The challenge: create an entire 24-page comic book in 24 consecutive hours. Hundreds of cartoonists have taken this challenge, turning out works that were amazing, amusing, or revelatory. Four-time Harvey Award and Eisner Award winner Scott McCloud, comicdom’s top theoretician and inventor of the 24-hour comic, explains the concept and presents nine of the best. Includes stories by Neil Gaiman, Al Davison, and more. Product Details * Pub. Date: April 2008 * Publisher: About Comics * Format: Paperback, 240pp * Sales Rank: 791, 377 * ISBN-13: 9780971633841 * ISBN: 0971633843 * Edition Description: Not Appropriate For Children Biography Novelist Neil Gaiman has sent a British businessman tumbling into a fantastic underworld and had a devil and angel comically conspiring to thwart the Apocalypse. He found his biggest success, though, in Death, Dreams and Destruction — and the four other similarly named siblings who controlled the reins of the human race’s emotional impulses in his graphic-novel series The Sandman, a wholesale rejuvenation of graphic fiction that had everyone from Tori Amos to Norman Mailer spinning with, yes, Delirium. Neil Gaiman Biography Neil Gaiman thought he wrote comic books. But a newspaper editor, of course, set him straight. Back when he was riding the diabolical headwinds of his popular series of graphic novels, The Sandman, the author attended a party where…