The following is a link to news story about French comic book artist Gilles Chaillet who drew by hand a ginormous map of ancient Rome. As the article states, "When Chaillet finally sat down to sketch the 11- by 6˝-foot map, he spent 5,000 hours at the drawing board. His wife spent 3,000 more hours coloring it in."

Truly inspirational!

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/6208568/