Greetings! I hope you've all had an enjoyable holiday season so far, no matter what you're celebrating and regardless of actual ‘holidays’ are part of it for you.

The end of the year is still about a week away, but this will be my last regular Newspost of ...

It's been a very tough week (as per usual these past few weeks) and I've been sitting here staring at the blank screen of my computer trying to think of a topic to write about for the newspost.

And I got nothing. I keep drawing blanks. I have ...

I'm Out of Order? You're Out of Order! - Nonlinear storytelling

I finally watched Strange Darling the other night. I think I saw part of a review at some point and dipped out before it could be spoiled.

And boy howdy, THAT'S the way to see Strange Darling ...

A mysterious plague rips through a small village and wipes out every single soul apart for a lone, lost survivor. The boy is taken in by a roving band of plague doctors and given a new start in life, learning medicine. This starts a whole new chapter for him… but ...

Sometimes it may feel that the justice system protects the perpetrator a lot more than it does the victim:

There are many things an accused can use to mitigate their position, there are many reasons to shorted a sentence, they can get out on good behavior, they can generally serve ...

I'm not sure if I've written a post about this already, but an interesting thing we have to think about sometimes with comics is how to make the characters, the foreground, stand out from the background.

Here are my notions on that:


- using human natural ability and instinct ...

My comic partner and I have already started work on our comic projects for next year. The beginning of the year is always crazy for us, so we’re using the small grace period we have now to try and front load our comic work as much as we can ...

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We have a space opening up here on Fridays. And though I'll miss hpkomics' Panel by Panel feature, with this spot available we thought we'd try something new.

But what to do? In this new world of exponentially expanding technology, including visual arts and animation, AI and ...

The telling of stories, in a big way, is about working emotions. A major reason stories have the power they do is that the great ones wring emotions out of us, and take us through some kind of emotional journey.

In a movie or TV show, things are different than ...

A group of young friends are off trick or treating in the neighbourhood, collecting many lovely, yummy treats and showing off their fantastic outfits, but there's a dark presence on the prowl… They soon find themselves trapped within a scary haunted house with no way out and many dangers ...