SCAD students participate in 24-hour art challenge SCAD joins competition that spans 27 states and 14 countries in the international 24-hour Comics Day

ATLANTA (October 8, 2007) – The Savannah College of Art and Design-Atlanta will be buzzing on caffeine and creativity Oct. 19-20 during 24-hour Comics Day. Kicking off at 10 a.m., 1600 Peachtree St., students will settle in for the long day and night of creating, drawing, writing and more.
The goal for participants is to produce a completed comic product in
24 hours.

   The original intent of 24-hour Comics Day was to challenge a single artist to create a print-ready, 24-page comic book in a day. Because of last year's success at SCAD-Atlanta, this event will be open to all students, not just sequential art majors. Having this extra room for creative interpretation will likely yield varying results not limited to comic books.

   Pat Quinn, academic director at SCAD-Atlanta and comic book artist in his own right, explained the new format. "We've decided to expand it and make it interdisciplinary with each major having a challenge specific to the field," he said. "For example, animation will have the option to produce a finished maquette (a 3-D model of a character) or a 30-second animated film."

   SCAD sequential art sophomore Megs Glasscock anticipates the event will be "ridiculously awesome."

   "I've known about 24-hour Comics Day for years and I've always wanted to do it — now I've got the chance," she said.

   Participants will be supplied with coffee, sodas, munchies and art supplies made available through sponsors like Starbucks and Holbein art supplies, but the creative gusto is all up to the students.

   "I just hope the ideas flow," said Glasscock. "I'm afraid of drawing a blank or choking when I get there."

   To make things even more interesting, students are free to choose any project, not necessarily the one specific to their major. Glasscock, who regularly contributes comics to SCAD's student newspaper, will challenge herself by participating through her creative writing class by composing a short fiction narrative.

   For more information, e-mail egourgue@scad.edu.