Hey there, gang! Here we are again, another Friday, another ramshackle collection of anecdotes and tangents in the guise of comix-related blogging from yours truly! This week we're gonna jump right into another exciting episode of “aw, crap, well lemme think… what have I been up to recently? I ...
CHOOSE YOUR WEAPON!
HyenaHell at 12:00AM, May 12, 2017The Comedy Plot, Toolbox Edition (part one)
Banes at 12:00AM, May 11, 2017Hello again!
I'm gonna continue for the next two or three weeks about “The Comedy Toolbox” approach to comedy structure.
There is quite a bit of crossover between this method and other methods you've heard of. But that's probably a good thing; there should be some similarity ...
HOME v. AWAY: where to work?
HyenaHell at 12:00AM, May 5, 2017
Typically I work on my comics and illustration at home in my studio. I know I'll have everything I need on hand, for one. Also I hate and mistrust almost everyone and everything, as working in the service industry for the majority of my adult life has left me ...
Comedy Plots
Banes at 12:00AM, May 4, 2017Howdy!
I was going to go over the structure of a comedy story, based on the fine book “The Comic Toolbox” by Jason Voorhees.
If you have the interest, I can go into the structure outlined by Jason; he lays out a few different options that you may find useful ...
Quackcast 321 - Cafecast
Ozoneocean at 12:00AM, May 2, 2017 LISTEN!
Art by ozoneocean
We titled this one “Cafecast” on the suggestion of Pitface! Instead of chatting about a subject, we took ourselves off to a metaphorical cafe and all started drawing, working on sketches, our latest comic pages, and chatting as we did. We're all comic artists after ...
Archetypal Motifs (Carl Jung, part 2): Apocalypse
Tantz_Aerine at 12:00AM, April 29, 2017
Starting with Jung’s archetypal motifs, I think it’s best to remind why they’re called ‘archetypal’ first:
Archetypal motifs replicate themselves in stories across time and culture, in all human endeavors to create.
Motifs in general are tokens in a story that appear several times and symbolize something ...
DEADLINES!
HyenaHell at 12:36AM, April 28, 2017
Welcome back, friends! Today we're gonna talk about deadlines!
When I took over this here Friday blog from my (much more capable) predecessor, I asked Oz, I says, “Oz- I can write whatever I want to, huh?” And he may or may not have actually greenlighted that but if ...
Carl Jung is Your Friend (part 1)
Tantz_Aerine at 12:00AM, April 22, 2017
I’ll start today by talking a bit about one of the superstars in the field of Psychology (please don’t groan, it’s for a good cause):
Carl Jung was a Swiss psychologist and psychiatrist (the super sayan combo in our field). He is considered the founder of analytical ...
Drawn Together
HyenaHell at 12:00AM, April 21, 2017
Let me start off by distracting y'all from my complete and total failure to even show up last week by saying, hey! to celebrate TEN YEARS of PUTRID MEAT, Pit Face has made this special behind the scenes “the making of…” video for y'all! Check it out!
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