Rather than write about something I'm good at I thought I write about something I'm struggling with, and my attempts to resolve it. Writing characters with distinct voices.

Comics are usually conversations between characters. Speech bubbles are the preferred way to tell comic stories, as opposed to large ...

I'm not sure where I first heard of Li'l Abner. Maybe some bits and pieces in a Comic Review Magazine or something.

The Shmoo was a character on the old Flintstones cartoons I used to watch, and Lena Hyena had shown up on the movie Who Framed Roger ...

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Using accents and different languages in comics can be a challenge, or at least a challenge to represent. Some people will actually have their text IN a different language or even a made up language in the case of aliens, and they'll have translations in a footnote. Some ...

Accents, patterns of speech and the like can be a useful tool in introducing characters. In a film or tv show, a character's accent can immediately reveal the character's nationality or social background. And of course, we've all been conditioned by Hollywood movies to identify the bad ...

One evening, during a town gathering centered around a glowing tree of light, a mysterious cloaked stranger shows up and removes all the light from the tree before fleeing. The switch to darkness unleashes grim shadow monsters to chase after the townspeople and sends the blue-skin toned community into distress ...

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OMG! This is the third part in our long running series of discussing good and bad character traits in webcomics and everything else. Bravo, Tantz and Pit are all along with Banes and I for another go around and doing their best German accents as ...

Hey all! Many of you won't see this until the sidebars start working again (unless you subscribed to the newsfeed rss like I told you to months ago!), but we've got two new Quackcasts posted today!



Quackcast Episode 21.5: Interview with Lawrence Leach, CTO of WOWIO!
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Listen to Quackcast Episode 18: Featuring… Featuring!

Some site news promoting various activities, Oz and Skool get some practice with their silly accents and get on with a whole show about features, featuring, and wish-features.

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Site news!
- QuackCast Tutorials
- DD member interviews
- Call for announcements
- DD ...

First up, a quick apology for the bit of downtime we had earlier this week. They had to move the old DD to the new server, which would let them develop a new DD which uses the old DD's databases and stuff and works at the same time , which ...

Accolade Graphics tells me that Fantastic Tales has reached 25 pages! Give him a hand, folks!


And at 50 pages is Cubicle by elektro and genejoke! “The story is winding up pretty soon, so if anyone hasn't read it yet, now's a good time to get caught up ...