UPDATED WITH NEW INFORMATION:

NEW ITEM! We have signup sheets available in-store for people who want to sign up ahead of time! As long as we have space available, we will allow people to show up at the time of the event, but to reserve your space, sign up now!

NEW ITEM! We welcome our customers who are under 18 to this event, but if you are under 18, you must pick up a copy of a signup form and return it to the shop with the signature and contact information of a parent or guardian! Parents, if you have any questions, please contact the store at (919) 967-4439!

NEW ITEM! For everyone who completes the 24-Hour Comic Challenge (24 pages in 24 hours), Lulu.com will provide a professionally printed copy of their comic!

NEW ITEM! For everyone who completes the 24-Hour Comic Challenge (24 pages in 24 hours), Chapel Hill Comics will provide a prize pack, including your choice of color and size of a Chapel Hill Comics T-Shirt!

Chapel Hill Comics is proud to announce that this year, we will be one of the hosts for 24 Hour Comic Day 2006! We’ll start things off with some information from 24 Hour Comics Headquarters:

What is a 24 hour comic?
It’s a challenge: one cartoonist tries to create a full 24 page comic, normally months of work, in 24 straight hours.

What is 24 Hour Comics Day?
It’s an international celebration of comics creation. Cartoonists all over take the challenge of trying to create a 24 page comic story in 24 straight hours.

Sound like fun? We think so, too. Here are the details for 24 Hour Comics Day!

• The Place: Chapel Hill Comics!
• The Date: Saturday, October 7 through Sunday, October 8, 2006.
• Doors will open at 10:00 am.
• Work on the comics is scheduled to begin at 10:30!
• The workspace will remain open until 1:00 pm on Sunday, but we definitely recommend getting started and finished by our recommended start time (10:30 am), since the Festifall street fair will be starting at 1 pm on Sunday.

If staying up all night creating a comic is your idea of fun, we’d be happy to have you! Here’s what we’ll provide:

• The event will be staffed at all times by Chapel Hill Comics staff, as well as the fine folks at Lulu.com, everyone’s favorite print-on-demand publisher.
• We will provide space, tables, and chairs for people to work on their comics.
• Chapel Hill Comics and Lulu.com will provide snacks and drinks, both caffeinated and non-caffeinated!
• We’ll provide a selection of basic drawing supplies, but you’ll want to bring the good stuff (your favorite drawing implements and paper) yourself.
• We’ll be working with Lulu to make copies of all comics created at the event to send to 24 Hour Comics headquarters.

And here’s what we’ll need from you:

• Let us know you’re coming: Email me at neal@chapelhillcomics.com to let me know that you’re interested in participating. We have a limited amount of space available and will announce if all seats are filled.
• Art Supplies! Like I said before, we’ll provide basic art supplies, but you’ll need to bring the stuff you like to draw with to make sure you’ve got it!
• Food and drink! Like I said before, we’ll be providing food and drink, but if you want to bring what you like to make sure you’ve got it, feel free! Snacks, sodas, coffee, and energy drinks are all fine!
• Transportation! We’re not worried about you getting here, but we don’t want anyone driving themselves home after staying up all night. For those of you who don’t live within walking distance or who can’t arrange a ride, we will be able to provide some people with rides home. We’ll have more information on this as we get closer to the date, and will work out the store-assisted rides home to go out before the start of Festifall.

I think we’re going to have a great time, and I hope a lot of you will join us for the event and make your attempts at drawing a 24-page comic in 24 Hours! We will have more information on the event as we get closer to the date, but feel free to email us if you have any questions in the meantime!

Thanks,
Andrew Neal
Chapel Hill Comics