A lovely illustration from The Pirate Balthasar.
Initially, I had planned this week’s newspost to feature a selection of my favourite women characters on DD. But I realized as I was composing my list for this newspost that I was essentially just making a list of protagonists from my ...
International Women’s Day in Webcomics
HippieVan at 12:00AM, March 11, 2016Vote on Bug Fixes and New Features!
HippieVan at 12:00AM, March 4, 2016
First of all, some big news!
As you may have already heard, our indiegogo campaign is now fully funded! A huge, enormous thanks to all of you who donated. A reminder, also, that every penny we get from this is going to help fix the site and make it better ...
Quackcast 259 - Drawing Crowd Scenes
Ozoneocean at 12:00AM, Feb. 23, 2016 LISTEN!
Pic by Ozoneocean
Crowd scenes of any sort can be horrible to draw. There are many, many reasons for this, one of them is that it's quite boring to invent a whole lot of new character models just for the purpose of making a group scene. My own ...
LAST CHANCE to submit suggestions for fixing DD!
HippieVan at 12:00AM, Feb. 19, 2016
We've had a decent number of responses to our survey but not a tremendous amount, so I decided to leave the survey up for a couple more days. It will be open until the end of Tuesday, February 23rd.
The survey is here: http://goo.gl/forms/K6vgUqAjmD
Just ...
Quackcast 254 - Sexism in your OWN work?
Ozoneocean at 12:00AM, Jan. 19, 2016 LISTEN!
OMFG you sexist PIG! Heh… today we talk about trying to recognise sexism in your OWN work, what to do about it, and WHY. It turns out it can be very hard to do, and if you DO acknowledged it the instinct is to rationalise it away, justify it ...
Quackcast 253 - narrative order and the flashback
Ozoneocean at 12:00AM, Jan. 12, 2016 LISTEN!
Doing stories that start with the climax, then flash back, tell what happened to get there: the old narrative style of switching the first few chapters around to make a more interesting story.
Sometimes it works GREAT because it throws you right into the middle of things and you ...
2016 Comic Goals and a New Community Project!
HippieVan at 12:00AM, Jan. 1, 2016
Happy 2016, everyone!
I'm not big into New Year's resolutions generally, but I do have a few this year. I read 24 books in 2015 (not including partial books read for school) and would like to do the same in 2016. I'd like to improve my reading ...