The Guinness people do not mess around when it comes to setting world records. When a bunch of French students sought to steal the world record for the world’s largest comic strip from a group of Indian artists, they had some parameters to meet. What you will find after the jump is a comic strip that is 1,000 meters long (previous record was 889 meters), displayed by France’s Rhone River. It took “11 writers, 111 designers, a ton of students, 250 markers, a stack of paper which weighed 800 kilograms” and it is officially the Guinness World Record holder. See the progress after the jump.
First, the work in progress:
And now, the finished product on display:
The strip was done without words and in black and white. You can see each panel scanned in high res at La Plus Grande Bande Dessinee du Monde. Here are a couple of those:
We’d post more here, but it’s the world’s largest comic strip and there are 100 panels. That’s a lot.
