Ever since the 1960s Marvel have been casting their spell on comic fans all round the world and have created some of the most iconic titles out there. From Captain America to
Spiderman and from Guardians of the Galaxy to The Avengers they’ve also created characters that have gone ...
Quackcast 342 - Seen unseen
Ozoneocean at 12:00AM, Oct. 3, 2017 LISTEN!
What is the best approach to make a scary story? To directly show the monster, the horror and the gore, or to hold off on that and let the audience fill in the blanks and guide them to imagine something far more awful and real than you could conceive ...
Diminishing Returns
Banes at 12:00AM, Sept. 28, 2017
Emotional Charges and Diminishing Returns
Many writing methodologies suggest mapping out the emotional change of each scene. The scene either starts positive, and goes to either negative or “extra positive”, or starts negative and goes to positive or “extra negative” by the end of the scene.
So if a lovelorn ...
Before the Beginning
Banes at 12:00AM, Sept. 14, 2017
One of the great things about the original Star Wars movies was the strong sense of a grand, adventurous, and terrible history before the movie started. So much is hinted at through Obi Wan Kenobi about the Jedi Knights, Anakin Skywalker, great friendships, laser swords, and terrible war and loss ...
Jump Scares and Inappropriate Laughter
kawaiidaigakusei at 12:00AM, Sept. 11, 2017
I think I spent my Saturday night the same way as plenty of other people did–in a movie theater watching a film based on a book by Stephen King (and No, I am not talking about The Dark Tower). It is still September since the last time I checked ...
Single pages, larger issues and archive panic
Banes at 12:00AM, Sept. 7, 2017
SINGLE PAGES vs. The GREATER WHOLE
I'm at a nice place in my webcomic right now. Well, it's nice as the writer, at least.
The characters have a nice history now, with some adventures behind them, some established relationships, and a stable of supporting characters who can be ...
Quackcast 338 - Shared DNA of ideas
Ozoneocean at 12:00AM, Sept. 5, 2017 LISTEN!
The saying goes that “Good artists copy, great artists steal”, it's attributed to various luminaries such as TS Elliot, Picasso, Tantz Aerine etc, but the important thing is the true meaning: there are very few original ideas, culture is built up out of inherited inspiration that is built ...
Wardrobe Is a Tell
Tantz_Aerine at 12:00AM, Sept. 2, 2017
They say that the best and most important elements in visual arts, from movies to comics, are done well when the audience doesn’t quite notice them. And that is definitely true- research and plot development and world building are some of them about which I’ve already talked about ...
Jack Kirby
Banes at 12:00AM, Aug. 31, 2017Just the other day was the 100th anniversary of the birth of Jack Kirby (Jacob Kurtzberg, originally).
Jack “King” Kirby drew comics from the 1930's for various companies and co-created many characters for Timely Comics, notably Captain America (co-created with Joe Simon). Cap was one of the few Marvel ...