Creating believable and engaging dialogue is key when creating a story. It’s not only used to convey important plot information, but also emotions, motivations and rapport amongst the cast.

Dialog can be an effective way to convey information or raise conflict that maintains the momentum of the comic. The ...

Photo: My Life as an American Hero 2 by agentny003

Nominated for best super hero comic, best action within a comic, most improved artwork, and the most dedicated creator at the 2020 Drunk Duck Awards, My Life as an American Hero 2 has reached its six-hundredth page milestone.

Link: https ...

Buckle up. This is going to be a dense one.

Social media dominates our lives. In the webcomic community, content is generally in the form of comics, however, we have podcasts, YouTube videos, Instagram accounts and of course Twitter. We immerse ourselves in the online world, broadcasting our efforts and ...

Silencing unpopular ideas, famous individuals with a large platform, and entire thought processes has been on the rise. Last week, forty-two episodes went missing from a well-known podcast’s archive leaving several listeners wondering why the episodes were removed.

Popular podcasts are a media form that carry a lot of ...

I’ve seen some poorly drawn artwork out there but if they persevere I also see a dramatic improvement after a few hundred pages. Sometimes even 20ish pages like my Growlution show improvement, but that can be attributed to a change of program. I went from photoshop to illustrator, which ...

The Bestest Evar: Revisiting Mary Sues -
And a Contest!

Way back in the day our friend and my grizzled old mentor HippieVan did a post discussing Mary Sues - and we followed it up with a Mary Sue “contest”.

Many of us comic creator and reader types have probably known the ...

This Spring and Summer, Raytoons is offering a wide variety of classes through Outschool, for virtual learning.

Classes Offered:

-Make Comic Books! Print Thousands! Publish and Distribute All Over! (ages 8+)
-Design Your First Video Game (Age 6+)
-App Attack! Coding Video Game Apps
-Video Game Coding for Teens
-Cartooning ...

Not long ago, I wrote about utilising cliffhangers. This week it’s all about them stakes. When it comes to creating a comic, it is important to give a reason for the reader to care about it. Stakes are a pivotal part of that. Cutscene University explains what stakes are ...

The moment Pete Davidson dressed in a make-shift Robin costume asking a question about an NFT (one of the more recent buzzwords of the Internet) during a late night comedy show was shocking, but not entirely surprising.

The term Non-Fungible Token (NFT) has been thrown around on many podcasts by ...

It goes without saying that this past year has been a clusterfunk and a half. However despite all the upheaval, societal change, devastation and the final encroachment of light at the end of this exhaustingly long tunnel there has been much time to do the art things. As the months ...