As You Like It
Character likability part 2

The great actor Jack Lemmon said about his character in Glengarry Glen Ross that he didn't want the guy to be likable. He thought Shelley Levine “isn't a nice man” and was not someone people should feel sorry for. Lemmon ...

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We base our images of aliens in comics on aliens in TV shows and movies mostly, because those are the ones we all know.
But movie aliens ...

Photo: “Succubus, the Bloody Mary Murders. Issue #1: The Devil and the Details”. Created by Coydog and TheDeeMan. (2023)

Succubus, the comic, a collaboration by TheDeeMan and Coydog has released its first kindle ebook from the comic on Amazon.

TheDeeMan has written this message:

“Hi,

Just wanted to let you ...

In the whole “show don't tell” thing that is the holy grail of ‘good storytelling’ (yes but not always, this is for a newspost of another time) what they usually don't tell you is that behavioral patterns are your friend.

To show rather than tell, you need to ...

The 90's movie “The Firm” is a good thriller. I just rewatched it and it holds up very well. Recently I picked up the book to check it out.

Even though I've watched the movie several times over the years, I got less than a third into the ...

Photo: “- Chapter 5 - Strip 670”. Blessed Days by InkyMoondrop. June 2023.

BLESSED DAYS MILESTONE

InkyMoondrop writes:

“Hey! :)
Just writing ‘cause Blessed Days reaches 500 pages tomorrow (on the Duck, in regards of strips it’s way past that of course) and I'd appreciate a milestone announcement on Monday if ...

So I have had a very good day today, celebrating a hard-won victory, and I'm currently tipsy. So this is a post I'm writing basically as drunk as I allow my self to get. (i.e. happy, less inhibited, definitely should not drive, but can still be you ...

Hello….. Is it me you're looking for?
Well it's Friday and it's my day…

I decided to kinda go with a theme for this week.
See if you can guess the theme.
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Those darkest days
by - Yan Wen
2019
6 pages - complete

I like the art ...

There are many areas where the “rule of three” comes into play. There are plenty of them in storytelling.

Fairy Tales and Fables are full of threes, of course, with Three Little Pigs, Three Bears, Three Wishes, and on and on - the first unit sets things up, the second reinforces ...

Recently I’ve been struggling with finding the motivation to draw. In part, it’s because I have had to deal with covid once again. However, the drive to work on our comics was diminishing prior to coming down with covid again. As the focus has shifted from having hobbies ...