A One-hour comic.

gazorenzoku · Post by **gazorenzoku** » Mon Nov 04, 2002 6:29 am

Looks great. What software/tool did you use to make those lines?

gazorenzoku · Post by **gazorenzoku** » Mon Nov 04, 2002 11:24 am

I should be resting, but I just couldn't stay away. Ideas just kept running through my head and I couldn't sleep until I did something. Not exactly sure what I did, but hey, I'm down with a flu, so there you have it...

http://www.gazorenzoku.com/one_hour_07.html

Now maybe I can get some sleep so I can wake up early and go to the hospital so the drug dealer there can prescribe me some drugs... I used to be all critical of the pharmasutical (sp?) industry's link with hospitals and doctors, but now I'm all about getting doped up on some meds!

JFist@work · Post by **JFist@work** » Mon Nov 04, 2002 12:01 pm

Was that the face of the flu? Yikes. Evil indeed. Good show for a sick man!

I used Fireworks, btw. It was another cast-off rfmo teh journalism school. I used it for the moer painterly comic last week too. I'm just starting to experiment with that one.

Jason Alderman · Post by **Jason Alderman** » Tue Nov 05, 2002 4:35 pm

Bill, I seriously dig the mullet. (That comic made me laugh out loud.) Vince--get better soon!

No comic this week, but another ol' office doodle from a meeting. This time, I had Dave Matthews, bowling, and bad Korean transliterations on the brain.
http://comics.huah.net/ontheburner/kbdmg1030sm.jpg
Hey, whatever keeps me awake...

jason

Surlyben · Post by **Surlyben** » Fri Nov 08, 2002 12:29 am

Late this week, due to technical difficulties. I deleted the file after I finished it...

As always, it's on the front page of www.contretemps.net

Ben

losttoy · Post by **losttoy** » Fri Nov 08, 2002 9:09 pm

cool shit there Ben ... I have plenty of friends who buy goth boots, so know exactly where this comic comes from. Kudos.

losttoy · Post by **losttoy** » Sat Nov 09, 2002 8:38 pm

After a two week absence, I have drawn another One-Hour-Comic. I have to admit that I went over my time so it was closer to one hour and fifthteen minutes. Sorry, but frankly the quality is worth it. I am very happy because this is the first comic where I took advantage of the web's infinate canvas. Sure it is only horizontal, but it is my first time. I hope you enjoy it.

http://www.geocities.com/dalosttoy/one.html

indybuda · Post by **indybuda** » Sat Nov 09, 2002 10:49 pm

Umm... I'm here because of japanimationfist and was wondering a coupla things...

First, do the one hour comics have to be digital?

And secondly, when/where are the topics for the week posted?

When do I start?

Sorry, but this is a super long thread. I'll be going through it to see the ones I've missed, I was just hoping for a quicker-type response.

thanks!

gazorenzoku · Post by **gazorenzoku** » Sat Nov 09, 2002 11:01 pm

Here are answers based upon my observation of this forum thread:

1) The comics do not have to be digital.

2) There don't seem to be any weekly topics, though if someone wants to propose a topic and other people want to draw something on that topic that is ok.

3) We are setting Sunday as our general comic posting day, but really any day is fine. After you put your comic up online, just leave a note here that you have done so, preferably with a link.

Hope to see yours soon!!

Vince

Surlyben · Post by **Surlyben** » Sun Nov 10, 2002 4:50 am

Here's a list of everyone who's done one so far, and links to their comics. Let me know if I've missed any...

Jason Alderman
http://huah.net/jason/comics/ontheburner/hunger.gif
http://huah.net/jason/comics/ontheburner/1hrcomic.gif
http://huah.net/jason/comics/ontheburner/dead1.gif

gazorenzoku (Vince Coleman)
http://www.gazorenzoku.com/one_hour_comics.html (seven of them so far)

Bjorn Kristinsson
http://www.hi.is/~bjornkri/1hcomic/

Jack Masters
http://castlezzt.net/stuckitw/

japanimationfist (Bill Duncan)
http://japanimationfist.keenspace.com/bd1hourp1.html
http://www.dunktank.ca/onehourcomix.html (seven of 'em so far)

losttoy (David Ano)
http://www.geocities.com/dalosttoy/one2.html (three on this page)
http://www.geocities.com/dalosttoy/one.html

Randy Oest II
http://www.subatomiccafe.com/comics/one ... nings.html

reinx
http://www.flyservers.com/members/partypad.net/ant.html
http://www.partypad.net/lanternlight/comic1.html

Surlyben (Ben Bittner)
http://www.contretemps.net (seven of them so far)

Jason Turner
http://www.strongmanpress.com/smalls/hourhat.html

Wikket (Ben Brockert)
http://www.wikkit.com/Cartoon.jpg
http://www.wikkit.com/tmbg.jpg
http://www.wikkit.com/spider.jpg

Yingo
http://homepage.mac.com/yingo/.Pictures ... coffee.jpg (dead link?)

gazorenzoku · Post by **gazorenzoku** » Sun Nov 10, 2002 6:14 am

wow!

vince

japanimationfist · Post by **japanimationfist** » Sun Nov 10, 2002 5:46 pm

Wow! I take a weekend off, and look what happens!?

David, your comic great! You have to tell me how you got the side scrolling canvas at such a decent file size.

Chris, welcome aboard! It's good to have another with us!

Ben!? What can I say? You are thorough as anything. Thank you for putting things together. That's terrific!

I will try to do one this week at some point, but I decided to take the weekend off and concentrate on the graphic novel project (some of my panesl really suck right now... If I have time ebfore the end of the month I may do some pages over again).

Catch y'all soon.

losttoy · Post by **losttoy** » Mon Nov 11, 2002 12:53 am

japanimationfist wrote:David, your comic great! You have to tell me how you got the side scrolling canvas at such a decent file size.

Thank you. I wrote the poem a while ago and when you did that water one-hour it inspired me that I should do an artistic comic like that.

The comic is 40 inches wide, but only 2.5 inches high and only 198k. I drew it in Photoshop and saved it as a .gif which I have learned will lower the image file size. By choosing Index color instead of RGB you lower the amount of colors from thousands to 216.

Good luck on your graphic novel, Bill!

gazorenzoku · Post by **gazorenzoku** » Mon Nov 11, 2002 1:44 am

While gif files are supposed to be smaller, I've noticed that in some rare cases a jpg file is actually smaller and downloads faster. I have no idea why this is.

When I save my files for the internet, I always use the save files for web option in Photoshop (I don't know the real English name of this option since I am using a Japanese language version of Photoshop, but it is the option after "save with name" in the file menu).

This option always shows the file size and projected download time (based on what kind of internet connection I do not know) for each file saved. Most of the time gif files are smaller, but in some cases the jpg files were smaller when saved at standard quality (highest quality sometimes was bigger than the gif file size). Who knows why?

Anyhow, the indexed color thing is definitely the way to go. I think that the save to web or save for the web option automatically indexes the colors when using gif files. It even gives a little chart showing what colors are being used. But I think you can also opt for including the full rgb gamut of colors, though I have no idea why you would want to do this...

vince

Surlyben · Post by **Surlyben** » Tue Nov 12, 2002 12:34 pm

My latest: http://www.contretemps.net/archives/200 ... 11202.html

I think that I am finding it increasingly difficult to stick to the one-hour limitation. I'm not really sure I much care, though, since the point for me is to get me drawing comics... Anyway, this one is about a robot.

Post by **Greg Stephens** » Tue Nov 12, 2002 12:56 pm

Great use of "infinite canvas" layout.

gazorenzoku · Post by **gazorenzoku** » Tue Nov 12, 2002 5:24 pm

nice!

japanimationfist · Post by **japanimationfist** » Wed Nov 13, 2002 6:52 am

What he said! Very nice Ben. I guess we better get the lead out this weekend

japanimationfist · Post by **japanimationfist** » Sun Nov 17, 2002 8:54 am

As I said, it's time to get the lead out. I'm getting down to business in just a few minutes. I'll be back in a little over an hour with more one hour wackiness. In the meantime, if you happen to check in, you can check out what I did in 2 and a half hours yesterday here

I'll be back.

Surlyben · Post by **Surlyben** » Sun Nov 17, 2002 9:08 am

I like that one...

japanimationfist · Post by **japanimationfist** » Sun Nov 17, 2002 9:58 am

Thanks Ben, and now I am back with my latest, inspired by your monster rampage last week (though it's a little more fluffy).

http://www.dunktank.ca/neverbeendone.html

Surlyben · Post by **Surlyben** » Sun Nov 17, 2002 10:51 am

Cool. I was expecting a different endiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiing.

I just finished my so-called one-hour comic too. It's "so-called" because while I drew it between 3:30 and 4:00AM (pencil) and 7:00 and 7:30 AM (ink), I still have to scan it, and I'm going to spend probably a couple of hours coloring and stitching it together. (and don't think there won't also be some post-production touching up...

)

I like to think of it as being like the Dogme95 filmmakers, who have moved further and further from their manifesto as the years and films go by. Otherwise, I'd have to think of it as cheating

I should have it posted some time tomorrow, after I get done working for the week.

japanimationfist · Post by **japanimationfist** » Sun Nov 17, 2002 12:20 pm

I'm good with that Ben. I think that we can play around with the format... we're making up our own rules after all. The spirit is what counts. I just think that it's great that we get together like this and make comics for no other reason than to get together and make comics

To be honest, I wouldn't mind taking my comics from this week a bit further... I had something else in mind, but had other stuff I wanted to do this morning. Maybe I'll go back to it this week (yeah, right).

InkAddict · Post by **InkAddict** » Tue Nov 19, 2002 11:25 pm

Yingo
http://homepage.mac.com/yingo/.Pictures ... coffee.jpg (dead link?)

Yes and no

As Mac has canceled their free homepages, I'm working on a site of my own where I will post my artwork "regularly" (hemm...hem...)

So for now you only have to thank God for coffee...

(Still a nice title, though

)

Zwol.org

A One-hour comic.

Mullets rule.

Robot!!! ARRR!!!