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Local cartoonist Kevin Woolridge is participating in 24 Hour Comic Day — the annual challenge to create 24 consecutive comic pages in 24 consecutive hours — for the first time this year.

The first one happened in 2004, but the idea has been kicking around for a long time.

Anyway, we found out he was working on it, so I asked him what he’s working on, and how he’s doing so far.

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Kevin:  For me this challenge is really about breaking my own mold.

I’ve been drawing the characters in The Little World for about 5 years now and lately that’s all I’ve been drawing. The characters in that strip are all made of basic geometric shapes, pretty easy to draw. So much, in fact, that a little girl at AAMP’s Artfusion a few weeks ago sat at my table with her notebook and started drawing the characters herself. It was really cool.

So I decided to do this 24 hour comic in a completely different style. I’m very much making the whole thing up as I go along, and I have no idea where it’s going to end up.

We’ll see where the next 19 hours take it.

Page 2 of Kevin Woolridge’s Staff of Ra.

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Some of Kevin’s tweets from today:

24 hour comic day. hour one. slept in. oh dear.

hour two: one page done. not sure if i’m fully prepared for this.

hour three: this is hard to do when you’re at home. second page done. i have no idea where this is going.

Hour four: takin a break to eat. i don’t care if it’s against the rules. man’s gotta eat.

hour five: pizza eaten. pencil drawing. pen waiting.

hour six, i think: four pages done. damn that hour i took for lunch. having my first monster energy drink. no bawls in the goulds.

hour seven: wait, no way it’s been that long. that’s weird. oh well. just keep drawing. just keep drawing.

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