Six weeks ago, at the end of my article titled “Psychopomps and Death Personified”, I asked the question: Can you think of any examples of the personification of Death in a comic? How about on Drunk Duck (Yes, you can plug your own comic)?
Much to my delight, fellow community ...

HAPPY HALLOWEEN, 2017!
kawaiidaigakusei at 12:00AM, Oct. 30, 2017Horror Minus Horror
Banes at 12:00AM, Oct. 19, 2017It's time for horror talk!
I was just watching a discussion by the red letter media dudes about one of my favorite horror flicks, The Re-Animator.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NAPeMftLe_o
They addressed something I've talked about before, and still agree with.
A horror story can ...
Time for an Upgrade?
kawaiidaigakusei at 12:00AM, Oct. 2, 2017
When I first started drawing comics in 2007, I had a desktop computer that was mainly used for essay writing and reading webcomics. I had very little drawing programs installed and MS Paint was the program I used for lettering! There was a problem, if I had too many programs ...
Diminishing Returns
Banes at 12:00AM, Sept. 28, 2017
Emotional Charges and Diminishing Returns
Many writing methodologies suggest mapping out the emotional change of each scene. The scene either starts positive, and goes to either negative or “extra positive”, or starts negative and goes to positive or “extra negative” by the end of the scene.
So if a lovelorn ...
Steve Ditko
Banes at 12:00AM, Sept. 21, 2017
One of the greatest comic book stories ever written, by Stan Lee and Steve Ditko
Stan Lee and Jack Kirby are known as the main architects of the Marvel Universe. But there was a third originator of that landmark creation:
Steve Ditko was an artist who originally worked as a ...
Jump Scares and Inappropriate Laughter
kawaiidaigakusei at 12:00AM, Sept. 11, 2017
I think I spent my Saturday night the same way as plenty of other people did–in a movie theater watching a film based on a book by Stephen King (and No, I am not talking about The Dark Tower). It is still September since the last time I checked ...