Talk:24-hour comic

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Should we maintain our own index of online 24-hour comics here? Scott McCloud's doesn't look like it's been updated for years.

Irrevenant July 7, 2005 12:23 (UTC)

I don't see how we could, since McCloud is the only authoritative source for identifying them. All we'd have would be an arbitrarily-selected (and potentially very long) list of pointers, which is contrary to the "Wikipedia is not a collection of links" principle. Tverbeek 7 July 2005 14:17 (UTC)

Should add the "hourly comic day" effort in the Similar challenges section? Link: http://hourlycomic.com/hourlycomicday.html Seems a pretty similar-minded idea, even if it differs on some crucial aspects (time, rules, focus)... Geno-Supremo (talk) 18:02, 16 March 2009 (UTC)

rule update

Article says "To be officially recognised as a "24 hour comic" or a "noble failure", the cartoonist is required to submit a copy of the resultant comic to Scott McCloud.", but http://scottmccloud.com/4-inventions/24hr/dare/index.html now says "When you're done, feel free to send me a photocopy (or link, in the case of webcomics), but it's no longer one of the rules". Any idea of when sending-copy-to-Scott was dropped from rules list? --EarthFurst (talk) 21:32, 26 June 2009 (UTC)

I can answer that one, but I probably shouldn't edit it in because I was directly involved. Starting with the first 24 Hour Comics Day, I arranged with Scott to collect them on his behalf, so that the 24 Hour Comics Day anthologies could be added. With the rise of that event, there came to be more 24 hour comics being produced than Scott or anyone else could reasonably review, unless it was part of a job. As such, when the 24 Hour Comics Day anthologies were ended after the third year, we arranged both for the existing archives to be donated to Ohio State University's library and for them to become the official receptacle of new 24-hour comics created on 24 Hour Comics Day. --Nat Gertler (talk) 03:21, 2 March 2010 (UTC)

Can someone please remove this rule from the page. Again, I cannot edit the page due to WP:COI concerns, but the link to Scott's rules above should suffice as evidence. --Nat Gertler (talk) 18:44, 5 October 2010 (UTC)

I waited for another editor to talk care of it, but none did. It's an outdated rule no longer in effect, and as it's unsourced and about Scott McCloud, it could be considered a BLP violation. With that justification, I am deleting the statement. If anyone has any real concerns about the WP:COI, please feel free to raise it with me. --Nat Gertler (talk) 01:47, 8 October 2010 (UTC)

Categorization

Given that this article deals largely with 24 hour comics events, it seems to me that it should be categorized with Category:Cartooning events. However, I have a large WP:COI on this and will not do that myself; I leave it to others to consider whether that is appropriate and, if so, to make that addition. --Nat Gertler (talk) 16:31, 21 December 2014 (UTC)

Factual fine-tuning

Thanks to Template:Ping for some recent expansion of the article. There are a couple of points where some rewording might hone the accuracy even further:

• "annual 24 Hour Comics Days (usually held in October), which have since spread to countries beyond the United States." - This makes it sound as though the initial one was US only, which is not the case. As you will see at this archive page, there were registered locations in the US, Canada, and South Korea; not the number of countries that the event now gets to boast, but enough to be officially "international".
• "All participants were requested to send their completed comic to McCloud, who (until after the first 24 Hour Comics Day) kept an archive of all completed 24-hour comics on his webpage." - Actually, starting with the first 24HCD, the comics done on 24HCD were to be sent to About Comics on McCloud's behalf (this allowed us to do the 24 Hour Comics Day Highlights books we published for the first three years.) Eventually, we made arrangements for the University of Ohio library (now the Billy Ireland Cartoon Library) to be the destination for the completed books, thus forestalling the filling of my closets and my eventual murder at the hands of an unnamed spouse.

--Nat Gertler (talk) 22:39, 15 July 2016 (UTC)

Europe and beyond

If I didn't have a COI on this page, I'd definitely be reworking the "Europe and beyond" header; what is "beyond" Europe depends on where one is standing, a very literal WP:POV situation. Let us not be Amerocentric. --Nat Gertler (talk) 21:43, 2 November 2016 (UTC)

Sources for Nat Gertler

Edits today eliminated my name from the running of the event, as a source apparently said it was About Comics -- which is also true, I ran the event for years from my position as the publisher of the About Comics line. If anyone would like to reinsert my name, here's a source. -- Nat Gertler (talk) 00:52, 6 May 2025 (UTC)

And now I bother checking the existing source... and it also names me. Curious. -- Nat Gertler (talk) 04:46, 6 May 2025 (UTC)

Restore my name

• What should be changed: I request the reversion of these two edits, which deleted my name from the article.
• Why it should be changed': This was an apparent revenge attempt (the IP only made edits removing statements about me from article, and is in range with an IP unhappy with my edits on another article.) The reasons stated for the deletions was a lack of sourcing, when this was a WP:LEDE matter of material sourced within the article, and the claim of "To match what the source information", when the source specifies "The event was founded in 2004 by Nat Gertler, publisher of About Comics." -- Nat Gertler (talk) 15:50, 9 May 2025 (UTC)

Template:Respond I have reviewed these proposed changes and suggest that you go ahead and make the proposed changes to the page. Valorrr ^{(lets chat)} 16:26, 21 May 2025 (UTC)