on this site. There's a remote chance that I'll sell printed copies if there's enough demand.