Photo: “Animator Desk Belonging to Frank Thomas”. Taken at the Academy Museum of Motion Pictures (by me). Los Angeles, California. (October 2021).
The mid-twentieth century animator studio has always held an aura of mystery to any mind that has ever wondered how hand-illustrated animation is created. Anyone who has drawn ...
The Drawing Board
kawaiidaigakusei at 12:00AM, April 24, 2023FEATURED COMIC --> The Ballad of Bill
kawaiidaigakusei at 12:00AM, April 19, 2023
Catch a glimpse of a typical day shoveling on the farm. The single male Rooster crows, “Cock-a-Da. Cock-a-roo.” Sunlight erupts from behind the barn. Set in the non-fictional Canadian province, New Brunswick, just North of Nova Scotia, and sharing a border with New England, in the Northeastern United States. One ...
An Art Supply Shopping Spree
kawaiidaigakusei at 12:00AM, April 10, 2023
Photo: “Pile of Crayola Colors of the World Crayons and Coloured Pencils.” (April 2023)
An unplanned visit to the grocery store led me down the food-less office supply aisle where clearance stickers covered half the supplies hung on wired metal racks. A thought ran through my head to justify the ...
A Sense of Entitlement
Tantz_Aerine at 12:00AM, April 8, 2023
Entitlement. Privilege. Obnoxiousness.
We all deal with these things every day, whether we want to or not. It comes in all shapes and sizes. From the kid that throws a tantrum if they can't take some other random kid's toy to the adult that is pissed they stole ...
Addition, Subtraction, Preservation, Evolution
Banes at 12:00AM, March 30, 2023
In the latest episode of Star Trek Picard, a character talks about his efforts to prolong his own life in a way I won't spoil. He lets go of this idea, and in the message he leaves behind, he says "Evolution is not about preservation - it's about addition ...
Quackcast 628 - Cover me!
Ozoneocean at 12:00AM, March 28, 2023 LISTEN on our new player!
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We're talking about the importance of a good cover in this cast. Another technical comicscast! I love making coves, they're one of my fave things ...
Character Analysis: TK from Typical Strange
Tantz_Aerine at 12:00AM, March 25, 2023
Ok so here we are! Let’s get down into the weeds with Typical Strange’s TK!
…did that come out wrong? I’m sure TK would have a thing or two to say.
So, first things first. Typical Strange is the lovely creation of Banes. It’s a comedy ...
FEATURED COMIC --> Danse Macabre Danse Amour
kawaiidaigakusei at 12:00AM, March 22, 2023
There is an abandoned palace, Le Theatre Charogne, in the heart of Lapinville, a town no stranger to rabbits. The midnight bell strikes when a weary traveler searching for a place to crash decides that squatting in an abandoned theatre is preferable to sleeping on the streets. Now, preferable is ...
Panel By Panel: 'Heaven Hunters' and Splitting the Focus
hpkomic at 3:40PM, March 10, 2023
Hello everyone, and welcome to Panel by Panel, a periodic exploration of comic panels around The Duck. This week as I weigh possible panel challenges for later updates, I wanted to return to our more usual analysis of panels. This week we're turning to the comic Heaven Hunters by ...
Quackcast 625 - Designing Women
Ozoneocean at 12:00AM, March 7, 2023 LISTEN on our new player!
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Character design is a fun process but not without its challenges. Do you design the character or their story first? I've followed both of those approaches ...