A story can be strengthened by coordinating the first and final images in some way.
It's not a hard and fast rule; it's not a rule at all. But it can be worth trying out in your writing!
The movie Halloween (there it is! I had to start ...
QUACKCAST 288 - Evoking too much Emotion
Ozoneocean at 12:00AM, Sept. 13, 2016 LISTEN!
Art by Ozoneocean
Drunkduck's beloved HippieVan was influenced by last week's Quackcast on Evoking emotion to come up with a newspost about NOT invoking emotion when you don't mean to: keeping things funny, even IF heavy stuff happens to be going on, which can be tricky ...
QUACKCAST 286 - Offence, walking on eggshells
Ozoneocean at 12:00AM, Aug. 30, 2016 LISTEN!
Art by Ozoneocean
- Do you worry about offending specific people with your writing? Where's your line between honest expression and regard for other people's feelings? This was Bane's brilliant idea for a Quackcast. We touch a little on the idea of a “culture of offence”, where ...
Backgrounds, part 2: Familiar Locations
HippieVan at 12:00AM, Aug. 26, 2016
Last week, I wrote about my attempts to put more effort into drawing backgrounds. A few people in the comments brought up the settings that they draw repeatedly for their comics.
Planning
My main character is a wanderer, so there aren’t a ton of repeat locations in my comic ...
QUACKCAST 282 - MOOD
Ozoneocean at 12:00AM, Aug. 2, 2016 LISTEN!
Art by Ozoneocean
The topic of THIS particular Quackcast is MOOD! And for no particular reason I dressed as the Mad Hatter, as typified by Tom Petty in the film clip to Don't Come Around here No More… So that was the mood of this Quackast… We based ...
Quackcast 279 - Meet the Mutants!
Ozoneocean at 12:00AM, July 12, 2016 LISTEN!
Art by Ozoneocean
Our very own heavily mutated Pitface put up a guest post about her fellow mutants, filling in for HippieVan while Hippy is away fighting the mutants in Japan wearing a tie-dyed sailor suit and riding a Volkswagen battle mecha, as you do in Japan… anyway, as ...