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What You'll Need:

For a basic Comic Art Battle, all you'll need are:
2 Easels (for around $15 at any office or art supply store, you can't beat a collapsible wood easel for supporting your drawing surface)
2 Large Drafting Boards w/clips (around $5 at any art supply store)
2 Packages of Multicolored Markers (make sure to get thick ones so the art can be seen from a distance)
1 Large-Format Sketch Pad (not spiralbound--too messy)
1 Battle Anthem Mix and Audio Equipment (check the Battle Anthems page for more info on this)

If you're performing a Comic Art Battle in a larger venue for more than 15-20 spectators, I highly recommend having someone video the action with a live projection on an adjacent screen. In that case you'll need:
1 Video Projector
1 Projector Screen (or any flat white surface)
1 Video Camera and Operator
1 Video Cable (long enough to run from the camera to the projector)
2 Clip-On Utility Lamps (the lights will have to be low for the projector, so you'll need these to illuminate the art)

And finally, though you may not anticipate needing these things, I've found them to be lifesavers on more than one occasion:
1 Roll of Duct Tape
1 Extension Cord
1 Power Strip
1 Component-to-Stereo Cable
1 Stereo-to-Stereo Extension Cable
1 1/8 inch-to-1/4 inch Stereo Adapter

Additionally, if you intend to feature Challenge 3 (SCRIPTWRITING) you'll need to find a page of multiple-paneled comic art and remove the words. You can make your own if you want, or just have a few pages from your old comics blown up at a copy shop. Golden Age and pulp horror comics work great.

If you intend to feature Challenge 4 (ADAPTING A SCRIPT), you'll need to pick out a 3-panel newspaper comic strip before hand and transcribe each bubble of dialog onto separate scraps of paper so the artists can tape the text onto the re-imagined art instead of writing it all out. Trust me, writing out that dialog during the challenge wastes valuable time. Oh yeah, I guess you'll also need some tape for this one.

Also:

Battle Anthems

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