As creators of stories, be they novels or graphic novels or comics, we all have heard the adage “write what you know”. It's been drummed into our minds to the point that its cold fingers have our impostor syndrome in a deathgrip every time we venture our to write ...

Lack of Research
Tantz_Aerine at 12:00AM, April 12, 2025FEATURED COMIC -->Water Lily High
Ozoneocean at 12:00AM, April 9, 2025
Water Lilly, California, is home to some very strange people, namely a whole bunch of teens with supernatural abilities and some that might technically not be considered as actually being alive. They get into all the normal scrapes and japes teens normally do, plus some extra because of their weird ...
Quackcast 734 - When love turns to hate
Ozoneocean at 12:00AM, April 8, 2025 LISTEN on our player!
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When love turns to hate… It's a common trope in fiction: partners split up and their once loving relationship turns to one of bitter acrimony! We see hate turning to love frequently too, that ...
Starting where the action is
Emma_Clare at 12:00AM, April 5, 2025
Absolute Boyfriend: Volume 1
So, you’ve got this amazing story idea bouncing around in your head—yay, go you! But now comes the big question: how do you actually start the thing? You want that first page to blow your readers away, right? Let’s talk about one of ...
Quackcast 733 - Watch again: Rediscovering
Ozoneocean at 12:00AM, April 1, 2025 LISTEN on our player!
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Watching, reading, and listening to things a second, third or even a million times can offer you a whole new experience. Why do we pick up the same thing to enjoy again? It could be ...
When Life's Too Crazy for Fiction
Tantz_Aerine at 12:00AM, March 29, 2025
I generally avoid using current events in my articles about webcomics, but this time I can't help it. Signalgate has been living rent free in my mind ever since the editor in chief of the Atlantic broke the story.
There are many reasons for that, most of them not ...
Quackcast 732 - Meet the Parodians
Ozoneocean at 12:00AM, March 25, 2025 LISTEN on our player!
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Parody and satire are a certain kind of humour. They're VERY easy to do because you just base them off real, already existing things, then you twist it a bit to add humour and ...
Quackcast 731 - Contrariancast
Ozoneocean at 12:00AM, March 18, 2025 LISTEN on our player!
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I love those characters who bitch and moan and want to do things differently, although they don't usually take up the leadership role themselves, they just THINK they should be leader instead, but they ...