Izzy Challenge #5 available now

Izzy Challenge #5
50 States Jam: Izzy Tours America
16 page black and white digest book
Available in the online shop for $1.00 (no postage necessary)

Also available at these locations:

Chicago, IL: Quimby's
St. Louis, MO: Star Clipper
Columbia, MO: MU Bookstore, Get Lost Bookshop, Rock Bottom Comics

How it was done:

This book uses contributions from 50 artists from 50 different states to create a collaborative jam featuring Izzy the Mouse. The idea is that Izzy's touring America and in each of the 50 panels Izzy visits a different state.

I got the idea for this jam from a comedy improv game called slideshow. I translated the idea into book form in the following way:

Participants were also asked to keep to these guidelines:

• Keep content “all ages.”
• Non state specific content is ok.
• Selective erasing of Izzy is ok.
• Return the panel in a month.

I found participants in all kinds of ways, but the internet helped a lot. However, I did use the postal service to send panels around to participants in order to make sure everyone was from the state that they said they were from. Participants received a free copy of the completed book in exchange for their contribution. The project took about a year and a half to complete.



More sample pages are in the online store.

List of contributors:

Alabama - Kirk Creel
Alaska - Lee Post
Arizona - Keith O'Brien
Arkansas - Kenneth Siemens
California - Jeff Plotkin
Colorado - T. Motley
Connecticut - Isaac Cates
Delaware - Margaret Crosby
Florida - Mark Morehouse
Georgia - Jon Chad
Hawaii - Jon Murakami
Idaho - Steve Willhite
Illinois - Joshua W. Cotter
Indiana - Tom Cherry
Iowa - Brian Payne
Kansas - Dale Martin
Kentucky - Steven Doty
Louisiana - Jason Reeves
Maine - Michelle Souliere
Maryland - Michael Munshaw
Massachusetts - Larry Johnson
Michigan - Matt Feazell
Minnesota - Danno
Mississippi - Darren Schwindaman
Missouri - JB Winter
Montana - Jason Jam
Nebraska - Scott Stewart
Nevada - Aberrant Press
New Hampshire - Colin Tedford
New Jersey - Mike Storniolo
New Mexico - Danny Green
New York - DC McNamara
North Carolina - Mark McMurray
North Dakota - Jason Siebels
Ohio - Max Ink
Oklahoma - KC Green
Oregon - Justin Kelly
Pennsylvania - Steve Peters
Rhode Island - Jack Turnbull
South Carolina - J. Chris Campbell
South Dakota - Sarah Morean
Tennessee - Kevin Williams
Texas - Barry Rodges
Utah - Nick Perkins
Vermont - Mogan Pielli
Virginia - Brien Wayne Powell
Washington - Mark Campos
West Virginia - Raven Perez
Wisconsin - Tea Krulos
Wyoming - Gloria Pike

Thanks to everyone who helped me put this together!

A special thanks goes to pbwiki for hosting the jam site as it was being developed. (Visit their website to sign up for your own free wiki.)