Comics are a great medium for action-heavy stories, but showing inner conflict without massive walls of text can be difficult. The other day I picked up a very disappointing graphic novel version of “Frankenstein” - it read like an illustrated summary of the book, not reflecting any of the angst and ...
FRIDAY NEWSPOST - Inner Turmoil in Comics
HippieVan at 12:00AM, Oct. 17, 2014WEEK 2 of the Halloween 2014 Masquerade Mash: An Original Comic Character and Costume Challenge!
kawaiidaigakusei at 12:00AM, Oct. 13, 2014
Good evening boys and GHOULS (to quote my favorite crypt keeper).
I hope you have been having a frightful October. Kudos to the Blood Moon making an appearance last week, Mercury Retrograde is in full motion (which means it only appears to be moving in reverse), and Pluto has just ...
Get Ready for the Big Ones!!
kawaiidaigakusei at 12:00AM, Sept. 29, 2014
No, this not “The Big One” earthquake that is supposed to wreak havoc on Los Angeles one day. Today's newspost is to shine a spotlight on the winners of the three coveted DD Awards spots that Niccea likes to call “The Big Ones”. The last day for awards announcements ...
The Fantastic World of Aircraft Nose Pin-Up Art
kawaiidaigakusei at 12:00AM, Sept. 22, 2014
It is difficult to imagine a greater canvas than the nose of an aircraft to display art. I love to visit aviation museums to look at each individual plane, but one part I always like to pay special attention to is the art displayed near the front of the plane ...
Quackcast 184 - The Trevor Mueller Hour
Ozoneocean at 12:00AM, Sept. 16, 2014 LISTEN!
- Art from Albert The Alien
Content:
Trevor A Meuller, author of many astounding comics including Albert The Alien, @$$hole and Temple of a Thousand Tears came on to tell us about some of the different projects he's working. Banes and I were highly impressed by his professional approach ...
Support 2D Animation in the Hullabaloo's Indiegogo Campaign!!
kawaiidaigakusei at 12:00AM, Sept. 15, 2014
“The greatest animated film you get to help make.”
https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/hullabaloo-steampunk-animated-film
You may or may not have heard of the Hullabaloo Steampunk 2D (hand-drawn) animated film by a team of former Disney and Dreamworks animators. The indiegogo crowdfunded project was spearheaded by James Lopez, an alumni ...
Quackcast 183 - Work Life balance
Ozoneocean at 12:00AM, Sept. 9, 2014 LISTEN!
- Art by Kawaiidaigakusei
Content:
This Quackcast topic was inspired by a newspost by Kawaiidaigakusei who described a short autobiographical account of her own experiences managing the difficult work/life balance of doing webcomics online and at the same time having a normal life otherwise. How do you balance those ...
FRIDAY NEWSPOST - Documenting Travel Through Comics
HippieVan at 12:00AM, Sept. 5, 2014
Often when I'm trying to introduce a friend or family members to graphic novels (or I'm trying to convince them that comics can have more substance than Archie or Superman), I will gift them a copy of something by Guy Delisle. For those of you not familiar with ...
Quackcast 182 - Biggest mistakes made in starting a webcomic
Ozoneocean at 12:00AM, Sept. 2, 2014 LISTEN!
- Art by Genejoke
Content:
This Quackcast came about in response to an article that was supposed to be about the biggest mistakes in starting out with a webcomic, I felt it was incredibly superficial and that it was mainly focussed on someone who wanted to go straight for the ...
Drawing One-Point Perspective for Comic Backgrounds
kawaiidaigakusei at 12:00AM, Sept. 1, 2014
I may not be the authority on drawing backgrounds in comics. However, I did spend about two years taking several classes centered around perspective drawing so I do know a little bit more than the average bear. The idea that I have is this, as comic makers, we enjoy telling ...