Recently I watched Crystal Lake Memories, an extensive behind the scenes documentary about the Friday the 13th movies (yes, I know…it's not even October yet and I've managed to shoehorn Friday the 13th into the conversation again).
What I found interesting was the role of Frank Mancuso ...
QUACKCAST 286 - Offence, walking on eggshells
Ozoneocean at 12:00AM, Aug. 30, 2016 LISTEN!
Art by Ozoneocean
- Do you worry about offending specific people with your writing? Where's your line between honest expression and regard for other people's feelings? This was Bane's brilliant idea for a Quackcast. We touch a little on the idea of a “culture of offence”, where ...
Web VS Print
kawaiidaigakusei at 12:00AM, Aug. 29, 2016
-Guest Post written by Prototype
I believe webcomics authors are often too eager to mimic our paper print cousin. We try to make our comics as close to a normal issue as possible with format and length when we in fact should embrace the stuff we can do better. We ...
QUACKCAST 285 - Ride the wave of the Anti-heroes
Ozoneocean at 12:00AM, Aug. 23, 2016 LISTEN!
Art by Ozoneocean
Comedy anti-heroes are a great deal of fun. My faves are characters like Tankgirl and Flashman; they can be selfish, greedy, violent, lustful, out for their own needs first but they still manage to do the “right” thing and vanquish the bad guy along the way ...
Tales of a Pokemon GO! Trainer
kawaiidaigakusei at 12:00AM, Aug. 22, 2016
It was a blisteringly hot Thursday morning when my nine-year-old pupil pulled out a cell phone and opened an app saying, “There is a Ponyta in the area!” Having grown up in a Pokemon World, and knowing a good chunk of the original 151 pokemon, I said, “Wait, don't ...
Drawing Backgrounds
HippieVan at 12:00AM, Aug. 18, 2016
Earlier this week, I completed the prologue for my new comic. It's been several years since I completed a full issue of a comic, and I'm putting in a conscious effort to improve on something I've been lazy about in the past: backgrounds.
With earlier comics, I ...
FEATURED COMIC -> High Explosives Play Mobil
Genejoke at 12:00AM, Aug. 17, 2016
High Explosives Play Mobil is the tale of slacker dude Warwick ‘Ricky’ Chesterton. Ricky glides through by working at his fathers company and hanging out with his stoner friends, until one day he ‘accidentally’ consumes the contents of a bottle from a genetic research laboratory. Hi-jinks ensue.
High Explosives Play ...
QUACKCAST 284 - Writing Dialogue pt2
Ozoneocean at 12:00AM, Aug. 16, 2016 LISTEN!
Art by Ozoneocean
Well this is the SECOND part of our Quackcast on Dialogue! As with last week, this Quackcast is based on a thread in the DD forums discussing different approaches to creating Dialogue in webcomics. This time we have an additional guest though: the mighty Pitface joins ...