Embrace the Pun! by Barry Corbett.
The title says it all, Embrace the Pun is a gag comic made up entirely of terrible puns. I say that with love, because personally I love bad puns.
The format is simple and effective, a single image and a pun, no more, no ...
The Webcomic Artist Manifesto
kawaiidaigakusei at 12:00AM, Sept. 26, 2016
(From the desk of kawaiidaigakusei)
Here is a little treat to celebrate the first week of Autumn. I wrote this version of “The Webcomic Artist Manifesto” in the Fall quarter for an art history class on Dada. A Manifesto is a public declaration used to incite or inspire a group ...
QUACKCAST 287 - Evoking emotion
Ozoneocean at 12:00AM, Sept. 6, 2016 LISTEN!
Art by Ozoneocean
Evoking emotion in your readers/having emotion evoked from comics: How do you do it? what are some mistakes/ineffective methods? As a comic creator you use a whole bunch of different ways to evoke emotion than say a novelist or a film-maker- you don't ...
Casual Comicking
HippieVan at 12:00AM, May 27, 2016
For the last few years I’ve been focusing almost exclusively on university. I’ve been working on some stuff off and on (see my lonely little title page here), but I haven’t finished an entire issue of a comic since the year I graduated high school. Basically, you ...
Quackcast 268 - the antagonist-cast
Ozoneocean at 12:00AM, April 26, 2016 LISTEN!
Art by Ozoneocean
On the Quackcast we've talked about villains plenty of times before. This time it's very different though… I wanted people to talk about their OWN villains, to promote their comic as if the antagonist was the main character, to give their antagonists the time ...
International Women’s Day in Webcomics
HippieVan at 12:00AM, March 11, 2016
A lovely illustration from The Pirate Balthasar.
Initially, I had planned this week’s newspost to feature a selection of my favourite women characters on DD. But I realized as I was composing my list for this newspost that I was essentially just making a list of protagonists from my ...
Quackcast 249 - Bad Drawing advice!
Ozoneocean at 12:00AM, Dec. 15, 2015 LISTEN!
All too often we try to give out GOOD drawing advice and USEFUL tips on how to do art. Well that all changes here: this time professors Ozoneocean, Tantz Aerine, Banes, and Pitface (our throbbing Head of department), come together to tell you the very worst ways to produce ...
It's campaignin' season!
HippieVan at 12:00AM, Sept. 18, 2015
Usually I try to keep my newsposts geared towards art/writing/comics, but this week I have politics on the brain!
Here in Canada our election is only a month away (October 19, 2015 – get out and vote, Canadians!). I just spent my evening at a packed little cafe where ...