Welcome to the Singapore 24 Hour Comics Day

The next Singapore 24 Hour Comics Day will be on a Saturday in Oct 2013. The exact date will be announced some time in June 2013. Be the first to know. Follow us on our mailing list. The last Singapore 24 Hour Comics Day was on Saturday, 20 Oct 2012, at Bukit Merah Public Library. Read the comics.

What is 24 Hour Comics Day?

24 Hour Comics Day is a fun and creative marathon event that has taken place in many countries every year since 2004. Thousands of creators all over the globe have challenged themselves to each create 24 pages of comics in 24 hours.

Since 2010, a group of writers and artists in Singapore has been taking part in this creative challenge every year.

Tired by happy at the end of the very first 24 Hour Comics Day in Singapore, 3 October 2010. Beautiful photo by our friend, the talented lens-for-hire Kit Mun.

Why take on this challenge?

Lots of people want to do their own comics, but they keep putting it off.

When people take on this challenge, they have to let go of something in order to do so many pages in so little time. What that something is, let's call it procrastination, or perfectionism, or analysis paralysis. Whatever we call it, it's the thing that's stopping us.

Behind that compulsion to either create something perfect or else not at all, there is the fear of looking bad, of being criticized by others, of being judged. In fact, before anyone starts criticizing us, many of us will start criticizing ourselves first!

If we don't confront whatever is stopping us, we will never get anything done.

So this is really an opportunity to practise letting go of that fear. It is more of a mental challenge than a skills challenge.

Acknowledgements

Singapore 24 Hour Comics Day 2012 is supported by:

Venue support:

Prizes and souvenirs:

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