# Comic jam > Mediated Wiki article. Canonical URL: https://mediated.wiki/source/Comic_jam > Markdown URL: https://mediated.wiki/source/Comic_jam.md > Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comic_jam > Source revision: 1353829013 > License: Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/) {{Short description|Collaborative creative process by comics artists}} {{One source|date=May 2007}} A '''comic jam''' is a creative process where one or more comics artists collaborates on drawing or painting one single [comic](/source/comic). Often the process is that one artist creates the first page, and then another artist creates the second, and a third does the next, and so on. There is no script that the artists work from, and the content of the comics is improvised. Any given artist working on a comic jam makes a page based solely on what happened on the previous page. Variations include each artist contributing a single panel, or set of two or three panels, and then passing it on to the next participant. The cartoonists of the seminal underground anthology ''[Zap Comix](/source/Zap_Comix)''Fox, M. Steven. [http://comixjoint.com/zapcomix1-1st.html "Zap Comix #1"], ComixJoint. Accessed Oct. 21, 2016. were known for contributing a jam comic to each issue of ''Zap'' from around issue #3 onward. == Notable examples == * ''Jam-Jar!'' (San Francisco Comic Book Company, 1972) — Larry Bigman, [Scott Shaw](/source/Scott_Shaw_(artist)), David Gibson, John Pound, Roger Freedman, Phil Yeh * ''Zam'' (''Zap Jam'') (Print Mint, 1974) — a whole comic featuring the seven-member ''[Zap Comix](/source/Zap_Comix)'' collective: [Gilbert Shelton](/source/Gilbert_Shelton), [Robert Crumb](/source/Robert_Crumb), [Spain Rodriguez](/source/Spain_Rodriguez), [S. Clay Wilson](/source/S._Clay_Wilson), [Victor Moscoso](/source/Victor_Moscoso), [Rick Griffin](/source/Rick_Griffin), & [Robert Williams](/source/Robert_Williams_(artist)) * ''[The Spirit](/source/The_Spirit_(character))'' #30 (Kitchen Sink, July 1981) — script and a few penciled pages by [Will Eisner](/source/Will_Eisner), with contributions from 50 artists, including [Fred Hembeck](/source/Fred_Hembeck), [Trina Robbins](/source/Trina_Robbins), [Steve Leialoha](/source/Steve_Leialoha), [Frank Miller](/source/Frank_Miller), [Harvey Kurtzman](/source/Harvey_Kurtzman), [Howard Cruse](/source/Howard_Cruse), [Brian Bolland](/source/Brian_Bolland), [Bill Sienkiewicz](/source/Bill_Sienkiewicz), [John Byrne](/source/John_Byrne_(comics)), and [Richard Corben](/source/Richard_Corben) * ''[Heroes for Hope](/source/Heroes_for_Hope)'' (Marvel Comics, 1985) * ''[Heroes Against Hunger](/source/Heroes_Against_Hunger)'' (DC Comics, 1986) * ''[Sisterson](/source/Sisterson)'' (London, c. 1990) * ''[The Narrative Corpse](/source/The_Narrative_Corpse)'' (Gates of Heck, 1995) ==See also== *[Exquisite corpse](/source/Exquisite_corpse) *[Reanimated collaboration](/source/Reanimated_collaboration) ==References== {{Reflist}} ==External links== * [http://www.comicjams.net/ "Comicjams.net"], the oldest and largest website for online comic jams Category:Comics terminology Category:Collaborative fiction {{comics-stub}} --- Adapted from the Wikipedia article [Comic jam](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comic_jam) by Wikipedia contributors ([contributor history](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comic_jam?action=history)). Available under [Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/). Changes may have been made.