A character starts in one state of being, and ends in a very different state of being.
The Character Arc in a nutshell!
Every time the subject of character arcs comes up around the site or on the Quackcast, one of the first examples that comes to my mind is ...
International Women’s Day in Webcomics
HippieVan at 12:00AM, March 11, 2016
A lovely illustration from The Pirate Balthasar.
Initially, I had planned this week’s newspost to feature a selection of my favourite women characters on DD. But I realized as I was composing my list for this newspost that I was essentially just making a list of protagonists from my ...
Quackcast 258 - Gunwallace music special
Ozoneocean at 12:00AM, Feb. 16, 2016 LISTEN!
We have a special treat this time! Gunwallace is our guest and he's brought with him 15 of his fave tracks that he created as themes for DD webcomics. For two years Gunwallace has been creating fantastic musical themes for webcomics, the total is now over 90! He ...
Celebrating Black History Month: Chuck Clayton joins the Archie Gang
HippieVan at 12:00AM, Feb. 5, 2016
Last year for Black History Month I profiled Black Panther, the first black superhero (see that newspost here). This year I’m sticking with the black comic character theme with a mini-history of Chuck Clayton, one of the first non-white characters in Archie comics.
These days Chuck is an established ...
The Old, the New, History and Nostalgia
Banes at 12:00AM, Jan. 28, 2016
Pop culture is being visited by its own past. There's no denying the excitement surrounding the reappearance of the original Star Wars and X-Files characters after an absence of years.
We all know our mainstream entertainment is stuffed with more and more sequels, remakes, reboots, soft reboots, reimaginings, reintegrated ...
Quackcast 253 - narrative order and the flashback
Ozoneocean at 12:00AM, Jan. 12, 2016 LISTEN!
Doing stories that start with the climax, then flash back, tell what happened to get there: the old narrative style of switching the first few chapters around to make a more interesting story.
Sometimes it works GREAT because it throws you right into the middle of things and you ...
Casting Part Deux: 4 and More
Banes at 12:00AM, Dec. 17, 2015
Last time, solo heroes, teams of two, and trios were the order of the day. Today let's talk quartets, quintets, sextets, septuplets, octets, and…uh…neuf-tets…?
More possibilities for self-contained drama/comedy/conflict exist with groups of four or five. There are several ways to begin building such a ...
Picture books
HippieVan at 12:00AM, Dec. 11, 2015
My love for art - and narrative art in particular - began well before I had ever laid eyes on a comic book. As a child, my parents and my grandparents worked selling books for publishers. Every few weeks we would get a big box of sample books and it would be ...