Often when I'm trying to introduce a friend or family members to graphic novels (or I'm trying to convince them that comics can have more substance than Archie or Superman), I will gift them a copy of something by Guy Delisle. For those of you not familiar with ...
FRIDAY NEWSPOST - Documenting Travel Through Comics
HippieVan at 12:00AM, Sept. 5, 2014FEATURED COMIC --> All Unicorns to Battle Stations
kawaiidaigakusei at 12:00AM, Sept. 3, 2014
From the same creator who brought you the previously featured and ever so popular Playmobil photocomic, Character Development, comes an endearing new story about real life as it happens. All Unicorns to Battle Stations is a personal autobiographical comic from the first person point-of-view of one of our favourite New ...
Quackcast 182 - Biggest mistakes made in starting a webcomic
Ozoneocean at 12:00AM, Sept. 2, 2014 LISTEN!
- Art by Genejoke
Content:
This Quackcast came about in response to an article that was supposed to be about the biggest mistakes in starting out with a webcomic, I felt it was incredibly superficial and that it was mainly focussed on someone who wanted to go straight for the ...
Drawing One-Point Perspective for Comic Backgrounds
kawaiidaigakusei at 12:00AM, Sept. 1, 2014
I may not be the authority on drawing backgrounds in comics. However, I did spend about two years taking several classes centered around perspective drawing so I do know a little bit more than the average bear. The idea that I have is this, as comic makers, we enjoy telling ...
FRIDAY NEWSPOST - Comic Book Idols
HippieVan at 12:00AM, Aug. 29, 2014
Yesterday, August 28th, was the anniversary of Jack Kirby's birthday. This has prompted some people to talk about how his work affected them, and made me think a bit about comic book influences and artists we look up to. Although I wasn't actively a huge fan of Kirby ...
Quackcast 181 - Colour your world! part 2
Ozoneocean at 12:00AM, Aug. 26, 2014 LISTEN!
- Art by Ozoneocean
Content:
This is part 2 and the final of our look at advanced colouring techniques. This week we had even more heavy hitters with fantastic ability and skill weighing in on the topic of colouring. These guys can teach us a LOT! We like to do ...
Staying Positive in Troubled Times
kawaiidaigakusei at 12:00AM, Aug. 25, 2014
I have been trying to avoid the real world news the last few weeks because it just goes from bad to worse to even more worse. Just last night, there was a large earthquake in Northern California, Iceland is getting ready for another volcanic eruption, and Dr. Hammond from Jurassic ...
FRIDAY NEWSPOST - Lite Bites Calling for Artists
HippieVan at 12:00AM, Aug. 22, 2014
Lite Bites needs artists! Lite Bites is a long-running community project where artists and writers come together on short comics.
From Genejoke:
“We have various shot scripts awaiting artists, however, in an attempt to try something a little different I'm looking to get Operation moon 2 drawn but a ...