Usually I try to keep my newsposts geared towards art/writing/comics, but this week I have politics on the brain!

Here in Canada our election is only a month away (October 19, 2015 – get out and vote, Canadians!). I just spent my evening at a packed little cafe where ...

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We've talked about formulas before, but mostly in the context of escaping formulas and reinventing them.
NOW however we're talking about using existing formulas to create a story, or creating new formulas and sticking to them to come up with your stories.
Formulas can be a good ...

Summary:
Regarding Dandelions is a graphic novel in the true sense of the phrase! It's the moving and compelling tale of two life long friends and their struggles in adulthood, relationships, adversity and worse. Vibrant red headed Ellie is a lot of fun, but she's not that sure ...

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Grin N Spirit is more than a pun on grin and spit! Indeed, it's a very long, on-going story comic, about ghosts, ghost hunters, aliens, and all manner of mythological monsters. There's drama, humour, and action aplenty when these guys mix it up a little and go ...

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Image by Gunwallace

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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 ...

As I mentioned in last week’s newspost, we’re in the beginning stages of doing this year’s radio play. The first step will be to choose a script (or two)! Here are Kroatz’ rules for scripts.


RADIOPLAY CREATION AND SELECTION RULES

Here's what we're going to ...

Summary:
War has wiped out the human race from the world, all that's left are the MOs; genetically engineered human animal hybrid super-soldiers. They're specially adapted to survive and forage on their own, making them the perfect creatures to inherit the earth from their human predecessors. Devil Spy ...

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YOUR CHOICE… by VinoMas is an acquisitive pop-culture postmodern webcomic comedy soap opera! Featuring collage art, magazine images, photos of TV screens, and drawing in all sorts of media, this unusual comic follows the melodramatic adventures of an unlikely cast of characters, chief among them is the evil Princess ...

Comics are a great medium for action-heavy stories, but showing inner conflict without massive walls of text can be difficult. The other day I picked up a very disappointing graphic novel version of “Frankenstein” - it read like an illustrated summary of the book, not reflecting any of the angst and ...

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Poor Jinn has woken into a world of which she knows nothing, not even herself, not even her name or her own nature! Trapped by priests of the order of Adam and tortured naked in a cage, she longs for revenge and escape… And that's just what happens ...