Prospector and babysitter, Isaac Alden, know all about the great tragedy that happened in Grand Lake, Colorado, on July 4, 1883. On that day, Bob Plummer was shot to death by Wilson Waldren, who was also a county commissioner. This shooting shows the lack of impulse control of some of ...
Demons in the Darkness Kickstarter Help
kawaiidaigakusei at 12:00AM, Aug. 26, 2019
Hello,
Starting in September, I am running a Kickstarter to fund a print run of my comic Demons in the Darkness.
Demons in the Darkness is a horror story inspired by my time in High School being bullied.
I am looking for anyone willing to donate any art or digital ...
QUACKCAST 440 - Character tropes VS characterisation
Ozoneocean at 12:00AM, Aug. 20, 2019 LISTEN on our new player!
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Today we compare and contrast two ways of making characters: starting with a pure archetype and building it with tropes, or creating a character organically through circumstance ...
The Unsettling Message of Green Eggs and Ham
kawaiidaigakusei at 12:00AM, Aug. 19, 2019
Years ago while living abroad, I heard an expat mom explain to her kids that it was good to try new foods just like in Green Eggs and Ham by Dr Seuss!
For anyone unfamiliar with the red covered book filled with rhymes, Green Eggs and Ham is a story ...
Gambit and Rogue Taught Me Everything Worth Knowing About Adult Relationships
kawaiidaigakusei at 12:00AM, Aug. 12, 2019
There were a few romances in the Uncanny X-Men series from the vanilla romance of Scott Summers and Jean Grey, to the mysterious love story between Havok and Polaris, and the drawn out love triangle between Wolverine and Jean. But the one romance that constantly tortured me with comic covers ...
QUACKCAST 438 - You just don't get it
Ozoneocean at 12:00AM, Aug. 6, 2019 LISTEN on our new player!
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Sometimes your audience just doesn't pick up on the clever symbolism, the hints, the metaphor, the underlying themes and all the artistic cleverness in writing and ...
Finding Creative Inspiration in Quiet Places
kawaiidaigakusei at 12:00AM, Aug. 5, 2019
I am half way complete with my journey across the United States and I have spent the last week in the small town of Eau Claire, Wisconsin. This is an area of the world that many great creative artists, musicians, and writers that I greatly admire have lived and found ...
Duchamp and Dadaism: A Passion that Never Fades
kawaiidaigakusei at 12:00AM, July 29, 2019
I have come across many awe-inspiring sights Along my Summer travels across the Eastern Coast of the United States. I have walked inside grand mansions decorated with Victorian-era Second Empire, French Rococo Revival, and Aesthetic movements on Newport, Rhode Island; I touched a replica of the Caves of Lascaux in ...