Things are looking great for young Maria, she's just been made the captain of her volleyball team and they're off to compete in a tournament tomorrow in another city. Even better, when she gets home her parents are out so she can do whatever she wants! That's ...

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The number of the Quackcast is 669 so that means it's time for sexy stuff again! But despite the topic this isn't an adult cast and we keep things to a respectful tone.

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Hi everybody
Today I'm gonna put 3 for 3 different reasons

1. Line art

Comic - the Nine Lives of Maggie Monroe
Artist - kaidanX
Year - 2011
this one has an alright story but what really stood out was the lines. I liked that part the best. The characters are nice ...

So 2023 is almost over! In just a few days we'll all be correcting every document we date for a month or so.

As is tradition, as the year ends we look at the crop, so to speak: everything that happened, what changed us, what helped us, what undermined ...

I have a lot of interest in story structure. Understanding what it is, how it works, and using it to write better stories. Stories that will keep people more interested, and deliver a satisfying experience…that's what we try to do when we're making comics and writing stories ...

There's generally a tennet about character building for a villain in a story or webcomic that urges the creator to humanize them by giving them a backstory that “fleshes them out”. Often, “humanization” of a villain is taken to mean that they come across as more sympathetic or appealing ...

I've only read three books in my life.

Okay, that's not true - over the years I've read nearly a dozen.

But the first art-instruction book I used (at least, the earliest one I can remember) was this book
about using basic shapes to draw animals.

It was ...

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We're up to number 666 Quackcasts so our topic this time is evil! Evil is a complicated subject, we all think we know what it is but we really don't, there are just so many ...

I was just watching a commentary on The Empire Strikes Back, and the person had an interesting take on things. She was talking about the sequences where Luke sees a vision of his friends in pain, and Yoda tells him he's seeing the future. Will they die? It's ...

Last week I had the fortune of stumbling across Netflix's latest animated series, Blue Eye Samurai. I didn't expect much, but I was so bowled over by the sheer excellence of this show that I ended up binging the entire first season overnight. Like all shows, it's ...