Gimme Five - Senses in comics
Comics are a one-sense medium. Or web comics are, at least. I suppose print comics have a physical touch sensation, as my ink-stained and paper-cutted fingers can attest.
But I'm talking about In-Story sensation. Sight is the only sense automatically being engaged in a ...
Gimme Five
Banes at 12:00AM, June 22, 2017The Comedy Plot, Toolbox Edition (part four)
Banes at 12:00AM, June 1, 2017THE LAST PART!
Part One:
http://www.theduckwebcomics.com/news/2017/may/10/the-comedy-plot-toolbox-edition-part-one/
Part Two:
http://www.theduckwebcomics.com/news/2017/may/17/the-comedy-plot-toolbox-edition-part-two/
Part Three:
http://www.theduckwebcomics.com/news/2017/may/17/the-comedy-plot-toolbox-edition-part-three/
This is it! Part Four of the “Comic Toolbox” approach to comedic story structure ...
At the End of the Day, We All Revert to Our Seventh Grade Selves
kawaiidaigakusei at 12:00AM, May 22, 2017
Before I begin, I must preface that this news article is brought to you by the workings of a large iced dark roast coffee (black) and a large unsweetened iced green tea. This magical concoction of caffeine has offered a rush of thoughts and clarity to the regular thoughts that ...
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 ...
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 ...
Traveling Back to the Beginning
kawaiidaigakusei at 12:00AM, April 10, 2017
Paris Street; Rainy Day, Gustave Caillebotte, The Art Institute of Chicago
In less than twenty-four hours I am going to board a plane and end up in the city of my childhood. I am returning to the Windy City because it is Spring Break and because I yearn to have ...
PHOTOCOMICS
Banes at 12:00AM, March 9, 2017
Image by Gunwallace, from Utterly Rucked, found here on the Utterly Drunk Duck!
Photocomics
My somewhat undisciplined, regularly wandering mind went, awhile back, to the possibility of doing photocomics instead of drawn ones.
Of course, my fanciful thoughts hit a wall after realizing the amount of WORK that goes into ...
Good Starts: Beginnings, again.
HyenaHell at 12:00AM, Feb. 17, 2017
Welcome back, gang! Er, can I call y'all “gang”? Is that too informal or too assumptive about your willingness for complicity in my extra curricular activities? Eh, too bad. Once you're in the gang, there's only one way out. Now, while you're letting that sink in ...
Playing with Time
Banes at 12:00AM, Feb. 2, 2017
Time doesn't really exist in comics. Someone can blast through multiple pages in seconds, or linger on one panel for years. Well, that would be rare. But you see what I'm saying.
What if you want to make your readers slow down? To give your pages the pace ...