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Vancouver Comic Jam

Monday, July 21st, 2008 | Uncategorized | No Comments

Two panels from the July Vancouver Comic Jam

Hey there house guests! On the third Saturday of every month the Vancouver Comic Jam meets in the loft of a japanese restaurant in Vancouver to kick back, drink some alcohol, meet some new people, eat some food (I highly suggest the Sonna Banana for dessert), and draw collaborative comics (jam).

A jam is simply drawing the first panel of a comic and passing it along to the next person to draw what they will. That’s really the only rule. Well, and ink what you draw, pencil drawings are pretty hard to see in low light.  It’s a great experience to see where your idea is taken and where you can take an idea.

There are no censors, and there is no code of conduct so the innocent hobo cat with a talking hat is often not so innocent by the end of the page. But that’s how it goes, sometimes a story stays clean and sometimes it’s dirty. Sometimes there is a logical progression while sometimes it’s a non sequitur disaster by the time the last panel is drawn. It’s all good.

Check out the Jam from July.

The Vancouver Jam is by no means the first, it might have started in Montreal and spread from there, but there’s Jam’s held all over the place. (Too lazy to list them but search for comic jam or drink ‘n draw plus your nearest city and something’s bound to turn up.) If there isn’t one in your town, why don’t you start one? All you need are two people, a piece of paper, and some pens. It usually snowballs from there.

Tags: Comic Jam, Comics, Vancouver