![]() ![]() Once I had a story I broke it down into 20 pages and made A6 thumbnails of each page. Getting the details wrong would really irritate me. We've spent a lot of time in Japan and I wanted to make it look convincing. I looked at a lot of Tokyo homes on AirBnb to make sure the interior of the house looked convincing and wandered up and down Tokyo suburbs on Google street view to find just the right kind of street I had in mind. My story was a mixture of The Sorcerer's Apprentice and The Cat in the Hat with a Japanese setting. My aim going into this was to finish and not to disgrace myself too much! I wanted to draw a street with crisscrossing electricity cables and knew that was an image I could have fun with and thought if I got a strong opening page at least I'd have achieved something! I'd have one page I could look back on fondly. I'd taken a photo in Japan back in March of a suburban street and I knew I wanted to do something using that as the springboard. I came up with a story (in the spirit of the marathon) as quickly as I could. The rules aren't quite as strict as the Angouleme/Scott McCloud model so you are allowed to prepare in advance. It's organised every year by Dan Berry who also takes part (because, y'know, he hasn't got enough stuff to do!). ![]() Last year's marathon produced some fantastic comics but it was seeing how enthused every was after the event that made me think I wanted to take part. I watched from the sidelines last year and wondered if it was something I could ever do. It was the Lakes International Comic Art Festival last month and along with it the 24 hour comics marathon.
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