Yesterday Greece's most iconic and proliferate composer, Mikis Theodorakis, passed away at the age of 96. He was a symbol for social activism and human rights. He was in the Greek resistance in 1943 as a teen, then in the anti-junta fight, he was tortured, exiled, prosecuted, and still ...
The Privilege of Art
Tantz_Aerine at 12:00AM, Sept. 4, 2021Gatekeeping print comics and the Webcomic community
Emma_Clare at 12:00AM, Sept. 3, 2021Yesterday I logged onto Twitter and saw this tweet trending.
And ohohoho I knew there was spicy drama afoot.
This origin story of this tweet was an column by Rob Salkowitz titled Who's a creative professional in the comics world? The answer is getting more complicated. He makes a ...
QUACKCAST 546 - The bad-arse dandy!
Ozoneocean at 12:00AM, Aug. 31, 2021 LISTEN on our new player!
Listen on Stitcher - https://www.stitcher.com/podcast/drunkduck-quackcast
Or TuneinRadio - https://tunein.com/podcasts/Books–Literature/Drunkduck-Quackcast-p1150194/
Why aren't there more prettyboy bad-ass characters? Pretty girl bad-asses too! This character type is often a hall-mark of Japanese and Korean fiction more than anything ...
What You WON'T Tell Yourself
damehelsing at 12:00AM, Aug. 29, 2021
it’s so easy to find something you like and dive straight into it without knowing the costs and hard work it’s going to take.
Webcomics just happens to be like that too sometimes.
Sometimes you don’t know how much of a buffer is actually good, when you ...
When your readers guess correctly
Tantz_Aerine at 12:00AM, Aug. 28, 2021
So you have uploaded your latest page, and it's one of your best.
The story is at a point where the suspense is cranking up to eleven. The plot thickens. Everyone wonders what is going to happen next…
…and then that one fan GETS IT RIGHT. Right there in ...
CtW: Normalize the Strange
damehelsing at 12:00AM, Aug. 22, 2021
pst… CtW stands for Changing the World and has to do with my article here - also I really liked everyone's comments in that article, great stuff!
Before the last Sunday I discussed about how tough it is (for me personally) to combine the regular human world as we know ...
FEATURED COMIC --> Conscripted
Ozoneocean at 12:00AM, Aug. 18, 2021
Darius was a soldier once. Once he tried to defend his home country, the Kingdom of Rollen. That was in another life… Those days are gone. Darius is something different now, something strange and terrifying. The Lords Grigor and Stanimir are seemingly unstoppable in their quest to conquer and subjugate ...
Staying Organized
damehelsing at 12:00AM, Aug. 15, 2021
It’s no secret that having a healthy work life revolving around your webcomic could be because of organization.
Staying organized can help you understand where your characters are, the path they’re taking and their part to play in the story, and that could eventually help you figure out ...
Reanimating creativity with a one-shot
Emma_Clare at 12:00AM, Aug. 13, 2021
The beauty of writing a one-shot or short story is that it is self contained. It is a stand alone creative piece that gives you license to play with a new writing style, drawing aesthetic or explore a level of detail you may not be able to sustain over a ...
Changing the World
damehelsing at 12:00AM, Aug. 8, 2021
I think a lot of us have dreams of growing up and changing the world. Impacting it in some great way. Or if you’re villain type, maybe in a bad way.
Anyway, now that I got your attention with changing the world.
I’m not talking about changing “our ...