Does everyone remember floppy disks?
This morning, the top trending topic was the warning issued by Vint Cerf, vice-president of Google, that we must create tangible back-up copies of all our digital works or else we may lose everything, every memory in a “digital Dark Age”. So I read about ...
The Digital Dark Age Cometh!
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HippieVan at 12:00AM, Feb. 6, 2015
We've talked a few times in newsposts and Quackcasts about how tablets have made digital art more convenient than ever. But as much as I enjoy the clean lines and bright colours of digital drawing, when inspiration strikes I still often find myself reaching for my sketchbook and ProMarkers ...
QUACKCAST 204 - Talisman returns from exile
Ozoneocean at 12:00AM, Feb. 3, 2015 LISTEN!
Art by Barb Myers
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Way back in 2012 Ozone interviewed the marvellously talented and professional Barb Myers about her art and her fantastic comics. Well it's 2015 now and Barb has finally been able to put out the whole of her comic “Talisman: Return of the Exile ...
2015 Radio Play - Call for Scripts!
HippieVan at 12:00AM, Jan. 9, 2015
As I mentioned in last week’s newspost, we’re in the beginning stages of doing this year’s radio play. The first step will be to choose a script (or two)! Here are Kroatz’ rules for scripts.
RADIOPLAY CREATION AND SELECTION RULES
Here's what we're going to ...
Drawing from Life
kawaiidaigakusei at 12:00AM, Jan. 5, 2015
Around Spring of last year, in an attempt to keep my pen moving, I signed up for a life drawing class. It was the first time since high school art class that I was going to draw human models in real life. Over the last decade, most of the human ...
QUACKCAST 199 - A look back at 2014
Ozoneocean at 12:00AM, Dec. 30, 2014 LISTEN!
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OMG! It's the last Quackcast of 2014! Well Banes and Ozoneocean decide to do a half arse YEAR IN REVIEW! Oh yes, a mighty look back at the year that was 2014… We look over some of the notable Quackcasts and comics that we could recall for ...
Quackcast 196 - The Sidekick-cast
Ozoneocean at 12:00AM, Dec. 9, 2014 LISTEN!
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The topic of the Quackcast was inspired by Kawaiidaigakusei's Thoughtful newspost article “An Ode to Sidekicks” that examined the varied subject of The Sidekick. She was inspired by Geoff Peterson, the much loved animated skeleton on the Craig Ferguson show and she went on to examine some ...
Searching for Printed Comics
kawaiidaigakusei at 12:00AM, Nov. 24, 2014
Sometime after the events of 9/11, my family signed up for our first printed newspaper subscription to keep up with the world headlines. I was a high school sophomore at the time and in order to take my mind off of the United State's imminent involvement in an ...