This information is for retail stores, libraries, schools, community centers and any other organizations which are interested in inviting artists to take the 24-Hour Comics Day Challenge at their locations.
2024 24-Hour Comics Day is either online and/or in person.
REGISTRATION
To sign up as a 24-Hour Comics Day venue, your event should cover some portion of the official event date. Your event can start on Friday and end Saturday, or start on Saturday and end Sunday, so long as some of your event hours take place on the official 24-Hour Comics Day. (If your venue has scheduling issues, let us know–exceptions have been made in previous years to include schedule changes.)
Hosts of official 24-Hour Comics Day events have access to several resources:
- You can become an author on the 24HCD Facebook page and/or website and post event details and flyers before your event. You can post pictures and videos during 24-Hour Comics Day and wrap-up reports after your event has ended.
- You can join the 24HCD online Facebook Group. This group was started by JF Koh, in order for hosts to gather together and help each set up online forums in 2020-2021 during the covid-19 pandemic.
- You can access Host Resources to help you prepare for your event, advertise your event, and find local sponsors to donate items to enhance your event!
- You are eligible to receive supporting emails and information from ComicsPRO, the comic book retailer trade association which provides administration for 24-Hour Comics Day.
- Your event listing will be made available at this website, which is promoted across the US and Canada before 24-Hour Comic Book Day!
IN-PERSON
Please follow all local guidelines for participant protection. If you don’t think that you can run an event that will keep all your attendees safe from Covid-19 exposure, or any other type of harmful experience, please run the event virtually via an online video-sharing platform.
ONLINE
To run 24-HCD online, you must use an online, video-sharing platform like Zoom. You can use any online platform you would like.
We recommend that you join a Facebook group that was created to help hosts get online. https://www.facebook.com/groups/24hour.comics.
In this group, you can get guidance from other hosts to make sure that you are creating the best online experience for your participants.
Here’s some popular alternatives for hosting an event. (Note: This information was compiled in 2020. Prices and features might have changed since then).
Facebook Rooms (under Facebook Groups):
– Free.
– Limited to 50 people per Room.
– No limit to number of Rooms you can create in a Group.
– No time limit.
– Facebook users can join by clicking on a Room.
– Non-Facebook users can be invited to join by using a link.
– No chat box for texting in a Room, but you have group discussions.
– Can do screen-sharing.
– Use on computers or smart phones.
– The easiest way to use Facebook Rooms is by joining the “24-Hour Comics Day Online” group, and then creating your own Room for your time zone or joining an existing Room: https://www.facebook.com/groups/24hour.comics
– Limited to 100 participants.
– 40 minute time limit.
– You can set up as many Zoom meetings as you need to cover the entire 24 hours, but then you will need to invite participants for each meeting.
– Has a chat box for texting.
– Can do screen-sharing.
– Invite people by giving them a link.
– Use on computers or smart phones.
– No Zoom account needed to join.
– No time limit.
– Has a chat box for texting.
– Can do screen-sharing.
– Invite people by giving them a link.
– Use on computers or smart phones. –
No Zoom account needed to join.
– Free.
– Host and participants must have a Google/Gmail account, which is free.
– Limited to 100 participants.
– Limited to 1 hour per meeting.
– You can set up as many meetings as you need to cover the entire 24 hours.