[hero heading=”Mark Monlux joins VizWorld.com as a contributor”]Mark Monlux, IllustratorMark Monlux will be joining VizWorld.com as a contributor, offering content and reviews that artists, cartoonists and anyone interested in both the practical and theoretical side of illustration and graphic arts will find both informative and entertaining. Mark regularly posts on his own site, which often features his online comic, The Return of Stickman, at http://www.markmonlux.blogspot.com/ To kick off Mark’s joining VizWorld, he has allowed us to post one of his works here.[/hero]

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The 24 Hour Comic Challenge 2010

On Saturday, October 2nd 2010, Comic Book Ink hosted the 24 Hour Comic Challenge. Attending the challenge for their second year were members of The CLAW. This would be my 4th 24 Hour Comic Challenge event. I’d completed the first two and fell short a few pages on the second. I was determined to complete the challenge.

The CLAW* uses the 24 Hour Comic Challenge as an opportunity to solicit contributions for its Student Scholarship Fund. Several members were offering to draw fans’ suggestions or even the fans themselves into their strips if they put forth a contribution. Many participated, so The CLAW collected more for its scholarship than ever before. I want to thank John Munn of Comic Book Ink for providing The CLAW this venue for our fundraiser.

My idea was to take a standard premise that I knew a lot of cartoonists would be drawing (the Zombie Apocalypse) and mash it up with a completely different topic (copyright law). So the visuals tell one story and the text is a different narrative. I wanted to see how close I could get the images and text to gel.

I almost completed the challenge. The sketches were done for all the pages and I only had three more pages to ink before my time ran out. Perhaps if I hadn’t given that interview, signed my book for a fan, talked with all my friends and fans that came in to wish me luck (and to support The CLAW), I might have finished.

I want to add a disclaimer: I am in no way an attorney. The information herein was off the top of my sleep-deprived head and wasn’t double-checked for accuracy (let alone spelling or grammar.) Anyone interested in copyright should not take this strip as a primary source of information, but should go towww.copyright.gov. Get the information straight from the source.

– Mark Monlux

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