450 ft. Long Comic Book

Artist Isabel Rucker recently created a 450 ft. long comic book titled Unfurling (most articles about the project mention it to only be 400 ft., but Rucker's own site has it at 450, so I'm going to go with her measurements). So, how did she go about making this gigantic comic you ask? Easy. She drew it all out on three 150 ft. rolls of paper and then placed the rolls in sequential order on the walls of an art gallery. Now, where she got such huge rolls of paper remains a mystery.



Her father, who has his own blog (how many of us have parents that are cool enough to have their own blog?), posted background info on how & why his daughter created the gigantic comic. Rather than try and paraphrase him here's a copy & past job...

"Unfurling” stretches over 400 feet long, is a foot high, and is drawn in black ink pen with watery washes. The comic panels vary in length (up to ten feet long) to mirror pauses, vast scenery, or thought patterns... The seven-year project began in 2002, when Isabel decided to free herself from the size of regular pieces of paper, canvas or sketchpad. She was living in a warehouse full of artists near the intersection of Cesar Chavez Street and Third Street in San Francisco at the time. She fell in love with a young man in Pinedale, Wyoming, and moved out there to live on a ranch with him—and a few years later they married... “Unfurling” describes Isabel’s journey from San Francisco to Wyoming."

(original article can be found here)

So if you're in the San Francisco area check it out here. It runs until November 27th.