I remember the first time the idea of deadlines made any kind of impression on me. I was maybe fifteen and a substitute teacher told me a bit about higher education and that a professor had told her to take all the time she needed to finish some project or ...

Tools of the Webcomic Trade
kawaiidaigakusei at 12:00AM, July 27, 2015
I began creating webcomics because it was an affordable hobby. All I needed to create a page was some bristol paper, some black ink pens, a scanner and a computer. Having a digitally-formatted final product cut out the additional printing costs of traditional comics.
Eventually, I started learning new drawing ...
Quackcast 228 - Conflicting conflicts conflict
Ozoneocean at 12:00AM, July 21, 2015 LISTEN!
Pic by Ozoneocean
This time we're talking about conflict in webcomic writing, and any writing in general really. Conflict is one of the main drivers of a story, so you pretty much have to have it in there somewhere! But how do you approach it? Do you set ...
QUACKCAST 209 - lurv triangles
Ozoneocean at 12:00AM, March 10, 2015 LISTEN!
Image by Gunwallace
Content:
Around about Valentine's day, HippieVan's mind turned to thoughts of love… and she conceived of a great newspost idea that was very popular with people! Love triangles are very good for generating drama in your writing without having to worry too much about ...
The Digital Dark Age Cometh!
kawaiidaigakusei at 12:00AM, Feb. 16, 2015
Does everyone remember floppy disks?
This morning, the top trending topic was the warning issued by Vint Cerf, vice-president of Google, that we must create tangible back-up copies of all our digital works or else we may lose everything, every memory in a “digital Dark Age”. So I read about ...
Adaptations
Ozoneocean at 12:00AM, Nov. 21, 2014
In recent years Hollywood has been desperately mining already popular material in the hopes of producing ready-made hits, so we've had a great bonanza of classic Scifi, fantasy and comic book films blasting onto the silver screen with the likes of The Lord of The Rings, The Chronicles of ...
FRIDAY NEWSPOST - Contribute to the sci fi Quackcast!
HippieVan at 12:00AM, April 4, 2014
For Quackcast 161, Banes and Ozoneocean are looking for your input!
What are you favourite science fiction books, movies, or shows?
What concepts appeal to you? Which ones don't?
What “type” of sci fi do you like, and why?
Do you write a sci fi comic or work on ...
FRIDAY NEWSPOST - Chevalier Donation Drive
HippieVan at 12:00AM, March 21, 2014
TheDeeMan and Coydog are running a donation drive to self-publish their fantastic comic Chevalier! Chevalier won last year's Drunk Duck Award for Best All Ages Comic.
Donations will go towards printing and shipping their current book “Chevalier the Queen's Mouseketeer: The Hither and Yon” as well as the ...