Comics Workshops! Displays! Education! and Jeff Smith! It's the 20th Annual 24 Hour Comics Day!

20th Annual 24 Hour Comics Day 2023 | Saturday and Sunday, October 7-8 | Noon to Noon | All Ages | FREE | Hybrid

20 Years of 24 Hours?  Yes, it's the 20th Annual 24 Hour Comics Day!  And we'll be celebrating from now through October!

24 Hours. 1440 Minutes. 86,400 Seconds.  24 Hour Comics Day is an annual international celebration of creativity!  The challenge is for participants to create a complete 24 page comic book in 24 consecutive hours. It's a creative exercise that will test your stamina while you explore what you're capable of!

 

7000 BC has partnered with the City of Albuquerque to bring you a months-long celebration of the comics medium culminating in 24 Hour Comics Day on Saturday and Sunday, October 7-8, 2023.  Get in the mood by joining us for one of our Albuquerque Library Workshops, or at our Between the Panels series of virtual Saturday morning comics workshops returning August 19th.  If you're a librarian, watch for professional development in August and September, or anyone can learn a bit about the history of comics and 24 Hour Comics Day with displays in September and October at the International District Library. Or join us September 16th, in person or virtually as we bring you Stephen McCranie (Space Boy, Mal and Chad) in a live interview with JEFF SMITH (Bone, RASL, Tuki, Yes, that Jeff Smith)!

That oughta get you ready to make some comics!  Then at Noon on October 7th, we'll begin making comics and we'll keep making them until Noon on October 8th (Mountain Daylight Time)!  We'll be there both virtually and in-person for community,  inspiration, free raffles, and support.  In-Person and Virtual Registration will be through Eventbrite beginning in late August.  We will need a parent or guardian's consent for minors.  Twelve and under require a parent or guardian be present.  Participants do not need to stay the entire time.  Meet fellow creators, be inspired, and challenge yourself to make a 24-page comic in 24 hours!

 

What's happening first?

Comics Workshop for Tweens

Taylor Ranch Branch Library

Saturday, July 29, 2023

10:30 AM  

 

How What Why Are Comics?
An introduction to what makes a comic a comic. A panel a panel. And a gutter a truly fascinating place to be!  Join us as we guide you through the fun of combining words and pictures to make your own comics in this fast-paced, hands-on workshop!

 

Questions? Please contact Jeff.
 

Stay safe, be well, and make comics!  We'll see you there!

24 Hour Comics Day 2022!

24 Hour Comics Day 2022 | Saturday and Sunday, October 1-2 | Noon to Noon | All Ages | FREE | Virtual

It's time for 24 Hour Comics Day 2022!

24 Hours. 1440 Minutes. 86,400 Seconds.  24 Hour Comics Day is an annual international celebration of creativity!  The challenge is for participants to create a complete 24 page comic book in 24 consecutive hours. It's a creative exercise that will test your stamina while you explore what you're capable of!

7000 BC takes the 19th annual 24 Hour Comics Day virtual on Saturday and Sunday, October 1-2, 2022.  Get in the mood by joining us for one of our Between the Panels comics workshops, any Saturday at 11:00 AM.  On October 1st, Bram Meehan will lead  Picturing Words in Drawings (Text and Image Interacting), covering essential skills to take your 24 Hour Comic to the next level!

At noon, the main event will begin!  We'll review the Official Rules and then we're off.  Throughout the event, we'll provide entertainment and inspiration, videos, music, free raffles every two hours, and a rotating cycle of in-progress images sent in by you, the participants.  There will be a community meal for anyone who wants to take a break  in the evening and chat a bit, and for those still hanging on in the morning there will be a BYO Breakfast Burrito.

 

Participants must register through Eventbrite which will allow you to join us on Zoom.  We will need a parent or guardian's consent for minors.  You do not need to stay the entire time.  Visitors are welcome.  Meet fellow creators, be inspired, have conversations when you want, work when you want, and challenge yourself to make a 24-page comic in 24 hours!

 

REGISTER HERE!

24 Hour Comics Day 2022
Saturday, October 1-2
Noon-Noon MST

 

Questions? Please contact Jeff.
 

Stay safe, be well, and make comics!  We'll see you there!

Makers Weekend - Comic & Zine Readings

Makers Weekend | Comic & Zine Readings | September 24, 2021 | All Ages | Virtual

 

Friday, September 24, 6:00 PM MST / 8:00 PM EST

COMIC AND ZINE READINGS!

Preview Makers Weekend with virtual comic and zine readings from 7000 BC, SAW, and Abq ZineFest!  Discover all of the Weekend's events, enjoy live local music from NoLa, and be there to launch the weekend's raffles.

Featuring Readings from Kevin Curley, Jessica Mills, Barry Sawicki, Meritt Penick, Karen Knighton, Kevin Rountree, Erin Fitzgerald, Kristen Loree & John Bartlit, Nathan Rackley, Nicole Morning, Jeff Benham & Annie Giannini.

 Barry Sawicki

 

To get email updates or if you know anyone who would like to participate in 24 Hour Comics Day, please share THIS LINK.

Stay safe, be well, and make comics!  We'll see you there!

Makers Weekend feat. 24 Hour Comics Day, Abq ZineFest, and Comic & Zine Readings

Makers Weekend featuring 24 Hour Comics Day, Abq ZineFest, and Comic & Zine Readings | September 24, October 2 - 3, 2021 | All Ages | Virtual

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Makers Weekend is more than a weekend!

This year, 7000 BC has partnered with Abq ZineFest, AIGA-NM, and Sequential Artists Workshop in Gainesville, Florida to create the second virtual Makers Weekend featuring comic and zine readings, live music, a comics workshop, raffles, zinesters, groggy cartoonists, 24 Hour Comics Day 2021, Abq Zinefest 10, and more!  Keep watching this page for updates.

Friday, September 24, 6:00 PM MST / 8:00 PM EST

MAKERS READINGS!

Preview Makers Weekend with virtual comic and zine readings from New Mexico and beyond!  Meet and greet with like-minded creators, be there to launch the weekend's raffles, and discover all of the Weekend's events.  A FREE, ALL-AGES EVENT!

 

Saturday, October 2, 11:00 AM - 12:30 PM MST / 1:00 - 2:30 PM EST

BETWEEN THE PANELS - Picturing Words in Drawings (Text and Image Interacting)

It's a new type of comic once you let the letters in.

7000 BC's comics workshop series will feature guest instructor Bram Meehan, covering essential skills to take your 24 Hour Comic to the next level!

 

Saturday, October 2, 11:00 AM - 6:00 PM MST / 1:00 - 8:00 PM EST

ABQ ZINEFEST!

ABQ Zine Fest is back! Sorta. This year’s fest will be virtual PLUS a pop-up shop in downtown Albuquerque for locals to buy zines and zine fest merch. 

Saturday, October 2-3, Noon-Noon MST / 2:00 PM - 2:00 PM EST

24 HOUR COMICS DAY 2021! 

A variety of scheduled activities will be on Zoom, including a community dinner break hosted by 7000 BC, SAW, AIGA-NM, and Abq Zine Fest, live music, free raffles every two hours, and a rotating cycle of in-progress images sent in by participants. Join in with fellow creators, be inspired, have conversations when you want, work when you want, and challenge yourself to make a 24-page comic in 24 hours.  We'll be on Discord and Zoom for the whole event.  You do not need to participate the entire time.  24 Hour Comics Day is a FREE, ALL-AGES EVENT!

You must register through Eventbrite for 24 Hour Comics Day!  You may want to log in a few minutes early to register.  You can log in to Discord or the Zoom waiting room at anytime.  The Zoom event doors will open precisely at noon.  If you're having any problems, please email jeff@7000bc.org.  We'll need a parent or guardian's consent for minors.

For the Eventbrite link, click HERE.  Zoom is for registration, events, entertainment, and raffles!

For the Discord link, click HERE.  Discord is for hanging out and sharing!

 

To get email updates or if you know anyone who would like to participate, please share THIS LINK.

Stay safe, be well, and make comics!  We'll see you there!

Summer 2021 at 7000 BC

Summer 2021 Workshops and Presentation |  June - July 2021 | Online and In-Person | FREE and Pay-What-You-Can

This summer we'll have plenty to choose from - virtual workshops for teens and adults, in-person workshops for tweens and up,  and the first of a series of collaborative events with AIGA!

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The Virtual Authors Festival: Visual Storytelling is this year's celebration of story that is presented annually by the Octavia Fellin Public Library.  The festival typically brings in 1500 participants for presentations and workshops from artists, filmmakers, poets, and authors to get your summer rolling with storytelling and creativity during the entire month of May.  All events are free and virtual, including a Between the Panels workshop.

We're excited to partner with AIGA-NM (American Institute of Graphic Arts) for the first of a series of events exploring where comics and design overlap and diverge.  This series will be presented through a variety of venues as it develops.

Thursday, May 27, 5:00 PM

You Call That A Comic? (Theme Showing Itself as Format)

The object that is your book.  How can it contain your ideas?  We explore the difference between plot and theme as we create book-like objects appropriate to your story.

Saturday, May 29, 3:00 PM

Translating Story to Image with 7000 BC and AIGA

Translating a written story into a visual language can be done in many different ways. In this panel discussion graphic designers, illustrators, and comics creators elaborate on different methods to translate stories.

2021 Authors Festival: Visual Storytelling

May 1 -29, 2021

Virtual

All Ages

Free

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7000 BC's Between the Panels comics workshops for teens and adults continue with Summer Shorts!  Summer Shorts is an abbreviated 8-week workshop series to keep you learning and creating throughout the summer.  Sharpen your pencils, roll out the virtual paper and get ready to draw upon your strengths.  Join us as we explore a storytelling medium like no other.

Registration is required.  Please note, workshop registration is through Eventbrite.

Pay-What-You-Can or make a donation to an organization helping those in need at this time.

Suggested Donation is $25/workshop.  Any amount $1 or more is fine.

Drop-in students are welcome!  Summer Shorts includes some workshops that are not available during the full Fall and Spring 16-week sessions.  If you register for all  8 Summer Shorts workshops, you will be invited to a free special event on Sunday, July 25 which will include a brief workshop and a critique session.

Between the Panels: Summer Shorts 2021

Saturdays, June 5 - July 24, 2021

11:30 am - 12:30 pm

Virtual

Teens and Adults

Pay-What-You-Can

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Summer Reading: Reading Colors Your World

7000 BC will bring 4 comics workshops for tweens and teens to Mesa Public Library in Los Alamos.  Join us for these fast-paced, one hour workshops and explore a storytelling medium like no other!

Reading Colors Your World Comics Workshops

June 12 - July 24, 2021

3:30 - 4:30 pm

Ages 10+

Free

Mesa Public Library, Los Alamos

7000 BC and Between the Panels workshops are supported by a generous grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities and the New Mexico Humanities Council.

GRIND: a collaborative exhibit & auction

GRIND: a collaborative exhibit & auction | Entry deadline: Friday, November 29 | Art Exhibition: Monday December 2–6, 2013 | Open House & Silent Auction: Friday December 6, 5:00 pm–8:00 pm | TechLove | 3901 Central Ave NE (the Corner of Central and Aliso Drive), Albuquerque, NM 87108



Enter your custom-crafted skate deck to be auctioned this December at AIGA New Mexico's 1st Annual GRIND: a collaborative skateboard art exhibit & auction.

Enter any interpretation of a skateboard — 3D, 2D, functional or non-functional, etc. Skateboards will be juried and selected skateboards will be part of the exhibition and silent auction. The entry form is here, and you can even get a deck by emailing AIGA NM.

Proceeds from the auction will benefit 7000 BC and the New Mexico chapter of AIGA, the professional association for design.