Let's Talk About Villains

kawaiidaigakusei at 12:00AM, May 5, 2014



I used to take the side of the cheerful, positive, and heroic protagonist in films and comics when I was much younger. As I got older, I wised up to the idea that being a protagonist is relative to biases of the storyteller. Now I rewatch those same films with ...

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FRIDAY NEWSPOST - Comic creating on the go

HippieVan at 12:00AM, May 2, 2014
tags: comic, go, on, the, travelling



I'm away from home at the moment, staying in a small apartment while I take a summer course at a university across the country. I packed the most ridiculously huge bag, but even in the world's tiniest apartment it's kind of amazing how little it amounted to ...

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Travel Diary: Niagara Falls

kawaiidaigakusei at 12:00AM, April 28, 2014


I have this travel journal that I carry around with me for inspiration and one of the suggested activities it to take time to stare out the window, whether in an airplane, bus, or subway car. I realised that too much of my day is spent staring at the gorilla ...

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FRIDAY NEWSPOST - Happy Easter!

HippieVan at 12:00AM, April 18, 2014



Happy Easter, DrunkDuckers!

In celebration of The Holiday with the Best Chocolate, I've put together a mini easter egg hunt for you all. I've hidden three easter eggs somewhere in the forums - first person to find each one and send me the joke below it via PQ gets ...



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Spring 2014 Comic Conventions and Free Comic Book Day!!

kawaiidaigakusei at 12:00AM, April 14, 2014

The 2014 Spring Comic Convention season is here and in full swing. I have read about virtual conventions for webcomics, but nothing beats the thrill of traveling to a con, spending money on an entrance ticket, waiting in long lines next to strangers in cosplay, and taking photos with famous ...

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FRIDAY NEWSPOST - When Comics Jump the Shark

HippieVan at 12:00AM, April 11, 2014



Earlier this week, one of my sisters sent me some upsetting news: Archie Andrews is going to be killed off in an upcoming issue of Life With Archie.

I was an avid Archie fan when I was young. My sisters and I had a truly massive collection which we kept ...



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Webcomic Creators Have Creative Minds, Right?

kawaiidaigakusei at 12:00AM, April 7, 2014

I would like to think that webcomic creators have a different way to see the world. A fresh perspective through rose coloured glasses can soften the realities of the day-to-day. Maybe an artistic touch is all we need to stay content.

This week I created an original inkblot in the ...

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Underdogs, Underserved, and Underrated Comics: An Interview with Locoma of Anti Featured!

kawaiidaigakusei at 12:00AM, March 31, 2014


Last week I was able to chat with lifetime DrunkDuck member Locoma about his process in selecting comics for his Anti-Featured comic. As a fellow featured comic reviewer and fan of underdog comics, I had a lot of curiosity going into the interview about the underground feature reviewer. Plenty of ...

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FRIDAY NEWSPOST - Lost Webcomics Detective II

HippieVan at 12:00AM, March 28, 2014



In which I sit behind a desk in a shadowy room, objectify my secretary and seek out missing webcomics and their creators.

This time I went searching for the comic Hellfire, suggested by shastab24 and Abt_Nihil
This comic was apparently deleted by its creator MafiaMonkey, aka Tom Rainford, although his ...




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Drawing Music and Its Impact on Webcomic Art

kawaiidaigakusei at 12:00AM, March 24, 2014


The world is a noisy place. It makes little difference whether noise is coming from a construction site outside the window, loud neighbors in a crowded apartment, or the supposedly “quiet” times in the middle of the night when the sounds of the crickets outside are amplified ten fold. I ...

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