24 hour comics aren't just for art students with nothing better to do. Some of the most respected folks on the professional comics scene have taken the challenge. And so we get 24 Hour Comics All-Stars, a book where all the cartoonists are established comics creators. Reading them, you not only get exciting comics, you also get to contrast the results with what the creator does in normal circumstances.

Contributors include:

• Scott McCloud, the inventor of the 24 hour comic, offers up the very first 24 hour comic ever done.
• Tone Rodriguez, artist of Violent Messiahs and Snake Plissken, brings us a sharply-rendered tale.
• Dave Sim, who spent decades creating the comics story of Cerebus the Aardvark, shows what he can do in 24 hours. (Mr. Roriguez and Mr. Sim are generously donating their shares of the proceeds from this book to ACTOR, a non-profit organization that helps comic creators who have fallen on hard times.)
• Paul Smith, X-Men and Leave It To Chance artist does a 24 hour anthology, telling six shorter tales
• David Chelsea spins his own anthology, including a tale of Mugg, star of the graphic novel Perspective! for Comic Book Artists.
• Tom Hart, who has been nominated for all the major awards in US comic books, tells a tale of unexpected ffection.
• John Peters unleashes a fun tale that could only be called Me and My Monkey: The Seven Pillows of Fate.
• Chris Eliopoulos explains why keen gifts sometimes come in small boxes.
• Sean McKeever, writer of the Marvel comic book Mary Jane, draw an eerie tale of an altered world