It's campaignin' season!

HippieVan at 12:00AM, Sept. 18, 2015



Usually I try to keep my newsposts geared towards art/writing/comics, but this week I have politics on the brain!

Here in Canada our election is only a month away (October 19, 2015 – get out and vote, Canadians!). I just spent my evening at a packed little cafe where ...



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Directing Action in Comic Scripts

HippieVan at 12:00AM, Sept. 11, 2015



I usually write comic scripts with a pretty specific idea of what each panel will look like when drawn: the setting, who’s doing what, facial expressions, and so on. What I almost never do is write any of that down. Except for specific actions that characters have to respond ...

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Comic-making shortcuts

HippieVan at 12:00AM, Sept. 4, 2015



After a long comic-making hiatus, I’ve had several ideas for comics in the last little while. Working on the first one, though, I’ve realized that unless I get a heck of a lot faster at drawing it's unlikely that all of my ideas will ever come to ...

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Wield ultimate power - become a judge for the DD Awards!

HippieVan at 12:00AM, Aug. 21, 2015



It's time to determine this year's winners, but there are still plenty of categories that need more judges!

Do you enjoy webcomics? Do you have opinions? You will be an ideal judge! It's really easy. All you have to do is:

1. Volunteer and then make an ...





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Sunny days and comic books

HippieVan at 12:00AM, Aug. 14, 2015



Summer here is hot and dry, but it's so short that sometimes it feels more like a coffee break in an endless winter than a real season. People who live in the prairies know that each summer day has to be savoured - tucked away as a little memory for ...

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Those images that get stuck in your head

HippieVan at 12:00AM, Aug. 7, 2015



Is there a word for these?

I’m talking about those things that you automatically start drawing when you have a piece of paper and no specific ideas in mind. The images that find their way into the margins of your notebooks, onto napkins in restaurants…or on a whiteboard ...



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LAST CHANCE - Submit your votes for the 2015 DD Awards!

HippieVan at 12:00AM, July 31, 2015



If you haven't voted yet in the 2015 Drunk Duck Awards, do it now! No really, right now. Click this link and fill out the form! Quick!

For real though - ballots close in two days at 6pm CDT on August 2nd.



We would also like to officially recognize bravo1102 ...







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Quackcast 229 - Enter the Dragon's den: comic book shops

Ozoneocean at 12:00AM, July 28, 2015

LISTEN!


Tantz and Pitface join Banes and Ozone to talk about comic book stores and the experience of going into them… Yes, that's right: webcomicers actually going into REAL bricks and mortar places that sell comics printed on PAPER! o_O It turns out that none of us really do ...


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The 2015 DD Awards needs YOU!

HippieVan at 12:00AM, July 24, 2015



Let's get this year's Drunk Duck Awards off the ground!

First of all, you can contribute in a really easy but totally necessary way: VOTE!
The awards can't happen if we don't have nominees! You don't have to fill out every category, so even if ...




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Quackcast 228 - Conflicting conflicts conflict

Ozoneocean at 12:00AM, July 21, 2015

LISTEN!

Pic by Ozoneocean

This time we're talking about conflict in webcomic writing, and any writing in general really. Conflict is one of the main drivers of a story, so you pretty much have to have it in there somewhere! But how do you approach it? Do you set ...



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