Other books by Adam David

The El Bimbo Variations

SAIS
(as editor)

City Lights
(as editor)


 
 
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 Some Explanation, Just In Case
Calling this a “24-hour comic book” is probably misleading, but only by
a bit: this comic book began as a 24-hour comic book but ended up being
a four-part 24-hour comic book instead. I still call it a 24-hour comic
book as it was done with that goal in mind, and the book is still very
much in the spirit of the project.

Drawing was done straight to Photoshop because it’s more economical

materials-wise, and I wanted to do zipatone effects on it. The impetus for
the project came from one of Yoko Ono’s film ideas: make a travelogue
using idiosyncratic visuals (ie, hair blowing against an electric fan, feet
flirting under the sheets, toy dog barking) instead of using the usual
visuals of places and landmarks and whatnot, and dub it over with a
narrator talking about the trip. That, and of course, Scott McCloud’s 24-
hour comic book challenge.

I’ve been kicking around concepts for Ono’s initial idea for four years now,
an idea which to me sounded very much like comic book storytelling a la
Eddie Campbell’s ALEC books (even the expository bits of BACCHUS),
and I’ve been itching to do another 24-hour comic book since the last
one I did back in 2002, which was a proper 24-hour comic book in that
I worked on it for twenty-four hours but only cost me about twelve pages
(the story took only that long to be told).

I put the two hankerings together and came up with THE LONG
WEEKEND.

Work on Chapters One to Five began at 8AM and ended at 12PM on

the 12th of July, 2008. Chapters Six to Nine were done from 9:20AM to
7:39AM on the 16th to the 17th of July, 2008. Chapters Ten to Twelve
were done between 4PM and 11:45 AM on the 20th and 21st of July,
2008. Chapter Thirteen began at 11AM and ended at 12:45 PM on the
23rd of July, 2008. The process was on and off. Rests were made between
chapters.

– Adam David