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Public domain hero spotlight : Octobriana

Who is Octobriana ?

Started as a twisted Czech mystification (with Peter Sadeky), reborn as a UK sensation (linked with David Bowie), labelled as spy, rebellious soul, She-devil ... this is Octobriana!

Octobriana is public domain, which means she's copyright free and everyone can create his own version.
And indeed, you can see Octobriana in all shapes and forms (as adult comic, anime, manga, cartoon, pixel-art, in movies, music clip, video game (or maybe not), ... ) beware though because many of her reinvention should be tagged NSFW.



Octobriana is a good starting point for comic artists in lack of inspiration for their comics, very much like Jenny Everywhere ; she seems to be unfortunately confined for the underground borderline adult comics - not for the mainstream.

A selection of links for Octobriana

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Octobriana
http://octobriana.wikinet.org/
http://octobriana.org/
http://octobrianacz.blogspot.com/
http://www.reddit.com/r/octobriana
http://www.tumblr.com/tagged/octobriana

Beware because Octobriana keeps coming back every now and then, re-emerging from the depth of the underground comics layer of the web. Mysteriously.

Other public domain characters

http://comicbookdb.com/team.php?ID=892

24h comics

24-Hour Comics Day is an event held around the world which challenges writers and artists to create a full 24-page comic in 24 consecutive hours.

This dare was introduced by Scott Mc Cloud in 1990


More information at 24hourcomicsday

Of course you can do this dare any day you want - but every year (usually in October) there are organized challenges over the World - check twitter.com/24hcdgr  

This Year 2012, it's October, 20th.

Note this dare will push you to the limit (both physically and  mentally) - after you get the topic you'll have to invent a story, write the dialogs, then draw 24 pages continuously -  and to tell the truth in the end, you will feel very shaky, delirious and probably hungry. But the feeling of having made a full 24 pages comics is overwhelming.

Some 24h comics samples :
http://www.sarahgasser.ch/index.php?/comic/24h-comic/
http://herebemongoose.blogspot.com/2010/03/happy-easter-bunnies-story.html
http://letsgetadditives.blogspot.com/2011/10/curse-of-24h-comics.html
http://24hcomicinstudiokamsterdam.blogspot.com/
http://12forever.blogspot.com/2010/03/24h-comics.html
http://www.lulu.com/shop/search.ep?keyWords=24-Hour%20Comics

A special mention for this guy (Alec Longstreth) - who has made it 10 times!
http://www.lulu.com/shop/alec-longstreth/24x7-a-decade-of-24-hour-comics/paperback/product-6515737.html

Impressive!

Final note it seems that the French have done better ... http://23hbd.com/