I was on a livestream earlier today and the topic of Tim Burton came up when discussing my favourite movies. I went on to describe how influential his movies were for me, even going so far as to inspire quite the phase particularly when it came to creating comics. My ...
Your formative inspiration as a comic creator
Emma_Clare at 12:00AM, June 4, 2021QUACKCAST 530 - What is SciFi?
Ozoneocean at 12:00AM, May 11, 2021 LISTEN on our new player!
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So what IS SciFi? Well it's a pretty wide umbrella term and contains a lot of different things. In some senses it's just an imaginative ...
Bookending your start - The prologue
Emma_Clare at 12:00AM, May 7, 2021
If you’re looking to open your comic by establishing the scene, theme and/or tone of the rest of the narrative then you might consider using “the prologue”. Derived from the Greek term, prologos, meaning, “before word”, the prologue serves as a mini story that is set before the ...
The Beauty of Science Fiction
kawaiidaigakusei at 12:00AM, May 3, 2021
The top-rated late-night radio show in the late-nineties was bestowed on Coast-to-Coast AM, a talk show program that centered around paranormal topics and the supernatural. The show’s host was broadcaster and author, Art Bell. Listeners would tune in during long distance commutes, with some positive reviewers exclaiming how much ...
Horror is in the Eye of the... Beholder?
damehelsing at 12:00AM, April 11, 2021
See what I did there? It’s an image of a Beholder… which normally has one giant eye right in the center of their face/body and the article is titled HORROR (the Beholder is scary looking) is in the EYE of the BEHOLDER? Yeah? No? Ok…
Seriously tho,
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QUACKCAST 523 - The Resonance of Folk tales
Ozoneocean at 12:00AM, March 23, 2021 LISTEN on our new player!
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Folk tales are the primordial ooze of culture. Nobody knows where these stories began, nobody owns them, They're added to and expanded by successive generations. They ...
The dance of chemistry
Emma_Clare at 12:00AM, Feb. 12, 2021
When it comes to characters and their arcs, their relationships, or more specifically, their chemistry, has a large role to play in how they develop. From day to day we absorb and reflect the behaviours, views and values of those we interact with, be that at work or school or ...
Top five romance tropes
Emma_Clare at 12:00AM, Feb. 5, 2021
It’s not surprising that drama and romance are two popular genres when it comes to media. From TV to novels to comics, they draw the audience in with the simple question: “Who is going to end up with who?” Ships set sail, twists get turns and hearts get broken ...
Final Secret Santa 2020 Gift Art Submissions
kawaiidaigakusei at 12:00AM, Dec. 28, 2020
The Secret Santa Art Exchange Community Project has come to a close this year with ten total participants creating wonderful new pieces of gift art.
The requests were very innovative with gift suggestions ranging from a Ukrainian flowering bush all the way to depictions of the AI Battleground set to ...